Last day in Vegas (and last post about it!!!). We had to get back to reality sometime I
guess. :/ The guys left at like midnight
in a rush and we woke up early about 5 am.
I wanted to try to be out the door by 7 am so we could get on the road
to be back by 2:30 pm for Amber’s flight.
We had to stop at Starbucks (of course), get souvenirs, and check out of
the hotel before dropping Clarissa off at the airport. We stopped at the Las
Vegas sign to take pictures on the way to the airport.
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| There are several pictures of the three of us, but I think they are on Amber's phone. Elvis took them! |
After we dropped Clarissa off, me and Amber headed to hunt
for aliens in Area 51! The drive from
Las Vegas is about 2.5 hours and so pretty!
You are surrounded by mountain ranges on either side of the road.
We stopped at a tiny gas station to get gas
and beef jerky before we didn’t have any more places to stop. The map that we used told us that at a
certain spot we will not have cell service and there isn’t any more gas
stations. Right after we turned into the
Extraterrestrial Highway (yes, that is the actual state approved named-look it up
on Google Maps), we saw this sign…
And about a ½ mile after is the Alien Research Center. The Center was closed but we were able to
take pictures outside of it.
We kept following the map and saw a long dirt/gravel road to
our left after a while. The map said
that you travel down this road for 20 miles and you will get to the front
gate. We weren’t sure if it was the
right road or not (it wasn’t marked) so we turned around and figured we could
just wait until we could ask at the diner called Little AleInn in Rachel, NV. We got to the diner and took pictures!!
There is an area where you can buy alien themed souvenirs. Can you guess what I bought?? LOL.
The lady in the store was really rude. It was like she was annoyed with tourists…but
she works at a tourist location! Come on
now. We took pictures, bought some souvenirs
and left. There was a lady outside who
was MUCH more helpful (super sweet actually) and said that there was a road
about 1.7 miles from the shop that will take us to the back gate where we could
take pictures but not go past a certain point.
Off we went!
We travelled down about 10 miles on the dirt road and hit a
paved road for another mile or so. The
girl at the counter said (rather rudely) “You better make sure you have a spare
or you will have to walk all the way back.”
We had one and were kind of worried about it since we had to catch our
flights, but the girl that was outside said that we wouldn’t have a problem and
the road was well maintained. It was well
maintained with no potholes but I can see why some people would get flat
tires. We sure had LOTS of rocks hit the
back of the car. Good thing we had
damage waiver!!!
We got to the gate and saw the no trespassing signs and the
guard gate. There wasn’t anyone at the
guard gate, but there were cameras everywhere!
We jumped back in the car and headed home with no
incident! Thank goodness. I just wanted to mention how awesome the art
is at the Las Vegas airport. I had to
ride the tram in between terminals and saw a set of art that was so awesome. What made it even awesomer (is that a word?!)
was that it was created by kids! They
take a bunch of smaller transportation pictures and create on large one. So cool!
These butterflies were floating above the escalators. I think they were in the shape of a
butterfly, but I couldn’t tell from my angle.
These airplanes were telling you which direction the
escalators were going.
These clay animals were coming out of the concrete.
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