Blogs from Boulder Dam, Nevada, United States, North America

Last year, my family and I traveled to Las Vegas and made a stop at Hoover Dam. This was the fourth time for me since the beginning of the construction of the bridge over the dam. The construction was aimed at diverting traffic away from the dam for security reasons. It was a massive undertaking which took time, labor and money to complete. In March 2012, the American Society of Civil Engineers awarded the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge with the 2012 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award, is also known as the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge. From my previous blog you probably know that we crossed the bridge on our way to Las Vegas from the Grand Canyon. Last week, we decided to make another trip to Las Vegas from the Grand Canyon where we had ... read more

Our main event today was visiting Hoover Dam. It turned out that we came on a good day, which was surprising since it was a Saturday, because we were able to park really easily and we didn't have to wait that long for our tour to start. Our tour guide told us that on other days in the summer it could be a 2 hour wait just to park. We decided to do the full blown Dam Tour. There is also a Power Plant Tour, or just entrance to the Visitor's Center. But, we picked the Dam Tour because you get to do everything. We got to be part of the Power Plant Tour where you go down to the power plant. First, we went into a tunnel where we were standing above a 90-foot diameter ... read more

We are just 2 days away from leaving for our summer travels. We are planning a trip to Yosemite National Park and from there will go to the coast and then follow the Pacific Coast to the Portland, OR area. We will then head east along the Columbia River Gorge with a stop in the Tri-Cities area. We will then head to Lewiston, ID for a short stop and then on to Montana where we plan to spend 4-5 weeks visiting the state. Although Barb grew up in "Big Sky Country" there is a lot neither of us have seen. We plan to visit family along the way, visit familiar and unfamiliar sites, and do some bicycling and kayaking as well. If you haven't been on our blog before, we will post messages and pictures regularly ... read more

Hi Everyone, After finishing off in Las Vegas we took ourselves to the airport and rented a car. (Carries idea not mine I had to drive lol ) We decided to do a road trip for 10 days making our way from Las Vegas to Denver stopping at Bolder city, Grand Canyon, Zion Canyon , Bryce Canyon and Salt lake city and then finally finishing off in Denver. We phoned the airport and got quoted 600 dollars for the 10 days which we thought was brilliant, when we got there after adding on insurances etc it was 1100 dollars LOL what a joke!! we took it anyways and decided to leave it back after 5 days but we squeezed it all in near enough anyways. 1st off we headed from the airport Las Vegas to Bolder ... read more

Après la soirée à Las Vegas, nous avons décidé de prendre une journée plus relaxe que prévue.. Nous avons donc été manger dans un buffet chinois débil-super-méga-écoeurant avec un gril mongol, puis sommes partis à Hoover Dam pour constater que c'était un gros barrage. Finalement, en fin d'après-midi, nous avons repris la route vers l'ouest en direction de Death Valley et de la Californie. On se revoit là-bas! (p.s. j'ai rajouté une galerie d'images de ce voyage dans "gallery" http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Beren/Gallery/ )... read more