My Iowa Journal
Meeting the Americans
Pambling Roads,
Meeting the Americans continues. Our travels bring us to Iowa, Minnesota, and
North Dakota. We didn’t stay at any hotels in Iowa but chose to travel through
it on our way northward. We didn’t want to miss any countryside and was
enjoying our travels. If you have been following this series, you would note
that the Best Western Hotels and the LaQuinta Hotels are the two main places we
have stayed. Honestly, there’s a well thought out reason for it. Both hotels are
consistent in their service, employees, and cleanliness.
Iowa
Stopped by the Laura
Ingles Wilder museum and took a guide of the hotel the Ingles lived in while
they stayed in Burr Oak, Iowa. Everyone was getting acquainted when the other
guide made an insulting comment about Florida. He continued informing everyone
that whenever he thinks of Florida, he thinks about the fact that it isn’t a
place he would want to go because people eat peoples’ faces there.
What???
My response: I would
have thought you would say that Florida makes you think of the Space Shuttle
launches? The Beaches? Walt Disney World? Not Zombies.
His response:
The rockets don’t take
off from Florida. They take off from Texas.
Blink. Blink. Blink. Sigh.
Our guide was
wonderful; she was quite knowledgeable about the author and the history of Ms.
Wilder’s life. The visitor’s center is in an old bank, the vault still intact,
and some local history about the first bank robbery in 1931. They have a
smorgasbord of books from and about Laura Ingles Wilder along with some
interesting frontier type souvenirs to purchase.
http://www.lauraingallswilder.us
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