So I have done about 18 days of RAGBRAI and Wednesday was about as good as it gets. With no wind, almost no hills and a perfect temperature for a quick 40 mile ride.
Because of the way the team works, rolling into the overnight town before noon will do you no good and with a short day and a 6:30 am start we would have been in too early so we had to lolligag for the day. We stopped in every town from Forest City to Mason City and saw what they had to offer. My favorite part was the Surf Ballroom. The Surf Ballroom is the last place Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper & Buddy Holly before the plane crash that took all of the, also known as The Day the Music Died. The picture attached to this post is of the stage.
Despite sightseeing and dragging into town we still got in pretty early and enjoyed the relaxation for an afternoon.
Dinner last night was something our chef for the week, Kurt from Devotay in Iowa City & Edible Iowa, made us an amazing lasagna (possibly better than my wife's so I hope she skips this blog post & doesn't read this). There was also foccaccia bread, rattatoullie and a salad. Kurt did joke he was told not to ever make a dish that we could get in town, which lasagna is at every church in all towns, but this was, as Kurt put it, "not church lady lasagna" and he was right.
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