16 April – Vegas – Lake Mead

Up early to find that a bang and sirens that we heard last night turned out to be an RV burning out nearby. Poor people, they were not hurt, but looked like their gas cylinder may have exploded. Not much left of the RV…

We were getting ready to head off to the Hoover Dam, but when we went to bring the slide out in, it wasn’t working. We managed to override the motor and push it in manually, but it wouldn’t lock in place. Down the road was an RV repair place, and we took it there and luckily they were able to take a look. A couple of hours to kill, so we looked at new RV’s. Wow! There are certainly some “home away from homes” that are nicer than most houses.  We considered upgrading (for a mere outlay of about $50,000, for a nice second hand 40’ A Class)

On the road finally and to Boulder to the Hoover Dam Museum. Very interesting artefacts and stories about the building of the dam. A quick fuel up and we drove to the dam. We had to go through a security check to go onto the dam that included a guard checking all the storage on the RV. Finally through and we travelled over the dam, parked up and walked back. It’s a pretty amazing feat of engineering.

We spent quite a while at the dam, so headed to nearby Lake Mead RV for the night. The lake is very pretty, blue water and stark coloured cliffs and mountains behind.