From Parump, CA to Kingman, AZ

We passed Vegas and headed down the 93. Here we are heading for Lake Mead, created when they built Hoover Dam. It straddles the mighty Colorado River, which forms the border between the states of Nevada and Arizona. Considered to be the world’s largest dam and an engineering marvel at the time of its construction in the 1930s, Hoover Dam brings much-needed water and power to the Southwest.

We didn't do the tour of the dam but it is a magnificent creation. It is 726 feet tall and 1,244 feet long. At its base, Hoover Dam is 660 feet thick which is 60 feet longer than two football fields laid end-to-end. Combined with its top thickness of 45 feet, there is enough concrete (4.5 million cubic yards) in Hoover Dam to build a two-lane highway from Seattle Washington to Miami Florida. Or imagine a four-foot wide sidewalk around Earth at its equator.
We reached Kingman, which is part of the old Route 66, the first highway to cross the U.S.

It's 95 degrees, hot. Off to Williams Az. tomorrow and the Grand Canyon after that.