- The fresh cut grass sticks nicely to everything thanks to the dew
- Run into Evil as we're leaving town
- Those guys have excellent dental hygiene but they don't like The Cure as morning mood music - glad we didn't stay around long enough for them to hear The Hooters
- Protivin has great kolaches like a decent Czech community should have
- Notice that my speakers sound distorted - just make it to Saturday
- Farm Boys breakfast burritos fucking rock
- Meeting stupid girls in line - not so much
- Actual conversation: "Why do guys paint their toenails no RAGBRAI?" "Why do you do it?" "Because I'm a girl." "If we're going to have them out we have to show them off." "Is it a drug thing?"
- Get into Fort Atkinson early enough to get prime spot in the gazebo
- Soon everyone is arriving - Evil, Die Hards (is that Aaron?), Michelle and Paco
- Heavy drinking and stickering ensue
- Don't even think about taking a piss on that guy's body shop
- Take a nice shortcut to St. Lucas
- Mike and I hang at the van to eat and drink while the rest buy naughty items at the bar
- Share cold one with a local and talk about the real estate market in the town
- Rick sags with Dave to West Union
- Chris has set us up with a place
- The host is quite handy with the plumbing - a big shower area in the garage and a fully functional outside toilet
- The current ratio of Rick to Dave in the category of tent setting up is 4:1
- It is damn hot in West Union
- Steve, Michael, Michelle and Laurie might be tempted to head out to the big wet t-shirt, beer-bonging bonanza outside of town
- Chris is released from whitey's grip and makes it to the campsite
- The rest of the team, sans Michelle arrive (is she winning the aforementioned contest?)
- Town seems oddly void of RAGBRAIers
- A nice family restaurant has plenty of food (excluding pie and whatever Cheever wanted)
- Why does Rick's hair like to have illicit relations with his sunglasses?
- The beer garden is quite empty and most of the crowd that is there are locals - that party outside of town must have taken everyone away
- A hot day turns to a cool night - perfect for sitting around having last night of 'BRAI beers
- Rick takes advantage of making pie under the stars
- Everyone heads to tent except for Dave - he has some reading to do
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