Welcome to
Pork Belly Ventures LLC
RAGBRAI Charter Service
January 24, 2009
Dear Porkers,
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a magical story in which the central character grows younger rather than older. You can see his story now in movie theatres, or this July, you can live it yourself, along with 10,000 other middle-aged youngsters. The nice old folks of Red Oak will sit in lawn chairs at the intersection of Third and Reed and watch you and your fellow RAGBRAIers pedal into the town square, wearing radiant jerseys and spandex pants, some with pinwheels and bright ornaments duct-taped to your helmets. They’ll serve you ice cream cones and pork chops at seven o’clock in the morning. Some of you will dance to the rhythm of the local kitchen band, and your cheeks will turn pink from exertion. And just like when you were twelve years old, every few minutes, something will make you laugh. Heck, you’ll crack up every time you pass a Kum-and-Go gas station. You’ll tender a few sweaty dollar bills for your lunch, take a swim in a small-town pool, lean back and nap against the trunk of an old oak. Then you’ll step on the near pedal, throw a leg over your saddle, and ride on past the whinnying horses and the grazing cows and the snoozing pigs and the rippling corn. In short, you’ll feel like a kid again. Why, wouldn’t Scott Fitzgerald marvel at this annual magical story, in which hundreds of adults grow younger every day?
“Men travel faster now,” wrote Willa Cather, another great Midwestern writer, “but I do not know if they go to better things.” Whatever your age, here is your chance to travel slowly for one long week. To travel slowly from river to river and go to better things. To travel slowly on winding country roads straight back to your tenth-grade summer. Here is your invitation to ride RAGBRAI with Pork Belly Ventures.
For your benefit, Porkers, we’ve rearranged our invitation letter, and loosely, here’s the order in which you’ll find the information below, with Frequently Asked Questions sprinkled throughout. We hope this list will help you scroll to what you need:
· 2009 Ride Dates and Route
· What It Takes to Do RAGBRAI
· What It Takes to Be a Porker
· How to Get An Official RAGBRAI Wristband
· PBV’s 2009 Services and Prices (You won’t find prices at our website. Please contact us.)
· Our Cancellation Policy
· Description of Our Weeklong Support and Tent Service
· How to Reserve a Room at Our Designated Omaha Hotels
· Shipping Your Bike to/from PBV
· A Preview of Pork Fashion
· More FAQs, like who we are and how long we’ve been doing this
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Invitation Letter to continue reading about
Pork Belly Ventures 2009
