July 2011
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Italian eatery. Clyde, Ohio. Population 6064.
She wants stromboli for dinner. Her dad is the chef. She and her sister work the tables. She usually gets the lasagna or the manicotti. She’s glad she only works two days a week. Otherwise she’d be eight hundred pounds.
Her birthday is on Sunday. 28 years old. At least she’s not thirty. Her husband is thirty. She has five kids at home. An 8, a 9, a 6 yer old step-daughter, a...
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A quote
From the old woman in the booth behind me at the one cafe in Castalia, Ohio.
“I think Mary’s a republican. Or maybe just ornery.”
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What I hear.
Put on your headphones. This is a...
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Duneswood, that ends the day
I’m camping tonight in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, although the campground, Duneswood, is about a mile and a half from the lake.
Across the way are a couple of guys doing a quick four day ride from Ann Arbor, MI to Chicago. They did two awesome things:
They shared the lentils and rice that was given to them by the campers on the other side of them, the Fantastic Chicago Women...
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Pour vous, Gladbrook.
(a cover is all that’s available, unfortunately)
The Talking Heads’ The Big Country sums up my feeling about Gladbrook, Iowa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemvqsIxOU0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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FYI - I have decided to take a rest day here in Cedar Rapids at my aunt Sammi and Uncle Irv’s house.
The heat blahblahblah- c’mon I havent rested since Caspar, WY!
So off to Chicago tomorrow!
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I once again failed to grab a picture of a great warmshowers host, Steve Libby of Ames, IA. (my failures as a photographer mount.)
Steve rode across he country back in 91 and was kind enough to share not only his house and food, but his stellar homebrew (an IPA) an some real Templeton Rye, made the old fashioned way, clandestinely and with a risk of blindness. I only wish I could make stuff as...
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Deb and Howard are hosting rockstars
Another failure on the getting a photo front for me.
Last night I stayed at the home of Deb and Howard and Deb’s two daughters in Carroll, IA. Self described “recreational riders,” they are pro hosts. If it wasn’t for the 15 pounds of pasta I put down last night, I may not have made it through the day, burning up as I was.
I spent one of the most enjoyable evenings of...
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