Well, B.B. and I wanted to find the closest tourist location to Las Vegas so we didn’t have to stay there two nights in a row. Only because we wanted to try and salvage as much bankroll for the big day in the casino. We did a little research and found that the Hoover Dam was only a half hour drive from Vegas. The Hoover Dam, also known as Boulder Dam, was another monster human construction. The amount of concrete used for this project they said could make a 4-foot sidewalk around the entire world. That’s a lot of concrete! The Dam blocks of part of the Colorado River that separates Arizona and Nevada. So, on the Arizona side it can be noon, then as soon as you get to the other side its 11 in the morning. Hoover Dam also created Lake Mead. It is the largest man-made lake in the United States. The Lake extends over 100 miles behind the dam. The best part was the hotel we stayed at had an amazing view over the lake (no picture to justify…sorry). Anyways, this place was a pretty big tourist trap. Gift shops, restaurants, tours, movies, everything you could think of; and it was all about Hoover. We took the shorter of the two tours offered and headed down to the bottom of the Dam where the generators are. This is a national historic landmark, our awkward little tour guy named Eric told us, and we weren’t to stray away from him due to unknown consequences. We took this giant 55-person elevator down to the ground floor where he began telling us how the Hoover dam was constructed. All in all, this was definitely a good day trip. Pay the little bit of money, for the admittance, and learn the good things that the human race has actually done for our society. It only cost 50 million dollars to build the Dam and made all of its money back in just over a decade. It also provides the majority of the southwest with water and energy. Just imagine what our multi-trillion dollar war money could have gone to….take care everyone, and more to come later.
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