Only the truly evil can ski in hell heat of summer

Thursday, July 29
Morning sag with Damian and Bryan. Big, hot, inexpensive breakfast in Fredericksburg. Was the bathroom stall really the size of a ballroom? There are gravel backroads all over Iowa. One of them will get us to Alpha. Ever ride with Damian? Does he know we're towing a trailer? Be afraid, be very afraid. Alpha - yet another non-town with no shade. Why was it great? Local Talent Exhibit; $1 beer; Evil skiing. Hey, Team Diego is playing the same tape again. Remember when they played cool tunes? Time to hit the road before it melts. Chicken Boy (demoted again) has free beer at top of hill. All downhill to Wacoma. Bryan only has 5.5 miles to ride today. Lazy bastard. Find Evil in St. Lucas. Enter the Millennium Falcon and have gin and tonic. Offer to get low in the field #1. Linda's having bike trauma with her $80,000 Terry. Marsha tags me back in Fort Atkinson. Was that Haze drinking Gatorade? For the love of cry-eye, when did they stop drinking beer? Catch up with Evil in Spillville (fight on Czech brothers). Time for a bat-snack. Bike and chat with Evil-in-Training Jenny all the way to Ridgeway. Dr. Evil buys us fruit smoothies. Angry Steve squirts us in the beer garden. Dr. Evil wins this match. Offer to get low in the field #2 over the talk-a-bout. It's all downhill to Decorah. Except for the uphills and gravel is was a nice way to end a day in the

By power of Pat Benetar, make this beer plentiful

oven. Our host of course lives at the very top of Decorah. Many signs, many mattresses, many degrees cooler than outside. No tenting tonight. Time to do laundry. Make it to downtown and they are rolling up the sidewalk. Deals are to be had for food. Plenty of room at the Oddfellows Local. Half a pitcher of water is needed. Hanson Brothers sighting for only the second time. It would be the last. They're leaving the ride early. Need sleep and more cash. What is that noise so early in the morning? Must be the pipes knocking. Maybe it's two of the peeps who decided to stay out a little later than the rest and got locked out. To those who had to sleep out in the steam room called the great outdoors: sucks to be you.