One final breakfast at our hotel and we were on the road again.
We were headed North on I15 near the Nevada line when we saw The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility (the silver area in the left side of the picture) It opened in February and will eventually produce 392Megawatts of power. Impressive.
The we were back in Nevada again this time making a turn to the East to see Hoover Dam
But first we stopped to look around Boulder City. The city was built to house the workers and their families when the dam was built. Today it is a quaint clean town with many nice parks that have neat sculptures. The also have art sculptures around the town on various intersections.
Al is posing by a turbine runner from the power dam
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| View from the back side |
We were amazed at the number of people here because it was a weekday in April. We could hardly find a place to park.
The bridge in the distance is the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge. It is the highest and longest arched concrete bridge in the Western Hemisphere. It is 890 feet above the Colorado River and was built to reroute traffic from passing over the dam. The only traffic now that is allowed on the dam is tourists and then only after you go through a checkpoint.
Another view of the inlet towers
This is the front side of the dam with Lake Mead in the back ground taken from the walk way on the Tillman Bridge.
Another view looking down into the canyon.
A magnificent feat of engineering in 1935. . . .no computer generated models or calculations . . . just the work of 5000 men.
We leave Nevada as we cross the bridge and head to Holbrook Arizona on old US 66 for the night.
Tomorrow is primarily a driving day to Tucumcari, New Mexico and another stop on old US 66
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