{"id":28475,"date":"2018-03-06T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28475"},"modified":"2018-03-06T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:50:38","slug":"happy-trails-part-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28475","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 81"},"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\/2018\/02\/Retirement-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28163\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Retirement-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Retirement-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Retirement-1.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SHERMAN, Texas &#8212; <\/strong>My wife and I have been recreational vehicle owners for about three years.<\/p>\n<p>We have joked in the past while we have traveled that we have arrived &#8220;home&#8221; when we return to where our RV has been parked.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the realization sometime today. We spent some time visiting with our granddaughter and her parents. Then we called it a day and returned home.<\/p>\n<p>Except this time it&#8217;s no throw-away line, or good-natured joke.<\/p>\n<p>We understand that as of three days ago, we no longer own a home attached to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Our former home is now in someone&#8217;s hands. I was half-expecting to feel just a tad lost. It hasn&#8217;t happened. I don&#8217;t expect it to happen. If it does, then my hope is that it&#8217;s just a feeling that passes by quickly. I&#8217;ve been known to feel such emotional tugs; they come and they go.<\/p>\n<p>As of this moment, though, we are feeling strangely liberated. Neither of us has gone through this kind of change of life. We&#8217;ve always been tethered to property. I spent a couple of years in the Army and moved around a little bit: Fort Lewis, Wash., to Fort Eustis, Va., to Vietnam, back to Fort Lewis &#8212; and then home. Uncle Sam always looked over my shoulder to ensure that I would get to my next place <em>on time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is different. We&#8217;re on our own. We have no deadlines. No timetable.<\/p>\n<p>We have instead the open road.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty damn cool.<\/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>SHERMAN, Texas &#8212; My wife and I have been recreational vehicle owners for about three years. We have joked in the past while we have traveled that we have arrived &#8220;home&#8221; when we return to where our RV has been parked. Then came the realization sometime today. We spent some time visiting with our granddaughter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28475\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 81<\/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":[18],"tags":[3920,4058,5041],"class_list":["post-28475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-retirement","tag-rv","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475","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=28475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28476,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28475\/revisions\/28476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}