Welcome to Page Where the Internet Service Provider is Slower than Dial-Up

We are in Page, Arizona the next couple of days.  Jan found a place on VRBO (vacation rental by owner) and it is comfortable.  Perhaps most important to us is that it had laundry facilities and just about at the midpoint of the vacation.

One thing we find odd is how poor the service is from the Cable Provider to this community.  The ISP (internet service provider) is Cable One, which is run by Donald Graham, who I believe is the son of the late Katherine Graham the former owner of the Washington Post.  When it's working, and from what we read it doesn't work very often, subscribers are treated to download speeds of a painfully slow 1 mega bit per second.  The base package with Time Warner in Albany these days gets you at least 10 and most people have 30.  Upload speeds are .5 mbps which is just pitiful.  I don't know what the issue is, but the community deserves better.

Anyway, back to the tourism part of the blog.

The central recreation feature in the region is Lake Powell, created by the Glen Canyon Dam.  The water level is recovering from a low point in 2012.  We looked at the dam and went on a sunset boat ride.

When you dam up a river like the Colorado the land and water work together to create interesting canyons within the resulting lake.  This is Antelope Canyon.  The sides are very tall although if you look at the rock walls the lighter color is the difference in the water level from normal.  

Does anyone know what this sky feature is about?  I do not.  This is in the eastern sky as the sun dips blow a rock formation on the west side of the lake.  It looks like rays of dark and bright light are shooting out from a center point.  There was a thunder storm cell to the right of this picture if that makes any difference.

We always get pretty skies when the sun sinks below the horizon.

Busy day tomorrow.  We have a raft trip.  We are climbing down into the Slot Canyon.  That's just in the morning.