My Wife is a Hottie

All Around the East Mountains APRS Tracking
Jacque has really been kicking butt lately on her new Catrike.  A few months ago her knees were so painful she could only do short rides but she kept riding, and within the last couple weeks she has done 3 rides over 20 miles, with steep climbs involved, and seems to be getting ever stronger and enthusiastic about road trips on her own pedal power.  You Go, Girl.  What a babe.  She thought she only did 22 miles today but it was at least 24.  (The mileage on my GPS is greater since I rode over to the Post Office and back while she turned up the goat-path road to home)
Today she decided she wanted to ride out to Edgewood to pick up an item at the local Dollar Store.  So I rode with her.  She took off first, since I always catch and pass her when she's climbing hills, and she got several miles of head start on me since I had to empty some slop in the compost pile, change out my insulin pump infusion set (which sweated loose and fell off during the ride today), and assorted other excuses.  It took me 4 or 5 miles to catch her when I finally saddled up and took off.  Going out, we rode Frost Road out to Vallecitos Road, Sedillo Hill Road, and Old 66 on to Edgewood.
As we approached the halfway point on the Mother Road (old 66) we suffered some of the consequences of biking on a road populated with oil burners:

We enjoyed a scrumptious sandwich at Subway and decided to take a different route home:  Mountain Valley road northbound from Route 66 to Frost Road and then west to home.  On the way west on 66, Jacque spotted a snake on the opposite shoulder we had passed on the way eastbound:  It was still there and Jacque was certainly avoiding him.  I decided to turn around and get some video of him.  He turned out to be a rattler but was dead, dead, dead....

Jacque actually spotted 2 more snakes as well but I only noted this one and a flattened shell of another about a quarter mile west.
It was certainly a hot one today but a nice day for a ride anyway.
Beginning Battery Voltage:  12.9   Ending Voltage:  9.9
Lowest Temp  77 F      Highest Temp:  86 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles:     29.26
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
6.6 MPH                                 9.0 MPH                    34.9 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
4 hours 27  mins                    3 hours  14 mins        1 hour 13 minutes