There’s No Place Like Home. Really?
ByAs we walked off the high speed train we took from downtown Oslo to the Gardermoen Airport we walked past this billboard. You could arguably say that at that moment I was as far away from home as I’d ever been. Not in distance (since Stockholm is further), but certainly in travel time. We were making our way back to Kansas from a 10 day trip as part of a Colorado Public Television documentary crew. Probably not the strangest placement of a Wizard of Oz image or reference (it’s everywhere), but it was an odd coincidence of timing and place.
It’s everywhere.
Clay Myers-Bowman 
Odd that Kansas Travel and Tourism doesn’t capitalize on this more…I
mean, being from Kansas, I understand the disdain for the stereotype, but
from a business perspective, we’re missing out. Where’s the Oz theme
park? Nobody wants to come to Kansas? Well, let’s give them a
highly-commercialized reason to! 😉
Be well,
Janelle Flory Schrock, Office Manager
Dyck Arboretum of the Plains
177 W. Hickory Street
Hesston, KS 67062
(620)327-8127
http://www.dyckarboretum.org
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Myers-Bowman
To:
janellfs@hesston.edu,
Date:
11/24/2012 09:59 AM
Subject:
[New post] There’s No Place Like Home. Really?
myersbowman posted: “As we walked off the high speed train we took from
downtown Oslo to the Gardermoen Airport we walked past this billboard. You
could arguably say that at that moment I was as far away from home as I’d
ever been. Not in distance (since Stockholm is further”