Sisters Marcey Bullerman (left) of Cincinnati and Jacquelyn Bullerman (right) of Detroit stopped this morning for a photo in Victor as the temperature climbed into the 90s. What was really heating up, though, was the rolle bolle game a few blocks away. (It rhymes with “Holy Moly.”) Brought to town by Belgian settlers, the game is [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
A bunch of fresh fruit awaited riders in Brooklyn this morning, including Jessica “The Orange” Routier, Morgan “The Grapes” Hawkins, Taylor “The Apple” McDaniel and Jake “The Banana” Wilson. The costumed fruit salad was raising money for their local church youth group and seemed surprisingly fresh despite their lack of sleep. They’d woken as early [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
Riders traded out their official RAGBRAI and team jerseys out for some school pride Friday. And some rivalry. Larry Gross listed the rivalries he could take advantage of while riding in his red University of Wisconsin jersey. There’s Iowa, of course, with its border feud. And Minnesota — it’s just too bad the new divisions [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
ALONG TODAY’S ROUTE: Grinnell to Coralville COLLEGE SPIRIT: Riders are encouraged to deck out in their college colors today, starting in Grinnell and ending in Coralville, the town neighboring the University of Iowa. FLAGS: See the “Community of Flags,” also known as Brooklyn. BELGIAN-MANIA: Kick back and relax in Victor, where riders will celebrate the [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
Colfax, Ia. — This is Mark Block’s fourth RAGBRAI, 25 years after his first three rides. I met Block on Thursday morning when he pedaled by hand to the side of the street in downtown Colfax in search of a cooling neck band. “My biggest nemesis is the heat,” he said. Most of the 10,000 [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Gina Pfarr of Sioux Falls, S.D., left, Mark Giffen of Springfield, Mo., and Tisa Overman of Milwaukee, Wis., revel in a music and laser light show with other fun-seekers on Main Street in Grinnell, Iowa, Thursday night, July 28, 2011 during the fifth night of RAGBRAI XXXIX. Thousands packed the downtown streets, taking in entertainment [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The record rainfall Wednesday and Thursday in the Dubuque area has prompted RAGBRAI organizers in Davenport to make contingency plans to deal with a rapid rise of the Mississippi River. Only minor flooding is projected for the Quad Cities area, but it would affect the site where riders are scheduled to dip their tires in [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Grinnell — Vegetarian food is getting more prevalent along the RAGBRAI route, but its still vastly outnumbered by meat on a stick and walking tacos. Enter Judy Arendt. The arts director of the Grinnell Area Arts Council wanted to offer cyclists something different as they rolled through Grinnell. So she set up a vegan food [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Anybody from Rhode Island? Four cousins from the Iowa City area – Lucy and Quincy Lohman and Ella and Greta Lowry – drew a map of the United States and posted it about a mile east of Rock Creek State Park. They checked off each state as riders called out where they were from and [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Gary “The Tubador” McCurdy became at least one rider’s “most favoritest person on the whole ride” when he pumped out tunes on his tuba and tambourine in Baxter. Technically, the 100-year-old instrument was a helicon, a predecessor of the modern-day sousaphone. But it hardly mattered to the dozens of riders who tapped their feet in [...]
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