Thanks Igor, the tent at sunset seems to a favorite anytime I show these. So thanks to PDML folks for confirming that.
The organized tents are indeed part of paid service so that when riders hit town the riders are directed to their spot where tents sleeping bags hot showers and I maybe food is waiting for them. The purveyors are called the "Pork Bellies" the pig being the unofficial mascot due in no small part to my sister -in-law's art. I think the price is around $100 per day but the hot showers alone are almost worth that after riding 60 miles in humid Iowa. I went by this spot at noon just after they were set up. I visualized how this would look at sunset and returned with the K-3 & 50mm and went on to the other two camps pictured. The less organized camp was a riding club who reserved the spot. By the way many riders carry their sleeping bags etc on the bikes and sleep where they drop. Message: 5 Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:32:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> To: PDML@pdml.net Subject: Re: Geso :Tour De Farms Message-ID: <alpine.bsf.2.00.1507311219310.8...@trantor.komkon.org> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII I especially like the photo of the tent-camp with the (morning?) sun shining on it (52329). While I see one photo with different tents, I am surprised to see such a uniform camp in that photo. Is it some type of a tent-hotel, provided by some organization/company? Igor On Jul 30, 2015, at 5:32 PM, Donald Guthrie wrote: > Every year for the last 40, thousands (20,000 est this year) gather in > western Iowa to ride their bikes from the Missouri river to the Mississippi > river in one week 60-70miles a day. . They ride everything from unicycles to > tandem tricycles. They are all ages, sizes, and both sexes (more men than > women) It is a different route each year and many ride year after year. Some > of them start the ride by biking the route from east to west and then joining > the others for the return. They eat a lot of carbs drink lots of beer and > profess to have a great time. Many find out that Iowa is not as flat as they > had heard. > > I rode a very short way with them. BTW my brother dubbed the ride Tour de > farms many years ago and made a tidy sum for many years selling T-shirts on > the ride with the slogan and original artwork by his wife. > > This year they stopped in my hometown and here is small gallery of their > stop. Some Pentax; some not. C&C as always. > > https://www.flickr.com/gp/valdon/J65M49 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.