It’s Thursday, and I’ve spent two great days camped at the South Rim of The Grand Canyon. The drive to Las Vegas was through desert, and it was hot. By the time I reached Vegas, it was around 105. I headed south from Grand Canyon Village on highway 64. At the town of Williams, Arizona, I got on Interstate 40, drove west until I reached Kingman, got on highway 93, and went northwest until I reached Hoover Dam. It’s been 30 years since I’ve seen Hoover Dam, so I stopped and walked onto the “new” bridge, which is below the dam, and took a few pictures.
I had time to spare, so I took a look at Boulder City, the town that was created to house the workers who built the dam. There is a big, old, white hotel in the middle of town which has a small museum on the second floor. The museum is about the town and the construction of the dam. It costs $2 to go through the museum. It was late afternoon when I got to the Rio in Vegas, where I stayed for the next two nights. The Senior’s Event would start the next morning (Friday), so I had dinner, had a couple glasses of wine at a bar while playing video poker, and went to bed early.