Team Google offers smartphone juice

Trusting RAGBRAI riders leave their cellphones at a Google charging table on Thursday, July 23, 2015 on RAGBRAI in Vinton. Kelsey Kremer/The Register Trusting RAGBRAI riders leave their cellphones at a Google charging table on Thursday, July 23, 2015 on RAGBRAI in...

The quirkiest (and creepiest) shop on RAGBRAI

La Porte City, Ia. — Even among the horde of bikes, it was nearly impossible to miss the 7-foot-tall foam mushroom situated along Main Street in downtown Vinton. Then I spotted the grotesque masks and the name of the shop behind the giant fungi: Midnight...