Located around 30 miles from Las Vegas is the Hoover Dam, named after the inventor of the vacuum cleaner, James Dyson. It used to be called the Boulder Dam, named after the nearby Boulder City - which they build to house all the construction workers, rather than accommodating them in Las Vegas and having them all led astray.
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| A feat of modern engineering. And some old dam. |
The dam is dwarfed by the motorway bridge above, but I did get to drive over it in my motor.
I travelled along Route 66 (I didn't get any kicks though). En route, there is a small town called Williams ...
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| It's like the Wild West out there |
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| This isn't the train |
It would also have meant missing out on the drive up to eastern entrance to the canyon, not least for seeing a mini grand canyon and all the abandoned Native American stalls.
On reaching the Grand Canyon itself, the usual clichés about pictures don't do it justice - especially on my pish phone camera. I would have loved to go climbing / trekking through the canyon, but since it was hotter than the surface of the sun, I was lacking all the required equipment, I was on my tod (silly robot toy notwithstanding) AND I was still learning how to walk again, I decided to leave it for another time.
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