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Too much Rod Benson: The Iowa Trail
Benson: "We traveled from Des Moines to Sioux Falls, but it wasn’t all fun and games. At one point, the shocks on the bus broke [...] I felt like I was really in the video game "Oregon Trail," trying to forge the river. I must have lost three oxen today."
Too much Rod Benson: The Iowa Trail
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Hoops Addict — ... * Rod Benson’s back on his blogging game with a great post called The Iowa Trail. Here’s how he started his this post: “The bus smelled like sweat, Domino’s pizza, Gatorade, and old farts that had settled into the fabric of the seats as the night went on. I really couldn’t smell any of them individually, which was good. It reminded me of how you know that there are eggs in a cake, but you can’t taste them.” ...

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