Today we moved further into Iowa. There is a lot of corn. In fact corn as far as you can see until the curvature of the earth takes it out of view. A couple of notables for today:
1. We ran across an older guy who was riding by himself from Missoula, MT to Albany, NY. Though he said he was out of time and would have to catch a flight home. Anyhow, he was getting by with a single pannier, a few items bungeed to his back rack, and a handlebar bag. His bike looked like a frame from a road bike and his front tire looked like a road tire (very skinny and thin with frail looking wheel). His rear tire was meaty and looked a lot more like ours. He said he was getting by as a minimalist tourer. But he also said that he'd had to replace his rear wheel due to it cracking and I wonder if that is why he had a more robust looking one now... Regardless, it got me to thinking that I need to do another round of reducing my carrying load. I have several clothes that I just don't use. And after replacing my tires with Schwalbe Marathons, I don't think I need the spare folder? I just think I'm carrying too much.
2. For the older folks reading my blog (which would be all of us :) ), if you remember the movie 'Field of Dreams' with Kevin Cosner - I have a story. Pedaling all day long among the sea of corn, I look to my left and see stadium lighting climbing skyward. And I'm talking lighting that looked like it would light a D1 college football stadium. I was just dumbfounded and wondered why it was there - no populations nearby, no schools, nothing... but then I rode another few hundred yards and there was a sign that explained it. This was the field used in the movie 'field of dreams'.
3. I realized today that Elon Musk has stolen the SpaceX rocket design from the poor Iowa farmers. Please see for yourself directly below.
Cheers! Cam
Iowa Farmers
Space X New Shepard (stolen design from Iowa farmers)
That’s cool. Field of Dreams was great.
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