Somewhere on the Extraterrestrial Highway!

We left Baker Reservoir Campground around 9:30 AM and headed north on SR-18 to Enterprise, Utah where we filled up with gas ($2.799 per gallon) and stopped at the grocery store to pick up a few supplies.

We then continued on into Nevada, deciding to head south on US-93 to the cutoff for the Extraterrestrial Highway (SR-375), so named because of it's location near the famous (or is that infamous?) "Area 51," a government base which officially doesn't exist, and where many believe the government conducts experiments involving captured UFOs.

We drove this highway last year (you can read about it at http://hometown.aol.com/linda0146/apr2005.html), staying at the Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, the only town on SR-375. Since we'd been there, done that, this time we decided to stay somewhere else. About 10 miles east of Rachel is Coyote Summit (elevation 5,591 feet) where there is a large pull off on the south side of the road. It took some doing to find a somewhat level spot, but we finally succeeded. It was a nice quiet spot -- except for the jets from Nellis Air Force Range screaming overhead, breaking the sound barrier just about the time they got over us (which they did about three or four times)! Maxx doesn't like thunder, and a jet breaking the sound barrier sounds like the loudest clap of thunder you've ever heard!

It rained a little bit, and we got to see a rainbow. It was actually a double rainbow, but the second one was very faint, and doesn't show up in the pictures.

Miles driven: 163.9
GPS coordinates: N37.57138 / W115.6688