There’s No Place Like Home

Yesterday we took a trip over to Wamego KS.  This is the home of The Wizard of Oz.  It was a nice drive over on some backroads, connecting a bunch of cute little towns.  Towns where the police stations appear to be houses or one room buildings.  

Downtown Wamego is really cute, the area has a lot of Oz themed signage, businesses and attractions.  The museum is really well done and was $10 per adult.  There are quite a few neat artifacts and memorabilia.  There are also a few informative videos along the walk.  I think it took us maybe a 1/2 hour to get through.  The young lady working at the museum recommended Oz winery down the street.  If you know us, we occasionally drink some wine so we took a walk down there.  

Oz Winery is one ish block south of the museum so we decided to check it out.  The wines are mostly made from Kansas grapes.  We split a dry flight and enjoyed conversations with the worker who is originally a troll from lower Michigan.  A retired couple, Bev and Jim from Minnesota also came in.  They are towing their RV to Texas and wine tasting along the way.  We shared a few locations and enjoyed our chat with them too.  

After the land of Oz, we stopped at a few shops on our way back east.  One was a meat shop and the other a small town marketplace.  We made a pit stop at the state capitol in Topeka too.  It is a really nice building with immaculate grounds.  The town of Topeka is a lot quieter than both of us expected.  There is a lot for sale and looks like it may be on the comeback.  

Back in Lawrence, we went to Lawrence Beer Co based off a friend’s recommendation.  He grew up here and his friend owns the place.  The Lectric IPA was good as was the raspberry hard seltzer.  The pretzel was also really good.  Definitely worth a stop.