Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Wednesday, Wandering Wildly

Today's Predictable Tracking via APRS and Ham Radio
Well, my alliteration gets out of hand... often.  Not really wandering nor wildly though it WAS definitely Wednesday.
Yesterday we rode separately;  today we rode together on the beloved terratrike.
We didn't get in an early morning ride so we weren't out to get our brains cooked by riding too far, and we wouldn't have ridden at all but for the clouds in the sky helping to cool things down.  We rode the usual post office run, jog up to the Shell lemonade stand / ice cream sandwich shop for a short break, then back to the parked vehicle - thence up the unpaved 1 mile goat-path to the casita.  We stopped to clear up a worsening rattle - which turned out to be the recurring loose screw on one of the front fenders.  I also had to stop almost immediately after we initiated the ride... I was unusually fatigued after only a few minutes of riding and of course the blood glucose was frightfully low.  While eating an oatmeal power bar for a quick snack I took my knife to the burgeoning melon-weeds proliferating across the road shoulder and bicycle path.  I need to take a couple hours and rip out all these nasty path-obstructers for the 2 miles of the path we use much of the time.
The clouds, of course, blew away shortly after we started to ride and thus allowed the temperature to climb uncomfortably.
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.0        Ending Voltage: 12.7
(Guess I finally need to charge the new Lithium-Ion Battery )
Lowest Temp  73 F      Highest Temp:  84 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles:  4.17
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  3.0 MPH                                 5.8 MPH                    24.9 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
  1 hour 24 mins                     43 mins                     40 minutes

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