Virginia City Grand Prix - 4/30/2016

Virginia City, NV

Spent a very cold morning watching the start of the First day of the Virginia City Grand Prix race. 500 bikes, with a minimum of riding four hours to earn a finish. Mud and snow made for great track conditions.

The crowded Main Street

Sombrero Seth, hometown South San Fran!

checking bike and helmet for all the ID stuff

Only girl I saw racing the first day!

Rain

Dead last guy number...

an eclectic example of windows and doors..

Dusting of snow on mountains

Starting line (10 bikes every 30 seconds)

 

  

After one lap you start to look like this.

Tony trespassing near Ohm Place

The day after Christmas, 2014, led to a ban on our midweek passes in Tahoe, so we drove around Sparks a bit to check out stuff.

There is a section of town with names of streets that are named after a specific type of industry. Ohm Place, Energy Way, Joule Street.. from time to time we look up Ohm and just scout around that area. Can't figure out what used to be there, other than the airport and a bunch of rather stylized tilt-up cement warehouses. Such as the one below.

 

It was a cold weekend, and aside from a silly photo on a repeating, mirrored escalator in the Peppermill, we enjoyed Christmas and didn't take too many more photos on this trip.

 

always time for self timer.. it was 27 degrees outside, by the way.