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H<\/span><\/strong>ere as we now power into the 2014 Mayors’ Ride campaign<\/a>, we just finalized the hotel anchor position for what the NBC Today show is calling the wealthiest city in America, \u00a0Des Moines, Iowa<\/strong>. No longer fueled by an industry in support of agriculture, white collar jobs in insurance, publishing, biotechnology, fibre-optics and communications, etc, \u00a0have taken over in this city of 202,000 people. And the work force that has resulted \u00a0continues to \u00a0pour in for all the good clean outdoor recreation \u00a0that Mayor Frank Cownie explained to me when we did a\u00a0\u00a0podcast show together back in 2007\u00a0\u00a0<link<\/a>> \u00a0 Along with \u00a0the research I did of Des Moines, the state capital of Iowa, \u00a0for “How America Can Bike and Grow Rich, the National Bicycle Greenway in Action” (here is the Des Moines history page<\/a> we are running at our NBG Bikig page for Des Moines), I long have sensed there was something pretty special about this place.<\/div>\n

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Not only are \u00a0the cash registers buzzing \u00a0there, but according to Forbes, \u00a0Des Moines is also number one for \u00a0young professionals and for business and careers. All this as Kiplinger, the Washington, D.C. based publisher of business forecasts and personal finance is saying Des Moines is the best city \u00a0in America\u00a0for families. \u00a0And to help us show all this off is the beautiful Embassy Suites<\/a><\/strong> located across the street from the Des Moines storybook City Hall, both along \u00a0the edge of the \u00a0Des Moines River (you can the City Hal dome behind the hotel \u00a0in the picture above).<\/div>\n

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It is this lazy waterway that \u00a0fuels the commerce of this recreation paradise in a whole new way here in the 21st Century. Instead of making water mills turn for mashing grain and \u00a0also acting as a transportation highway for shipping the produce of its nearby fields, the Des Moines River and nearby Racoon River now offer many forms of water recreation as well as a plethora of tree shaded hiking and biking trails.<\/div>\n

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We’ll come back to Des Moines and the Embassy Suites next Fall after we first\u00a0\u00a0show off all \u00a0the bicycle excitement taking place in Ireland and then, in July, the San Francisco Bay Area, with our 13th Annual Mayors’ Ride.\u00a0Between now and then, besides developing our events with city tours and inter city rides, we’ll also be busy preparing exhibition materials for our planned Sept\/Oct Kickstarter campaign.<\/div>\n

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It \u00a0will be the \u00a0funding that hopefully results that \u00a0will get us the staff we need to tie\u00a0all 17 of our anchor hotels to the Bike Share programs that are exploding in big cities all over America. We will do this by\u00a0\u00a0getting these lodging purveyors connected to not only public transportation purveyors (airports, bus and rail), but also to \u00a0the vendors s (restaurants, museums, coffee shops,, etc)\u00a0and attractions (parks, arenas, stadiums, points of interest, etc) \u00a0their visitors who came without their cars would like to be able to access by bike.<\/div>\n

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By our doing so, we will build a strong foundation for the 2016 coast-to-coast tour of \u00a0our route \u00a0we are also seeking to underwrite with our Autumn fund raising crusade. If all goes according to plan, you may also \u00a0find me crossing the USA on the \u00a0Eagle as a part of this production.<\/div>\n
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