So my mom and I headed West on Thursday April 12th. We got on the road about 8:30am and planned to sleep in Wall, SD that evening. We had one stop that I desperately wanted to do. I wanted to stop at the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, SD. The weather was lovely. Much better than when leaving OH. We didn't see snow until SD. In Sioux Falls there was about 4-7 inches and then we left the snow, as we traveled to find the Homestead we ran back into the snow again. We drove back on a road labeled Travel at your own risk...it was full of snow and mud. I put the truck into 4wd and we did okay. It was a large area with replicas of places Laura Ingalls Wilder once lived and some of the land that her father owned in SD. We went on into the town of De Smet and took a tour of the surveyors house where her family stayed during their first winter there. Then we learned that this area was where Laura based her By the Shores of Silver Lake and The Long Winter in the series. I decided to purchase the series. I hadn't read it since 6th grade. After leaving De Smet, SD we saw the largest pheasant in Huron, SD and met the Schwanns man, and purchased some ice cream sandwiches from him. We saw a variety of wildlife. Several types of cattle, horses, ducks, geese, turkeys and other birds. We were back on the highway about 3:30pm and headed to Mitchell, SD to see the Corn Palace. Back in Cincinnati people were making fun of me, saying there wouldn't be any more corn on it. Well, I am happy to report that there was plenty of corn left on the palace. There were also plenty of pigeons trying to eat the corn as well. Turns out there was a shriners circus performing in the palace (which is a community event place as well) so we had to sweet talk a shriner into letting us in. It was interesting, how it is designed, what the previous 2 palaces looked like. Then, we headed to Cabella's (mom had never been) and then back on the road to Wall, SD for the night!
So my mom and I headed West on Thursday April 12th. We got on the road about 8:30am and planned to sleep in Wall, SD that evening. We had one stop that I desperately wanted to do. I wanted to stop at the Ingalls Homestead in De Smet, SD. The weather was lovely. Much better than when leaving OH. We didn't see snow until SD. In Sioux Falls there was about 4-7 inches and then we left the snow, as we traveled to find the Homestead we ran back into the snow again. We drove back on a road labeled Travel at your own risk...it was full of snow and mud. I put the truck into 4wd and we did okay. It was a large area with replicas of places Laura Ingalls Wilder once lived and some of the land that her father owned in SD. We went on into the town of De Smet and took a tour of the surveyors house where her family stayed during their first winter there. Then we learned that this area was where Laura based her By the Shores of Silver Lake and The Long Winter in the series. I decided to purchase the series. I hadn't read it since 6th grade. After leaving De Smet, SD we saw the largest pheasant in Huron, SD and met the Schwanns man, and purchased some ice cream sandwiches from him. We saw a variety of wildlife. Several types of cattle, horses, ducks, geese, turkeys and other birds. We were back on the highway about 3:30pm and headed to Mitchell, SD to see the Corn Palace. Back in Cincinnati people were making fun of me, saying there wouldn't be any more corn on it. Well, I am happy to report that there was plenty of corn left on the palace. There were also plenty of pigeons trying to eat the corn as well. Turns out there was a shriners circus performing in the palace (which is a community event place as well) so we had to sweet talk a shriner into letting us in. It was interesting, how it is designed, what the previous 2 palaces looked like. Then, we headed to Cabella's (mom had never been) and then back on the road to Wall, SD for the night!
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