Vagabond Tales- If You Build It-Vagabonds Will Come

At the last possible moment before we left Fort Dodge…Harry asked the question…How far is Field of Dreams from here? Only a couple hours from our original plan soooo, why not? Off we went in search of the dream!

Dressed as one of the ghost players, Craig led us on a tour of the home used in the movie and shared many unknown facts about the original owners of the properties and some directing secrets. I thought one of the cool things he did was have the movie playing with the scenes taking place in those exact rooms (no sound) while he spoke… so very effective.

Then I saw this rare sighting 👀

We had so much fun! Great afternoon…little did we know what we had in store for us later. Our gas tank light had come on… next step…stopped to get gas at the “Quik N Handi”… well we were at the Handi for over 2 hours. We filled up with gasoline but unfortunately the car wouldn’t start for us. Well, Taz, his true name, fixed us up with a tow to the local Ford company where we stayed last night and dry camped. Not our favorite campground! Lots of traffic and train noise and a garbage truck that rolled through the parking lot at 3:30. Vehicle troubles can happen to any of us anywhere! We were thankful to young, Taz! He was very knowledgeable and kind. As we sit today in the sales lot waiting for a part to fix a blown starter and wires leading to it, we are so thankful if it had to happen, it wasn’t at one of the out of the way, forlorn gas stations we sometimes stop. God was watching out for us. Right now it looks like we may be fixed by the end of the work day. We will see…don’t want to get our hopes up but it will be interesting to see where we stay the night because our next campsite is over 4 hours away. May have to change things up.