{"id":28599,"date":"2018-03-12T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28599"},"modified":"2018-03-12T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:00:12","slug":"happy-trails-part-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28599","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 83"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A dear friend has told me that “Happiness is Amarillo, like Lubbock, in your rear view mirror.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps. But not entirely.<\/p>\n

You see, I am going to miss several aspects of living in the Texas Panhandle. One of them involves the progress my wife and I witness almost daily as we make our way around the city.<\/p>\n

Amarillo residents know all too well about the intense highway construction that’s under way along Interstates 40 and 27. They’re rebuilding bridges over I-40. State crews are hard at work along Loop 335 on the southern edge of the city.<\/p>\n

I am going to miss watching those projects proceed.<\/p>\n

Downtown Amarillo is undergoing an extreme makeover, highlighted by construction — which has just begun — on the multipurpose event venue. The city has made great strides toward the future in the past couple of years, but there remain many miles yet to travel.<\/p>\n

I will miss watching downtown continue its march forward.<\/p>\n

Amarillo in reality bears little resemblance to the community my wife and I saw when we arrived in early 1995. It has grown up a good bit over the past 23 years. I am not referring just to the population growth.<\/p>\n

The city’s airport has been modernized. The stretch along virtually the entire length of I-40 through Amarillo has witnessed a boom in hotel construction; a month barely went by when we didn’t see more hotel construction sites opening up — and more are going up even as I write this brief blog post.<\/p>\n

The city has done well during our time here and we have enjoyed watching it evolve.<\/p>\n

I will miss watching that evolution continue.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing, though: We’ll be able to return to see the results.<\/p>\n\n

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A dear friend has told me that “Happiness is Amarillo, like Lubbock, in your rear view mirror.” Perhaps. But not entirely. You see, I am going to miss several aspects of living in the Texas Panhandle. One of them involves the progress my wife and I witness almost daily as we make our way around … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 83<\/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":[276,1436,2301,3153,4936],"class_list":["post-28599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo","tag-downtown-amarillo","tag-interstate-40","tag-mpev","tag-txdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599","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=28599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28600,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28599\/revisions\/28600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}