RAGBRAI 2023

If you’re not from Iowa, you may be wondering, What is RAGBRAI? Well, it’s the Register‘s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, the Register being the Des Moines Register (a newspaper). Until this summer, I’d been dimly aware of RAGBRAI as a big Iowa cycling event but did not really know anything more about it. This year, though, Grinnell was a pass-through town on the RAGBRAI route (which I gather changes every year), so the riders were coming, and it was a big deal. It was also RAGBRAI’s 50th...