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RAGBRAI 2005 Day 1: Le Mars to Sheldon

65.5 miles, Dutch hospitality, a near death experience in a killer thunderstorm, and sleeping much of the night on a middle school gym floor:

The tent we almost died in (luckily only a few feet from the bike path that a police officer came driving down and a very a short distance from the school):

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One Response to “RAGBRAI 2005 Day 1: Le Mars to Sheldon”

  1. Ashley Says:
    April 5th, 02007 at 12:11 am

    I was on that ride. That strom was hell. We actually stayed out all night in it. I was with the air force team actually.

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