{"id":21179,"date":"2017-04-22T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2017-04-22T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:35:37","slug":"happy-trails-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21179","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This retirement life allows my wife and\u00a0me to spend more time holding hands while walking through our southwest Amarillo neighborhood.<\/p>\n

While we do this activity with Toby the Puppy, I am free to look at my surroundings and entertain strange thoughts.<\/p>\n

This one popped into my noggin this morning.<\/p>\n

We live on a “place.” The street that t’s into our street is a “drive.” It originates\u00a0from another right-of-way labeled a “lane.”<\/p>\n

They all do the same thing: They convey motor vehicle, non-motorized vehicle and pedestrian traffic.<\/p>\n

What’s the difference among them?<\/p>\n

I looked the terms up in the dictionary I keep on my desk. I found the term “lane” and saw that it refers to a narrow roadway. “Drive” has many applications, most of them are verbs. There’s no street reference to “place.” Get this: The “lane” one block north of our house is the same width as the “place” where we live. Go figure.<\/p>\n

I noticed long ago, too, that Amarillo labels its major east-west thoroughfares as “avenue,” while those that run north-south are “streets.” My hometown of Portland, Ore., does something similar. Hmm. Streets and avenues do the same thing, too.<\/p>\n

Boulevards are different. They usually refer to broad streets with medians. I’m aware of only one “boulevard” in Amarillo. It does have a median west of the major commercial area through which it passes.<\/p>\n

I know I could solve all this curiosity with a phone call or two to City Hall. What fun is that?<\/p>\n

I’ll entertain any suggestions or ideas.<\/p>\n\n

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This retirement life allows my wife and\u00a0me to spend more time holding hands while walking through our southwest Amarillo neighborhood. While we do this activity with Toby the Puppy, I am free to look at my surroundings and entertain strange thoughts. This one popped into my noggin this morning. We live on a “place.” The … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 10<\/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":[290,3671],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-portland-or"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","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=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21180,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions\/21180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}