{"id":10382,"date":"2021-08-18T07:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T11:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10382"},"modified":"2022-01-24T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:58:11","slug":"ts7-hop-4-poland-me-to-swanzey-nh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/18\/ts7-hop-4-poland-me-to-swanzey-nh\/","title":{"rendered":"TS7 Hop 4 – Poland ME to Swanzey NH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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ts7 hOP 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

170 miles via ME 122, ME 26, US 202 (with a brief detour near Gorham ME and I-393 and I-89 to bypass Concord NH), NH 9 and NH 10. Cumulative tow miles: 556. Truck miles: 338. Cumulative truck miles: 823. The extra truck miles were due to a graveyard tour and a trip to the Oxford Casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last things first. I stopped by the Oxford Casino the last night in Poland. I immediately found a slot machine that let me win. I started with $20 and was soon up to $50. But then that machine and all others that I tried went cold. After an hour of playing I left the casino with $20.19 – a full 19-cent profit! Big night at the casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cemetery tour took longer and was profitable in its own way. I was on the hunt for 8 of Jett’s paternal ancestors, all buried in 3 cemeteries not far from Poland. I was unable to locate the Shepard’s Field Cemetery in Oxford where 4 were buried. But I found the Addition Cemetery in Leeds (a pair of 4th great-grandparents) and the East Otisfield Cemetery in Otisfield (second great-grandparents – the parents of Jett’s paternal grandfather). So pretty successful, I think. But about 90 miles of driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Additon Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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East Otisfield Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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My site at Range Pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My two nights in Poland were at the Range Pond Campground<\/a>. This is a mostly-seasonal campground with many rigs that appeared to have been there for years. And a lot of kids. But a nice pool and very wooded. Water and electric only so it has now been nearly a week since I have emptied my tanks. I will do that in NH, for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reaching 200K miles<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I should mention two truck-related things that I encountered on this trip that were worthy of note. The first was my discovery of the “no overdrive” setting. I don’t know why a driver would want to turn off overdrive, but I accidentally found a way to do it. And turned off the “towing” setting at the same time. So for most of this trip the truck was operating without either overdrive or the benefit of the “towing” settings, the result being that the engine seemed to labor more than usual. I noticed the difference and worried that something was wrong with the engine. But it appears that the fault lay entirely with the driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other incident was the odometer rolling over to 200,000 miles. I bought the truck with about 80,000 miles on the odometer, so I have added about 120,000 in just under 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

170 miles via ME 122, ME 26, US 202 (with a brief detour near Gorham ME and I-393 and I-89 to bypass Concord NH), NH 9 and NH 10. Cumulative tow miles: 556. Truck miles: 338. Cumulative truck miles: 823. The extra truck miles were due to a graveyard tour and a trip to the … 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":[54,49,9,4,7,5,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-me","category-places-nh","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-ts7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2Hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","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=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10901,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions\/10901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}