Off like a herd of turtles!

Out of bed at 4:15. Pick up Glenn at 4:45. Board plane in Cleveland then deboard plane. Chicago/Ohare not in working order (surprise surprise). Hopefully this is not an omen. Have seats on later flight to Omaha if we miss our first connection.

Stay tuned.

We are RAGBRAI ready!

Update: sitting in chicago....trying to catch a flight to Omaha. 11 AM CST. Looks promising as it appears the predicted tornado has not materialized.  fingers crossed.


So, Glenn & I finally boarded  a flight to Omaha Nebraska...a place neither of us has ever been.  A great deal of turbulance just before landing brought us both out of a sound sleep and to the stunning scene depicted in the photo below.  Farm lands adjacent to the airport were clearly and shockingly seen to be covered in flood waters as we flew low over the land on our approach to the airport runway.  Houses almost completely covered....roads no where to be seen.  I think what "got us" was that we had no idea that this had even occured just a half a dozen states away from Ohio.  Granted, this has nothing to do with RAGBRAI or Parkinson's disease but it had an impact on the two of us that we didn't see coming.

50 days of flooding and counting

Onlookers watch the flooding from the Lewis & Clark Monument north of Council Bluffs.

The World-Herald

Published Thursday July 21, 2011


With full stomachs from eating burgers for lunch, it is time to relax and get ready for tomorrow and the rest of the week. I will sign off now but Glenn and I hope that we will hear from some of you throughout the week....cheering us on....keeping us company....helping us get to the end of the route with a bit of grit, determination and hopefully a big dose of humor. 

tomorrow...IOWA!