For a little over two hours on the morning of Friday August 5, 2022, my dream of standing on the spot where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper all performed for the final time at the Surf Ballroom…
Tag: Field of Dreams
215: CHASING ‘MOONLIGHT’ BEYOND THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
For exactly 74.4 miles, the three of us headed northwest from Duluth. We left Bob Dylan’s first home in the review mirror, while his second home in Hibbing, Minnesota appeared through the front windshield of our Jeep about 80 minutes…
39: “IS THIS HEAVEN?” “NO, IT’S IOWA!”
At 7:50am on Tuesday July 21, 2015, I was headed for a baseball field. It wasn’t just any baseball field; that particular field was the ball diamond where the movie Field of Dreams was filmed. I thought for sure that…
38: NEVER TAKE GALENA FOR GRANT-ED
The morning of Monday July 20, 2015 began like all others on every trip; I was waiting for my photographer and his wife to get ready for the day. I wasn’t keeping notes in a journal, but if I was…