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

LAREDO, Texas<\/strong> — My wife and I have crossed another barrier that once stood between us and this new life called “full-time retirement.”<\/p>\n

While vacationing in South Texas, we began plotting our next<\/em> RV adventure.<\/p>\n

Yep. We weren’t finished enjoying our most recent journey — this time to Laredo — and we began thinking about how we are going to map out our next trip.<\/p>\n

It will occur soon. We intend to end up in Ruidoso, N.M., by way of the Texas Hill Country.<\/p>\n

But we have a really, really big trip already lined out for a period after the Ruidoso jaunt.<\/p>\n

My point here is that we are enjoying the fifth wheel and seeing these new places so much that we cannot stop thinking about when we’re going to do so again.<\/p>\n

I am going to presume this is a normal transition. It does feel right, although I am mindful of the need to live in the moment.<\/p>\n

My late mother used to remind me of the dangers of “wishing your life away,” which I used to do when I was a boy. “Gee, Mom, I wish the weekend would hurry up and get here,” I would say, only to get that pearl of wisdom from my mother.<\/p>\n

I might be reverting to those boyhood ways. I don’t care. We’ll keep planning our next adventure before we finish the current one.<\/p>\n\n

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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement. LAREDO, Texas — My wife and I have crossed another barrier that once stood between us and this new life called “full-time retirement.” While vacationing in South Texas, we began plotting our next RV adventure. Yep. We weren’t finished enjoying … Continue reading Clearing another barrier toward full-time retirement<\/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],"tags":[2138,3920,6921],"class_list":["post-19697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-hill-country","tag-retirement","tag-ruidoso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697","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=19697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19698,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19697\/revisions\/19698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}