Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Kingman, Arizona, was in the rear view mirror this morning as we head north.  Highway 93 is a long long straight road.  We are in Ely, Nevada tonight.

We stopped at the Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery this morning.  It is in Arizona not far before Hoover Dam.  It's about 4.5 miles from the highway down a very twisty road.  We were surprised at the number of people and boats at the marina on the river.  The hatchery is right past the marina at the end of the road.  The assistant manager there retired from IDFG a few years ago and went to work for the Feds.  We planned on surprising him with our visit but he's not here this week having gone to the Seattle area to teach a class.  The manager here also worked at IDFG so we visited with him and he showed us around.

The next stop was Hoover Dam.  I didn't realize that you can walk out on the new bridge to get a view of the dam  until we crossed it and a lot of people were on the pedestrian walkway.  We stopped and walked up a hill to the bridge.  There is a concrete wall about 5 feet high that separates the walkway from the highway and a 3-4 foot concrete wall with a railing on top on the other side so the pedestrians are very safe.  It's an out and back walkway though as it dead ends on the other side of the bridge.  I walked all the way to the center to get pictures, and had a death grip on my IPhone so I didn't accidentally drop it over the side.  It's windy out on the bridge.  I'm surprised some people didn't lose their hats in the wind.

We stopped for lunch in Henderson and then drove to Ely for the night.  Today's our 42nd day on the road.  We've had a wonderful trip and loved it, but it will be nice to be home for awhile.