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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Fair enough! Just want to make sure people are still interested.
As long as this thread is, it's harder for me to find "points of interest" to use for educational purposes. I can only hammer Best of Breed - and dividend investing about 10,000 times before that's boring.
So I'm trying to find things that peak my interest -- and then I have to remember to use them as a post.
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Yeah.. I hear ya. But your doing a great job. Keep filling us in on the highs and lows of it all. So hopefully everyone is prepared for when the $h!t hits the fan, we are smart enough to go on a buying spree.
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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Hot August Nights is a hoot... went there every year for about 15+ years! My grandparents lived in Carson City - so it was a good excuse to visit! Then I got bored with it and elected my sister to figure out where else we could go within a 1200 mile radius of Seattle/Portland. Frankly - I got tired of getting ripped off by the hotels that are $49.99 a night the week before -- that are $499 the weekend of HAN. So we've been to Wheels and Waves in Santa Barbara - Cruise to Yellowstone - L A Roadsters Show - Cruise to the Coos (Oregon) etc and have been having a blast going "anywhere else than Reno".  |
We've been going a number of years too. But only the last couple we've put a car in it (always drove my dads car up there, but wasn't entered in it). We've been lucky enough to get rooms for $30-40 a night at Circus Circus, as long as you book way in advance, but this year, it was crazy cheap. Around new years day they emailed some special out (I always check their email specials). They had Mon-Thurs for $20/night, and Fri and Sat nights for $49. CRAZY cheap. So we booked then. That's around the time I normally find good deals for them, but never that cheap. Normally Thurs its $49 and fri its a bit more (like $79), We don't normally stay Sat night. We like Circus Circus cuz its cheap (see above
) and they block off a floor (or more) dedicated to classic cars, and have security in/out of that floor for parking, and then also security riding around those floors on bikes just to keep an eye on things.
Would love to check out those other venues... This vacation is one I take my Son (6.5 yrs old) and go with my parents. We cruise "Grandpa's hot rod" (65 Chevelle Malibu). Hopefully I'll get some pics up soon of the vacation.
Back on to Investing 102... Finally still a tad in the 'green" overall on my ROTH, I've finally overcome the "flop" of a purchase from a few years ago of SCEUF (Storm Cat Energy) that tanked and went bankrupt right after i bought it.
What did i fail to do? Research. Now the company. And I took a "friends advice" that's "been a good stock for many years".. Then BOOM. tanked. LOL. That was my "live and learn"... I didnt touch anything with stocks much again til Last year, when i started back into it and found "dividend investing".. Then early this year I was shown the light of this thread (thanks Mike!) and now on my slow road to a decent retirement (I hope!).