The route took us past the track and out the road toward Salt Lake City. About a half-million miles from nowhere we made our first stop at the Moapa Tribal Enterprises store. This is the last store for miles.
The stop gave me the opportunity for my best shot of the trip (IMHO):
We're off through the Valley of Fire (click to see larger) :
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The colors explain why it's called the Valley of Fire:
We made it back to Las Vegas in time to splash some water on our faces and caravan with everyone else over to the Race Rock Cafe:
Note: That great picture (above) was taken by Lee Anna O'Daniel (C5R#X3075).
This place is the coolest! It has racecars hanging from the ceiling, all along the walls -- amazing! They are on a street that is normally closed to all but pedestrian traffic. But, tonight, they opened the street so that we could park seventy-one corvettes! (click to see larger)
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Here's Dan addressing the multitude. He introduced Scotty B. White and Doug Rippie who invited us all to the track early Sunday AM to see their World Challenge Race.
Here's Scotty B. White and Lee Ann O'Daniel. In case you think Lee Ann's eyes look like that because of photoflash "red-eye", think again. She actually has red contacts (in honor of the Halloween holiday (I guess...):
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