{"id":44898,"date":"2020-10-26T01:25:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T01:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44898"},"modified":"2020-10-26T01:25:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T01:25:26","slug":"happy-trails-part-188-success-at-the-end-of-an-rv-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44898","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 188: Success at the end of an RV outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Retirement has allowed me to count my blessings, which I do every day and occasionally boast when I score even the mildest of victories.<\/p>\n

Here comes the boast.<\/p>\n

My wife and I returned today from a 10-day sojourn through Far West Texas. It started in Abilene, where we caught up with a good friend and her husband; we moved on to Monahans and then to the Davis Mountains. We headed back northeast toward Princeton; we spent a night in Mason and then at Meridian State Park.<\/p>\n

We arrived in front of our house around noon today. We emptied our RV, had a bite of lunch and then took our fifth wheel back to the storage lot where it “sleeps” between outings.<\/p>\n

Then came the moment of triumph.<\/p>\n

We rolled onto the parking lot, wheeled the RV around to line it up with our covered stall … and then backed it straight into the storage space — on the first pass!\u00a0<\/em>There was no back and forth, no second, third or fourth attempt to line it up.<\/p>\n

Is that a big deal? Yeah! It is! It’s a big deal because I have not yet mastered the backup technique required at times when we haul our fifth wheel on an outing. Indeed, we had a back-in site at Davis Mountains State Park. It was awkwardly configured, so I had a bit of a struggle backing it into the site; but we got it parked.<\/p>\n

I know that none of this rises to the level of monumental achievement. Except that in the grand scheme of the retirement journey on which my wife and I embarked, it does look significant from my standpoint.<\/p>\n

We have had to learn a few lessons hauling our fifth wheel hither and yon. We have made some mistakes; a couple of them have been a bit costly.<\/p>\n

Thus, when I score a “win” simply by being able to back our fifth wheel into a spot on a single pass I consider it worth a bit of self-congratulation.<\/p>\n

I am hoping for more victories along our journey.<\/p>\n\n

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