Essays: Border to Border

Every year in late July, thousands of people strap bicycles to their cars, vans, trucks and buses and migrate to the Midwest for the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. The week-long trek through the small towns of the Hawkeye State is the largest of its kind in the country. Riders take to the backroads of Iowa for a vareity of reasons, but in the end, most would agree it's about the journey and people they met along the way.