The dates of our vacation were planned around the season's opening date of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum. Here we drank in a good dose of Ingalls and Wilder history and artifacts and toured Laura's two homes in this location.
The first home (not pictured) was pieced together over the years by Laura and Almanzo. The spaces are still filled with the Wilders' own belongings down to Laura's aprons hanging in the kitchen.
The Wilder's second home was built from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalogue model and faced with local stone by Rose Wilder Lane who wished to provide a comfortable retirement home equipped with the modern conveniences of the time for her parents. While they did live in the Rock House (pictured below) for several years, Laura and Almanzo eventually moved back to their beloved Rocky Ridge farmhouse for their remaining years. Laura wrote all her enduring "Little House" books from these two homes.
While along the way we had many more delightful adventures (such as swimming in a calm ocean), near catastrophes (such as hitting a deer in Arkansas) and sightings of God's loving care (such as the help of an off-duty fireman in the process of getting documents to report vehicle damage to insurance), this sums up my report of Florida Vacation 2020.
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