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We had a little bit of a delay to our morning, but we still managed to make it to Hoover Dam. We took a tour of part of the dam. We stood in one of the diversion tunnels that they used while making the dam, and we also saw the generators. It was pretty amazing to see how it was made, and still functions, without any of our modern technology. The dam has enough cement to pave a 2 lane highway with curb and gutter from New York City to San Fransisco!
"Welcome to the hotel California..." Well actually just the side of the highway in California, but we were there.
This is Lake Mead, on the other side of the dam. It is the largest man-made lake and has enough water to cover the state of Pennsylvania 3 inches deep!
In this picture we are in Nevada and Arizona
The Colorado River was once a destructive force and they created the dam to tame it and still allow each of the 7 states it flows through access to it.
Our sunset as we drove to the Wigwam Hotel 0 Comments:
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