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THE
LONG AND WINDING

ROAD

RAGBRAI, Iowa's celebrated bicycle tour, has grown up.
By Bob Saar

I

owa is the most beautiful state in the Union,

In the spring of 1973, Register writers Donald
though it has no mountains, no seas, no
Kaul and John Karras rode bikes across Iowa to
prominence.
chronicle the experience. They drafted public
Why else would "Field of Dreams" be about
relations director Don Benson to coordinate the
a corn farmer?
adventure and RAGBRAI was born.
Iowa's biggest event, RAGBRAI-say "RAGThe writers invited readers to ride along, and
bry"-is an acronym and registered trademark
about 300 started in Sioux City on August 26;
for the oldest and largest bicycle tour in the
less than half finished in Davenport on the 31st.
world, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride
It isn't possible to accurately determine how
Across Iowa.
many people will ride RAGBRAI XLVII in 2019-its
The Des Moines Register, the state's largest
47th year-because so many groups, families and
newspaper, is where this phenomenal event
individuals go rogue and aren't officially regisbegan.
tered with the Register, but estimates center

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