Ramona, KS

Then, one day about 30 years ago, I decided to buy a little rundown house on Ramona’s Main St. and fix it up so that when we came back to visit we’d have someplace to stay. Then we got the bright idea of coming back and living here for a year in 2000 as a millennium lark. Here we still are, living in the country. Our original dream was that we thought the country would be a good place to retire. We imagined the pace of country life to be slower, and we knew that real estate — as in buy

To begin with, a good friend of ours, who was on a road trip to Lincoln, Nebraska, to visit her daughter, came and picked me up from the airport on the way to our house. “You do know, Des,” I said when she offered, “that Wichita isn’t ‘on the way’ from Lincoln to Ramona?” “Oh, yeah,” she laughed, “but what’s another hundred miles when you’ve already driven 4,000?” [FULL STORY at http://marionrecord.com]