{"id":31019,"date":"2018-07-16T01:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31019"},"modified":"2018-07-16T01:44:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T01:44:37","slug":"happy-trails-part-114-learning-our-way-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31019","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 114: Learning our way around"},"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\/05\/Retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29998\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Retirement-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Retirement-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Retirement.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have settled in our new digs just north of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Our dwelling is comfortable. My wife has done a miraculous job of assembling it and putting everything (mostly) in its place.<\/p>\n<p>Now the next big challenge awaits us: learning our way around in a community that bears little &#8212; if any &#8212; resemblance to the community we left.<\/p>\n<p>Fairview is a busy place. We live just a stone&#8217;s throw from U.S. 75, aka the Dallas Central Expressway. Collin County comprises nearly 1 million residents. We&#8217;ve been fortunate to be able to avoid the freeway at times when virtually everyone in this county is on the road at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve checked out local routes that enable us to get from place to place with zero hassle. We haven&#8217;t yet ventured too far away from our digs. We&#8217;ve located several grocery stores, a nice shopping area, some very nice eating establishments, entertainment venues.<\/p>\n<p>What we haven&#8217;t yet mastered is how we travel from our small community to destinations some distance away. We know how to get from the Metroplex back to Amarillo; we also know how to get from Fairview to the Hill Country, or from Fairview to Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to figure out how to transit easily from our dwelling to, say, Love Field or to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. There a number of communities nearby: Plano, Frisco, Sherman, Carrollton, Richardson. They&#8217;re all clustered in the region just north of Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll find our way around in due course. Hey, it&#8217;s gone pretty swimmingly so far.<\/p>\n<p>Until we commit these routes to memory, we&#8217;ll just have to thank goodness for Google Maps.<\/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>We have settled in our new digs just north of Dallas. Our dwelling is comfortable. My wife has done a miraculous job of assembling it and putting everything (mostly) in its place. Now the next big challenge awaits us: learning our way around in a community that bears little &#8212; if any &#8212; resemblance to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 114: Learning our way around<\/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":[7755,2022,3007,6141],"class_list":["post-31019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fairview-tx","tag-gulf-coast","tag-metroplex","tag-texas-hill-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019","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=31019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31020,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions\/31020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}