Day 27 - Hoover Dam and the Road to Santa Monica

We checked out early the next morning, everyone met up in the main foyer at 8:30 in the morning so that we could make our way out of Vegas before hitting any peak hour traffic. Our first stop of the morning, was the old Las Vegas sign, after all, we couldn't leave without showing Vegas how to really dress up haha! We grabbed a few quick photo's, but couldn't really take too many, because there was a line up and it started raining as well...

We then headed towards the Hoover Dam on our way out of the city, it was huge! It was most probably over a 100m drop on one of the sides! We walked across the entire length of the Dam but didn't go on any of the tours that took us inside, because the lines were huge and we had to press on to make it to Santa Monica, the end of Route 66!

We stopped of at a few more historical sites along the highway, as well as another original Route 66 Diner called Mr D'z, where we had lunch, they served classic food and drink, it was also were Adam and Myself tried our first root beer floats... I can tell you right now I am definitely not a fan haha! The food however, was really nice!

We then continued on through the desert, realising that we still had an entire bag left of fireworks! There was only one thing for us to do... LET THEM ALL OFF!! We went for about an hour before an off-duty fireman drove up to us in his car and said that there was a $2500 fine for letting of fire crackers in that area and that someone will most probably be along pretty soon, considering how far away he spotted some of the fireworks we had been letting off haha! He did however compliment us on the light show that we provided haha! We continued on and ended up pulling over on the side of the road and sleeping there instead of driving all the way to Santa Monica...

Next stop... Santa Monica and the Road to San Francisco!

Mark