Hoover Dam
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 5 years, in a harsh and barren land, to build the largest dam of its time. Now, more than 60 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.
copied from Hoover Dam's official website
The Hoover Dam is an enormous structure. We took the traditional tour of the dam.
It was amazing to find out how the dam was built.
Kahea and I during our tour. We are at the "bottom" of the dam.
Part of the "wedding group" [our family] at the Hoover Dam. It was quite hot and windy there.
We enjoyed our visit to the Hoover Dam. That makes the dam our first official travel site since becoming a family. [Okay, it's not the first since we became a family before we actually wed.]