There is no ocean

I spoke on the phone to a woman from Beverly Hills yesterday at work.  She was very concerned about what her teen kids would do without the ocean when she relocated to Columbus from LA.  I told her they would have an opportunity to build character.  There is no ocean in Columbus, Ohio. I have never lived in a place where I needed to say the state name after the city name.  I need to do that now.  There was a song back in the 90's by some vocalist I cannot recall called "Where is the Ocean?"  My soul and body and psyche ask this of me every single day, it seems.  I have been here for almost 6 months now and am still looking for something that is not there like an amputated limb.