RAGBRAI Day 3

Things are kind of back to "normal" today, if you call getting up at 5:00 AM and riding your bike for 80 miles normal.
A much better day today, we all slept good last night because the cold front came through and temperatures are much more reasonable. It was actually chilly in the morning, you can see I have my arm warmers on. I almost didn't bring them, but I wouldn't have made it through the week without them. I'm kicking myself for not bringing my cycling jacket, I could have used it for the first hour this morning.

Not too many pictures today. The highlight of the day was the town of Ringstead, where we had abelskivvers and other Dutch food. We met Victor from the Netherlands, he was dressed as a cow. We're not sure he even knows why he is dressed as a cow, just that he is on team cow so they made him do it.

Some town I forget, a little town halfway between somewhere, had Cornelius the giant corn man greeting the riders:

We were moving today, it was our fastest day of riding. A nice tailwind helped out, and we made it to Algona early in the afternoon. At Algona, we had to ride through a volcano to get to the camp. Their theme was something to do with the Survivor TV show. They did have a nice goodie bag with water, asprin and a banana in it.

Our shower contact didn't pan out, so we had to take a cold shower at the school. You never really get a clean feeling in the school showers, because it is about 500% humidity in there. You just can't get dried off...

Tonight was our first night of "vendor food". We wandered downtown to see the entertainment. While downtown we came across the coolest pet store any of us had ever been in - Pet Kingdom. It was in a reinovated old building downtown, and all of the decor was done really well. If you're ever in Algona, stop in, even if you don't have pets. Its just that well done.