Pretty dam spectacular!

Another beautiful sunny November day, I am being so lucky with the weather. I drove north from Kingman, where I had stayed overnight… guess where… that’s right, Walmart’s of course! My next destination is Las Vegas, and on the way, I got to travel across the Hoover Dam.

It’s pretty spectacular, and well worth the time it takes to park up and take a walk across it.

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They are in the process of building a huge bridge across the Colorado River Gorge just downriver from the dam, which I guess means that in future driving across the dam may no longer be a possibility. I’m glad I had a chance to do so.

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Once again, the scale of things is pretty staggering, and it takes three pictures rather than just one to capture the whole vista.

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Gerhard - November 14, 2008 Reply

Ian, the hoover dam looks really massiv. What a coincidence, a few days ago I saw a documentary in the german tv, about what will be with the belongings of mankind, if all the people would leave the planet from a day to another! And guess what, the hoover dam was the structure which would last longest – over 1000 years. Imagine that! It’s amazing!

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