7.24.2009

RAGBRAI XXXVII - Hot and Windy

Today started out to be a fairly nice day. We had a really steep hill coming out of Ottumwa, but other than that, the hills seemed to be manageable early on. We made our first stop of the day near the town of Hendrick. To get to the town, we would have needed to take a gravel road for a mile or two, and then another one to come back. Instead, we stopped for breakfast burritos from the Farm Boys. They were yummy!


We stopped in Packwood for our first lunch. I had a hot dog and a lemonade there. Our next lunch stop was in Brighton, where I had a walking taco and whoopie! That would be whoopie pie. After we left Brighton, things turned bad.


For most of the ride after Brighton, we had strong headwinds. And to make matters worse, the next town, where we had hoped to stop, didn't seem to be a town at all. Me took a fairly good rest in Lockridge before finishing our trek to Mount Pleasant. The last third of the day, when it was hot and we had headwinds, took almost as long as the first two thirds of the trip did, but we all managed to make it. Now we have one day to go!

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