Last night we attended the first ever RAGBRAI Route Release Party. Our good friends Bob and Penny came down for the day to attend the party with us. It was a great evening to celebrate cycling in Iowa and the fabulous history of RAGBRAI - and we all got free jerseys out of the deal. We voted on the overnight towns and ended up getting 4 out of the 8 correct. Penny and I even had our photo in the Des Moines Register!

We can't wait to ride this summer. We hope you'll join us! Here are the overnight towns this year:

• Sioux City
• Storm Lake
• Algona
• Clear Lake
• Charles City
• Waterloo (whoopeee!)
• Manchester
• Dubuque

 Jessie Shafer, 29, of Des Moines, and Penny Gerholdt, 39 of Cedar Falls drop their raffle tickets in a box labeled Rock Rapids indicating they think the RAGBRAI route will stop there this year during the RAGBRAI route announcement party Saturday night at Hy-Vee Hall in downtown Des Moines.