{"id":31708,"date":"2018-08-10T23:41:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31708"},"modified":"2018-08-10T23:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T23:41:41","slug":"happy-trails-part-118-packing-warm-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31708","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 118: Packing warm clothes"},"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\/07\/Retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31080\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Retirement-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Retirement-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Retirement.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young woman at an RV park in central Wyoming delivered a message that was music to my ears.<\/p>\n<p>I made an overnight reservation there and then asked about the temperature. &#8220;It&#8217;s been hot here the past week,&#8221; she said. I then asked about Yellowstone National Park, where my wife, Toby and Puppy and I are heading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, be sure to bring warm clothes there,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I hear it&#8217;s cooling off nicely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Man, I hope she heard it correctly.<\/p>\n<p>This is our first trip in a few months; it is the first since we moved from Amarillo to the Dallas\/Fort Worth Metroplex.<\/p>\n<p>We have had a toasty summer so far in the Metroplex, although it&#8217;s been more,\u00a0 um, tolerable the past few days. We had quite a few consecutive days of 100-degree-plus weather. That, and the humidity, does take the starch out of you.<\/p>\n<p>However, very soon we&#8217;re packing up our RV and heading north and west toward Yellowstone. We&#8217;ll spend four nights there before heading ever farther north and west, where we&#8217;ll spend three nights near Grand Coulee Dam, Wash. I grew up in Portland, Ore., which isn&#8217;t all that far away, and have never been to Grand Coulee Dam. So, this is kind of a bucket-list destination for me.<\/p>\n<p>I am not expecting <em>frigid<\/em> temps on this road trip. I do expect to layer up my attire while we&#8217;re visiting Old Faithful and gawking at the wildlife that runs around the nation&#8217;s oldest national park.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope the young woman on the phone today knew what she was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/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>A young woman at an RV park in central Wyoming delivered a message that was music to my ears. I made an overnight reservation there and then asked about the temperature. &#8220;It&#8217;s been hot here the past week,&#8221; she said. I then asked about Yellowstone National Park, where my wife, Toby and Puppy and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 118: Packing warm clothes<\/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":[7949,3920,4058,6016,6223],"class_list":["post-31708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-grand-coulee-dam","tag-retirement","tag-rv","tag-toby-the-puppy","tag-yellowstone-national-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708","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=31708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31709,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708\/revisions\/31709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}