South now along The Great River Road, one of Americas scenic byways. Along the river or a few miles inland it is nice road in pretty country. By chance (yah, right) our route south just happened to go by the movie site for "Field of Dreams". Obviously if we were within half a state of of this spot we had to go there. It looks just like in the movie. A baseball diamond in the middle of a corn field with a farm house and some barns to the side. The farm house, barns, and corn were there before and were not changed when the field was built. Excellent research by some movie site searcher. We walked the field, took pictures, and visited the gift shop and then headed on.
Picture of picture but it gives best overview
Center field from first base foul line
Small base runner
From Dyersville, it was south over country roads and freeways to Davenport and then across the Mississippi River to Illinois. We parked in a very nice RV resort that will be closing for the season in three weeks. When we checked in I asked if we might rinse the dust off our car. The staff said 'Go for it. Wash the RV too.' So we did. Both look much better now.
After washing vehicles we went back over the Mississippi to visit the town where Buffalo Bill was born. We have been to his grave, and the outstanding multiple museum in Cody, WY and now to his birth town.
Back over the river again to Moline to see the John Deere Pavilion. Contained therein are several examples of John Deere tractors and other machines past and present. The new machines are pretty impressive. They can pretty much till, seed, nurture, and harvest crops by themselves. Farmer just sits in plush, air conditioned cab and watches things happen. Doesn't even have to steer.
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