 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. |