{"id":14124,"date":"2016-04-17T02:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2016-04-17T02:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T02:19:30","slug":"retirement-is-looking-even-more-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14124","title":{"rendered":"Retirement is looking even more attractive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is the latest in a series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas<\/strong> — We’re about to head back home after a quick-turnaround, action-packed weekend in the Hill Country of Texas.<\/p>\n

The late Lyndon Johnson loved this part of the planet. We’ve been here many times during our more three decades living in Texas; so, we get what attracted ol’ Lyndon and his beloved Lady Bird to the Hill Country of Central Texas.<\/p>\n

We visited family here and the question came to us several times: Oh, did you bring your travel trailer with you?<\/p>\n

Um, no. Too quick, too brief for that.<\/p>\n

I’m finding myself longing more and more for the ability to haul the fifth wheel RV behind our Dodge Ram pickup, which we’ve nicknamed Big Jake.<\/p>\n

Sure, we do it whenever we can. The only problem for my wife and me — and this will change, eventually — is that we don’t do so often enough.<\/p>\n

We’re about to take the RV out for a trip south to Carlsbad, N.M., where we’ll tour the caverns national park in southern New Mexico. Time permitting, we’ll go to Guadalupe\u00a0Mountains National Park just over the state line in far West Texas.<\/p>\n

Then we’ll head west to Casa Grande, Ariz., where we’ll visit\u00a0my aunt and uncle for a couple of days.<\/p>\n

After that it’s home. Again.<\/p>\n

We find ourselves parking our RV and then longing more fervently for the next time we can haul her out onto the open road.<\/p>\n

I’m telling you, the pull of full-time retirement is getting stronger each time out.<\/p>\n

One of these days, maybe sooner than we expect, we’ll surrender to its allure.<\/p>\n

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This is the latest in a series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement. DRIPPING SPRINGS, Texas — We’re about to head back home after a quick-turnaround, action-packed weekend in the Hill Country of Texas. The late Lyndon Johnson loved this part of the planet. We’ve been here many times during our more three decades … Continue reading Retirement is looking even more attractive<\/span> →<\/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":[13,18],"tags":[6139,6140,3920,6141],"class_list":["post-14124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-state-news","tag-carlsbad-caverns-national-park","tag-guadalupe-mountains-national-park","tag-retirement","tag-texas-hill-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124","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=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14127,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions\/14127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}