My First Blog

     For my first blog i am going to write about my time in Iowa on Ragbrai. Ragbrai is a seven day bike ride across the state of Iowa, it is not a race, and each day there is a fixed amount of miles that you are suppose to cover by night fall. Everyone meets at the City that is chosen to hold the Ragbrai riders for the night. It is a wonderful experience and ALOT of fun.

   First, you start out in the morning, either being the early rising racers or the late leisure riders, and you start your course for the designated city. On your way you stop off at small little towns on the way, and each one holds a huge party just for the Ragbrai riders. All of which, sell everything from drinks, refreshments, and beer. To brand new bycicles and other accesories.

   Being a first timer there, I didnt know what to expect, but this was beyond words. everyone around you is all having fun and just very friendly. There are some people who ride annualy and they have thier very own teams, such as Team Flamigo, they dress up all in Pink and they look just hilarious. Then there are the few people who ride with just a speedo on, which was my misfortune to have seen... There are Many other different teams, but there is far too many to name, and each of them have thier very own outfits they like to wear.

     On my ride there were alot of interesting people. Some of which, were wearing thongs on the out side of thier bike shorts, but the most interesting people were probably team Road Booty. They were two sisters, that looked to be in thier early 30s' and they worse short skirts and a shirt that showed thier stomachs. It wasnt the most pleasant sight for me, but alot of the other men loved them, and they WERE a very interesting pair. For example, one of the girls was talking to a bigger man and they seemed to be laughing a whole lot and I had just so happened to look over. As they continued thier, laughing the girl then turned around and lifted her skirt up right infront of the man, luckily she had on bike shorts with a thong over it (THANK GOD). The man then contiuned in a half drunked state to pull his pants down and full on mooned the girl. Another TG moment, he was turned around... But even for being skimpy women, they were good riders on the flats, we burned it up the last leg to Iowa City, the chosen city for the night, and we arrived there and i had the blessing to be able to stay at The Isle Casino and hotel. My dad and I had a great room, we got all showered up and got ready to go to the Beatles look alike concert later on (the shower was HEAVEN!). But as we arrived at the concert we found out the no persons under 21 were allowed in, because there was alcohol and they didnt want to expose minors to it.... this part SUCKS because i really wanted to get up and see them, they sounded soo much like the beatles.

     But, to sum it all up, it was a great day. ALOT of fun, and it was a great experience. To top it all off i got a great night sleep and was not sore in the morning. Another good thing i loved hearing was listening to the people complain about the tiny hills they had there and how much of a challenge it was for them, BAHA! they were not really hills they were just like mere bumps in the road in my eyes.
Well this concludes my First Blog and thank you for reading
Andy-