Hoover Dam

Dan Vegas

After breakfast at the JW Marriott, my dad and I headed out to the Hoover Dam. It’s about 45-minutes away, and the drive was pleasant. We took the Discovery Tour at the dam, showed us the dam from the top to the bottom, and had a nice informational movie, tour guide, exhibit, and observation deck.


It’s hard to get a sense of scale – the dam is so big.


Here are the turbines, generating electricity for the southwest – including Los Angeles!


The tour took our group deep into the earth’s crust! Ok, just a tunnel down near the turbines.


They are actually building a bridge across the chasm that will offer an amazing view of the dam. This will be an engineering marvel!


I think I saw this view in Superman: The Movie


Vertigo, much?


Supposedly you are supposed to rub the statue’s toes for luck.


A view of the dam – from Arizona!