In Iowa today- whats going on around here?

Today my wife and I are in Cedar Falls- gonna be taking a tour through the Waterloo JD plant and do some shopping later on. Where else do you guys reccomend? Thinking about stopping in Dyersville tomorrow and going to the toy tractor museum.

Probably gonna stay in a hotel tomorrow night and head home on Thursday.

Donovan from Wisconsin (temporarily in Iowa)

where are you going to go shopping? we do not have muchof that around here,cept for the same stuff a million other little towns have.
the cedar falls parkade has one or two places.
don"t know if the jd engine works still has tours or not.
bout the most exciting is watching the corn grow.

Ice House museum in Cedar Falls. Check with the chamber of commerce for a Silos and smoke stacks book. Covers lots of NE Iowa. There's a decent museum in downtown Waterloo also.

Gerald J.

Stop by Heartland Acres at Independence. Its right along the interstate on your way to Dyersville. Toy museum is worth the time.

Little Brown Church in The Vale....

http://www.littlebrownchurch.org/

Gerald is thinking of the Grout Museum. The Rennsallaer Russell house is close to the Grout museum and is a turn of the century mansion.

Brick Haus in Amana!!

Field of Dreams in Dyersville.

we went to a Oliver museum in Charles City that was real good. Charles City is North of Ceder Falls on 218

You really should slide down to Du Monts oliver museum in Sygorny (sp?). Worth the drive.

some of the best pie i ever ate was in dyersville was just of off rt 20 built to look like a barn with a wooden silo replica next to it.

Just north of Dyersville on 52 , 1/2 hr is the town of Guttenberg. Lock and dam operations if you never seen them before--no cost.

No idea where you live at in Wisc, but if you can cross the Mississippi at Prarie Du Chine Wisc, they have a Cabelas, if that is of intrest, The wife can go to the Super Wal-Mart and then she won't bother you while you are at Cabelas?.


The town of Clayton has a mine / corn / barge operation, so does Mc Gregor.

Pikes peak, and Effegy Mounds are within ten munites of the bridge at Prarie.


You could offer to help me pour cement, (Garnavillo) and we don't let just anybody help, just special folks.

If you do come up from Dyersville on 52 through Garnavillo, once you top the very very small hill, to your right is Charlies hang out--old gas engines, and lots of plain junk. Stop in for a visit if he is home. If he is not home look around--if you find some junk to buy, just drop the money off in a coffee can---yea, small towns are different.

Scale Models is in Dyersville (toy tractor plant)--Spec Cast is there also.

The North side and the South side, as well (of Guttenberg) is a overlook of the Mississippi river.on 52.

At the intersection of 52 And 18 you will be 30 seconds away from where the first JD tractor was made--or perhaps the for runner, Frolick.

All of these are only a few moments off your route if you come North from Dyersville, and cross at Prarie Du Chine Wisconson.

that would be the country junction made fresh every morning.

Brian,

I've seen signs for the Grout Museum...what is it?

Stan