{"id":27419,"date":"2018-01-15T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27419"},"modified":"2018-01-15T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:45:27","slug":"happy-trails-part-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27419","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 70"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our retirement journey has hit a bump in the road.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry. It’s not serious. It’s not a dealbreaker. There’s an “end game.”<\/p>\n

As I write these few words, my wife and I are hunkered down with Toby the Puppy in our fifth wheel waiting out a winter blast that’s plowing through Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\n

The temperature is plummeting through the day. The sun will set — although we won’t see it through the cloud cover — and the temp will bottom out at around 8 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n

Then it’ll climb back to something more, um, tolerable.<\/p>\n

We knew the moment we moved into this fifth wheel full time that we were set to experience a bit of the downside of this new lifestyle we have adopted.<\/p>\n

The winter blast we’re experiencing at this moment is one of them.<\/p>\n

We’ve taken measures to protect our plumbing. We’ve also taken measures to ensure we have plenty of heat.<\/p>\n

As for Toby the Puppy, he seems to have gotten over his case of cabin fever I told you about a few blog posts ago. He knows it’s cold out there and, given that he’s among the smartest — if not the<\/em> smartest — pooches ever, he is not about to ask his mother and me to go outside until it becomes an absolute imperative … if you know what I mean and I am sure you do.<\/p>\n

So, the journey continues. We’re just not going anywhere — until it warms up a bit.<\/p>\n\n

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Our retirement journey has hit a bump in the road. Don’t worry. It’s not serious. It’s not a dealbreaker. There’s an “end game.” As I write these few words, my wife and I are hunkered down with Toby the Puppy in our fifth wheel waiting out a winter blast that’s plowing through Amarillo, Texas. The … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 70<\/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":[3920,4058,6763,4668,6016],"class_list":["post-27419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement","tag-rv","tag-texas-high-plains","tag-texas-panhandle","tag-toby-the-puppy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419","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=27419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27420,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27419\/revisions\/27420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}