Escape From Flatland

Aqua Green is 2026.

5.5 day, 3000 mile trip for BamaRama resulted in finding geocaches in 48 new counties.
Aqua Green is the color for 2026.

In this year’s appropriations process, Trump and Republicans will be seeking another massive increase in military spending - $450B.

DOD budget was $870B in 2024. They want it to be $1.5T next year, nearly double in 2 years, with the national debt already accelerating at $38.5T.

I use Bluesky so sporadically that, when I comment I might as well be the guy that yells out his window as he drives by at 35mph.

Federal agents at powderhorn park

This morning, federal agents staged at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center lot and began to throw chemical irritants at observers. They also kidnapped an observer. Our parks are meant for our children, youth, and neighbors. They should never be militarized zones meant to separate families. 1/

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

That's LaPlata in the center. Taken along the ridge of the summit of Mt Massive. June 15, 2025.

The plot is stupidly clear. Maduro has been kidnapped. Fulton county has been raided. Now the regime will claim proof of interference in 2020 by Venezuela and Cuba. Maduro will be forced to sign a confession and be executed. Trump will declare martial law, cancel the 2026 elections, and invade Cuba.

At one time Duesenberg automobiles were manufactured in a building where that parking ramp sits.

Night hiker lost on 14,271-foot peak flees trail and loses shoe after rescue arrives Colorado’s snowpack might be low, but that doesn’t mean dangerous winter conditions won’t be present in backcountry terrain – and it especially doesn’t mean that now is the time to bag a summit of a 1...

Some people just don't want to be saved.
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The easiest way to bike RAGBRAI from Boone to Marshalltown is the historic Lincoln Highway. Will we get to stop and smell the roses in State Center?

Right? After the last 3 weeks, I forgot she's still Minnesota's US senator.

Oh I forgot about her.

Trapped inside: A Minnesota refugee family’s life on hold amid ICE arrests A Minnesota refugee family has stopped leaving their home after visits from immigration agents, as a new federal operation begins re-examining refugee cases across the state. A judge has ordered a tem...

The adults in the family stopped going to work. Volunteers now drop off groceries. The only members of the household who go outside are nephews and nieces who catch the bus to school. However, they struggle to concentrate in class, worrying that ICE might return while they're gone.

Why do I live where the air hurts my face?
Because my great grandfather moved here in the summer and we've been too stubborn to leave ever since.

Your comment about cemeteries made me stop and think. I take a lot less photos of graves than I used.

2 days until RAGBRAI Announcement Party.
2 weeks and 2 days until the Bike Ride To Rippey in Perry, IA.
My traditional start to the cycling year.

#Dumbfuckistan

TODAY on #MSNOW: 10am-2pm/EST 7am-11am/PST-Jack Smith Finally Testifies to Congress about when our Presidementia incited an insurrection at the Capitol to steal a free & fair election & when he stole Top-Secret Gov't Documents & stored them in his bathroom. Y'know... many, many, MANY crimes ago.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

When I remind myself that there are people my age doing cocaine in the White House, all of a sudden I feel better about my health moves.

Did you check out the dinosaur footprints at the creek across the road from the trailhead?

I do not hide 5/5 geocaches and never plan to. Don't go on podcasts and tell others that I hid 17 (!) 5/5s for your mega. That's an easy way to make me to quit your event planning.

That post is an accurate depiction of the personality that I have interacted with in the past.

Puff, a grey and white tuxedo cat with a white mustache, sits on back of a bicycle, waiting for a ride. Several RAGBRAI bike bands are affixed to the handlebar stem in the foreground.

40 days until the RAGBRAI LIII Route Announcement.
🩶🤍🩶-Puff

(meeting someone from iowa) so are you a football iowan or a ragbrai iowan

This has been hard. Miles was the 2nd youth that Dream Team lost to suicide this year. All of my memories of Miles are of him smiling and having fun with other kids on training rides and RAGBRAI.

YouTube video by RAGBRAI RAGBRAI - More than a Ride

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Have you noticed now that the Epstein files all point back to Donald Trump, his MAGA base wants to change the motherf*cking subject?

These reporters aren’t having it. 🔥🔥🔥

Purple Heart Iraq veteran deported to unknown location | Arizona Mirror Deported veteran José Barco, Purple Heart recipient from Arizona, sent to unknown location as advocates decry removals

Purple Heart veteran deported to unknown location.

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I'm thinking about the Tri-State Tour along Lake Michigan from Whiting, Indiana, past Chicago to Kenosha, Wisconsin for August 2026.

Miles Phipps Obituary November 4, 2025 - Caldwell Parrish Funeral Home & Crematory View Miles Phipps's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Miles is the second Dream Team youth the RAGBRAI community has lost in the past 6 months.

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