The weirdest day yet

First off, thanks Ben! And, Chloe, I hope your boo boo heals nicely.

After Chicago hit the roads with a vengeance. From Chicago we rode 85 miles to rockford, il and did our first couch surf with the williams family. They we're wonderful! We saw inception (sam for the second time) with Lauren and we still discussing the end...

From Rockford we rode 120 miles to Dubuque, Iowa. Why does Illinois have killer hills?!?! This ride was brutul, but we were rewarded with a sweet ninja movie at the nagle home. The nagle family was the second couch wave we rode, and we seriously recommend couchsurfing.org to every traveler.




Today was the strangest day ever. It took us 6 hours to ride 15 miles. Why you ask? Well, we took a dirt bike path which blew two of my tires and broke jim's rack. But! We found a 1 week old kitten on the side of trail, Ed him some food and packed him in jim's handlebar bag.



Then, on our way to town, sam got stung in the face by a bee. He popped 4 benadryl and wanted to pass out. We fed the kitty his body weight in food and dropped him off at the vet. We continued on our 95 mile adventure through the thankfully flat roads of Iowa to cedar falls. Luckily for us, everyone loved us because of the ride across Iowa- ragbrai. We weren't referred to lance Armstrong anymore, but now were confused as a ragbrai rider. Although, this event made everyone in the area aware of what you can do on a bike, so everyone was super friendly. To top it all off, we finally ended our ride in cedar falls excited to get to laura's house. She gave us the wrong address, so we obviously went to the wrong house. At this house, we saw a girl outside and asked if she was laura. She said no, but she said she knew where Laura lived. This seemed fine to me because I know Laura said she was in the process of moving. We followed this girl and her father to laura's house somewhere off in the woods. Sam knocked on the door and a 15 year old girl answered and he asked if she was Laura. It turns out she was named Laura, but not the laura we were looking for... She had a look on her face as if we were about to kill her.

Location:Pleasant Dr,Cedar Falls,United States