{"id":38595,"date":"2019-08-25T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38595"},"modified":"2019-08-25T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T15:40:28","slug":"happy-trails-part-165-rv-becomes-interchangeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38595","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 165: RV becomes interchangeable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RVTravel%20%23retirement%20%23HighPlainsBlogger&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38596\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Retirement-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Retirement-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Retirement-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Retirement-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Retirement.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our fellow retirees perhaps have fielded the same question that we get on occasion: How do you like traveling in a recreational vehicle?<\/p>\n<p>My wife has come up with the perfect answer: <em>It becomes whatever we want it to be.<\/em> She then will explain how our fifth wheel becomes our &#8220;home&#8221; by the lake, or in the mountains, or on the beach. It&#8217;s interchangeable. It becomes wherever our travels take us.<\/p>\n<p>When we lived in Amarillo, we had many friends who would talk of spending weekends at their &#8220;mountain cabin.&#8221; They drive off to Angel Fire, or Red River, or Taos, or Santa Fe. During our years in Beaumont, our friends would love to escape for a weekend at Crystal Beach, or Bolivar Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we are foot loose and able to do what we want, <em>when<\/em> we want we are able to enjoy the unique ambience that all those places bring.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to do. We just hook up our fifth wheel to the hitch in the pickup we named Big Jake, grab a few groceries and a few changes of clothes \u2026 and then we hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>RV travel has its assorted challenges, to be sure. You can guess what they present: mechanical issues, inclement weather, traffic delays \u2026 all those sorts of things. We deal with them as they present themselves.<\/p>\n<p>It also brings much joy and relaxation.<\/p>\n<p>Among the matters that bring smiles to our faces is the knowledge that we can enjoy the vast variety of nature&#8217;s splendor that awaits us as we travel along the open road.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=RVTravel%20%23retirement%20%23HighPlainsBlogger&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our fellow retirees perhaps have fielded the same question that we get on occasion: How do you like traveling in a recreational vehicle? My wife has come up with the perfect answer: It becomes whatever we want it to be. She then will explain how our fifth wheel becomes our &#8220;home&#8221; by the lake, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 165: RV becomes interchangeable<\/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":[2122,3920,5509],"class_list":["post-38595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-retirement","tag-rv-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38595","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=38595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38598,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38595\/revisions\/38598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}