Field of Dreams – Dyersville Iowa

We left Alabama on Tuesday Sept 9th. We traveled north and crossed the Mississippi River just west of Memphis Tennessee, then through the corner of Arkansas into Missouri. We stayed there just one night at a small RV park right off the highway that had full hook up and laundry facilities so we were able to catch up. We got back on the road and then stopped one more time in Missouri for a 2 night stay before arriving in Iowa yesterday. This time we’re staying at a ‘Harvest Host’ site called ‘O So Good Winery’. Harvest Host sites are places you can stay all over the U.S. at private properties for free and there are many different types of places to stay like casinos, farms, museums and golf courses. Of course you are encouraged to patronize the business, which John and I did happily at the winery last night. The food was delicious and the wine was even better. They even had a Music Bingo night and we stayed to play. So much fun. Tonight there’s a live band outside so that should be cool.

The main reason we took this route was so that we could visit the famous ‘Field of Dreams’ movie site located here in Dyersville. If you’re not familiar it’s the movie from 1988 with Kevin Costner where he builds a baseball field in the middle of a corn field and baseball ghost players come out of the corn to play. One of the famous lines from the movie is ‘If you build it they will come’, so we came. We were able to wander around the field and John and I even had a catch on the first base line. We also had a tour of the house from the movie.

If you don’t understand this video, watch the movie 🙂
We are leaving here tomorrow and heading directly west for South Dakota. Can’t wait to get to the badlands again!