This was to be a day of travel. Started out moving out of the Grand Sierra Resort, flying to LA, only to pick up a car and drive back to Nevada, albeit at the bottom end of the State to Rachel (where??). Rachel is a little one horse town out in the Nevada desert next to the infamous Area 51 and it uses its location to promote the ET stuff but more importantly it is a central base to tackle the ET Highway Geocaching Power Trail.

This trail originally consisted of 1000 Geocaches over the roads around Rachel, but ended up being taken down by the Nevada DOT. After a huge backlash by the Rachel community and Geocachers, the original hiders met with the Nevada DOT and a new trail was borne with certain stipulations, this time with 1500 caches. There are currently plans to extend it even further to add another 500 caches which would make it the biggest power trail in the world, but I think it is already.

It was a mistake to try and head east on a Friday towards Las Vegas as it seemed that the whole LA basin was on the road with me. With a few accidents and other delays I finally arrived after a 10 hour journey (4 hours more than it should have).

Still had time to grab a few of the caches around Rachel before our big day tomorrow on the ET Highway. Digs tonight was at the Little A’Le’Inn.