First Stop! Tacos! |
10 sexy legs. One really cute butt. |
Let's get a closeup of that really cute butt. |
We can make our own bike stands! |
Making our mark on the signs! |
These guys hand rolled their dough on site! Best Pizza & Lemonade! |
Our first overnight town stop. |
My view from my sleeping "room". Oh, what evil lurks outside (not Jim). |
This was my view most nights. |
Starting to fill up the campgrounds. |
Starting to look like RAGBRAI! |
GRAVEL!! This was actually the first day. Best day of riding! |
Lots of busses. |
We were really surprised that the pool and deck didn't collapse. |
Setting up first night's camp. |
Velo View Texas! (and one Chattanoogan) |
The campgrounds were really nice! Wish our neighbors were..... |
Hanging out with the locals during lunch |
Beautiful full double rainbow. |
Oh the views..... |
WASP? White Anglo Saxon Protestants? |
Team $uper Awe$ome has nothing on this bus! |
No idea what all that means. |
The new Velo View van! Thanks Shannon! |
No idea what Shannon is doing. Laundry line? |
We set up camp in a high school chorus room |
Rules of the room. |
A Daily sight on RAGBRAI lawns. |
It's Team Coover Day! |
Awesome tractors lined the roads at just about every small town. |
Patches achieved! The first one is for the gravel loop through Imogene. The second one is for the Karras Loop Century. |
The locals knew how to provide rest stops. |
Mr. Pork Chop. Oh, my apologies for learning about you only on Day 5. |
We almost lost Amanda. It was a gruesome sight. |
Dani in her commuting outfit to go get some lasagna and beer. |
Little hill repeats for Day 1 ! |
Iowa Craft Beer tent stop! |
The empty grass spots were filled within half an hour. |
The BEST backyard camping of the week. We even had a pond to swim! |
Beautiful backyard grounds for us to camp. |
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All lined up and ready to go to sleep. Bikes sleep like horses....standing up. |
More Iowa Craft Beer! |
Always Grammin. |
They're playing some silly frisbee game behind me. |
Hey, you ok over there? |
Hee Haw tryouts. |
Dreaming of pork chops and IPAs. |
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Ice Cream machines! |
Beeker's Ice Cream! |
More Coover love. |
It was really very rare to not have a group of 50 riders on my tail. |
Into Muscatine, our final stop! |
The traditional shots at the Mississippi River |
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Big Jim Conquer Iowa! |
Does this barge make my butt look big? |
Team Velo View Texas! |
(Better late than never, but Dani and I trekked over to the Missouri River to dip our rear wheel) |
Rolling past the cornfields one last time |
....and our final soy photo. |