Out of the gently rolling waves of an Iowa cornfield, are beautifully preservedĪnd open to the public. Importantly, the pristine baseball diamond, precisely and incongruously trimmed Trek to Dyersville, Iowa, where a large part of Field of Dreams was shot. Underdog stories, set, by their nature, outside on sunny spring days.Īnyway, I’d told Muffy for years that one day we should make the Except, for some reason, I have an odd fondnessįor baseball movies - I suppose because so many of them are comfortable If there were such a thing as passionate apathy, that would describe my People who know me are sometimes a little surprised by that, because myĬomplete lack of interest in anything sports-related is borderline legendary. Muffy’s all-time favorite movies, and I’ve always had an affection for it as Most misquote it as “they” and not “he”) from the 1989 Kevin Costner film, Field of Dreams. “If you build it, he will come.” Everybody knows the line (though Simple story that couldn’t have happened without it. That is, it’s not a story about flying, per se, just a Sell my soul and throw in a 24-pack of toilet paper to make a trip like this ![]() ![]() Hoping that we’ve gained some perspective and that we’ll remember that the normalĭay-to-day excuses we so easily hide behind are irrelevant and powerless. Years of hemming and hawing before we made this flight seems appalling.Īs I write this note, against the uncertainty of a globalĬrisis, we have great big excuses not to travel. Today, when a trip to the grocery store forĮssentials has the nervous air of a major expedition, the thought that it took 10 Weird new normal, this story gives me something fun to look back on and, more ![]() Now, though, as the world has settled into a temporary and Stories - seemed like the height of poor taste. Jaunt - much less, trying to kick off a series where other pilots shared their Of the pandemic, the idea of writing a story about a fun and frivolous flying Note: I had the idea to kick off this series back in February,īut by the time I sat down to start writing it, the world changed.
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