Hills, Hills and More Hills

Day 2 started out with ominous clouds on the horizon. Fortunately, except for a few sprinkles and a late afternoon light shower, we made it through the day without getting too wet. Tomorrow, however, may be a different story. The forecast is for heavy rain tonight (Thank God we are not sleeping in a tent.) and 40% chance of rain tomorrow.

Did I mention there are hills? The worst part of it is there are very few stretches where you are on flat terrain. Either you are going up or down with little in between. After tomorrow, the worst will be behind us.

Oh by the way, we passed through the birthplaces of the Folgers lady, Mrs. Olsen (Stanton, IA) and Johnny Carson (Corning, IA). Now, don't you wish you were riding with us.

Little did we know what layed ahead.

We didn't even make it out of town before we hit our first climb.

Stanton, IA is a Swedish settled town and home of Mrs. Olsen.

Hills,

Hills,

and more Hills

Only in Iowa would you put a beer garden out in the middle of nowhere between a corn field and soy bean field

Julie and John didn't mind.

Note to self - Bad idea to stop for beers when there is still 15 miles of hills to climb.