The Midwest is full of fun places to go for family vacations, and I'm excited to share them with you! Check out my Midwest destinations page for more ideas to plan your next family trip, and read on to hear more about my hosted visit to De Smet South Dakota: As a little girl growing up in southern California, the prairie described in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie book series seemed like almost an imaginary place and far, far, away. But I was captivated by the descriptive stories of American history told from the perspective of an ordinary little girl. And while as an adult I understand more of the nuance, more of what was fictionalized and real, more of what of was good and bad in frontier life and attitudes, I still have a special place in my heart for the books. So I was pretty excited to discover that Charles Ingalls' Homestead is a real place in a real life little town on the prairie, you can visit it, and it's less than 3 hours from Sioux C...