looking California feeling Minnesota remembering Iowa
July 26, 2009
Like Leonard Cohen said, “I ache in the places where I used to play” after a bike ride across Iowa sandwiched between plane train automobile and bus travel from Seattle and back, another busman’s holiday is in the books.
The average age of a pilderwasser is higher than you think. But we can still get the job done efficiently effectively and effortlessly to the untrained eye or at least attractively to anyone else who might be watching with a few beers along the way, from Iowa Indiana Minnesota Wisconsin Oklahoma California Washington Texas Massachusetts and much much more… pathologist physical therapist attorney paralegal legal messenger professor engineer large animal veterinarian massage therapist human being cyclist RAGBRAI rider pilderwasser
chronology stratigraphy recollection sequence of events blur drunken haze humidity dew point seven days…five years exhausted depleted dehydrated storm warning take shelter thunder lightening rain wind hail stones pinging off a steel bike at 3:30am tent poles sleeping bags baggage tags trains train whistles train tracks headwinds hills heat index rumbles rough roads ruts rain wet socks sweet corn pulled pork portable toilets portable showers five dollars please six with a towel sun screen sunburn sun glasses farmer tan biker tan t-shirt tan glistening lumber vertebrae peeking over spandex ice cold beer red hot chamois butt butter over use injury enflamed Achilles tendon all you can eat buffet sausage egg & cheese biscuits with lite beer elevation gains losses climbs descents on your left you’re on my right car back car up - up in your face pacelines gatorade water walking tacos maid right loose meat pork tenderloin potato salad peach pie pickle juice hot dogs corn dogs farm dogs Pastafari Mister Porkchop Mamma Raphael Frankie Junior pilderwasser still likes cheese beer garden beer tickets beer store beer cans coozie coozie coozie
stories later With a few photos and links to thousands more
