I had packed up a week’s worth of luggage and was ready
to leave for the airport at 3:30 AM to catch my flight and after making two
very tight travel connections I had arrived in Reno, NV to start my most
intense laser tag trip yet. My goal was two-fold…I wanted to visit as many
different laser tag sites as possible between Las Vegas and Seattle to make the
most out of every second and experience all I could along the way like a laser
tag buffet (sample a bit of everything). And I also wanted to knock out a big
chunk of my long range goal to play laser tag in all 50 states. I figured I
could fly to Reno and play in Nevada first. Then I rented a car and drove to
California, after a couple of days I’d drive north through Oregon and play as
many sites as I could there and do the same thing through Washington until I
got to Seattle. Then a thought occurred to me…I may never be closer than this
to Alaska, so I should make an effort to get up there too. With months of
pre-planning I added one more flight to my agenda to get me to the last
frontier and was ready to follow through with an aggressive itinerary to visit
26 laser tag arenas over the stretch of vacation time I had ahead of me. So
when my plane landed on the other side of the country it was ready, set, Reno!
It sounds a little cliché that the first place I ended up
in Reno was a casino resort, but this is because they were only five miles from
the airport. Just in case anything prevented me from getting to my main Nevada
destination I wanted to have at least one game of tag under my belt…even if it
was technically before noon, local Pacific time. Although I must say, if you
have the desire to play laser tag in the middle of a weekday a casino is as
good a spot as any for finding people at all hours. So I walked into Fun Quest
at the Grand Casino Resort and was able to join a small group for a casual game
of Laser Runner.
This place probably had the best arena I’ve ever seen for
Runner as many times it seems this system is played in small afterthought kinds
of arenas, but this site had a slightly more spacious feel in an
eighties-geometric designed space with raised levels and a decent amount of
room to hide. Kudos on the arena!
I considered this my warm-up game before really getting
off and running. I had another tag stop planned in Nevada before really getting
this trip under way and making the drive to Sacramento before the evening. So I
said goodbye to Fun Quest, detoured for some sushi for lunch (after crossing
three time zones I was hungry!) and continued on my way towards tagging the
west coast.
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