{"id":10083,"date":"2021-05-03T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10083"},"modified":"2021-05-03T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T21:30:22","slug":"tn7-hop-10-college-park-md-to-woodbine-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/03\/tn7-hop-10-college-park-md-to-woodbine-md\/","title":{"rendered":"TN7 Hop 10: College Park MD to Woodbine MD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TN7 Hop 10<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

40 miles via MD 212, I-95, MD 32, US 29, I-70 and MD 97. Cumulative tow miles: 1559. Truck miles: 43. Cumulative truck miles: 2373. The 3 extra truck miles were due to a refueling trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, just 40 miles, but that was enough to make a wrong turn. It was supposed to be 39 miles, but the wrong turn added a mile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps more importantly, the travel day started with the appearance, when I went out to start the truck, of a “check engine” light. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw it. I had to take a quick drive around the campground before hitching up, to see if I could sense any problem. Nope – all gauges were nominal, the engine was running smoothly and power seemed intact. So I hitched up, held my breath and hauled the RV up a fairly steep hill, heading toward the exit. No problem. So I kept going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dreaded check engine light<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I had the problem diagnosed in Frederick: a “glow plug controller fault.” That means… well, I have no idea what it means. But since glow plugs<\/a> are used to make starting diesel engines easier in cold weather, I suspect that the problem, if real, exists only in cold weather. I am going to ignore the problem until I get to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My forced night in College Park was at Cherry Hill Park<\/a>. If you have to kill some time somewhere, this is a great place to do it. As always, this park was superb. This time I took an inexpensive – well, make that less expensive (still $85) – back-in site. Backing in would have been a breeze if no neighbors had been there, but they were. I had to thread the needle, but did it in 2 tries. Not bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

College Park is only slightly closer than Dumfries, but there is a huge difference in the over-the-air TV reception. In Dumfries I got nothing cleanly. In College Park I got 17 channels, all crystal clear. Not that I needed them, really, because Cherry Hill has cable TV. But I had to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

40 miles via MD 212, I-95, MD 32, US 29, I-70 and MD 97. Cumulative tow miles: 1559. Truck miles: 43. Cumulative truck miles: 2373. The 3 extra truck miles were due to a refueling trip. Yes, just 40 miles, but that was enough to make a wrong turn. It was supposed to be 39 … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,15,4,7,5,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-places-md","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-tn7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2CD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10083"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10094,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10083\/revisions\/10094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}