We donated books to the Whitestone Mennonite Church library in Hesston and the Faith and Life Bookstore in Newton, KS. We then headed south to find the childhood home that inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder to write her "Little House on the Prairie" series - a nice, humble, under-stated, uncrowded, quiet, pleasant, friendly place, like almost everything else in Kansas. We camped nearby at the Elk City State Park and enjoyed a peaceful afternoon, reading and relaxing. This quote from on of Ms. Wilder's books sums up our last few days of
travel: "Kansas was an endless flat land covered with tall grass blowing in the wind. Day after day they traveled in Kansas, and saw nothing but the rippling grass and the enormous sky. In a perfect circle the sky curved down to the level land, and the wagon (or RV) was in the circle's exact middle."
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