RAGBRAI - 2nd post

There were tons of food and other vendors set up on the main street of West Bend - the next town north of us. There was even a bike repair vendor (1st photo) - and it was busy.






I had fun people watching and picture taking there for a while. Also braved the crowd to make it to the hardware to buy some screws for Bill for the deck project that he's still working very hard on (more pictures soon).






A couple more of the support crew/party buses.

We barely got back from our getaway in time Sat. to pick up the frozen rolls I was supposed to bake. Our town was on a special loop for riders who wanted to ride 100 miles on Mon. It was decided that rather than "the town" trying to do several booths with limited manpower, to have just one booth at our Pond Park and have cinnamon rolls, bananas and oranges. There are 3 churches in town so they wanted to have 10 bakers from each to bake 3 dozen rolls.
Our church is out of town so I signed up on the Lutheran Church's list. Our cafe bought all of the frozen rolls. Those baking took them home, let them raise overnight, baked them, covered them tight and dropped them off at the Community Center. It was a hot day and the riders came through later than expected so there were several left.

Our library was open for riders to use the restrooms and fill up their water bottles. Both were very appreciated.




These guys had stopped at the library and I asked them where they were from. They said Indiana. I said that I have only lived here 3 years and was from Indiana. They asked where and I said Carmel. Turns out they were from suburbs all around the west side of Indianapolis. When they left, one guy said "bye Carmel!" I saw him on the news that night saying that when asked "why would you spend your vacation riding a bike through Iowa?" but he said "we're loving it".

To see some good video clips from each day including some costumed riders doing the Hokey Pokey in Poky and riders amazed at The Grotto, click HERE