Bookish tourist: Dragonfly Books

3 words: delighted, blissful, satiated
 

On our recent trip to my home state of Iowa, the Dear Man and I seriously touristed it up.

The aim of the trip: canoeing the Upper Iowa River. 

And that was pure delight. The Dear Man squired me around in a canoe while I ate snacks (and occasionally paddled). This was our 4th river, and it was the bluffiest of the bunch.

93 degrees and Iowa-humid? We got this.

And then there was All The Other Stuff.

This included a bookstore visit. (Of course it did.)

We stopped by Dragonfly Books in beautiful downtown Decorah. It’s a new-ish bookstore, and it’s super cute. 

I liked all the things: their displays, their selection, their layout. 

And I bought this book, by Stephen King, which has been on my TBR forever. 

So excited!

 And we stopped by a stone cottage built by a Revolutionary War veteran, and there was a darling Little Free Library installed by a Girl Scout!

Well done, sister Scout!

 

And we visited my college campus (Go, Norse!) and I showed the Dear Man all the important places, like the path where my friends and I impersonated the Dead Poets Society guys in our duffel coats.

And Mabe’s Pizza: we ate there. 

(I can’t imagine who ate that tiny corner piece of pizza 

on my side of the table, before the photo was even taken.)

And Dunnings Spring: we walked there. 

And there were trolls, because: Norwegians. 

 

And there was a cave tour and rhubarb pie and a hidden military cemetery and a drive-in and an old fort and a roadside stand and ice cream at the Whippy Dip.

We seriously get around.

So, my fellow book lovers… What are your bookish travel plans this summer?