Inside the Outdoors: There's no place like home

There's no place like home.

For many, this expression will be forever linked to Dorothy, the young heroine from cyclone-swept Kansas in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz." Dorothy, who — as she clicked the heels of her ruby slippers together three times — spoke those enchanted words: “There’s no place like home … there’s no place like home … there’s no place like home.”

In the movie, the magic in those simple words brought Dorothy back from faraway Oz to her family’s farm in Kansas. For us, the idea behind such words is a recognition that the place around which most of our life’s events revolve may deserve our greater appreciation.

“Home” likely is special in its own way. Sometimes it takes a departure and an absence to help us see it.

Such sentiments are still in play here, after ret