On our way back west from our Summer in SC, Kel, Moira and I stopped off in Mansfield Missouri for a visit to one of the homesites of Laura Ingalls Wilder (the author of all of the Little House on the Prairie books).
We honestly had sort of planned our trip so that we would specifically go through Mansfield and see the house. As we approached, however, there were no signs or anything about the museum/homesite. We kind of expected it to be a tourist trap and were pleasantly surprised to pull up to a very well preserved site with little to no "tourist" trappings.
The house was where Laura actually wrote all of the Little House books by hand after she and her husband Almanzo moved to Mansfield from her prairie home in Des Met South Dakota.
Kelley and I walked through the small house that Almanzo built himself and left in such a relaxed frame of mind after having witnessed the "simple" life that hard work and few luxuries produces.
It was a great end to our wonderful summer back east.
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