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A review by mayag
A Little House Traveler: Writings from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Journeys Across America by Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.0
I've long been fascinated with Laura Ingalls Wilder and all her books. I'm just finishing up another round of immersing myself in them. They still hold all the appeal for me that they ever did, maybe even more now that my life is more complicated than ever.
I know I'm romanticizing pioneer times and her life but I'm very attracted to the self-reliant, the frugality (opposites attract, right?), the waste not-want not attitude, the outdoors, the fewer choices.
A Little House Traveler prints two journals she kept as an adult, one when they moved from De Smet to Missouri (where they settled), and one when they returned to De Smet fourty years later for a visit and prints the letters she mailed Manly when she visited their daughter in San Francisco in 1915.
It was fun for me to read and it reminded me that while I have a certain longing for things as they were ... or I think I do anyway, there are also things I wouldn't change at all. When you moved states a hundred years ago you never knew if you'd see your family again. When Laura visited San Francisco she went for three months because she knew she'd never go again. Living apart from our families the past year and a half has been difficult, mostly because of our children, but we still see them (here and there) several times a year. We can fly or drive and either way is actually pretty fast. Even though I complain a lot about traveling, I'm pretty lucky it's as easy as it is!
I know I'm romanticizing pioneer times and her life but I'm very attracted to the self-reliant, the frugality (opposites attract, right?), the waste not-want not attitude, the outdoors, the fewer choices.
A Little House Traveler prints two journals she kept as an adult, one when they moved from De Smet to Missouri (where they settled), and one when they returned to De Smet fourty years later for a visit and prints the letters she mailed Manly when she visited their daughter in San Francisco in 1915.
It was fun for me to read and it reminded me that while I have a certain longing for things as they were ... or I think I do anyway, there are also things I wouldn't change at all. When you moved states a hundred years ago you never knew if you'd see your family again. When Laura visited San Francisco she went for three months because she knew she'd never go again. Living apart from our families the past year and a half has been difficult, mostly because of our children, but we still see them (here and there) several times a year. We can fly or drive and either way is actually pretty fast. Even though I complain a lot about traveling, I'm pretty lucky it's as easy as it is!