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This is the latest in an occasional series of blog posts commenting on impending retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DODGE CITY, Kan.<\/strong> — My wife just said something that tickled my funny bone.<\/p>\n

“You know,” she said, “this is great. If we were staying at a hotel, we’d be fighting with others waiting to eat a ‘free hot breakfast,’ which of course really isn’t free; it’s just part of the room rate. I love doing this.”<\/p>\n

“This” happened to be eating a light breakfast in our fifth wheel, which has been parked for the past four nights at an RV park.<\/p>\n

We’re about to pack it up and head back home.<\/p>\n

But her point about traveling this way, avoiding the occasional hassle of waiting in line to serve up overcooked — or undercooked — scrambled eggs, greasy sausage or bacon and lumpy oatmeal, is the way to go.<\/p>\n

Not only that, and this remains one of life’s unsolved mysteries: The food tastes better in an RV than it does in a hotel. It’s like eating a hot dog at a baseball game. As the late singer\/talk show host Mike Douglas once said, “A hot dog tastes like a filet mignon at a baseball game.”<\/p>\n

The same can be said of a lemon muffin, yogurt and frozen fruit, and a cup of coffee — which is what my wife and I consumed this morning.<\/p>\n

Well, the fun’s about to end. Got to get ready to go.<\/p>\n

Knock yourselves out, hotel guests.<\/p>\n

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