{"id":9640,"date":"2024-08-18T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2024-08-18T10:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T18:56:23","slug":"away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/9640","title":{"rendered":"Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"block-justify-class\">We left last week Thursday to travel to another land. A place we&#8217;ve both been before. They say you can never go home. They&#8217;re wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"block-justify-class\">We left here over a year ago. Not much has changed. Not that I expected much would in such a short period of time. After getting out and about these past few days, the overall vibe of this place, a place HW and I called home for the better part of thirty five years, has a palpable desperateness to it, but I feel like that impression might reveal a confirmation bias in me. Like, &#8220;Phew, honey, looks like we got out at just the right time.&#8221; But like midnight sun, sometimes you can&#8217;t tell dusk from dawn. There may be economic activity underway or in the works here that may turn the city&#8217;s fortune around. For instance, I read there&#8217;s tens of millions of dollars in federal infrastructure money just waiting to be spent here statewide. Not so much in terms of new private capital investment, so far as I can tell, but attracting that kind of investment has been a struggle here for quite a long time. It&#8217;s just so far away from the economic centers of lower-48 America, and on top of that there&#8217;s no commercially viable road system connecting the two. One thing that hasn&#8217;t changed is our love of the unique natural beauty here. And we&#8217;ve enjoyed re-connecting with friends who still live here. 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