The final day of our trip was a six-hour drive from Sedona to Las Vegas, with stops for milk shakes in Kingman and photos at Hoover Dam.
In 104-degree heat, we didn’t do any walking around at the dam located on the Arizona-Nevada border, 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. Hoover Dam rises above Lake Mead and stands 726 feet tall, from foundation rock to the roadway on top. A pedestrian lane on the Mike O’Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge offers a view of the dam and the Colorado River from a height of 880 feet. The bridge, second-highest in the U.S., is named for O’Callaghan, a decorated Korean War veteran and two-term governor of Nevada, and Tillman, a pro football star from Arizona who joined the Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
After turning in the rental car and keys at McCarran International Airport, we flew back from Las Vegas to San Francisco. From 35,000 feet, it was a very different perspective of the desert we had just crossed. And quite a contrast to the snow-capped Sierra Nevada mountain range of Eastern California.
Next up: trip facts, figures, fuel, firsts, etc.
Kevin Patrick Roadtrip 
Trip over already? I thought I had a couple more days out west!
Hope ya had a good time.