HEY ! WOW ! I know TWO people from Des Moines.
1. The IT head of the pump company (in Swindon, he never returned my copy of 'A Small Island' by Bill Bryson that other native of Des Moines),
AND
The guy from the hearse car company (We make the lifts that lift you into paradise ?) that heped organise RAGBRAI.
Well, when he said he had just set off the cyclists on the ride across Iowa, I didn't realise just what that ride was. To see, refer to Drunkcyclist.