{"id":11782,"date":"2022-09-24T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=11782"},"modified":"2022-10-04T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T21:18:25","slug":"ts8-hop-10-lake-city-fl-to-ft-myers-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/24\/ts8-hop-10-lake-city-fl-to-ft-myers-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"TS8 Hop 10: Lake City FL to Ft Myers FL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hop-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hop-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11828\" width=\"283\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hop-10.jpg 689w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Hop-10-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>TS8 Hop 10<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>295 miles almost entirely on I-75 (just 2 miles on FL 80 at the end) with a lunch stop near Ellenton FL. Cumulative TS8 route miles: 2919. Cumlative car miles: 3258. Miles since the end of Hop 9: 297. The extra miles were due to getting takeout dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was an easy trip, one that I have done many times before. As always, I-75 was very busy and there was a 10-minute delay due to an accident just south of Tampa. But otherwise a simple (and boring) trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our overnight stay was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/en-us\/hotels\/gnvlc-fairfield-inn-and-suites-lake-city\/overview\/?scid=f2ae0541-1279-4f24-b197-a979c79310b0\">Fairfield Inn &amp; Suites<\/a> in Lake City. A decent hotel, nothing special. The best thing about our room was that it was right next to a door to the parking lot so no cart was needed for our last unloading\/loading. We did takeout from <a href=\"https:\/\/gatorsdockside.com\">Gator&#8217;s Dockside<\/a>, a nearby sports pub. The food was decent, not spectacular. But I got to participate in some 1950&#8217;s trivia while I waited. Made me feel good to be old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ends the TS8 &#8211; my longest road trip by car since my trip to Europe in 1974. I will do the wrapup next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>295 miles almost entirely on I-75 (just 2 miles on FL 80 at the end) with a lunch stop near Ellenton FL. Cumulative TS8 route miles: 2919. Cumlative car miles: 3258. Miles since the end of Hop 9: 297. The extra miles were due to getting takeout dinner. This was an easy trip, one that &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/24\/ts8-hop-10-lake-city-fl-to-ft-myers-fl\/\">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":[41,62,106,4,7,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-food","category-hotels","category-places","category-routes","category-ts8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-342","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782","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=11782"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11830,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11782\/revisions\/11830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}