RABRAI 2008 report. The clubbers met in Mizzou Valley on Saturday evening in preparation for the Sunday launch. As you might expect, the town was inundated by legions of bicyclists. It was great!
I arranged a nice spot to stay on Saturday evening. We threw our mini-tent city up in the yard then ventured downtown to enjoy the festivities. Then things got worse. When we tried to sleep, the dad-gum trains rolled through every 8 minutes and yanked on their whistles, just to make sure every biker started Sunday bleary-eyed. I envision some fat, blob engineer getting sheer delight out of radioing back to the other following trains and telling them to blast their horns the whole way through town.
Sunday, Simone (my 12 yr old daughter and I, Joe, Cathy, Alex and J.P., Kim and John Carpenter, and Steve Sayre (see pic) rolled out towards Harlan, 58 miles of rolling hills away. We stopped at Farm Boys for their tasty burritos. Simone and J.P. did really great. I think Simone actually might like road biking now. Look at the big smile on her face in the picture with all the tasty road bikes.
Cathy, Kim and Alex and Seth headed back to Omaha on Sunday evening.
We spent Sunday night in Harlan in someones yard. She said we could use her showers after she returned from work at midnight, but we opted for the garden hose job. We enjoyed the festivities downtown that evening. That night of sleep wasn't any better, with bad weather sirens all night. We survived.
The next day the kids did about 20 miles, then Joe and the kids headed back to Omaha. John's dad Mike came and picked us up in rockin' Coon Rapids. All in all, really fun. Can't wait till next year.
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