The Extraterrestrial Highway

Wednesday Sept 26th - On Thursday we set out to travel further East, we planned to take The Extraterrestial Highway. This is a road which skirts the Nellis Air Base, famous for being Area 51, where so many UFO's have been seen. The road runs straight (and I mean straight) across the desert, interspersed with many mountain ridges, right in the middle of this road is a small town called Rachel, famous for the Ale-inn. This is a place for UFO Uber Geeks to congregate. It was made even more famous when it featured in the film 'Paul 2011', very british comedy, set in the desert.

After stopping for a drink and some fries, and to admire the geeks, we drove on along 375, to stop and get a picture of the famous 'black Mailbox', another place so beloved by sky watchers. Of course the joke is that the mail box is now painted white, however it is still known as the Black Mailbox!!. Surprisingly we did not see any UFO's, or aliens, or even super secret weapons (both the Blackbird and the Stealth Bomber were developed and tested here), however we did watch Paul 2011 when we were camped in Cathedral Canyon State Park

We covered over two hundred miles today, partly helped by long straight roads and a 70 m.ph. speed limit, though our ave MPG went down to something just over 5MPG!! I kid you not.