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| - The Hoover Dam was cool until I saw some jackass laughing while he dangled his young screaming child over the edge. You would think that a place like this wouldn't need suicide barriers like the Golden Gate Bridge, but there's always SOME IDIOT (in this case, a psychopathic father) trying to ruin a good thing.
Anyhow, this was a fun way to spend a few hours away from all the temptation, alcohol, spending and sin, doing something a little more cultured. We had a ghetto rental (that's a WHOLE different story, where they didn't even ask us for a driver's license) and we came in the late afternoon and were delayed by traffic and missed the daily tours, which wasn't entirely disappointing. There's a ton of monuments, statues and signs, honoring the workers, politicians and bills all around the dam explaining what brought the project to life, which are all outside and free to see. The Nevada-Arizona stateline is right in the middle of the dam, which also the intersection of two timezones. There was a ton of traffic driving in so if you're coming from Las Vegas, just park in the Nevada side lot to avoid getting stuck on the Arizona side for a long time when trying to leave.
It's a cheesy but necessary little detour should you have a rental or the time or have never been. The Hoover Dam is big, important (as I'm sure you'd learn in the tour) and pretty breathtaking, though I'm not sure I got over the horrific joke that one dad was trying to pull. Not cool.
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