Today’s ride was 75 miles over more Iowa hills. The hills
were not quite as long as the past 2 days and Dan Kiel and I made it into camp
by about 1:30. We had stopped for coffee in a real small town (Humeston) and
when we checked out the small downtown area, we were surprised to find a rather
upscale small café and gift shop. We each had a scone and something to drink. Adam and John had sweep team duties of
cleaning up breakfast and were not ready to leave early.
Last night, after the pie and ice cream social, we had about
5 of our small groups present skits that they have been thinking of ideas for
the past couple days. It was really a good time and we will have to have some
other groups present some other night. My small group is the one that put out
the challenge to the others and we hosted the show last night. Jerry Pols and I
were the applause-o-meters, judging scores from the crowd’s response.
Tomorrow, we have a short 40 some miles into Pella. We also
cross the RAGBRAI route tomorrow and wonder if we will see some of the annual
bike across Iowa extravaganza and huge throng that participates. Pella has some
things planned for our group tomorrow and tomorrow night. There is also a
chance for a few people from our group to donate time at a local resale
clothing store. There is an evening praise service planned.
We are not officially into the second half of our trek
across the continent in calendar time. I believe the mileage half way point is
tomorrow. Time seems to have sped up the past week or so, getting closer to
home. We have not had web access the past couple days, so will try to get this
posted today, if we can find an internet access source.
Love to all.
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