Post #391676 by Thomas on Fri, Jul 4, 2008 5:38 PM

I have often wondered about Winnemucca. You could board a train there and be in San Fran in time for a tiki bar crawl. And if train transportation comes back due to oil prices, that'll be a plus. I sometimes fixate on place I've never been to and try to assemble strong arguments in their favor, the quirkier the better. I was on a big Winnemucca kick for a while, then I asked some Parrotheads from Reno about it and they said it was lame. It seemed to me like city folks calling a country town "provincial." I mean, well, yeah, it would be, relatively, wouldn't it.

Actually I think brothels might be a big deal up there. Talk about a business for which tiki theming would work...

I saw no tiki aspect to Winnemucca in my internet explorations of it. There's a Basque restaurant, though, which strikes me as a bit exotic. By the way, I'm near Laughlin, NV.

Now I'm on a Glasgow, Montana kick. I have even subscribed to the local newspaper from there. It's on the train line; you can overnight to/from Seattle. It is near gigantic Fort Peck lake, big fishing territory. Boating, fishing, and stuff like that -- they're not explicitly tiki, but they have that tangential affinity to tiki, in my mind at least.