Gnats in your eye and down your throat?--you sort of get used to that. Careful not to get sunscreen in your eye when you try to wipe out any bugs, it can really make your eye sting and water.

You want gross??? Here's GROSS:
Last week I was riding along the highway shoulder. There was a rotting raccoon carcass covered with guts and flies in the middle of the road up ahead.
Just as I was approaching it, a giant truck flies by me and runs right over the raccoon again. Fur went whirling up in the wake wind of the truck.
I was hit all over, including face, with pieces of fur and God Knows What Else, all nice and warm from the hot sun and exhaust fumes. I just kept riding and tried not to think about it. Couldn't find anything suspicious plastered on me when I got home (you bet I took a hot shower though!).

EEEEeeeeeewwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!