Clarion, Iowa
This needs to be a very quick message. I am using the librarian's computer! She took pity on me when she told me all the computers were busy and my face fell! Iowa is beautiful. Rolling hills and miles upon miles of crops and peaceful roads to ride. The quietness of the countryside is a certain way to calm your mind and quiet your soul. We are riding the route of RAGBRAI (www.ragbrai.org) in the opposite direction in the hopes that Sunday morning we will be riding west and seeing 10,000 riders riding east. That will be quite a sight and quite a thrill. Here's where we've been:
Monday: Dubuque
Tuesday: Dyersville (www.dyersville.org) - Home to the Field of Dreams baseball field and St. Francis Xavier Basilica. The church is amazing!
Wednesday - Cedar Falls - we were chased into the men's bathroom of the state park by a severe thunderstorm and waited there for about an hour before we made a dash for the nearest hotel!
Thursday - Hampton
Beautiful weather today! But the first days of the week were very interesting with the storms rolling across the state. We luckily were always 1 day east of the worst of it,but it made for some amended travel plans.
About Me
- Mary and Dave
- We are at it again. We cycled 1200 miles down the coast of Oregon, into California, over the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco. Then it was a ferry across the bay to Vallejo and a lovely side trip up the Napa Valley to Callestoga. That was the end of the bike portion of our trip.
