Hoover Dam and Home

Friday October 17

After a late start we left Las Vegas and headed for Flagstaff via Hoover Dam, stopped to have a look and decided to do the Generator Tour, had an overview of construction then down a long way in elevator to Generator room, we were on the Nevada side and there is the same thing on the Arizona side. tour of information area and the great bronze winged gods outside. Excellent.

New Bridge under Construction

Start of Tour, loved the detail

Generator Room


Three tier drilling rig!

Dam Wall and forbidding hills, it is bare like this all around.

Looking down at the Generator rooms





They built things with a bit of class in those days.

Then on we went, joined Highway 40 at Kingman, now in Coz's mobile clinic country. Had lunch at the Road Kill cafe at Seligman, now on part of Route 66. Lot of flat country, looked like mining in hills, scattered townlets, and lots of for sale signs on bare blocks of land along highway, we were trying to imagine why one would want to live there and how would manage for water.

Road Kill Cafe, not real road kill I don't think hmmmm

Coz and Rob welcomed the sight of the mountains that mean home,

Flagstaff (Navajo: Kinłání) is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In July 2006, the city's estimated population was 58,213. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area was estimated at 127,450 in 2007. It is the county seat of Coconino County.^[4] In 2005, Men's Journal named Flagstaff as No. 2 on its Best Places to Live list, and National Geographic cited the city in its list of "10 Great Towns That Will Make You Feel Young". The city is named after a Ponderosa Pine flagpole made by a scouting party from Boston (known as the "Flagstaff Tea Party") to celebrate the United States Centennial on July 4, 1876.

Flagstaff is located at 35°11′57″N, 111°37′52″W.

At 7,000 feet (2,121 m) elevation, located adjacent to the largest contiguous Ponderosa Pine forest in North America, the area around Flagstaff is considered a high altitude semi-desert. However, ecosystems ranging from pinon-juniper studded plateaus, high desert, green alpine forest and barren tundra can all be found within a short drive of Flagstaff
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff,_Arizona)


that's us.

The house is lovely, have not fallen down steps yet, the family is lovely, the climate is lovely.

Now I can catch up with some of the things going on around here, yes Fuschia-ruins :-). Soon.