Nerd Alert!

Just sharing some pictures from our roadie.

Normal human beings will be able to spend about a half-hour at Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah border. Anyone with an engineering background, though, count on at least 2 to 3 times that much... and that doesn't even include the guided tour.
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The downstream side of the dam.

Yes, that is grass to the left of the generator housing and yes you might be able to pick out the guy in the mower in the upper left of the putting green by clicking to enlarge.
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The bridge dowstream of the dam that spans Glen Canyon.

Construction began in the late 50s and was completed by '65. It took 15 years, though, to fill the canyon behind the dam and which would form Lake Powell (named after John Wesley Powell whom we believe to be one of the most under-rated figures in American history perhaps surpassing Samuel Gompers in our power rankings) so the power plant was not fully operational until 1980.

We came onto the earthly scene in the late 60s just as mammoth projects like this were winding down so we get strangely nostalgic walking around and viewing these marvelous human endeavors: we (Americans) used to do stuff like this. Big stuff. The interstate highway system. Hoover Dam. Putting a man on the moon. And now..? Our big idea is weatherizing windows..?

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