" The road goes up hill and down, and it is rutted and dusty and stony but every turn of the wheels changes our view of the woods and the hills. The sky seems lower here, and it is the softest blue. The distances and the valleys are blue whenever you can see them. It is a drowsy country that makes you feel wide awake and alive but somehow contented. "

― Laura Ingalls Wilder , On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 (Little House #10)