The Well That Pa Dug

There are at least half a dozen places across the country where Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in her lifetime and many more that relate to her life and her family. Last year we had the opportunity to visit the Little House in the Big Woods in Pepin, Wisconsin. Today after finding a geocache in Peru and taking a shortcut through Havana, we followed a sign directing us to the Little House on the Prairie near Independence, Kansas. We were not fortunate enough to visit on one of the three days a week that the museum is open but we were able to walk around the grounds. The well that Charles Ingalls dug by hand is the only remaining structure from the Ingalls 1869-1871 stay but was key to confirming this place as the home that Laura commemorated in her iconic children’s book. What a delightful Kansas adventure for us! Now to find a campsite for we still need to spend the night in the T@B here in order to earn the right to add the Kansas sticker to our map!