Wednesday, July 02, 2003
I’m now in Dyersville, Iowa. Famous as the farm toy capital of the world. I’m off to the Farm Toy museum this afternoon, to look at 30,000 die-cast John Deeres and the like.
It’s also where they filmed Field of Dreams, and they kept the baseball diamond in the corn fields, and people just show up with their gloves and bats and have a bit of a play. Bizarre.
Hot and toasty here – low 90s with big humidity. But yesterday in the Dyersville Family Restaurant I had a bowl of chicken noodle soup, a tuna sandwich and a slice of chocolate pie for $4 (including tax). If you’re interested, they open for breakfast at 5am.
Rode through Wexford, IA the other day. Looked surprisingly like the sunny south east – wooded hills, little church. . .
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