And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You are correct. To access the dam by vehicle you first pass through a security checkpoint on the AZ side. It’s not a through road anymore and after crossing the dam there are vista points but you can’t continue into NV. You must turn around.
I got separated from my tour group in the depths of the Dam a few years ago and found myself alone...I didn't wander off to far away from the phone in the 30 or so minutes it took for someone to come and get me. Interesting place to be all alone.
There is or was a nice little hot springs on the Nevada side directly under where the new bridge was built. Don't know if it's still there or if you can even get to it anymore. F* everyone involved with 9/11 - foreign and domestic.
I was there about then on a 6 week Trek America tour while on the way home from the UK to New Zealand. Wife had shagged the van driver at Comanche Lake by that stage but I didn't connect the dots for several years.
Usually the AhHa moment is to be enjoyed. I'm guessing that one didn't rise to that level. The events, the feelings that Could have followed are so widely varied,, I can't imagine how you handled that. Lousy deal,,
More important, the Pat Tillman Memorial bridge.
ReplyDeleteAmen brother
DeleteIt's good to see the lake up a bit.
ReplyDeleteIt would be even better to see it up a bit more !
DeleteAfter 9/11, I thought they built the bridge because they weren't allowing vehicles to cross the dam??
ReplyDeleteYou are correct. To access the dam by vehicle you first pass through a security checkpoint on the AZ side. It’s not a through road anymore and after crossing the dam there are vista points but you can’t continue into NV. You must turn around.
ReplyDeleteThat's a fairly new photo. When I was there with my US Marine Vietnam veteran group (in 2007), the bridge had just been started to be constructed.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't call a 16 year old picture "fairly new".
DeleteThe bridge was completed in 2010
I got separated from my tour group in the depths of the Dam a few years ago and found myself alone...I didn't wander off to far away from the phone in the 30 or so minutes it took for someone to come and get me. Interesting place to be all alone.
ReplyDeleteDrove over Dam, no bridge then back in August 1981
ReplyDeleteOr June of '93, when I left the Navy and California behind for Tennessee
DeleteSaw it at night, 1975. Looked like a scene from the Wizzard of Oz.
ReplyDeleteThere is or was a nice little hot springs on the Nevada side directly under where the new bridge was built. Don't know if it's still there or if you can even get to it anymore. F* everyone involved with 9/11 - foreign and domestic.
ReplyDeleteBoated up to one of the intake towers back around 78. Unforgettable.
ReplyDeleteI was there about then on a 6 week Trek America tour while on the way home from the UK to New Zealand. Wife had shagged the van driver at Comanche Lake by that stage but I didn't connect the dots for several years.
ReplyDeleteUsually the AhHa moment is to be enjoyed. I'm guessing that one didn't rise to that level. The events, the feelings that Could have followed are so widely varied,, I can't imagine how you handled that. Lousy deal,,
DeleteNever got old driving across it. The architectural art of the whole damn is superb. It was another world back then.
ReplyDeleteI remember crossing it to get to Caesar's legions back in the day. Thankfully I had the upgraded Securitron forces to help out.
ReplyDelete