I - The Annual Awesome Couples ride aka: The Alien Adventure

The date of the Annual Awesome couples ride has finally arrived!

Three bikes meet at our house on Thursday morning. We normally have 4 couples and once or twice 5, but it seems our little group continues to age hence the motorcycle tour activity has smaller numbers this year.

We take a gnarly back road,,,,,,well, gnarly for our group.

The road takes us past several closed mines and a bunch of active mines.

We continue south, along US 6 to Eureka where we grab lunch.

Then to Delta and onto US 50.....the LONELIEST highway in the world.

And of course we hit some refreshing rain....awwwwwwwwwwww.

At one of our stretch stops we see this fella....he is keeping an eye on the two legged aliens...

We make it to the famous and highly stickered "Extraterrestrial Highway" sign.

There were three fine young men there who are visiting our country and also each working on their own version of a video about area 51.

And naturally I didn't write down their names or homelands, but I do remember Darra, and ....Simon?  As for countries I would be guessing .....if you guys check in here please give me that info in a comment and I'll update this section.

Leaving the sign, about a mile later is the ARC - Alien Research Center. A fancy name for an alien themed gift shop.

And it WAS a very nice gift shop. Lots of fun things there.

Then we make our way to the world renowned BLACK MAIL BOX

A person can leave a letter to the aliens in the black mail box and they (the aliens) will eventually receive your letter (it might take a while, the Universe is a large place after all...)

I mail my lotto request..

Jan posts her letter......

Then we stop at the Little Ale Inn for lunch.
Hanging off the boom of the truck is an actual captured UFO replica!

I attach a new sticker...

And the group poses in front of the (distant) Area 51

The three video makers.

Our three women!
Jan, Bev, Wendy.

Then we make our way to Tonopah, where we DON"T stay in the Clown Motel.

Big Boy poses with the ladies...

The next day we are off to Carson City, Nevada. (part II)