A combined blog for yesterday and today. Yesterday climbed to 26C while today was overcast and 22C.
We headed off to the Vegas strip mid afternoon, the idea being to see it both in daylight and at night. I was last here almost 20 years ago, and it has increased in size quite a bit since then.
Free parking is readily available along the strip, whether you can get into the lots is another matter. Leaving when we did, it wasn’t an issue and we found plenty of room 1 block off the strip.
We headed to the Luxor (Pyramid) end of the strip and walked up one side and back down the other, for a total of about seven miles. Again this blog will be mostly pictures.
Next stop New York
Solid Chocolate Liberty
View Along the Strip
Optical Illusion or Falling Down?
Hilton and Harley Davidson 
Next Stop Paris
Flamingo with Big Wheel in Background
At Bellagio, there was a fantastic display of water fountains set to music, the picture doesn’t do it justice, but I managed to take some video which is much better. 
Bellagio Fountain
Duckling on Bellagio Pond
Treasure Island at Night
Venice
Caesars Palace
After our trip down the strip, we were glad to get back to the truck and get the weight off our feet and onto our butts! We didn’t win our fortune, maybe because we didn’t do any gambling!
After a good sleep, we woke up to a cloudy day. Our plan today was to go and visit the Hoover dam, which is just a few miles down the road from here. A few facts:
Approximately 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete was required to build the dam.
An Interstate Highway from New York to San Francisco could have been constructed with the concrete required to build Hoover Dam
Cooling tubes were used for curing of such a huge mass of concrete; otherwise with traditional methods of curing, it would have taken 100 years to build the dam.
Weight of the dam is more than six-and-a-half million tons!
Height of the dam is 726.4 feet.
Thickness of the dam is 45 feet at the top and 660 feet at the bottom
The maximum power output from all the 17 power generators (water turbines) can be around 2.08 Gigawatts.
The Hoover dam road bypass project involving construction of a bridge whose arch span stretches 1,060 feet and whose deck stands 900 feet above the river,
is also one of the wonderful projects of this century.
Colorado River Upstream from the Dam
Monument to the Workers
Bypass Road Bridge
View Straight Down the Dam Wall
Hoover Dam
They Can Build a Dam but can’t get the Pylons Vertical
We headed back to the trailer for lunch then headed out to get a couple of geocaches. After that we headed back to the trailer to start packing up some of the outside stuff in preparation for moving out to California tomorrow.