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Dear Friends,
Your June Letter, document link below, contains the most accurate info available at this time. In PDF format, this letter is intended to answer the lion's share of questions about shuttling with us, about spending the week with us, about the last day of RAGBRAI, and more. It is your PBV Travel Guidebook.
Still, we ask you to be faithful about watching our updates over the next few weeks.
We have done our best to condense the letter and reduce it to bullet points when possible. We hope we've made it pretty user-friendly and useful for you.
Please give a moment's thought to where you will save this document, so that you can use it as we intend, for reference.
It's long, and no one needs to read all of it, as you can see from this Table of Contents. These are the big sections of the letter:
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- Top Priorities Right Now
- East/West Shuttle, Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19
- Finding Us in Orange City, July 19
- Omaha to Orange City, July 19
- Des Moines to Orange City, July 19
- The Week with PBV
- Our “Early-Finish" Shuttles on July 22 and 26
- Our Exit and Enter Shuttles, July 22 and July 23
- The Last Day of RAGBRAI, July 26
- Shipping Bikes to/from RAGBRAI
- Between Now and RAGBRAI
- The Pork Belly Mobile App--Don't Ride Without It
- Protecting Your Bike for Truck Transport
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If you're not on the Omaha/Orange City Shuttle, for instance, skip that section altogether. If you're wondering about our Des Moines airport hotel (which has changed since last year), you want the fifth section. If you wonder whether you'll need to lock your bike during the week, check out the section called "The Week with PBV." The letter is mainly chronological, except for late sections.
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Download your letter. Print today. And then read the sections that are relevant to your RAGBRAI. Maybe do some highlighting. Re-read as needed. Here is the link to your June Letter in pdf format:
The 2025 June Letter of PBV
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The Pork Belly
Mobile App:
Don't Ride Without It!
During RAGBRAI, we'll be sending notifications on the app: Here's What's Waiting for You in Pork Camp Today! You don't want to miss those!
The Pork Belly Mobile App is your best way to stay abreast of Pork News and Pork Happenings:
???? Update Archive
???? Our Maps/RAGBRAI Maps
???? Daily Notifications
???? Much More!
After RAGBRAI, we'll ask you to complete a survey about your experience via the Pork Belly Mobile App!
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Important Topics
The following topics are in the June Letter; however, we think we need to draw attention to them here, too, so that you'll read them sooner rather than later.
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Packing Your Bike for Airline Travel
On the Last Day of RAGBRAI
This message is for anyone who needs assistance in packaging his/her bike for air travel on the last day of RAGBRAI in Guttenberg. Please write to Pete@pkbelly.com now and order this service. We need to know about it right away. The price is $100.
Naturally, we need to staff for this service. Your name must appear on our list in order to be served on the day. Folks who don't pre-order will pay cash and be served only after everyone on the list is served.
Please allow plenty of time time on the day for arriving in camp and availing yourself of this service before your departure on our shuttles to Quad Cities (1:00 and 2:30), Omaha (3:00), or Des Moines (3:15). On the 26th, do your best to use this service before 2:00 p.m.
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Look for These Topics (and many more) in Our June Letter
We're getting many emails and phone calls on these topics, which you'll find in the letter:
- instructions for those who want to refrigerate medication during the week
- instructions for those bringing a CPAP machine
- instructions for those charging e-bike batteries
- when our maps in PDF format will be available
- absolutely NO PERSONAL VEHICLES IN CAMP
- and only those who are registered for the support of PBV will be welcome hang out in camp and consume limited resources. We want to deliver for those who have paid for our services. Sorry, had to say it.
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Lost or Stolen Property
In our history of over 30 years, we had one instance when a bike and two bags were stolen. Our campsite was on a busy street, and we think a driver just pulled up and snagged those items. This is highly uncommon.
Pork Belly Ventures is not responsible for items that are lost or stolen, whether in camp, your tent, or a rental tent.
You'll find more in the June Letter on this topic, in the section on "The Week with PBV."
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The Right-Sized Locks
for the Charging Trailers
Notice the photo of one phone charging trailer below, provided so that you'll know what kind of padlock to bring to lock a charging compartment. Huge padlocks won't go through the hole, so make it small or medium-sized padlock. Please read more about our charging trailers and charging compartments in the June Letter.
And if you have a LOT of devices to charge, please don't plan on using multiple charging compartments at once. Consider bringing a charging block or battery, and then charging some of your devices in your tent at night.
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Our Days
As the ride draws near, we'll get slower and slower on email because we have long to-do lists. We probably will not answer emails that are answered by the June Letter. Unless we happen to have a moment to spare, we will expect you to use this document as a reference for the vast majority of questions. And thank you, friends, for doing that.
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Scroll UP now, folks, and click on the link to your June Letter, which answers 97.8% of all questions about traveling with Pork Belly Ventures during RAGBRAI!
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Next, we will publish optional dinner menus. Other upcoming topics include a series of updates with shuttle rosters for all of our PRE-RAGBRAI Shuttles. Have you completed your detail form?
The FUN stuff is coming! Watch for Our Week in the Corn with heaps of good news! Thanks for reading your June Letter. We'll be back on your screens again soon. Until then, we remain,
Your friends,
Tammy and Pete
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Pork Belly Ventures LLC
Tammy: 808-375-8921 c, tammy@pkbelly.com
Pete: 402-681-2613 c, pete@pkbelly.com
www.pkbelly.com
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