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A Good Time Was Had By All

We went, rode and kicked its' ass. Yes, we had a great time at RAGBRAI and are already making plans to return next year. Here's the list of riders that went along with us.

Riders:
    Lee Griffin
    Kevin Mussett
    Pete Wilson
    Vickie Lynn Sanborn
    Tina Birch
    Tomilyn Siegerist
    Michael Friedman
    Cindy Friedman
    Marisha Moore
    Scott Nutt
    Cindy Evans
    Rhonda Rigney
    Biff Stephens
    Brian Hall

Driver:
    Phil Stickel

I'd like to thank Phil for doing a great job with the bus. It's not an easy job, especially when he has Tomilyn, Cindy Lou or Rhonda on board. Just imagine trying to drive that bus with all 3.

Our 3 virgins fit right in this year. Carol/Rhonda was always fun, Biff celebrated his birthday on Monday and Brian took more pictures than you could possibly imagine, and we don't even want to imagine some of them.

I'm not going to say much more except to say we had fun and the ride was challenging. With over 16,600 feet of climbing in 7 days that makes for some long days.

Ride Pictures
Courtesy Brian Hall & Cindy Friedman

Bus Pictures

There are a lot of busses at RAGBRAI, some good, some bad, some great... Not that we like tooting our own horn but we still feel like overall we have one of the best busses there. Of course, it's going to be mighty hard to top Team Bad Monkey's bus.

Last modified: February 20, 2005