{"id":52134,"date":"2022-07-01T01:49:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52134"},"modified":"2022-07-01T01:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:49:24","slug":"journey-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52134","title":{"rendered":"Journey goes on"},"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\/2016\/05\/Retirement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14337\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Retirement-1024x590.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our retirement journey has taken a new turn, with a new vehicle towing a new recreational vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>You know already that we traded in our 29-foot fifth wheel for a 21-foot travel trailer. We&#8217;ve taken our new trailer out on a couple of short jaunts. We hauled it behind our big ol&#8217; pickup, Big Jake, the 2011 3\/4-ton Dodge diesel beast.<\/p>\n<p>We bid so long to Big Jake today and took possession of our new &#8212; and a good bit smaller &#8212; truck. It&#8217;s a Ford Ranger. We&#8217;re toying with what to name it. I am increasingly stuck on Kemo Sabe. Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>The new truck is a beaut. It&#8217;s brand new. Ford built the 2022 vehicle per our specs. Just for my wife and me. It&#8217;s big enough to haul our travel trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Our journey, though, has changed, but mostly because of outside influences. The price of gas makes long-term travel too expensive for us. So, we&#8217;re re-evaluating how we intend to use our new truck and our new RV. Best guess? We&#8217;ll stay mostly close to home. Indeed, Texas is big enough for us to be able to visit state parks hither and yon.<\/p>\n<p>Now, does this mean that extended travel is out forever? Hardly. We&#8217;ll wait a little while, see where fuel prices go. If they come back to Earth, well, we just might hit the long and winding road to points farther away.<\/p>\n<p>Toby the Puppy, moreover, will have to get used to new travel digs. We remain confident that he will adjust just fine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>Our retirement journey has taken a new turn, with a new vehicle towing a new recreational vehicle. You know already that we traded in our 29-foot fifth wheel for a 21-foot travel trailer. We&#8217;ve taken our new trailer out on a couple of short jaunts. We hauled it behind our big ol&#8217; pickup, Big Jake, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journey goes on<\/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":[3920,5509],"class_list":["post-52134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-retirement","tag-rv-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52134","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=52134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52135,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52134\/revisions\/52135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}