Where Are We Sleeping Tonight: Echo Canyon State Park, Nevada
We checked out this morning and then headed to the local laundromat and did a weeks worth of washing - oh what wonderful way to start my birthday :)
We left Vegas and headed North. We visited a Sam's Warehouse - its like a mega cheap Wal-Mart where you can buy everything in bulk. Sadly you have to have a membership there, so Clare couldn't buy her 10 litre container of cheese balls! We had lunch at Arbys where they use sliced meat like you find at Subway but they put it on a Hungry Jacks/Burger King style bun. They weren't too bad...
Continuing North, we found a woman standing in the middle of the road with a stop sign.
Apparently there were road works ahead and she apologised that she wouldn't be able to let us pass for a while. We turned off the engine and took the opportunity to stretch our legs. After half an hour, she said we could pass.
Now I don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut BUT we didn't see any roadworks. We were however right next to Groom Lake aka Area 51! Clare said "Do you think they were transporting something?" but as I don't have a tin foil hat on, I don't want to think anything that aliens could pick up and then come an abduct me :P
So anyway, after we saw the world famous Extraterrestrial Highway, we continued on to Caliente where we did some food shopping. They don't seem to sell sausages anywhere in this country like what we have back home - BBQ sausages really are an Australian thing.
Tonight we pitched our tent for the first time and I doubt we could have found a nicer place - the Echo Canyon State Park is such a wonderful spot. As the sun set, Clare and I cooked the imitation sausages before retiring to the tent to watch "Paul" on the iPad - technology is wonderful. And this would have to be the best film we could have picked to watch today! An escaped alien from Area 51 finds two international tourists driving around the country... sounds slightly familiar...
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