rickpaulos

Hilliest route in the 51 years of the ride.
Yeah, well 1 day in the rockies is often more climbing than the entire week in Iowa.
Small towns.
shorter mileage days.
fewer riders? Lets hope so. the 50th was overloaded.

Glenwood -Red Oak -Atlantic -Winterset -Knoxville -Ottumwa -Mt. Pleasant -Burlington

Bogey Speedwell

Never been, but have a strong desire to do so once. My issue is our largest annual convention happens about 2 weeks later and unfortunately I can’t afford vacation 2 weeks prior. Probably have to wait until I retire, or perhaps change positions.

Pugs2xLove

This will be my 4th straight years of RAGBRAI'ng. Last year was overbooked, overcrowded and overloaded. I'm 100% self-supported (with the exception for getting transport to/back) home. It got so bad with the baggage truck that I ditched most of my luggage in Des Moines, hometown, and packed all I needed on my bike. That was nice since I could arrive at the overnight towns when I wanted and leave to avoid the head and crowd. Can't wait.