Hoover Dam Tour

... . We've managed to fill our days with Camping World shopping etc. and a trip to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. I hadn't realized the history of the Colorado River and the devastation it had caused prior to the dam being build. Hoover Dam was a great tour!

... at the Backstage Cafe. 7:45 get picked up for tour. Explore Hoover Dam. Get back to Luxor at lunchtime. Reality: Breakfast Our Hoover Dam tour is this morning.  We got up and went to get breakfast at the Backstage Deli right next to our ...

... stopped at a Security Check and then waved through. At Kingman we turned NW and it went mountainous again. We eventually stopped at the 'Hoover Dam'. One of us had a sandwich for lunch and one had beef jerky. Well, a man's gotta try what a man's ...

... it and ignore us. So it seems Walmart do not agree with the ordnance either. Stupid! This morning we drove over to the Hoover Dam which took about 40 minutes. It is spectacular. The Dam itself is amazing. It was built to control the water rushing in ...

lots of pictures, no tour because it was ...

... of Las Vegas. After that, we were back on the road again. Since it was Sunday, I read a chapter of Scriptures to my dad. The Hoover Dam was not too far, so we decided to go check it out. We got to see the Colorado River Bridge being built. We then took a ...

Highway 93 out of Las Vegas would have taken us over a new bridge that spans the Colorado just below Hoover Dam.  But we decided to take a short detour to see the dam up close.  I think there's a James Bond movie where he slides down the curved ...

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... we weer door een cotnrole met scanners voor de tassen. Daarna kunnen we op weg naar de kassa. Hier blijken de kaarten voor de Hoover Dam tour uitverkocht. Ze hebben nog wel kaarten voor de power plant tour. Dus nemen we die. Nu konden we in de rij staan ...

... Nov. cont. After a rather surprisingly rough and winding Route 66, we arrived back at Kingman, refueled and shot up the US93 to Hoover Dam. We arrived around 1pm, or was it 12pm, as we had crossed another time zone we had gained another hour. However, ...

... might not see this spectacle again, or if we did it would be dramatically different. We headed southeast along the highways towards the Hoover Dam and you knew you were getting close as not only did the landscape change and the roads rise and fall but the ...

... have to go back now!) and was not too impressed with the sick looking lions on display at Circus Circus. Went on to tour Hoover Dam (Blowed if I could see Chevy Chase anywhere, for those of you who have seen Vegas Vacation, a very funny movie!) but was ...

... Dam can store up to 9.2 trillion gallons of the Colorado River in its reservoir, Lake Mead.  --  Hoover Dam has 17 generators giving it the capacity to produce over 2,000 megawatts of electricity.  --  ...

... and the Colorado River. We then drove up to the recently completed Colorado River Bridge - the central portion of the Hoover Dam Bypass Project. Construction on the nearly 2,000 foot long bridge (with a 1,060 foot twin-rib concrete arch) began ...

... The boulder Canyon Project's original $165 million cost hsa been repaid, with interest, to the Federal Treasury through the sale of Hoover Dam power. The energy is marketed by the Western Area Power Administration - and 56% of the power goes to Southern ...

... paid cash... result! Cheapest petrol of the trip so far at $3.49 a gallon. Then came the 3rd stop: The Hoover Dam! At the dam we did a a tour that was advertised as 30mins but lasted well over an hour. It included a 10min video, a look inside original ...

...   Anyway we were finally on our way.  We had a seat together and were going to be back at a reasonable time.  Hoover Dam was first.  That is after we had to stop at a checkpoint to be inspected for anything suspicious (as a result of ...

... now....they used to lower people by in by rope apparently. After our pit stop we kept traveling west and crossed the Hoover Dam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam, built in the 30's the largest concrete structure in the world at that ...

You can't go to Las Vegas without a trip to the amazing Hoover Dam nearby. Before our tour, our treat this morning was having breakfast with "Uncle Ben the Chocolate Man" as Collin calls him. He was in LV on business, so we joined him for breakfast at the ...