The final day of RAGBRAI 2025 began not with sunlight, but with silence. At 4:30 a.m., I climbed on my bike at the edge of the Pork Belly Ventures encampment in Oelwein, Iowa and began the 64-mile ride east to the banks of the Mississippi River --- the terminus of my weeklong 421-mile cycling adventure across … Continue reading RAGBRAI 2025: The Trials and Triumphs of Riding Across Iowa