Today's usual tracking via GPS and Ham Radio
Well, it's not that hard when two of the Riders are small cutesy lap-dog Papillons.
We got going today early enough to beat the afternoon heat and it was very very nice. We did notice that - before noon - over half of our normal tree-shaded rest spots were still in full sunshine with no shade at all. Thankfully there are a couple of trees along this route that are large enough to actually arch over the road shoulder, thus providing shade in spite of the earlier hour.
We stopped under such shade just at the base of our first major hill. While resting and relaxing, a large white pickup truck pulled in behind us and looked at us a few moments, then rolled down his driver's window. "We see you all the time riding around, but we never noticed before you had a dog with you!" He did a double-take when Jacque informed him of the other dog up front... in the belly harness on my gut. We hear comments like this continually about 'seeing us riding all the time' when we seem to miss more days than we ride. Guess it motivates us to better live up to our so-called reputation.
As we turned north on Mountain Valley Road, we again encountered the riding-English lady on her skittish horse.... but this time there were two of them. As we approached each other head-on at low speed, the ladies called out "We're trying to get through our gate before we pass you!" We then noticed their gate just ahead on our right so we stopped and waited for the gals with their prancing horses to cross in front of us and inside to the horses' perceived safety of their yard. They thanked us profusely, apologized for the skittishness of their horses, and admired our preening dogs, who of course hate hearing the inevitable "OOOOoohhh, how CUTE!"
The weather at this hour was just lovely. Warm but not over-hot, and the breezes were wonderful with their cooling. Although not that hot today, we again noticed some of the territorial dogs preferred not to rush to the fence and challenge us, while others seemed to do just that from some sense of obligation to uphold THEIR reputations.
Now, back again to the yard-decorating defunct RV... I got the engine radiator re-installed, as well as the Air Conditioning radiator... then had to remove a couple of bolts again when I realized I had missed a bracket and had to dig around for a missing bolt. I took lots of Iphone pictures as I was taking this beast apart, but I didn't take ENOUGH of them.....
Maybe another week and I can start it up and see how much smoke and steam come out ......
Ride Started: 9:30 AM Ride Ended: 11:26 AM
Beginning Battery Voltage: 13.5 Ending Voltage: 13.0
Lowest Temp 71 F Highest Temp: 82 F
Stats from the GPS: Total Miles: 9.35
Overall average speed Moving Avg Max Speed
5.0 MPH 7.2 MPH 34.5 MPH
Total Trip time Moving Time Stopped Time
1 hour 52 mins 1 hour 18 mins 34 minutes
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