Area 51 - Rachel, NV

2 Chicas say “Area 51 Where are you?”

So Chica 2 just kept pestering Chica 1 to go off and find her people, as she pointed to the sky and said “Chica 2 go home”.  

She heard the mysterious Area 51 was nearby and felt a special tingling in the air.  So off we went looking for aliens in the little town of Rachel on the Extraterrestrial Highway.   

Now the 2 Chicas chuckled the entire drive at the signs that forewarned of “Open Range”.  

This means there are no fences to hold cows in, and as we discovered on the road to Rachel, cows sometimes just stand in the middle of the road looking at the driver. 

Chica 2 and a long horned cow had a stare off to decide who would move first. Chica 2 had to be restrained from going out and wrestling the cow to the ground, probably to later be charged with theft of a ribeye.  

Chica 1 convinced Chica 2 that there was no where nearby to remove the horn from unthinkable places should the cow gain the upper hand.  And lucky for the 2 Chicas, the cow moved on to more fertile grazing ground.

As Chica 2 now had a good head wind behind her, she breezed right past Rachel, which to our surprise, seemed to be a city made up of a main trailer with a few additional trailers in the area.  

So after a quick U-turn, the 2 Chicas arrived at yet another American oddity, a small tourist attraction dedicated to aliens. Outside the trailer a diminutive whirlwind rolled tumbleweed through the parking lot.  

We felt like we were in the middle of the wild west until we went inside, there were alien shirts, cups, candy, masks, and other trinkets, as well as a restaurant. 

Since you are here, take a minute and look at the pictures of the cars that tangled with cows.  Chica 2 had a new appreciation for how tough those bovine beasts really are. 

So we grabbed a few items, paid, and got the heck out of Rachel before dark.

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