I'm with ya kitso. I am looking forward to my visit to the big empty square states. I wanna set foot in Iowa just so I can add it to my list of states visited. Have flown over it a lot, just never visited. If we go it will bring my total to 30.

best thing about Iowa? Hearing the tornado sirens and SEEING the tornado just TWO WEEKS after you moved from Maryland to this fine flat state. :p Yah, never been so terrified in my life!

tornados are fun. Standing infront of the giant plate-glass window at work watching debri fly down the street is one of my HS work experiences that I'll cherish forever.

i could see that being fun...but not when the thing is threatening to pay a house call :P

Register's
Annual
Great
Bike
Ride
Across
Iowa
http://www.ragbrai.org/
Around 10,000:
Iowans
Out
Wandering
Around

Ahhh yes, the greatest drunken rolling party on two wheels....the only time the otherwise staid Iowa let's their hair down :) Number one fundraiser of Ragbrai...beer tents!

It's one of the few occassions where you really have to try to get a public intox. And to get an OWI you need to be constantly crashing your bicycle.

My best bud Hana who is stranded in Dubuque! :)

I found this on the RAGBRAI site: http://www.ragbrai.org/aa2004meetings.html

You know, it's been half my life since I lived in Iowa and about that long that I'd heard abour RAGBRAI. This year, it's all over the place. My company's security admin is on vacation to do RAGBRAI and a plane of 3 men crashed in Fort Collins on their way there a couple of days ago. Now, I log into GC and there it is again. It's a damn cool race though.