{"id":11716,"date":"2022-09-14T17:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=11716"},"modified":"2022-09-14T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:21:07","slug":"ts8-hop-5-madison-wi-to-lombard-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/ts8-hop-5-madison-wi-to-lombard-il\/","title":{"rendered":"TS8 Hop 5: Madison WI to Lombard IL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TS8 Hop 5<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

126 miles via US 12, IL 53, I-290 and I-355 with a lunch stop at Nora’s Cafe<\/a> in Elkhorn WI. Cumulative TS8 route miles: 1313. Cumulative TS8 car miles: 1516. Car miles since the end of Hop 4: 267. The extra 141 miles were due to all the various activities we had during our week in Madison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was, technically, an easy hop. Just 2.5 hours. But we couldn’t check into our Lombard hotel until after 2 and we left at 10:30am, so we had time to kill. Because we had the time and because I hate the tolls on the I-90 tollway into Chicago, I decided to travel US 12. This is, mostly, a pretty decent road and lightly traveled until it gets into IL. And it adds only about 30 minutes to the travel time compared to I-90. But Ooma hates two-lane roads and reminded me of that fact repeatedly. We took a break for a nice breakfast\/lunch in Elkhorn WI and another brief stop at a Target in IL to get bananas and a new water bottle for Ooma so we had a few strategic breaks along the way and didn’t strangle each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our home in Madison was the Sleep Inn & Suites. The hotel was clean, the bed was comfortable and the cable TV lineup was quite good. But the breakfasts were a huge disappointment. The only hot item was waffles, which we don’t much care for. We went out to breakfast several times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

126 miles via US 12, IL 53, I-290 and I-355 with a lunch stop at Nora’s Cafe in Elkhorn WI. Cumulative TS8 route miles: 1313. Cumulative TS8 car miles: 1516. Car miles since the end of Hop 4: 267. The extra 141 miles were due to all the various activities we had during our week … 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":[62,106,33,4,7,103,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-hotels","category-places-il","category-places","category-routes","category-ts8","category-places-wi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-32Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716","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=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}