Dear Dawdlers,

To you, the decorated, dallying dreamers of the Missouri River bottoms.  To you, the lovers of music, of trailside surprises, of heaps of delectable foodstuffs.  To you, the dancers in the mist garden, the hikers up the hill, the headbangers in the park, we raise our glasses.

After the feast and fireworks were over (big thanks to our friends at Spirit of 76), we remembered what we love most about Columbia. It is a town that embraces our wildest ideas and makes them even better than we had hoped.  And as long as the joy and mania of these events endures, we’ll keep doing them.

So thank you.  Each of you who rode a bike or played a fiddle or helped us stretch or taught us Ozark history.  Thanks to the tech team who hauled speakers and screen with index finger held aloft waiting for the wind to change and the skies to open. Thanks to our partners at Les Bourgeois, at Schlafly, at Patchwork, Goatsbeard, Uprise and the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture for the food and drink.  Thanks to Walt’s for fixing flats and donating a great giveaway.  Thanks to the Tribune and BXR for spreading the word, to Delta Systems for keeping our web site afloat, and to Off Track Events for keeping us all pedaling in the right direction.

Visit our Facebook page to check out the latest photos from the day (we’ll be posting more as they roll in). If you stopped at the Bur Oak, those portraits will be posted on Facebook very soon. And please note that the one-of-a-kind messenger bag from Leif Labs (accompanied by a $50 gift certificate to the Butterfly Tattoo) is still unclaimed, so if you have raffle ticket # 292416, please let us know.

It was a great Dawdle.  Let’s do it again sometime. Perhaps August 18, 2012?

Best,

David, Paul, Jeremy, Mary Jane, Tracy & Team T/F