USA Road trip: Laughlin, NV; Grand Canyon, AZ; Hoover Dam, AZ-NV

Jan 20th-21st, 2007 : Laughlin, Nevada; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada

We left Stockton on Saturday for Grand Canyon. We spent a night in Laughlin, Nevada, another city in Nevada. It was a good experience for me. We spent a night in our car cus there was no room in a hotel ;) Here, I played slot machine for the first time (Just for fun). On Sunday morning, we left early and drove to our destination, Grand Canyon. It was spectacular scene I ever saw. I'm so amazed of God's creation. It was cold up there and there was snow. Snow in Arizona!!! We spent a night in a small town, Williams. This town is located on a historic route, Route 66. Next morning we left for Hoover Dam. This Dam is a very important power source for LA, San Francisco, Las Vegas. There was a bomb threat here before. So They close some parts from public. If you visit this Dam, u will get to be in two time zones which is 1 hour different. The blue sign of Hoover Dam is in Arizona but once you cross the bridge, u will be in Nevada.

Hoover Dam is a testimony to a country's ability to construct monolithic projects in the midst of adverse conditions. Built during the Depression; thousands of men and their families came to Black Canyon to tame the Colorado River. It took less than five years, in a harsh and barren land, to build the largest dam of its time. Now, years later, Hoover Dam still stands as a world-renowned structure. The Dam is a National Historic Landmark and has been rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders.

From: http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/History/storymain.html

The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by the Colorado River, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park — one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on numerous occasions to hunt and enjoy the scenery.
The canyon, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, is 277 miles (446 km) long, ranges in width from 0.25 to 15 miles 0.4 to 24 kilometers), and attains a depth of more than a mile (1.6 km). Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through layer after layer of sediment as the Colorado Plateaus have uplifted.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon


Crazy act with uncle Romeo

Lake Mead
Hoover Dam, Arizona side
Crossing the bridge
Now we are in Hoover Dam, Nevada

Breakfast at Denny's
Stop by on the road side
Hoover Dam Yeah YEah

Grand Canyon, AZ

Overnight at Williams on the Historic Route 66 after Grand Canyon Tour
Driving to Hoover Dam
I am good!

Me and Grandma Gabgaew
Breakfast at a restuarant in a casino in Laughlin
Leaving Laughlin

Grand Canyon