{"id":43862,"date":"2020-08-04T00:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43862"},"modified":"2020-08-04T00:47:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T00:47:24","slug":"happy-trails-part-184-finding-a-hidden-jewel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43862","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 184: Finding a hidden jewel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TPW%20%23stateparks%20%23hiddenjewel%20%23retirementjourney&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lake-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43863\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lake-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lake-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lake-3-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lake-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lake-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lake-3.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really enjoy discovering places I didn&#8217;t know existed.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfield Lake, just about 100 miles south of Dallas, is our latest discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife runs a state park here. Our GPS told us we had &#8220;arrived&#8221; at our destination, but we had to travel another 10 miles or so before we stumbled upon the park headquarters building.<\/p>\n<p>We got to our RV campsite. We hooked up our RV. We had something to eat. Then we walked to edge of the lake. Holy smokes, man! This place is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Our retirement journey has taken us to many places around the country. This ranks up there with the best of &#8217;em. Just think, too, that it&#8217;s on the edge of our neighborhood! <em>Who knew?<\/em> Not me, kids.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfield Lake State Park opened in 1976 after Texas Power &amp; Light built a dam to store water to cool a power plant nearby. The lake comprises 1,460 acres in Freestone County.<\/p>\n<p>Our goal is see every state park in our TP&amp;W system of parks. We have a long way to go, having visited only about 25 or so out of the state&#8217;s system of more than 90 parks. We might be delayed in getting to all of the sites. Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Because of something my wife told me: <em>&#8220;This is one park I definitely could come back to if we just wanted to get away for a few days.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>There you go. We can&#8217;t be everywhere all at once.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a gorgeous place. I&#8217;m all in.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TPW%20%23stateparks%20%23hiddenjewel%20%23retirementjourney&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy discovering places I didn&#8217;t know existed. Fairfield Lake, just about 100 miles south of Dallas, is our latest discovery. Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife runs a state park here. Our GPS told us we had &#8220;arrived&#8221; at our destination, but we had to travel another 10 miles or so before we stumbled upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Trails, Part 184: Finding a hidden jewel<\/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":[9471,9308,6910],"class_list":["post-43862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fairfield-lake","tag-state-parks","tag-tpw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43862","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=43862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43866,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43862\/revisions\/43866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}