Early afternoon, flat lighting… worse lighting of the day for photographers… but we are playing tourists. After years of crossing the Hoover Dam to get to Las Vegas, we took an afternoon to visit the bypass bridge and honor all those trips across a national icon.

Hoover Dam from “the new bridge”

Shadow of the bridge

Panoramic

In the middle of the bridge is the “official” Arizona/ Nevada border, so here is Ruth in two States at the same time

Welcome to Nevada

The new bridge (the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge)

February 13, 2011