Cindy, Katie and I started out strong. Winding our way out of Mason City (the best host city so far). It was a beautiful morning, but we were tired.
As we made our way up and down all the hills - one called "breathless hill" cause that's how if leaves you, we felt our legs wanting to give up.
We kept pedaling till the 40 mile mark where we stopped for lunch. It was along the water and we saw a few boats along the boardwalk... Are you thinking what we did?? "Can we get a pontoon ride to our final destination?" The answer was no, as there are two dams between here and there. BUT they offered to drive us there- so we hoped a pontoon, with our bikes and headed to Tim and Becky's home up the river... It was crazy and fun.
They took is to their beautiful home and we heard all the scoop on the town of Greene. Tim is the high school football coach (as well as farmer and a few other tile), so we chatted about football. Becky was so worried about her house being messy and a kept explaining how gross we were. Midwest nice.
We hung out at their home on the river telling stories And soon learned they lot a sister and niece to cancer. It was meant to be that we met them.
They drove us to near our camping spot and although we cut off 25 miles today, we had a memorable adventure. And that's RAGBRAI.
A few of us played Password in the RV and now we are all hunkered down in our tents as a storm is predicted to come through at midnight. I hope it moves through quickly. :)
Total riding miles : 280
2 days left till I am home with Sophie :)
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