En route to our date with Lady Luck in Las Vegas, we took a detour to Hoover Dam. When we first started talking about taking a road trip, the Hoover Dam often came up on the list of places to visit that would justify taking a road trip. It is in fact impressive, but it is also just a dam. There's a visitor's center (which we skipped because it was $$$), and you can walk across the dam and look down on it. From what we could tell, there's no place to look at it from straight on, so it's hard to get a full sense of it. It was also pretty crowded, and we only spent a little time there before heading onto Vegas.
View from the dam:
More on Vegas will follow in the coming days, but upon arrival, we were pleasantly surprised to find our hotel room to be large and comfortable. It was crazy cheap, so we were expecting a hovel, but it's probably about the nicest room we've had on the trip.
And finally, we reached a major milestone today: the road between Utah and Vegas passes briefly through Arizona, which marks the 48th state that we have visited on the road trip. We'll be passing back through Arizona in a couple weeks, but we've officially hit all the states in the continental US since September (and overall, since we've both been to Hawaii, we only have Alaska until we've visited every state in the Union.)
-M
Mandy and Brad,
ReplyDeleteCongrats on making it to all the states on the mainland, as well as Hawaii. That is quite an accomplishment!!!!
I remember visited Hoover Dam as a youngster during a summer vacation trip.
Take care....love ya'll,
Mom