{"id":11141,"date":"2015-09-27T02:34:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2015-09-27T02:34:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T02:34:58","slug":"journey-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11141","title":{"rendered":"Journey coming to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/at-the-beach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11142\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/at-the-beach-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"at the beach\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/at-the-beach-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/at-the-beach.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COLORADO CITY, Texas<\/strong> &#8212; It hasn&#8217;t been the Trip of a Lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I have experienced a couple of those already in our 44 years together.<\/p>\n<p>We did, however, answer a key question: Are we able to spend more than, say, a long weekend on the road in our fifth wheel travel vehicle?<\/p>\n<p>Our answer? Yes &#8230; absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s our final night on the road. We&#8217;ll get up in the morning, unplug the water and the electricity and head to Lubbock for lunch with two of our best friends in the world. Then it&#8217;s home to Amarillo.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a wonderful time catching up with some old friends along the way. We saw family members &#8230; including our precious granddaughter Emma.<\/p>\n<p>We have nearly completed the big circle that covered roughly have of our huge state. We&#8217;ve taken in a good portion of Texas&#8217;s amazingly diverse landscape: from the Caprock, to rolling hills and the lakes, the Piney Woods, the Gulf Coast, the Hill Country &#8212; and tonight we camped out at Lake Colorado City State Park, which feature the cactus and scrub brush common in West Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Our pets &#8212; our dog and cat &#8212; proved to us that they&#8217;re both excellent travelers. We took a gamble with our 13-year-old kitty, Mittens; she didn&#8217;t let us down. Toby the puppy? You know about him. He&#8217;s the coolest customer &#8230; ever!<\/p>\n<p>Our latest journey is about to end. My wife and I are convinced more than ever that, yes, by golly &#8212; we can do this when the time comes to quit working for a living.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO CITY, Texas &#8212; It hasn&#8217;t been the Trip of a Lifetime. My wife and I have experienced a couple of those already in our 44 years together. We did, however, answer a key question: Are we able to spend more than, say, a long weekend on the road in our fifth wheel travel vehicle? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journey coming to an end<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5492,1726,2022,2138,5491,3920,5509],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-caprock","tag-fifth-wheel","tag-gulf-coast","tag-hill-country","tag-piney-woods","tag-retirement","tag-rv-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11143,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions\/11143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}