September 30th
Vegas
What a contrast from the past weeks! From National Parks to this. Besides Bryce and Zion, Las Vegas was also one of our stops as we drove from Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon. We arrived at Vegas in the evening, and was overwhelmed by the big city atmosphere (actually, was more like the smoke in the casinos).
We took the free shuttle and went down ‘the strip’ to watch the bright lights and grand hotels (Casinos).
October 1st
En Route to The Grand Canyon – Hoover Dam
All that electricity to light up Vegas had to come from somewhere, and it came from the Hydro-Electric power station at the Hoover Dam. The enormous Dam is crossed by freeway 93, and midway is the State border between Nevada & Arizona, and was completed back in 1935, back then, it was the largest of it’s kind in the world.
Construction is currently underway to have a bypass freeway to ease on the traffic on the Dam itself, if you consider the amount of traffic over the two lane traffic on the Dam, this makes sense.
