Big Bird's Adventures

Ohio should go quickly, but Pennsylvania will be very hard, and I have 3 zero days built in so I can hang with my buddy and his family Larry Butler (Drew and Melanie) as well as any of my backpacking/camping brothers that can take time away from their own lives to share time with me. The closer I get to Pittsburgh, where I will meet Larry, the details of our journey together have started to mature. His son Drew will support us by carrying our gear so that Larry doesn’t have to 1) find gear to carry his gear on his bike and 2) worry about anything other than riding a bike with me for four days. 2) is a large enough task that I am sure Larry lost a lot of sleep worrying about as I got closer. The first day of Ragbrai I made an effort to ride with Pete for a fair part of the day and asked him to get in touch with Larry and assure him that I can ride slow enough so that we can enjoy the ride together.