I know I was promising you more about the honeymoon. But, it turned out, we had pneumonia. It landed me in the hospital with A-typical bilateral some such and nonsense. CaDiva was flat out in bed with the same strain but in only one lung. It went through the family like wild fire. And then it was the holidays. Anyway, I have lots more excuses. You have heard them before. I'm a bad, bad blogger.
However, I'm back with RAGBRAI news. They announced the route for this year. HRH was over here with little hrh and we tried to live stream the video. Not as easy as it sounds, I ended up signing up for twitter just to see if I could get the information faster. It actually worked.
We are going to drive up to Fort Dodge for the first leg, a killer 71.8 mile launch but with only 1,490 feet elevation. We'll be staying in Marshalltown (if CaDiva can straighten out the reservations I tried to make on-line and ended up booking for tonight and non-refundable because it was after 6PM) at a Best Western. Anyway, her second day will be easier in length only 56 miles but over 1,800 feet elevation. Cedar Falls to Hiawatha is day three and that is almost 70 miles with over 2,660 feet elevation. That last morning we'll check out of the hotel and she'll cruise into Coralville on just shy of 60 mile up hill climb of 2,600 feet. We'll drive home from Coralville.
Possibly we will stop off at the Colony Village Inn for a little strawberry rhubarb preserves, wine and horseradish. Then we could also slip into Williamsburg for a little shopping at the outlet mall. Who knows, on Ragbrai all things are possible.
