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Moving to Reno at the end of the month. Love the aesthetics of this place but it's turning into a crap hole corporately. Still will visit here on meets with my website members, but am moving on to a place that will be a great local to get my business established brick and mortar in the next year.

Anyone here live in that area?
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    Oooh, "congratulations in advance". That's Nevada, isn't it, just East of California?

    What's the gem-hunting/rock-hunting like, around Reno??

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      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Moving to Reno at the end of the month. Love the aesthetics of this place but it's turning into a crap hole corporately. Still will visit here on meets with my website members, but am moving on to a place that will be a great local to get my business established brick and mortar in the next year.

      Anyone here live in that area?
      I have lived in Reno in the past...BTW, you'll notice that all the trees are gone on the Nevada side of the mountains. It's due to them all being cut down during the silver mine era.

      Also, as a cab driver, I never had more hard core drunks than in Reno than any place I've ever lived. People live in Las Vegas to make money. They live in Reno to drink.

      Just watch out for the damn on the Trukee that was built on a major fault...

      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Oooh, "congratulations in advance". That's Nevada, isn't it, just East of California?

      What's the gem-hunting/rock-hunting like, around Reno??

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      A little trivia, Reno is actually west of LA and San Diego...
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        Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

        I have lived in Reno in the past...BTW, you'll notice that all the trees are gone on the Nevada side of the mountains. It's due to them all being cut down during the silver mine era.

        Also, as a cab driver, I never had more hard core drunks than in Reno than any place I've ever lived. People live in Las Vegas to make money. They live in Reno to drink.

        Just watch out for the damn on the Trukee that was built on a major fault...



        A little trivia, Reno is actually west of LA and San Diego...
        I didn't realize you lived up there. Seems we get to a lot of the same areas, different times, huh?

        Yeah, I know about the Trukee. Still better than San Fransisco or Seattle. I'll be dropping down near the airport, but probably moving either northeast or south of Reno proper before too long. Right now I'll just be deciding which area is best to actually settle into. I love the area in general.

        You are right about the drunks, though. Of course - you have the gambling so you always get drunks, and I won't be in the center of having to deal with them on the level that a bartender or cabbie has to. Boise is another area for hardcore drunks hailing taxies. LOL.

        I lived 50 miles from Reno last time down there and perfectly enjoyed the experience all round. When I had to get brick and mortar work going it was tough that far from anything, though. This time I'll be in the center of everything so can do both online and brick and mortar. It's a fabulous area for taking my line off-line.
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        • Profile picture of the author Kurt
          Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

          I didn't realize you lived up there. Seems we get to a lot of the same areas, different times, huh?

          Yeah, I know about the Trukee. Still better than San Fransisco or Seattle. I'll be dropping down near the airport, but probably moving either northeast or south of Reno proper before too long. Right now I'll just be deciding which area is best to actually settle into. I love the area in general.

          You are right about the drunks, though. Of course - you have the gambling so you always get drunks, and I won't be in the center of having to deal with them on the level that a bartender or cabbie has to. Boise is another area for hardcore drunks hailing taxies. LOL.

          I lived 50 miles from Reno last time down there and perfectly enjoyed the experience all round. When I had to get brick and mortar work going it was tough that far from anything, though. This time I'll be in the center of everything so can do both online and brick and mortar. It's a fabulous area for taking my line off-line.
          Reno is fine. My main point was really people there are more laid back than in Las Vegas and their main reason for living there isn't money. Many dealers in the casinos in Reno used to deal in LV, but choose to make less money in exchange for a slower life style.

          Actually, I had fewer drunks in my cab in Las Vegas than any of the 5 cities I've driven a cab. It's not really about the gambling.

          It's the locals in Reno that are the drunks, not the tourists. I literally drove one guy around the block 3 times before he could find his own house. I asked him how long he lived there...He replied 20 years.

          Another guy didn't have enough money on him, so I sent him inside to get more money. By the time he came out with $6, the meter was up to $6.80 (r something), so I sent him back in again. He came out with $7, but by now the meter had clicked to $7 something, so I sent him in again. The last time he came out and handed me $7, said "F you!" and threw a big container of coins in the cab. I still laugh to myself over this guy...
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

        A little trivia, Reno is actually west of LA and San Diego...
        Ah yes, now you mention it, I think I've heard this one before.

        (The "European equivalent" to that question is "Which is further East: Naples or Trieste?" It's the same kind of thing. Because Naples is on Italy's west coast and Trieste on the east, everyone "knows" that it must be Trieste. It's actually Naples. People don't take into account the angle at which Italy "hangs down" into the Mediterranean. Or so the story goes. )

        I offer you another one, Kurt: if you take off from Detroit airport and fly due South, which is the first (non-US) country you overfly?

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          Windsor Ontario Canada is the first foreign city and country you fly over when heading South from Detroit.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Yes it's just East of California. Reno area has some very huge and beautiful Crystals - amethyst, smoky quartz, and regular quartz scepters. There's rainbow obsidian nearby - and all sorts of petrified wood, jasper, agates and wonderstone (a form of jasper).

    Then you have the casinos, tourism, lakes, festivals - it's tagged the biggest little town in the world.

    Below are just a few pics I had handy of what my hunting will be all about down there:

    Wonderstone (form of jasper)


    Smoky Quartz crystals


    Chrysacola and turquoise



    There are mountains:


    And desert plains with herds of wild horses:





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    I would think it'd be Havana, Cuba unless there's some smaller berg tucked unto a very small island in the area.
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      It has Casino's, good enough for me.
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      • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
        Congrats, Sal. I'll bet you are super energized and are probably starting to pack right now before you need to so you can get an early start. Did you ever get to your storage unit? Find any treasures you forgot?

        Too bad I live so far away, I'd love to come see your brick and mortar collections when you get it together.

        I'd love to move from where we live now, but too many different circumstances at this point in life keep reminding me that would not work for us. Some day, if we can ever afford a mobile home (the kind you drive,) could work out well instead.
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    Yeah, I did get my stuff, April. Of course, anything non-rock I have I wouldn't be likely to forget.

    Rock-wise, I found one that I thought I had lost. It's an agate - pigeon blood red just like a ruby. I really wanted to make a few cabs and thought I had lost it. I was pretty excited to find it.

    Then there were the usual few "what the hell was I thinking" that are now sitting across the road on BLM land where people will find them, think there's agates in the area and drive themselves batshyte looking for more of them. LMAO. I love to watch when that happens. It's my favorite mean streak.
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    Congratulations. Here's to no more bad housemates (or landlords - as that's all
    they are around here).

    Four legged best friend or friends coming soon? Extra room for a Terra visit?

    The guy who runs our local rock shop complains about revenue (Well his wife does.
    They just had their second kiddo.) He just started doing 'some stuff' online - Amazon or Ebay.
    He was going to bring me some marketing material to put in the lobby. He never got around to it.
    I dropped in his store to pick some up. He had to think about it and dug up some three year old rack
    card.

    I'm sure you'll be more game on than that.

    I never lived outside of Colorado. Never wanted to.

    Cheers!

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Rock shops are having trouble all over - except one of my site members who is commercial. He deals by the pound and ton though - has a rock yard, not a "store" with all the overhead, etc. My bus will not be all rock. I'm not crazy enough to put up a rock shop when so many are going bust. If it were that simple, I could have started a shop and gone bust years ago myself. This one is going to take more time to get set up, too.

    Dog soon but not yet. Have to get settled there and it's going to take a few months.

    I loved CO, too. I almost went back once but had a dog twice my size and it seems that CO has a thing about people owning rotties now. They didn't when I lived there. Everyone in town loved Blitz. Now it's a lot of barf about insurance and breeds. I was pretty disgusted. I only had one really bad rental experience in CO and that was right in Denver. Of course - that was 20 years ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    I had three landlords in a row who don't play the game well.
    One does not count because I never moved in because he
    did not have the place ready, did not give me keys, and had a
    clause in his lease saying I had to get the carpet cleaned by a
    certain company upon move out- regardless of normal wear and tear.

    The worst wanted to keep all my deposit for damage done prior to me.
    I had to take him to court. An extremely annoying thing he would
    do is come over unannounced with his dog off leash, while my
    male Husky was usually on a lead by my front door. Not the
    proper way to introduce dogs - especially one who will fight if provoked.

    Funny thing is, when he finally wrote the check for my deposit return,
    he wrote it for Eighty One Hundred Dollars in the hand written part
    of his check. His bank informed that technically that is the part that
    banks go from. I let him off the hook and only took my actual deposit
    of $810.00. LOL

    I have not heard of difficulties for Rottie owners getting a place to
    rent. I am familiar with the bite list that insurance companies use.
    Huskies are pretty high on that list. What is the case around me
    is either no dogs, or no Pit Bulls or Pit mixes. Of course all the
    20somethings seem to get is something with Pit in it.

    >>>>>>>>>>>

    RE: Shop - sell fudge as well. LOL I know someone whose gift shop was saved and expanded
    after she started selling fudge. Other candy - like taffy and coffee as well. It's in a tourist town -
    well Evergreen, CO. Always liked the "Go Climb A Rock" T-Shirts they sell in Jackson Hole, WY.

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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by bizgrower View Post

      I had three landlords in a row who don't play the game well.
      One does not count because I never moved in because he
      did not have the place ready, did not give me keys, and had a
      clause in his lease saying I had to get the carpet cleaned by a
      certain company upon move out- regardless of normal wear and tear.

      The worst wanted to keep all my deposit for damage done prior to me.
      I had to take him to court. An extremely annoying thing he would
      do is come over unannounced with his dog off leash, while my
      male Husky was usually on a lead by my front door. Not the
      proper way to introduce dogs - especially one who will fight if provoked.

      Funny thing is, when he finally wrote the check for my deposit return,
      he wrote it for Eighty One Hundred Dollars in the hand written part
      of his check. His bank informed that technically that is the part that
      banks go from. I let him off the hook and only took my actual deposit
      of $810.00. LOL

      I have not heard of difficulties for Rottie owners getting a place to
      rent. I am familiar with the bite list that insurance companies use.
      Huskies are pretty high on that list. What is the case around me
      is either no dogs, or no Pit Bulls or Pit mixes. Of course all the
      20somethings seem to get is something with Pit in it.

      >>>>>>>>>>>

      RE: Shop - sell fudge as well. LOL I know someone whose gift shop was saved and expanded
      after she started selling fudge. Other candy - like taffy and coffee as well. It's in a tourist town -
      well Evergreen, CO. Always liked the "Go Climb A Rock" T-Shirts they sell in Jackson Hole, WY.

      Dan
      I had an apartment in Denver that was sold to a judge without notice to the residents. I had all sorts of problems with the first owner. Water heater broke and it took them days to fix it and the carpet was fried. Anyway - the new owner gave me an eviction notice because of my dog (they decided no dogs allowed even though mine was on my lease). They not only kept my deposit, they sent a collection after me for damages that were there when I moved in, the ones that were caused by mgmt negligence, and a few that didn't even exist. I just told the collection agency "kewl, see ya in court" and I never heard back from them. LMAO Everyone in that complex ended up moving out and many being taken to collections. I've always wondered how many were stupid enough to be scared by a collection agency and actually paid all the fraudulent charges.

      Anyhow - I went through around 2007 and was looking for a place near Ft. Collins and people were just freaking over the dog. First and last place I ever went that nobody would rent to me and one of my guys. I just said heck with it and went back east for about 7 or 8 months.

      Had a wild roomie in NY for awhile and still miss him. He was a pretty kewl dude. If I could go back there for the autumn colors every year, I'd stay with him for a month every fall. We have a good friendship (and yes, it's platonic). My dangerous dog that hated cats learned to love his cat. I started out keeping him at my side on a leash in the house and if he even flinched toward the cat I'd bop him on the head or butt. He figured out not to eat the pets and one day I came home from work and there's Munchie and the cat curled up together on my bed snoozing.
      Thom: if you're reading - do you still have a pic of that? I'd love to have one.

      I've moved a lot since 2006 when my ex and I split. I've enjoyed it for the most part but do get nightmare "landlords" sometimes. I've also made a few very good friends.
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    I never went through that, but I know a lot of people in Evergreen who had to move
    because their landlord sold the house without even telling them it was on the market.

    I had one dog, a husky mix, that would chase cats outside. Stop five feet away from them
    if they did not move when she approached. She would leave the inside cats alone. One cat
    of mine and this dog would sniff noses every time we came home. They never buddied up, but after
    the cat died, she did look around for him for several days.

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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    I think Munchie might have been a problem because he just purely looked like the devil with fur and he was ungodly huge for a rot. Rots also have a low rumbling growl that they use when they want to talk to you and it sounds aggressive. Not sure why people think a dog that big is supposed to sound like a chihuahua.

    There's a lot of corruption in CO but other places are catching up to that just fine. There wasn't a cop in the area where you are that was an honest person when I was there. Until just before the 90's they had no real law there - just a posse of 12 and those guys ran things how they wanted. So real law was established, and who did they put in the positions? Yeah. The corruption became very apparent when they brought gambling in and things got straightened out a tad. Losses and wins. When I moved up there you could take your dog into the Silver Plume Saloon and nobody batted an eye. Bet you can't do that now.

    I know there's a lot of corruption in Reno, too - but it's almost impossible to get away from anymore. I won't stay right in the city for too long. I'll get settled and move into one of the smaller, peripheral communities when I figure out which direction I need to live from the main hub to keep it convenient and cheap.
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    Especially because the Plume Saloon is closed. It is just lodging in those rooms now. Weird place.

    Except for the Historic Windsor Hotel that opened last year, and the pot shop that just opened
    where the Buckley store used to be, there are no open businesses in Plume. Well, the auto repair
    place is still there. And a half-assed run sawmill that makes wood pellets from the beetle kill pine.
    Lots of beetle kill pine over in Somewhat County.

    I don't know directly anything about corrupt cops/sheriffs in this area. The Police and Fire departments
    like me because I'm a responsible business manager. LOL Fire department does not even inspect me anymore.
    The local police do get rid of problem people the old fashioned way - a little extra pressure here and there.
    Nothing physical - just enforce things to the T. The last such person had a drug problem, was a thief, and
    very likely a rapist. He's in prison now. I'm OK with that.

    I don't do anything in Gilpin, so I don't know how they are over there now.

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    The Plume's been mostly ghost town for decades now so that doesn't surprise me.

    Ya know - if you look to the mountain range just east of town....that large revine? Half of old Silver Plume is buried under that.......buried in a landslide around the late 1800's or early 1900's, don't remember the date. Anyway - anyone with permission and a real penchant for treasure hunting could have a heyday in that ravine.
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    • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      The Plume's been mostly ghost town for decades now so that doesn't surprise me.

      Ya know - if you look to the mountain range just east of town....that large revine? Half of old Silver Plume is buried under that.......buried in a landslide around the late 1800's or early 1900's, don't remember the date. Anyway - anyone with permission and a real penchant for treasure hunting could have a heyday in that ravine.
      Actually, with respect to Gilpin, I have a female employee who was recently sexually assaulted in county.
      Male cop did not take it seriously. Female cop sure did, though.
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    LOL - that was so obvious I missed it. I used to cut over to NY via that section of CA.

    Dan - sounds like the CO mt cops alright. Wonder ....was that female cop Monica?
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  • Profile picture of the author bizgrower
    I don't know the name of the female cop.

    I'll get back to you if I find out. The employee did not
    continue with the case - "too stressful" - and kinda fills
    in as needed now.
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      good luck with your move, Sal! it sounds exciting!
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by bizgrower View Post

      I don't know the name of the female cop.

      I'll get back to you if I find out. The employee did not
      continue with the case - "too stressful" - and kinda fills
      in as needed now.
      Don't stress it finding out. Monica was on the force back when I lived there in 89-94. I had a Mazda sedan when I moved to Empire and it had trouble getting speed when I hit the highway there at the Springs. One night on the way home from work she saw me weaving in town. What I had done (there was no traffic it was late), was pull half off the road and slowed down cruising past a few car lots because I was thinking of getting a 4WD. Well she followed me.

      When I hit 70, I had the usual problem picking up speed. Monica pulled me over thinking I was drunk. We ended up both of us sitting on the hood of my car gaffawing over some of the chauvanistic antics of some of the "big guys" in town. She was hilarious - and honest. I really like her.
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    ^^^
    Now I really want to know. LOL
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    She's a big woman - blonde. At least she was blond then. I don't know if it was her natural color, but she was the size of a lot of men. Beefy, but not fat. She had a lot of problems with discrimination on the force and I think it was bad enough that she sued over it if I remember rightly. I can't imagine working with some of those demented yahoos with badges out there.
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