Happy New RAGBRAI Year!

This weekend--when the RAGBRAI route is officially released online and then in print--marks the beginning of the new RAGBRAI year. It's a time when people who are nowhere near Iowa start looking up the home pages of places like Sergeant Bluff (this year's start town) or Waukee (which ought to have a baseball team called the Ewers.) And maybe it's time to head down to the Auto Club to pick up an Iowa road map.

If you are thinking about riding RAGBRAI this year, I invite you to go through my posts from July 2005. It will give you some sense of how my RAGBRAI rookie year went. Send me any questions or comments. For a second, third and additional opinions, I recommend that you head off to www.ragbrai.org and take a look at the message boards.

See you down the road.