Mad Run to Omaha for our New Tandem Trike

4-Day Trip Tracking via APRS
Busy week for us.  Jacque spotted a Terratrike Tandem Recumbent Tricycle on the internet (Thanks Google!) for a very reasonable price.  The guy responded, we made a verbal deal, and hit the road Monday for Omaha to retrieve our new ride.
For some reason it only took us a day and a half to get there (leaving Monday about noon and arriving Omaha about 5:00 PM).  Coming home, however, took a bit more time.  We left Omaha about 7:00 PM and stopped in Fairbury for a motel stay about 9 PM.  We left Fairbury (Nebraska) about 8 AM the next morning and made it all the way to Tucumcari before giving up and staying another expensive night in a motel. We hit Tucumcari about 9 PM and, though I knew we could have continued on and made it home about midnight or 1 AM, it just wasn't worth it.
When we awoke Thursday morning for our final push home we saw that it had rained most of the night, with the roads and weather pretty soggy.  When we finally got home around noon, the weather was still wet and soggy and COLD.
We had hoped to take the trike for a few miles on an initial first-time ride but only did about 100 yards down our goat path road before turning around.

 We are STOKED about this tandem trike.  You can see Jacque nd Tinkerbell are trying hard to keep from smiling.

 Friday we awoke to great weather.  After running too many errands in Albuquerque, we drove down to the Bosque Trail to put some real miles on the trike-tandem.  We rode down Mountain Road (AKA Bicycle Boulevard) to Old Town and had a nice rest and ice cream break there.  Here's the new tandem parked in the shade with the Civil War cannons in the background.

 The trike is an immediate hit with passers-by.  Lots of rolled - down windows and comments from motorists coming around us.  At Old Town Plaza, a very nice couple approached and wanted to talk about Tinkerbell, the fearless travel buddy, and the trike.  Lovely folks from Carthage, Texas.  I'm sorry I did not get their names, and Jacque reminded me later I should have offered to let them take the trike for a ride.  Oh Well.  Maybe next time.
I still don't have all the electronics on the bike so I did not get accurate GPS tracking and mileage during our first real ride, but we did put in maybe 5 or 6 very enjoyable miles and the weather was absolutely great. 
We rode back to the fossil powered vehicle and loaded up the trike:

Then we went to the Horse-Pull event at the NM State Fair and had an enjoyable evening after snarfing our annual State Fair Navajo Taco.  If we had left the Exploder behind and rode the trike all the way to and fro we would have done a better job of burning off all those carbs. (belch)