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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There’s an open house at the Igloo on Saturday!  From the Elko Daily Free Press:
The Igloo Recreation Center is turning 5 and everyone is invited to an open house at the facility this week.
The open house is from 5-7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Igloo is a recreation center where children and adults are able to play in-line [...]

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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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I’m sooooooo tired.  Got home from work about 5:00pm yesterday, headed straight to the Elko Little League baseball fields.  We had snack bar duty so we were there until 9:30, flipping burgers, frying fries, cheesing nachos.  Despite the long hours and the backache I get a kick out of my time at the snack bar.    [...]

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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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Blizzcon, the World Of Warcraft Mecca, is at the Anaheim Convention Center on October 10th and 11th.  This is the WoW event of the year, unless you were in Paris for the WorldWide Invitational a few months ago.  I will be there with bells on.  I’ll be driving with the boy and we’re planning on doing [...]

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I’m pretty sure there aren’t any.  So instead, I’ve been watching Brazil vs Germany in Women’s team Handball.  So far the Brazilian team is far more attractive (I’m not real sure about some of those German ladies, if you know what I mean) so I’m rooting for them.
It’s fun to watch some of the more [...]

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