It was midnight and the band was still playing two blocks away. In my tent, I longed for my college days when I could stay out til 3 and still make my 8 AM class. But five years later, here I was thinking, “When are they going to stop? Don’t they know we’re all getting…
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A bike ride (part 2)
Whoever said there are no hills in Iowa has never attempted to ride a bike across that state. On the first day of our 490 mile trek, I spent just as much time walking my bike as I did riding it. T. and I realized that we had been practicing on a Rail Trail in…
A bike ride
Renaissance Souls find something nearly every day they want to pursue. Just today I saw a poster at my local coffee shop for a rain bucket building workshop. I have no idea why I’d need a rain bucket, but I definitely thought I’d like to learn more about what a rain bucket is, why I…