Dave Knows: Elko

Last year’s Portland Trailblazer season was pretty amazing. 54 wins, 4th seed in the tough western conference.  I’m usually an eternal optimist as far as the Blazers go, but last season even exceeded my expectations.  They are all unselfish team players, have a phenomenal bench, and an underrated superstar in Brandon Roy.  This is going [...]

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Now with more mapping goodness!
Below is the route we took from Elko to Vegas.  Note the right turn at Ely, which takes you to the “Lund Cutoff” on highway 318.  That cuts off about an hour from the alternate route on 93 through Pioche and Caliente.

It’s a pretty boring drive, most of it looks exactly [...]

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I’m headed to Las Vegas this weekend with the boys.  We plan to leave Friday morning, arrive in Vegas around lunchtime, stay until Sunday and arrive back in Elko on Sunday afternoon.
The trip was originally planned for just me to go to the USA Basketball tryouts to see a few Portland Trailblazers play.  It was supposed [...]

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Final game of the season tonight.  Home court advantage for the first round is on the line.  A win, we’re in, a loss and we might have to go on the road to Houston or San Antonio.
I’ll be at home wearing my Lamarcus Aldridge jersey, rootin’ the boys on from a crazy spring snowstorm in [...]

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I might be one of the only Portland TrailBlazer fans in Elko.  Heck, I might be the only NBA fan in Elko!  This town is more of a football town.  Baseball is popular too, but if you start talking to people it’s mostly college and NFL football.
I’m fine with that (I love me my fantasy [...]

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Rest in Peace, Duck.

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