Because we promised, here's the positive review of Sara's hospitality in Altoona. The food was perfect (especially the fruit salad), the AC was heavenly, and Colton and Carter were very cute. The ride into Altoona was the easiest, shortest day of riding. It's a strange thing when riding 54 miles seems like an easy day of biking. The next day, 70 miles, was not quite as easy, especially because it was hilly. This took us to Grinnell College.
Grinnell College is where we spent Susanna's 18th birthday. Her mother, clearly the best mother ever, thought ahead to order her custom bicycle cookies from a local bakery for her birthday. Very cute, and very delicious. We also had the best dinner ever at the college's dining hall. But, before that all 170 little youth soccer campers had to eat first. Not cool. But the buffet was worth it, because they have the most intense cafeteria ever at Grinnell. Personal chefs were stir-frying made-to-order dishes and rolling made-to-order sushi, along with many other food options. So, clearly this was a better food option than the regular fried, gross expo food. Unfortunately, the cafeteria was the best of Grinnell. There was no AC, and unlike either YMCA, there was no air movement. We didn't sleep well.
The ride to Coralville started out rather unremarkably. We were all clipping along rather quickly, and this was good, because it was a 75 mile day. However, somewhere after the meeting town, Dr. Mel had an accident. Needless to say, she broke her leg. Save for her, we all finished the ride, and met her in Iowa City.
We never made it to Davenport, but after a broken leg, intense sunburn, and three days without air conditioning, it was a general consensus that we would spend the final day exploring Iowa City (aka we were so over the whole biking thing). After a brief stay in a candlewood we are initiating our triumphant return to showers, AC, and a solid week of no exercise.
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