Another Windsday Trike Ride

Today's Partial Path Tracking with Limited Radio Coverage

I've become so enamored of the route looping around Frost -> Vallecitos -> Sedillo -> Route 66 -> Gutierrez Canyon that I convinced Jacque to ride the Tandem Recumbent Trike there today.
It was actually even windier than yesterday and slightly cooler but still a great ride. Almost everywhere along the route (except for parts of Vallecitos and Sedillo Hill Road) there were wide enough shoulders to allow safe passage of the wider trike.  We had to stop for multiple breaks but had a good time.  When we got to the old Zuzax tourist trap gas station on Old Route 66 Jacque decided we needed a refreshment break.  While there the doggies got several new admirers.
A National Rental van pulled up to the overhang sheltering the gas pumps and we were horrified to watch him scrape about 2 or 3 inches of sideboard and trim off the overhang.... his truck was too high and the driver obviously did not realize he could have stopped and minimized further damage by letting some air out of his tires to gain a couple inches of extra clearance.  I quickly pulled our trike farther away from the ongoing destruction lest the falling debris hit us, the dogs, or the trike.  The station owner told him so many trucks had done the same thing that they were going to completely rebuild the roof and overhang and to not worry about the damage.  We crossed I-40 at the Zuzax overpass onto the north frontage road and within a mile turned northward on Gutierrez Canyon.  A couple miles up this road, a white Subaru approached us slowly from the rear.  It turned out to be our dear friend Paul, a fellow ham radio operator who lives a few hundred yards down El Refugio, just off the road we were on.  He invited us to "drop in" at his home for a break and who can resist that?  Shortly after he drove off, another car approached us from the rear, again slowing  to talk to us, and this time it was Paul's wife Linda, who also invited us to come by and "Be sure to bring the doggies."  Their turnoff was still another hundred yards or so up the hill from our current location so they got home quite a bit before we arrived.  This was supposed to be a short break, but they are such dear friends we wound up staying slightly over an hour, enjoying their cool water and hospitality and bathrooms.

Trip Started:  9:36 AM    Trip Ended:  1:36  PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.4        Ending Voltage: 13.2
Lowest Temp  60 F      Highest Temp:  69 F
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  12.23
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  3.1 MPH                                5.3 MPH                    33.9 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
3 hours  58 mins                    2 hours 18 mins         1 hour 40 mins