Friday we got up and started doing Laura Ingalls Wilder stuff! We both love the series about the pioneer girl who traveled with her family from Pepin, Wisconsin all the way to Mansfield, Missouri over the course of her lifetime, also living in California and Florida for short periods of time. She only started writing books about her childhood when she was sixty five! Another thing we learned in our touring was that she was only four feet ten inches tall! Her husband was only five two!
We think it was because people didn't eat well back then, and didn't get enough nutrition. So go eat some vegetables!!!!
We started by seeing a reproduction of the house she was born in, since we were in Pepin, Wisconsin. It was pretty cool but a little corny, and there was a LOT of stuff to buy. It felt touristy.
Highway 14 from Wisconsin to South Dakota is called the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historical Highway, because so many of the places she lived are along that route. We took 14 all the way and saw everything!
But HOOOWEEE those farms smell.
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