{"id":54354,"date":"2023-03-09T02:53:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T02:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54354"},"modified":"2023-03-09T02:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T02:53:53","slug":"kathy-anne-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54354","title":{"rendered":"Manic planning sets in"},"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>My bride most certainly would agree with this description of myself: I tend to make all-too-detailed travel plans, rather than just sorta going with the flow.<\/p>\n<p>I am planning an extended road trip out west, needing to get away for a while to process the loss I have suffered with Kathy Anne&#8217;s passing a month ago from cancer.<\/p>\n<p>I now have every stop on my way out set up. I know the dates I plan to be at each location. I have made lodging arrangements along the way; I will be staying at RV park cabins, cheap motels and, of course, with family members who have offered to give Toby the Puppy and me a place to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, I even have mapped out tentative plans for my return to North Texas, which at this moment appears to be one month after my departure for the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>I have put some friends on alert that I&#8217;ll be visiting them in West Texas. I have a family member who will put us up for a couple of nights in the Hill Country.<\/p>\n<p>Then I will drive my pickup to my driveway in Princeton. I will unpack it. Sit down on the couch, take a deep breath &#8230; and then think about where and when I want to go next.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking about the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><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>My bride most certainly would agree with this description of myself: I tend to make all-too-detailed travel plans, rather than just sorta going with the flow. I am planning an extended road trip out west, needing to get away for a while to process the loss I have suffered with Kathy Anne&#8217;s passing a month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manic planning sets in<\/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":[10124,10129],"class_list":["post-54354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kathy-anne","tag-mourning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54354","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=54354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54355,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54354\/revisions\/54355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}