Sunday – April 2 – Well, we found out watching the news last night that Arizona doesn’t do daylight saving time, now we have a 3 hour time difference from home, what a pain.
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Today was absolutely gorgeous, warm and sunny. We drove up to the Hoover Dam, what an incredible structure. The drive was pretty, for about the first 40 miles we were driving through plains with the mountains in the background, then all of sudden we were in the mountains and the scenery was incredible. We could see snow capped mountains in the distance, but where we were there was no snow. We had to go through Home Land Security before we got to the dam, and both coming and going we had to pull over and open the tonneau cover on the truck. We crossed the dam but just drove on to Las Vegas.

We found the strip in Vegas and eventually found a place to park and then got out and wandered around and checked out the lobbies of a few of the hotels. I have never seen so many slot machines in my life, but we were quite surprised as there were a lot of people walking around like us but the machines weren’t all that busy. It is quite the place to say the least, but seemed to be very pricey for meals etc.

We went back to the dam and parked on the Arizona side and walked back across the dam to the Nevada side. If you don’t get out and walk you can’t see the Colorado River side of the dam and that is the most impressive side. The dam was built between 1931 and 1935 and is 726.4’ high and weighs more than 6,600,000 tons and generates more than 4 billion kilowatt-hours a year of hydroelectric power. From where we parked we had to walk down 100+ stairs to get down to the top of the dam, and of course what goes down must go up so we had to go back up all those steps to get back to the truck. Between the walking around in Las Vegas and then at the dam we sure got our exercise for the day.

It was about 7 when we got back to Kingman so we stopped at Chilli’s for dinner.