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RAGBRAI Day 6
Cedar Falls to Oelwein, 38 miles Today was a nice recovery day riding to Oelwein, which had a duck theme. I am unsure how they landed on that, but it gave them a theme. We stopped in several towns along today’s route. One of them had an older gentleness and lady who had made hula
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RAGBRAI DAY 5
Iowa Falls to Cedar Falls: 51 miles, 1400 ft of climbing and lots of downhill. Today was a fun day of riding. A cloudy day with the wind at our backs for part of the day and more descent than ascent. It was also a relatively short distance with some fun town stops along the
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RAGBRAI DAY 4
Forest City to Iowa Falls 69 miles of brutal headwind and heat and humidity Other than the weather, this was a calm day compared to what we saw yesterday. The towns we stopped i. We’re much smaller and didn’t do quite as much…other than providing food and beverage options. Since it was a quiet day
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RAGBRAI Day 2
Milford to Estherville 44 miles Today was a shorter riding day highlighted by a bit of time in Minnesota, which was a first for RAGBRAI. Our first stop in a park in Jackson County Minnesota, included a visit with the ladies from the SPAM museum in Austin, MN. Who knew there are so many flavors
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RAGBRAI DAY 3
Estherville to Forest City. 74 miles sunny, hot, humid We started at 6:30 am to beat the heat as much as possible. Well, the first half went well. The second half of the day was brutal. The humidity made the air very thick. Oh well, on to the highlights of the day. The first town
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RAGBRAI Day 1
Orange City to Milford, IA Orange City is a cute Dutch town with lots of authentic Dutch stuff, including windmills and a canal in the town park. The canal served as the “dip spot” for the rear tire since we started about 25 miles from the Missouri River and the tradition is to dip your
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RAGBRAI 2025
Getting ready for a week in the corn They don’t call it a week in the corn for nothing. We started our transport to the start in Orange City, IA with a significant thunderstorm in Guttenberg, IA as we loaded our bikes onto a semi and caught a bus for the five hour ride to
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Seven-mile bridge and Key West, at last!
Day 22: Marathon, FL to Key West, FL; 58 miles. God is so good! We made it to Key West and to the Southernmost point in the continental U.S. today. We had no rain (except for about 5 minutes of sprinkles this morning) the entire time we cycled – just under 1,200 miles. What a
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Awww….the Keys
Day 21: Key Largo, FL to Marathon, FL; 46.5 miles, 86 degrees, 93 on the pavement Today’s ride was entirely on US 1, with a periodic dart onto the Overseas Heritage Trail, but since we never knew when the Trail would cross busy US 1 or disappear completely, Bill and I spent most of the
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