{"id":20249,"date":"2017-03-09T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20249"},"modified":"2017-03-09T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:29:57","slug":"getting-ahead-of-ourselves-in-trip-planning-sure-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20249","title":{"rendered":"Getting ahead of ourselves in trip planning? Sure thing!"},"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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/retirement_ahead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20250\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/retirement_ahead-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/retirement_ahead-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/retirement_ahead-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/retirement_ahead.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has come to this.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t even embarked on our next road trip pulling our fifth wheel and we&#8217;re already thinking ahead to the next trip, or the next two &#8212; or maybe three &#8212; excursions.<\/p>\n<p>The next one is mapped out: the Texas Hill Country, then over to Ruidoso, N.M. to meet up with sis and her husband.<\/p>\n<p>The one after that is a little less firm, but it&#8217;s taking shape: heading east to D.C., to see our niece and her husband, then to Roanoke to see good friends; after that it&#8217;s still up in the air. We&#8217;re awaiting to hear firm travel plans from some friends in Israel who are coming Stateside to attend a Rotary International conference.<\/p>\n<p>The one after that one is even less set up: Metroplex to see family and then head for points south and east. Details will be worked out later.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s come to. We cannot avoid planning far beyond our next journey.<\/p>\n<p>We plan much more of this as a change in our lives overtakes us. You&#8217;ll be kept apprised of that change as it occurs. Rest assured that it involves spending more time with our precious granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>More to come on that part of our lives, 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 an occasional series of blog posts commenting on upcoming retirement. It has come to this. We haven&#8217;t even embarked on our next road trip pulling our fifth wheel and we&#8217;re already thinking ahead to the next trip, or the next two &#8212; or maybe three &#8212; excursions. The next one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting ahead of ourselves in trip planning? Sure thing!<\/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":[9,1],"tags":[3920],"class_list":["post-20249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-uncategorized","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249","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=20249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20251,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions\/20251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}