Free Parking

Each time I mock my Johnson County home a handful of people get offended. The excesses of the relatively affluent area are an easy and predictable target. So today I’m letting you in on my little secret, even though it reads like a Chamber of Commerce blurb. Public school system aside, Johnson County’s plentiful parks and trails are its single best asset. It’s possible to get yourself under a tree with no one else in sight or on the bed of a creek with only ducks and herons for company within a ten minute trek of anywhere in the county. It's how I stay (semi) functional.