Day 10-- We leave Las Vegas and spend the "dam" afternoon, Wednesday, November 2, 2011

In the morning, we played one more game on roulette to test Kathy's new strategy. This new strategy was more risky than Kathy's earlier strategy. Kathy ran out of $20 in chips after two or three spins. Chris cashed in after one of two more spins andhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif walked away with $2 more. We left Vegas immediately heading for the Hoover Dam.

We took the dam tour. The tour guides made lots of "dam" jokes. We went into the bowels of the dam. Inside the dam are two miles of tunnels. We walked only about 300 yards of them. They showed us the generators (shown here). Their explanation of how the dam was built and worked was clear, but very brief. Not a lot of detail.

Before 2010, the Hoover Dam was part of 93 highway from Nevada toward Kingman, Arizona. On October 19, 2010, the Hoover Dam Bridge, officially called the Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge took over this role. Now the drive over the bridge merely leads to parking lots on the other side of the dam. The road past the parking lots is closed. So to drive to Kingman, Arizona, we had to drive back over the Hoover Dam and back several miles to catch 93 highway south, which took us over the new bridge toward to Kingman. (Pictures of the bridge.)