{"id":14335,"date":"2016-05-01T00:48:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14335"},"modified":"2016-05-01T00:48:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:48:24","slug":"another-travel-milestone-crossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14335","title":{"rendered":"Another travel milestone crossed"},"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\/2016\/05\/Retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14337\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Retirement\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-1024x590.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is the latest in a series of occasional blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLUP, N.M. &#8212;<\/strong> I wasn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>waiting<\/em> consciously for this revelation.<\/p>\n<p>However, I knew I would recognize it when I felt it.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred during our latest trip pulling our fifth wheel through three states.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation showed itself when I realized I wasn&#8217;t thinking instinctively about returning home. Yes, I thought about when we would get back to our home on the Texas Tundra, but it was a conscious thought, one that I had to <em>decide<\/em> to think about.<\/p>\n<p>We visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Sitting Bull Falls &#8230; all in far West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Then we tooled over to Casa Grande, Ariz., between Tucson and Phoenix, to visit my uncle and aunt.<\/p>\n<p>We have\u00a0laughed all along the way, ogling the sights and enjoying Mother Nature&#8217;s splendor. We have enjoyed catching up a bit with family members.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, I haven&#8217;t harbored a single <em>instinctive<\/em> thought about going home. When we first started taking our RV onto the highway, I would think about the end of a particular journey. I couldn&#8217;t help myself. It never detracted from my enjoying the many moments we&#8217;ve shared so far. However, those thoughts did cross my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Now we find ourselves getting caught up routinely in the real-time joy we experience on the road.<\/p>\n<p>I mention this to signify that our comfort with our 28-foot fifth wheel has taken us to a new level of enjoyment in the travel we plan to do once we declare ourselves to be\u00a0<em>fully retired<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not there just yet.<\/p>\n<p>However, we&#8217;ll know when that moment arrives, too.<\/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>This is the latest in a series of occasional blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement. GALLUP, N.M. &#8212; I wasn&#8217;t\u00a0waiting consciously for this revelation. However, I knew I would recognize it when I felt it. It occurred during our latest trip pulling our fifth wheel through three states. The revelation showed itself when I realized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another travel milestone crossed<\/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":[9],"tags":[3858,3920,4058],"class_list":["post-14335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-recreational-vehicle","tag-retirement","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335","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=14335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14338,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14335\/revisions\/14338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}