Harold rides the RABRAI

RAGBRAI riders passing through the town of Aurelia Iowa on Tuesday. 

We are now in Iowa and Harold is riding in the RABRAI (Register Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) while I do some painting and wait with Gabby and the motorhome in Davenport for him to reach this side of Iowa.  Harold seems to have survived and was even cheerful after the  first and second days  of the ride despite temperatures above 100 degrees on the road.  It sounds brutal  They travelled 55 and 62 miles respectively on those first two days.  Today is another scorcher and they will be travelling 83 miles today.  He's starting at 5:30 every morning to beat the heat, and has been arriving by 10:30 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. in the next night's town.  Today he expects to arrive around mid afternoon.  He's having a great time meeting people from all over the country. 

After Cody we spent a couple of days in Casper, WY, where we found only two really worthwhile things to do.  There was a great little art museum that I enjoyed and we both felt that  the Interpretive Trails Museum, about the 19th century population of the West via the Mormon, California and Oregon trails, was a first class experience.  The exhibits, many of which were interactive, such as sitting inside a replica of a conestoga wagon while in front of us was a movie of what it would look like from inside a wagon as it forged a stream.  As the movie progressed, the wagon bounced around as it would have crossing the stream.  Not to be missed if you're in Casper.  We also went to the Casper rodeo and enjoyed ourselves, but it didn't come up to the Cody experience which was big on pageant as well as the normal rodeo events.

Posted by Barbara