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!