This past week I was in Reno, Nevada for work. Have you ever been to Reno? Ughh... the downtown area is a wasteland of casinos, ginormous neon signs, shady looking characters, and hotels built circa 1960 that boast of air conditioning and color TV. Color TV, really? That's the best you got?
Well, my coworker had the foresight to book rooms for us in a Residence Inn far, far away from downtown Reno. In the burbs of Reno. Pretty much the same as any other suburb in America... Best Buy, DSW, a mall with Macy's and Dairy Queen.
Yep, pretty much the usual, with one major exception -- THE BEST WHOLE FOODS EVER! I love my neigborhood Whole Foods, and frequent it a least a couple of times a week. But I swear as I entered the Reno Whole Foods I wanted to pack my house up, move across the country, and rent an apartment right next store to the Whole Foods. Why was it so amazing you ask? Well, let me tell you. 1) it was huge, at least twice the size of my Whole Foods; 2) the prepared foods section had the most delicious looking pizzas sold by the slice; 3) there was a dozen of soups to chose from at the soup bar... yum! And the most amazing, bestest thing in the Reno Whole Foods was a make your own trail mix bar. Huge flakes of cocunut, all kinds of nuts, dried fruit including papaya, chocolate, of course, and my favorite--banana chips. Why, oh why didn't I ditch my clothes and fill my suitcase with trail mix?
Who would have thought? A little piece of Whole Foods Heaven in Reno, Nevada.
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