My favorite ride of the year-
I ride RAGBRAI each year and my oldest daughter wanted to join for a day this year so we spent the 6 weeks leading up to RAGBRAI doing some training rides here and there. She loves to ride and is plenty strong enough, but other activities take priority so I just wanted her to get some saddle time mostly.
She had a blast of RAGBRAI and loved all of it- the camping, the overnight town food and activities, all the outfits and costumes along the ride, the communities coming together at each stop thru town, etc. Seeing a wedding take place in a pass thru town of a couple local cyclists and getting Beekman's ice cream towards the end capped off the great day. She is pushing for a few days this coming year.