Williams Brothers, owners of Real 747 Big Bud Tractor

National Farm Toy Show- Thurs. , we would always make the drive from Appleton , Wis. and stop at Madison at the mall and take a little break and walk through the mall. Then we would work our way to Dubuque and cross over the Mississippi River and look down at the campgrounds below the bridge and see where we had camped several times over the years and watched the barges going by on the Mighty Mississippi. Then we would make our way through town and head West for about 20 more miles to Dyersville. We usually arrived in Dyersville around one o clock. Our first stop was always the Country Junction Restaurant. Deb loved their ham dinners, and she always got them , she loved that ham. I hated to tell her that smell she complained about was on her plate and she was eating it. I never did tell her , so I don’t think she realizes got the connection , ha,ha. After we ate we always had to wait til 3:00 to park our motorhome in our camping spot behind the High School. So we always parked our motorhome and would walk through the Toy Museum and see if my models were still there. Then I would look at other toys in the museum and we would head outside to Tent City. That is where the outside vendors set up their toys for sale in tents. It was always exciting to me to be there looking at all the toys. We would always see people we knew in the restaurant and at tent city. At 3:00 we would set up the motorhome and get pluged in for the weekend. Then shortly after that, we always headed out to walk downtown, which was always in the dark . Then we would get back and get cozy in the motorhome for the night.