{"id":25502,"date":"2017-10-18T05:54:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25502"},"modified":"2017-10-18T05:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T05:54:53","slug":"happy-trails-part-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25502","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 48"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25338\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Retirement-2.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not quite four years ago I wrote a blog post worrying about the potential advent of in-flight cell phone use.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, the Federal Aviation Administration hasn&#8217;t allowed passengers to gab out loud at 35,000 feet into their cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to this point: My wife and I are planning to spend the vast bulk of our retirement years tethered to terra firma traveling in our RV across North America.<\/p>\n<p>Air travel has become difficult enough as it is. We have been fortunate and blessed enough to be able to travel by air over the years since 9\/11: Greece, Scandinavia, Israel, Germany, The Netherlands, Belize, Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of those flights have been pleasant. The one that will stand out for the rest of my life was the flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Dallas\/Fort Worth International Airport while sitting across an aisle from a toddler <em>who screamed at the top of his lungs for 10 whole hours.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I cannot fathom for a single instant how I might have reacted had I been forced to listen to some yahoo blabbing on his cell phone for that entire time, too.<\/p>\n<p>I trust the FAA will keep its wits and never in a zillion years allow such in-flight idiocy to occur.<\/p>\n<p>I do know that my wife and I plan to continue our travel aboard our pickup and fifth wheel RV. There will be no such nonsense to endure while tooling along our nation&#8217;s highways and byways.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2013\/10\/please-please-faa-no-cellphones-in-flight\/<\/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>Not quite four years ago I wrote a blog post worrying about the potential advent of in-flight cell phone use. As far as I know, the Federal Aviation Administration hasn&#8217;t allowed passengers to gab out loud at 35,000 feet into their cell phones. Which brings me to this point: My wife and I are planning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 48<\/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":[13],"tags":[898,1674,3920,4058],"class_list":["post-25502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cell-phones","tag-faa","tag-retirement","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502","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=25502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25505,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502\/revisions\/25505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}