The 2018 RAGBRAI route was announced Saturday night!
I’m glad the route is not going through the far south side of the state. My family lives north of Highway 20 and going far south gets logistically tricky with finding a place to stay, getting to the start, getting all the cars to the finish, and getting to Guttenberg (for vacation!!!) when we’re done.
Not to say it’s NOT going to be logistically tricky to figure out! It still will be. I’ve been trying to think about it, but haven’t wrapped my head around it yet. It’s logistically similar to what we did in 2016, so I wonder if we’ll have to repeat that. Things to think about. Anyway.
The plan is to do Day 7, on Saturday July 28th, from Iowa City to Davenport. I know that Dad and (bestie) Gina are in, and Gina said (her husband) Steve is interested too. Yay! Will (BiL) Andrew be back this year? How about (BiL) Will?! I will make sure to harass them and find out. Ha.
Something exciting about the course this year is that it goes through my college town, Ames. I would LOVE to figure out a way to ride the Wednesday route that leaves out of there. Then ride Saturday as well. I am sure I could convince Dad to do that. And maybe even Andrew (since he is an ISU alum as well)!
Time to plan!
Past RAGBRAI posts:
I like that you make this race work for you, with just doing the day(s) you want to ride – but, I’m curious…would you ever want to ride the entire distance, if you had the time?
I would ride the whole thing if I had a bed to sleep in each night. Most people camp, and I always say “I could camp for a week OR ride my bike for a week, not both.” I’d be a cranky a-hole if I was camping then riding each day. I need good sleep 🙂
Oh, I didn’t think about the sleeping situation. Yeah, I’d want a hot shower and a comfortable bed each and every night after riding all day.
Right? Props to the people who do it camping, for sure! They’re hardcore!
Super cool 🙂 I am sure it’ll be great!
It will be! It’s always fun!
I saw the route too and Noah is staying in IC over the summer. I am seriously considering doing a 1-day ride too! It would be my first time.
Awesome! I hope you get to! I think you’d enjoy it!!!
That is awesome. My only question now is whether “Mr. Van Driving Crabby Pants,” aka Mr. Steven, is going to be up for driving the support van again this year? Though in all fairness, it didn’t seem like he complained nearly as much last year as he did the year prior. No driving on the course, please!
LOL! I really hope he will cause we need someone to drop us off and pick us up! I understand if he doesn’t want to though 🙂