We continue on our southern trek

Tonight we continued our trek to Mexico (or maybe Princeton). We parked the same place that we parked on Monday night. If you remember, we had a pleasant ride to the north to Roca but had to climb Kilamajaro on our return trip. Tonight we headed south towards Princeton. It was another monster climb as we went uphil all the way - climbing 115 feet according to my "altimeter" (doesn't everyone have one?). It was fairly slow going. When we turned around and headed back to the truck, we were able to get back in half the time.
One thing we did notice is the difference in food sources. In all of our trips between Saltillo Road and Hickman Road, we have been able to get our fill of gnats. Now that we are heading south of Hickman Road we had no gnats but the path was covered with grasshoppers! Does this seem to have an Old Testament plague theme???? Anyway, we had to dodge grasshoppers the whole trip. I did find out that it is hard to run over grasshoppers. They just sit there until you get right about to squish them and then they hop away. I did find this frustrating on the slow trip up the mountain. Now on the way back, since I was going faster, they must have underestimated my speed because they were easier to hit!
Anyway, we did surpass our goal of 23 miles before snow flies - as we are now up to 27!

Mike