Road Dirt and Grasshopper Guts

Today's Admittedly Brief Tracking

Today's entry title came to me while I was scrubbing my face with a warm wet washcloth just moments ago after coming home from our Saturday ride.
Today is Jacque's birthday, which means we celebrated yesterday by going to the State Fair and attending Jacque's favorite fair activity:  The Draft Horse Pulls.  Sometimes her birthday falls on the exact day of the horse-pulls and sometimes not. 
Horse-Pulling meant we did not go for a ride yesterday.  We did walk around a lot, looking at our favorite fair displays, such as Robert Duck's Racing Ducks , and of course eating our mandatory Navajo Taco at the Navajo Cafe in the so-called Indian Village.  The Navajo Taco was by far the healthiest thing we ate while there.  Also ice cream at the dairy barn, Texas Taters, the deadly bag of miniature fresh-fried donuts.....
We decided, yesterday, while ingesting all this illegal food, that we should go for a ride today to burn some of the carbs off.  So we did.
We had lots needing doing the rest of the day so we planned just a short ride 5 miles or so out and 5 or so miles back.
This summer has been an unusually wet summer for us, with lots of too-tall weeds ..... and probably related to all the weeds, kazillions of grasshoppers seemingly covering the ground and filling the skies.  Not that big of a plague, of course, but every few feet on the pavement are mating and crawling hoppers, and they are fleet on their feet and wings.  Several times one splatted its way inside my shirt and sleeves, and of course we splatted a few of them as we rolled down the road.  We notice that even at 30 MPH downhill with a screaming tailwind it's not fast enough to outrun the little (AND Big) buggers.  Matter of fact, at speed, they positively hurt as they smack against you like pebbles of various sizes.
We spotted a moving sale in a yard we passed so Jacque had to go shopping.  After all, it was HER birthday.  What could  be more fitting than garage sale-ing by bike?  Or Trike?
AND - we (Yeah, I went inside and bought a couple items too) bought some stuff, and had to run the cycle back to the SUV so we could go back with a motorized vehicle to retrieve our purchased treasures. 
Had we known we would be adding to our stocks of worldly goods, we could have towed the bike trailer with the trike and foregone the ignominy of using the gas-powered vehicle.  Oh Well.

Ride Started: 11:52 AM    Ride Ended:  1:49 PM
Beginning Battery Voltage:  13.2       Ending Voltage: 12.9
Lowest Temp  71 F      Highest Temp:  84 F 
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  9.30
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  3.8 MPH                               7.3 MPH                    34 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
2 hours 27 mins                     1 hour 16 mins          1 hour 10 minutes