We spent a lovely late afternoon and evening getting off the interstate driving the state roads from Minneapolis to Waterloo. All that beautiful green corn and fields of soy. We met some nice folks in Waterloo and drank beer into the night. This morning we drove across Hwy. 20 to Dyersville and the Field of Dreams movie site. We arrived just after noon on the most glorious Iowa sunny summer day ever. Is this heaven? No, it's Iowa.. indeed. Iowa in summer, is undoudbtedly one of thee most beautiful places on this good Earth. The field of dreams was amazing; I was very moved. If you're ever passin through the Dubuque area, it's well worth the extra 20 miles. Now we're safely and on time in our room on the 11th floor overlooking downtown Cedar Rapids, 4 hours yet from the show, at 8:00 p.m.. The final show of the leg. 8 shows in 9 nights, and tonight's it. This is it. A Saturday night send-off.. then home, I suppose they go, to Toronto. I'm getting that good feeling I get when I know one of life's peak experiences is in store for me in the coming hours. It's been a heartland weekend of dreams, back roads and fields of summer green. There is such beauty in the world.
A quick shower here, a stop for a couple beers somewhere warm and friendly, then off to the orchestra pit at the Paramount Theater.
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