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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, I have demons. We all do … I believe.<\/p>\n

One of\u00a0my demons\u00a0involves the recreational vehicle my wife and I own, which is a\u00a028-foot fifth wheel we pull behind our three-quarter-ton pickup.<\/p>\n

On our most recent trip, I managed to face down my RV demon.<\/p>\n

We went to Caprock Canyons State Park, which is about a 90-minute drive southeast of Amarillo. It’s a beautiful park, with rugged back country that one must see to believe.<\/p>\n

It has several very nice campsites.<\/p>\n

They’re all back-in<\/em> sites. No pull-through sites. When we made our reservation at the state park, I asked perhaps three times whether there were any pull-through sites. “No sir,” came the reply. “They’re all back-ins.”<\/p>\n

All righty, then. We’ll do it.<\/p>\n

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So, we went to Caprock Canyons. We arrived at the park gate, said “hey” to a group of bison grazing near the office, and then drove to our site at the Honey Flats camping area.<\/p>\n

We pulled the RV to the site, then positioned the truck and the fifth wheel in a fairly straight alignment with the site. I surely understand the principle of backing a vehicle up with another one hitched to the rear: you turn the steering wheel in the opposite direction of where you want to turn the attached vehicle.<\/p>\n

I backed the rig up. No sweat.<\/p>\n

OK, truth be told, I had done this once before. We drove to an RV resort in Mesa, Ariz., a year ago, where we hooked up with my sister and brother-in-law. It, too, only had back-in sites. I managed — after considerable grief and perspiration<\/em> — to get the vehicle backed into the site. I had considerable navigational help from my wife, sis and bro-in-law.<\/p>\n

After backing in, I was exhausted. Pooped, man.<\/p>\n

This time, at Caprock Canyons, the ordeal was far less stressful.<\/p>\n

For that I am grateful. I haven’t conquered the demon just yet.<\/p>\n

However, it’s on the ropes.<\/p>\n

We plan to knock the RV demon out\u00a0soon enough.<\/p>\n\n

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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement. Yes, I have demons. We all do … I believe. One of\u00a0my demons\u00a0involves the recreational vehicle my wife and I own, which is a\u00a028-foot fifth wheel we pull behind our three-quarter-ton pickup. On our most recent trip, I managed to … Continue reading Facing down an RV demon<\/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":[9,18],"tags":[6446,1726,3920,4058],"class_list":["post-16552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-state-news","tag-caprock-canyons-state-park","tag-fifth-wheel","tag-retirement","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552","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=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16557,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions\/16557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}