{"id":10359,"date":"2021-08-12T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:44:04","slug":"ts7-hop-1-orange-ma-to-saco-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/12\/ts7-hop-1-orange-ma-to-saco-me\/","title":{"rendered":"TS7 Hop 1 &#8211; Orange MA to Saco ME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hop-1-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10360\" width=\"419\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hop-1-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hop-1-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hop-1-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Hop-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption>TS7 hop 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>144 miles via MA 2, I-495 (northwest of Boston), I-95 and US 1. Cumulative tow miles: 144. Truck miles: 144. Cumulative truck miles: 144.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, the Seventh Trip South (TS7) has officially begun.  This was a fairly short hop but I opted to avoid the NH tolls via US 1 so it was a bit slower than necessary.  The thing that made it difficult was the time of day: I departed Orange at 4:30pm and hit some rush hour traffic.  I didn&#8217;t arrive in Saco until after 8pm so I had to set up in the twilight.  But otherwise it was a pretty simple and straightforward trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, one other thing made this hop difficult: exhaustion. I got just 2 hours of sleep then played 2 softball games in sweltering 90-degree heat before doing all the hitch-up work.  I could barely keep my eyes open while driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saco is just an overnight stop.  On to Bangor tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>144 miles via MA 2, I-495 (northwest of Boston), I-95 and US 1. Cumulative tow miles: 144. Truck miles: 144. Cumulative truck miles: 144. Yes, the Seventh Trip South (TS7) has officially begun. This was a fairly short hop but I opted to avoid the NH tolls via US 1 so it was a bit &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/12\/ts7-hop-1-orange-ma-to-saco-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[8,49,9,4,7,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-me","category-places-nh","category-places","category-routes","category-ts7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2H5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359","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=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10852,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions\/10852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}