Dogs and baseball cheered us up after our visit to the Hoover Library.
Roxy, our toddler Field Spaniel, was born in Iowa City, near where we stayed this week. We’re still in touch with her breeder, so we arranged for a reunion after our trip to the Hoover Museum.
When we knocked on the door of the house of the breeder, a delightful woman named Kay, we thought we were in a new movie, 101 Field Spaniels. Turns out Kay still has four of Roxy’s littermates, Roxy’s mom, two dogs on loan from Roxy’s father and a couple of other Fieldies. Kay reunited with Roxy…
Roxy reunited with her mom, Bluebelle…
and hilarious chaos reigned.
Friday morning, we headed north towards Minnesota, with a stop en route in Dyersville, Iowa at the Field of Dreams baseball field. We didn’t hear any ethereal voices or see any movie (or baseball) stars, but the place brought back great memories of the movie!
They built it, we came (and I shoulda worn my Red Sox shirt).
We crossed into Minnesota Friday afternoon…
and we’re happily encamped on the banks of the Mississippi River in Winona…
en route to Duluth, then across the Upper Peninsula of Michigan next week.