July 26, 2014

Conquered: What cyclists defeated to finish RAGBRAI

This was only my fourth time on the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, and yet I struggle to conjure an appropriate description of this bizarre, beloved pilgrimage that doesn’t lean on such words as “circus,” “Mardi Gras” or “odyssey.”

July 20, 2014

Munson: A United Nations on wheels

In a summer whose geopolitical landscape has grown more bleak and violent by the week, our beloved “RAGBRAI Nation” in some ways is a model borderless and gracious society with a surprising number of international threads.