{"id":29321,"date":"2018-04-23T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29321"},"modified":"2018-04-23T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T03:00:55","slug":"happy-trails-part-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29321","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 95"},"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\/04\/Retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29071\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Retirement-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Retirement-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Retirement.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The three of us &#8212; my wife, Toby the Puppy and yours truly &#8212; are enjoying one of the peculiarly fascinating aspects of retirement as my wife and I have defined it.<\/p>\n<p>We have moved to the the third RV park in Amarillo since we vacated our former home in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Our two-week sojourn downstate was yet another glorious trek through Texas, where we saw family and friends &#8212; and, oh yes, resolved a mechanical difficulty at the front end of that trip.<\/p>\n<p>Then we returned to Amarillo. We moved from one end of the sprawling to the extreme other end. From east to west.<\/p>\n<p>We intend to stay at our current location for a month, maybe two. After that? Well, I&#8217;m not entirely sure.<\/p>\n<p>We also located a place in North Texas where we would like to resettle. I&#8217;ll have more on that at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I am delighted to share with you that this mobility mode &#8212; hauling our <em>current<\/em> home to a new site &#8212; is all that it&#8217;s cracked up to be. One of the joys of this retirement journey so far has been to tell those who ask that our &#8220;home&#8221; is attached to the hitch in the bed of our pickup.<\/p>\n<p>That keeps us mobile, nimble, ready for whatever else awaits.<\/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>The three of us &#8212; my wife, Toby the Puppy and yours truly &#8212; are enjoying one of the peculiarly fascinating aspects of retirement as my wife and I have defined it. We have moved to the the third RV park in Amarillo since we vacated our former home in October 2017. Our two-week sojourn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 95<\/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":[9],"tags":[7493,3920,4058],"class_list":["post-29321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-north-texas","tag-retirement","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29321","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=29321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29322,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29321\/revisions\/29322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}