From the Grand Canyon to the Hoover Dam.  Dodging the thunderstorms again.  Not really too much to see on this journey. Route 64 south out of the Grand Canyon to Route 40 west to Route 93 north towards Hoover Dam.

It started getting really interesting when you got closer to Lake Meade.

There, you get off of the highway to the access road for the Dam. All of a sudden, there’s a bridge structure unlike anything we have seen before.  An arch that must span a thousand feet with concrete pillars five hundred or more feet tall.  From our standpoint – an incredible sight.

Then – there’s the Dam.

It boggles the mind how something like this is built!  Engineering had to go through a serious learning curve just to conceive this.  The pictures of the engineering that was done on a day-to-day basis – adjusting daily simply because how can you possibly predict all of the characteristics of what Mother Nature has achieved.

So, one day we saw something that Nature has created (The Grand Canyon) and then the next day we are seeing something that mankind has done (Hoover Dam).

Simply Amazing.

288 miles today.

Current total: 4,519

Tomorrow, we head to San Diego.

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