Quote Originally Posted by ny biker View Post
I do ride through farm land a lot, without really being concerned. It's when it rains that I tend to worry. And the Covered Bridges ride is miles and miles of poop-dodging. (To be fair, I know a lot of people who really love that ride and do it every year. In fact some go up a day early so they can get in some extra miles. It just wasn't my thing. I went up a day early, too, but it was to visit the the railroad museum and take a behind-the-scenes tour at the Strasburg Railroad.)

Getting back to RAGBRAI -- is it a different route every year, like Bike Virginia?
The RAGBRAI route is different every year. They have a huge announcement party in January. It may be a north route or thru the middle or southern as we did this year. There are repeats of start towns and end towns but there are not many towns on the rivers. They really to do vary the overnights also. Some towns are just too small to handle it. Repeats may happen about every 10 years or so but never has there been a complete repeat of the entire route.
BTW I am feeling better and have biked twice (short rides) since we got home.