Pics: 1) Lake Mead (on the Nevada side); 2) Hoover/Boulder Dam (the Arizona-Nevada line is in the middle of the dam); 3: Lake Mead, looking from the dam; 4) Chip and Tonna Jo, Roxanne's cousin.
4-26-07-Thursday-62974-198-Henderson, NV-Sunny, hot -low +68-high +93
We drove to Kingman, AZ and visited Roxanne’s cousin, Tonna Jo, and her husband, Chip. On the way we drove over the Hoover/Boulder Dam (it is officially Hoover Dam, after President Herbert Hoover, but is also still known by the project name, Hoover Dam. The dam is actually built in Black Canyon, which turned out to be better suited for the design and type of surrounding rock it was built into, than in the original site of Boulder Canyon further upstream. The project name stuck and, due to oscillating political currents over the years following it's opening, the name changed back and forth between Boulder and Hoover and is still used interchangeably. Today they are building a new by-pass highway for the road traffic so the dam can be better protected from terror attacks. At this time, and hopefully in the future, there are still tours down into the dam.
We had a great visit with Tonna and Chip at their place of business, Kingman Starters & Alternators and while there, mentioned our generator concerns. Their friend, Chris, who has a small engine repair business came by and looked at our generator. He wasn’t sure what Finley RV did to our generator but he suggested going back to them to have them fix it. Chris said that he has never seen a generator smoke this bad after only a service job and he has serviced hundreds of them. We drove back to Las Vegas that evening to stay with Terri and Ed a little longer and have Finley RV work on the generator on Friday.
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