When you hear the name of the town Rachel Nevada you may think "meh never heard of it". How about driving down the Extraterrestrial Highway to Area 51? Heard of it now? This was one of the most interesting and intense experiences of the trip. Whether you are a conspiracy theorist or not, you would have to admit that SOMETHING very secret is going on here. The security was intense. When we turned down the road to drive to the boundary we were met by an unmarked military vehicle driven by “men in black”. They literally followed us the whole time. We passed by surveillance equipment, and the men in black never let us out of their sight. Now there isn’t anything to see at the boundary but it was still really cool. Surprisingly there isn’t a fence, just stakes in the ground to mark out the boundary. Apparently there is only one tiny little point where the actual building is visible to the public…and you can only reach it by hiking up a mountain. Driving for 2 hours in the middle of the desert with no cell phone or GPS service, no water, then a 2 hour hike up a mountain with poisonous spiders and scorpions (here in Canada we only have Polar Bears…eh), in 40 plus degree heat in late afternoon may not seem like such a good idea but we decided to try it! We drove down a lonely dirt road and almost made it to the mountain….the terrain was in rough shape and we couldn’t make it all the way there without bottoming out my car. We finally came to our senses and decided that one day we will have to come back when we actually had the proper supplies and do it. It would have been just plain stupid and unsafe for us to try it. So we got back into my car and drove back to the highway...We said our good-byes to U.F.O. country and headed back on the road….we were almost at our destination, but first Los Angeles!
Men in Black watching us
The infamous sign at the boundary
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