{"id":75,"date":"2021-08-31T01:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T01:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2021-08-31T02:02:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T02:02:54","slug":"day-six-page-arizona-elevation-3713","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Day six, Page, Arizona, elevation 3713\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today was moving day. We left Virgin, Utah at about 9:15 AM MDT and arrived in Page, Arizona 135 miles later, one time change later. The entire drive was really pretty, and not too hilly. We did have one climb that took us over 5500 feet, but it was gradual and not curvy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a third of the way to our destination we took a stop at the Pipe Springs National Monument. The water supply there brought three distinct groups together, the Paiute native tribespeople, Mormon ranchers and missionaries, and the US government. Water was scarce in this high desert region, and each group had reason to claim it. The monument tells the story of each group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It continues to be blessed hot, topping out at about 103 degrees today. The AC in the motorhome struggles to keep up, but by bedtime it is manageable. The next stop on Wednesday takes us over 7000 feet, and temperatures will drop about 30 degrees. We\u2019re looking forward to less sweat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Page is situated next to the Page Canyon dam and to Lake Powell. The setting is gorgeous, and we will be seeing more of it tomorrow on a float trip on the Colorado River. More then\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winsor Castle at Pipe Springs. Mormon polygamists used this outpost to hide their extra wives from Federal marshalls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We stumbled into a Marx Bros movie on the drive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I dubbed this \u201cBiscuit Hill\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Glen Canyon Dam and the US 89 highway bridge over the Colorado River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Here\u2019s the canyon the Colorado carves below the dam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Busy Lake Powell, behind the dam. Lower than usual\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was moving day. We left Virgin, Utah at about 9:15 AM MDT and arrived in Page, Arizona 135 miles later, one time change later. The entire drive was really pretty, and not too hilly. We did have one climb that took us over 5500 feet, but it was gradual and not curvy. About a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-western-park-tour-2021"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}