Reno, the Biggest Little City of Excess

The road to Salt Lake City is paved with riches.   Beautiful, sometimes bleak landscape, miles and miles of high desert with mountain ranges in the distance, train tracks carrying two engine freight trains carting gigantic loads, miles of salt flats where you can see forever, and often see mirages.
And Reno.    Reno is about the only place to stay driving from Salt Lake to our Northern Ca. destinations.   The casinos always have great specials, and some of them have very nice rooms, as we've indicated on the beginning of our trip.   This time, we stayed in the Atlantis.  Not as nice, by far, but again, cheap---$50, which includes breakfast.      We had a nice dinner at the Sterling Steakhouse, which had an early bird special (yes, it was full of people our age, but it also was a very good special in a place where the prices for food can be outlandish or you get awful food)
The next morning, we had our breakfast at the buffet at the Atlantis.   I took some pictures of all the selections, though I could only do it section by section as it's so huge.  If you've never seen a buffet in either Vegas or Reno, it's a must.   We didn't eat that much, it's obscene, really, but it's fascinating and disturbing to think of how wasteful it is!