PDBA: oh man beavers. I worked really hard to get ahead on blogs, so I could get through finals week and the beaver-wedding. I blogged myself all the way up to January 3rd. And now that leading edge I had is gone. No worries, I have only got the beginning of the semester to get through along with crippling depression. Should be a piece of cake...
Anyway, if anyone is ready and willing to chip in, I'd appreciate it.
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| Day 1 Baby |
Day 1 of my 8th ragbrai started with all the normal first day shuffling and confusion. No one is in ragbrai mode, so everyone is fiddle fucking. And that's okay.
There were a lot of things to do--we had to brand the virgins!
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| Here little bagger |
And we had to take our team photo.
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| Looking pretty |
And we had to say goodbye to our hosts.
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| Sorry for all the extra mouths to feed. |
And then we had to get on our damn bikes and ride them. Ugh. The saddle of the Mad One felt different, so that was good, I guess. And it was lighter. Though, I was reminded that when you turn around and ride the other way, you ride into the sunrise.
We said hello to the rest of ragbrai and then we took to the roads, waving, cheering, weaving and bopping out of town.
We decided to skip Alton because it was only 3 miles down the road, and we knew that they wouldn't have much going on. We rode through and then got back on the road we came in on.
Before long, I heard coming from the left hand side of the road, "free beer! free beer!" The beaver were stopped in all their pink glory on the side of the road, exactly where the dead pig had laid two days before. I really hoped it was there.
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| The beavers calling them in. |
It wasn't. (Though how a person removes a dead pig, I would hate to imagine).
We were only 5 miles into our first day and we found free beer. If only this was how the rest of ragby would go.
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| A very nice lady |
The free beer stop was a good regrouper. The beavers were back. Watch out ragby! And then, we were off, in search of breakfast and other adventures.
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