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Thisbe Nissen: Tour Diary

Preliminaries - Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - Day 5 - Day 6 -
Day 7 - Day 8 - Day 9 - Day 10 - Day 11 -Day 12 - Day 13 - Day 14 - Day 15 -
Day 16 - Day 17 - Day 18 - Day 19 - Day 20 - Day 21 - Day 22 -
Day 23 - Day 24 - Day 25 - Day 26 - Day 27 - Day 28 - Day 29 - Home Diary - July 25 - July 26

Day 10: Iowa City

Even though it's home, there's still an interview at 11 with someone from the Daily Iowan, which is the student paper at the University here and I didn't even know it ran in the summer, but I guess you learn something new every day...


Sweet Maisie Lou

Then there's laundry to be done, and travel shampoo bottles to be refilled and MapQuest directions to be printed out and email to catch up on. And cats to pet and Chris to hang out with and many many many weeds to pull from the garden which has grown dramatically in the week I've been away. I think I'll have beets soon! The chard and lettuce are in full force, and Chris makes me a lunch of the most amazing fresh spinach soup. I am going to have a hard time leaving this bounty tomorrow.


Crouching Thisbe, Hidden in the Garden

Late in the day there's a BBQ at friends' house, with whiffleball and Miller Genuine Draft and I drink my first drop of anything alcoholic since last weekend's fabled drunk. It's hard to leave everything about Iowa City. But I'm packing again. Here I go. Heading north.