Kissing my Sister

Well, I didn't really kiss my sister, I just took her for a ride on our Terratrike while visiting up here in Utah.
Her knees are in terrible shape and she endures a lot of  pain when walking and standing. We've been encouraging her to try a trike for therapy - as so many people have found to be helpful.
We only went 4 miles but she seemed to enjoy it a lot, without  getting crippled up from the short joyride - and even though we had to pedal strenuously up several mild grades.
We were quite disappointed with this area's "Rail-toTrail" route, as there are uncut curbs cyclists  are forced to cross while dismounted, and the crossings of streets are blocked on both sides by gates designed to keep out 4-wheelers and motorcycles.... and unfortunately work quite well at obstructing tandems and 3-wheeler trikes also.
We managed to shoe-horn ourselves and the rig through several such  blockages but often having to clip the edges of several goat-head patches on the edge of the pavement at such crossings.  We finally tired of such nonsense and turned onto the vehicle-populated streets and rode back to her house without incident.
It's been raining on  and off regularly these last few days but it  mostly dried up today so we enjoyed  our after-church ride.
Ride Started: 3:51 PM    Ride Ended:  5:30 PM
  
Stats from the GPS:    Total Miles:  3.99
Overall average speed            Moving Avg               Max Speed
  2.1 MPH                               5.0 MPH                    16.3 MPH
Total Trip time                       Moving Time             Stopped Time
1 hour 53 mins                       48 mins                    1 hour 5 minutes