{"id":10511,"date":"2021-09-10T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10511"},"modified":"2021-09-10T21:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:51:19","slug":"ts7-hop-12-deforest-wi-to-oxford-ia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/10\/ts7-hop-12-deforest-wi-to-oxford-ia\/","title":{"rendered":"TS7 Hop 12 – DeForest WI to Oxford IA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TS7 Hop 12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

220 miles via WI 19, I-39\/I-90, US 151, I-380 (south of Cedar Rapids) and a bizarre sequence of lousy county roads the last 12 miles to the destination. Cumulative tow miles: 2299. Truck miles: 652. Cumulative truck miles: 3475. The extra truck miles were accumulated as a result of a series of social and recreational engagements in and around Madison WI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was not the GPS’s finest day as it gave me a really weird route on both ends of this hop. On departure, it froze, then took me down some local roads with a warning about exceeding the weight limit (I didn’t see anyplace where I exceeded a limit), then wound me back to I-39\/I-90. I have no idea why it didn’t take me on the direct route there. Then, in Iowa, it routed me over 12 miles of really crappy county roads when I could have gone down to I-80 (the destination was right at an exit off of I-80). I will have to check the settings. Just inexplicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the refrigerator did not stay on. Another thing I will have to look into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truck, thankfully, ran fine. The roads, however, were very rough. Everything was jumbled pretty thoroughly by the time I arrived. Due to the extra miles at either end (I expected the hop to be 210 miles but it ended up at 220), the “low fuel” warning appeared 3 miles before the destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My site at Madison Campground<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

My week in DeForest was at the Madison Campground<\/a>. This is obviously an ex-KOA. It is quite nice. It is very family-friendly and there were a lot of kids there on the weekend of my arrival. After Labor Day the campground emptied out and there were very few kids the rest of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This campground was very nicely laid out in semi-circles around the office, playground and pool. The sites weren’t large, but were sufficient. No cable, but the OTA TV was arguably the best I have ever experienced: 33 channels, all crystal-clear. And they had a recycle bin, so I was able to dump a large quantity of accumulated recyclable trash. A gas station with $2.99 diesel was right across the street. I would stay here again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My week near my old hometown of Madison was filled with very fine mini-reunions with old friends. I did not see any relatives, for which I feel a little guilty. But only a little – friends are usually more fun than relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will document my Wisconsin activities separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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220 miles via WI 19, I-39\/I-90, US 151, I-380 (south of Cedar Rapids) and a bizarre sequence of lousy county roads the last 12 miles to the destination. Cumulative tow miles: 2299. Truck miles: 652. Cumulative truck miles: 3475. The extra truck miles were accumulated as a result of a series of social and recreational … 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":[69,4,7,5,99,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ia","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-ts7","category-places-wi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2Jx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511","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=10511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10517,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions\/10517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}