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June 20-Leaving one desert for another
On Friday, we left the Grand Canyon is search for the Hoover Dam. We traded one desert for another. The scenery didn’t change much, just more cacti to look at. It’s so hot, that our RV is losing power with the fan running constantly. You can tell she likes going downhill because the a/c gets colder!
The Hoover Dam still impresses me. We arrived there roughly at 1:45pm. We parked before we crossed it and WOW…now this is hot weather! My skin felt like it was blistering just standing there. After we looked at the dam, we drove across it, in hopes of finding RV parking just across it. No such luck. So we had to drive back across it. However, I was not going to let the boys walk that long distance in such hot weather. So we drove back across it in our Jeep! We got out, looked at the dam and noticed how low water level at Lake Mead. Once it was time to go, we drove back across the dam to hook up the Jeep to the RV and then again, we drove one last time across the dam….so let’s see, that makes…five times we drove across the Hoover Dam! We are experienced dam people!
Finally, we are off to Las Vegas! We stayed at Nellis Air Force Base for the night, but first we needed to see the Las Vegas Strip before we moved on.
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