{"id":872,"date":"2012-07-03T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T06:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:33:27","slug":"day-1-of-the-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/07\/03\/day-1-of-the-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 of the trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial;border-color: initial;float: right;border-width: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Angel1.jpg\" alt=\"Angel at Hoover Dam\" width=\"69\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Left way later than I&#8217;d originally planned. But still had time to wander around Hoover Dam a bit. Getting there late was surprisingly nice, most of the crowds were gone, and it wasn&#8217;t as hot only 104F instead of 106F earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But it&#8217;s a <strong>DRY<\/strong> heat&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You could feel the moisture being sucked right out of you.<\/p>\n<p>Being without the crowds was bliss. I actually got to see the representations of the constellations that are built into the plaza around the Angels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial;border-color: initial;float: left;border-width: 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DocksLkeMead.jpg\" alt=\"DocksLkeMead\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The water Level in Lake Mead is really low. They&#8217;ve had to extend the docks again and again somewhere on the lake, they simply gave up pouring the concrete to make a nice ramp. The cost of the concrete was breaking the dock owners pocketbook.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve managed to take some other photos that I&#8217;m kind of liking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The photos at Hoover dam are kind of limited because I wasn&#8217;t able to go on the tour. I was just walking across the top.<\/p>\n<p>I can officially say I&#8217;ve walked from Nevada to Arizona and back. So can a million other people but it&#8217;s fun to be able to say it.<\/p>\n<p>Made it to Utah crashing in a hotel after only 8 hours on the road. I was thinking about camping but it&#8217;s midnight local time and Still 90F with little to no breeze.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for roughing it but even I have my limits. We decided instead to revel in the glory &nbsp;that is a hotel room where you can make it cold enough that the moisture in the air condenses into rain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMAG0215.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0215\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ahhhhhhh!<\/p>\n<p>Including some other photos here, these are from my phone&#8230; I&#8217;m actually pretty impressed with the quality. A little cropping, a touch of color correction and perhaps CLEANING THE Smudgy lens and these too would be ok.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMAG0221.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0221\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left way later than I&#8217;d originally planned. But still had time to wander around Hoover Dam a bit. Getting there late was surprisingly nice, most of the crowds were gone, and it wasn&#8217;t as hot only 104F instead of 106F earlier in the day. &#8220;But it&#8217;s a DRY heat&#8221; You could feel the moisture being &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/07\/03\/day-1-of-the-trip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 1 of the trip&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}