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Post #19: It began with a simple exchange of text messages between Guitar Ted and Myself, as it once was pre-CoVID.  "Hey, wanna ride?", and we discussed the ride details.  It is generally easy to get Mark to go on a ride, if I promise two things, a route with roads I have never done and a doughnut stop in La Porte City.  
    Sometimes on our rides I get the sense I have explored more gravel roads around the counties surrounding Blackhawk County.  I know this sounds absurd but there are times when Mark's camera is out non-stop on a ride.  Mark has an on-going joke that he keeps going on taking pictures of barns.  He took a lot of pictures on Saturday.  
    We left town under the cover of overcast skies.  It had that late summer/early fall feeling of an Indian Summer heat wave.  The major difference was the corn was still up and ready for harvest.  That overcast came and went through the ride.  Occasionally BOB (Big Orange Ball) would come out and heat it up.  Then BOB would hide and we would be fine.  
    I noticed a lot of goats on this ride, a lot of goats.  I wonder if the people one gravel are becoming more self sufficient with the recent CoVID fun we had?  I know from experience more people are buying 1/2 or whole cows from the local meat markets.  
    We arrived in La Porte City as we neared mile 40 of the ride.  Our route took us to the infamous Rockets Bakery.  We pulled up and I noticed the bike rack is no longer there and now the next door building put in a handicap ramp where the bike rack was.  So we parked our bikes on a new bench out front.  After a careful analysis of the doughnuts, Mark and I both settled on a Bavarian cream filled doughnut.  
    After our morning sugar insulin rush, we pedaled back to the Waterloo region of the would via the GART.  I have decided in order to promote the Great American Rail Trail, I am going to refer to any path I ride that is on it by that name.  So the CVNT is now the GART too me.  Times are a changing and well I really want to ride the GART in my life time.

Cheers and Godspeed.  


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