So, after not getting married in Vegas, Dave and I continued down to Arizona to work on his thesis film. On the way, we drove over the Hoover Dam, which looks like something directly out of an Ayn Rand novel.
They’ve been afraid of terrorists blowing up the dam pretty much since 9/11, so they are very slowly constructing a bridge that you drive over instead of driving over the dam itself. When it’s finished, people will still be able to walk on the dam, but they won’t allow any cars.
The dam itself is pretty impressive. It’s enormous, and backs up Lake Mead.
There’s a parking deck on one side of the dam, so you can park your car and walk around. We spent about an hour there, not counting the traffic actually driving across the dam.
And then we went to Phoenix! To see Shannon!
I can’t explain why i don’t have more pictures of Shannon. But she was an amazing host, giving us her bed and driving us around Chandler/Tempe late-ish at night to get dinner. She has a great house, in a development complete with lemon trees, although there weren’t ripe lemons when we stayed. Which means we’ll have to go back. And she has two little dogs that protect her from things, including things that aren’t dangerous, and bark a lot until you ignore them for a little bit at which point they sort of go about their business (which is mostly barking, but at other things). It was great to see Shannon and her house; I just wish we had gotten there earlier so we could have spent some more time actually hanging out.
We left Shannon’s house in the morning, and drive down to Ajo, which is the town closest to the Cabeza Prieda National Wildlife Refuge, where we were doing the bulk of the filming and camping.
