If you read last year's adventures, you know that Mom is a Laura Ingalls Wilder fan. She persuaded the rest of the family to take a small detour north yesterday before leaving South Dakota.
The Ingalls family finally settled in De Smet, SD, which is the Little Town on the Prairie of the books. Charles ("Pa") was an important founder of the town.
It was interesting to see the locations of the various places mentioned in the books, but not many original buildings are left.
We went to the cemetery to see and pray at the family graves, and drove past (the replica of) Pa's claim shanty on the Ingalls' original claim.
We had lunch in town and then headed out on the road again.
Now we are just trying to get home. We drove south along the Missouri river (which is flooding north of here) into Iowa, where we spent the night at another nice little RV park.
The weather is a little unsettled with strong winds here and severe thunderstorms to the west. There was a tornado yesterday in South Dakota. We hope to miss anything serious as we continue home across the plains.
De Smet sounds cool. It's wonderful that you guys adapt on the road as you have documented and are open to stops for everyone! Sounds like it was a cool visit.
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