Reno 725
I went to Reno for the weekend. First time in ages, I didn’t bring a camera. Instead, I brought my iPhone 3GS which takes very poor quality images, even with it’s 3MP chip.
The iPhone is a wobbly device without a dedicated shutter release button. Pushing the touchscreen ‘capture’ button counters the balance of the device in your hand causing the camera to move at capture and most pics are blurred. Check this site and you’ll see I can hold a camera still and capture beautiful images, even with a 2MP camera phone.
Here are a few images from my travel to Reno, taken with my iPhone 3GS.
Delta Airlines messed up the flights so badly that I spent the first night in Los Angeles and barely got to Reno the next day on a standby flight. Ironic that Walmart can ship me something at 8pm from Texas and it gets to my house 10am the next day but Delta can’t deliver a human in two days.
Wait, lets look at that statement again!
I paid $600 for a ride to Reno, Nevada and got there 22 hours later, spending a night at an L.A. Westin.
I paid $30 for next day shipping (approx. same travel distance) and the parcel arrived 12 hours later. Watching the tracking info showed this parcel never stopped due to airline issues.
Reno is a seething pit of malaise. In the highest rent district buildings were abandoned and dilapidated. A view from our hotel room showed telltale signs an abandoned hotel across the street is “Hotel Squatter”.
At night, the consensus among guest in our hotel was, stay inside. Unafraid of common and uncommon criminals; my experience outside our hotel ‘compound’ was depressingly ugly.
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