{"id":12704,"date":"2023-08-09T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2024-02-28T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T02:06:32","slug":"tn9-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/tn9-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"TN9 wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finished my ninth trip north (TN9) on Sunday. This was my first trip with no travel companion of any kind &#8211; person or dog. Time for a wrapup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By the numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>10 days, 9 nights, 6 hops, 1,724 route miles (287 miles per hop).<\/li><li>Only 33 extra miles &#8211; I didn&#8217;t use the car much once I got to my destination.<\/li><li>59.3 gallons of fuel consumed in 1,757 miles (29.6 mpg).<\/li><li>Total fuel cost: $211.37 ($3.56\/gal).<\/li><li>I mostly stayed with friends and family. Only 3 nights were in hotels. Total hotel cost: $344.11 ($114.70 per night).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The mileage was a bit disappointing. This was almost all on highways (though I did spend more time on back roads than usual). I expected to get at least 32 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Seeing Jett&#8217;s sons and grandson. I love these guys!<\/li><li>Seeing the Appomattox Courthouse. It was a quick trip and a bit disappointing but it did remove one item from my Civil War Bucket List.<\/li><li>Beating grandson Zachary at chess. I was rusty and probably should have checkmated him sooner, but I was very worried that I was going to be beaten by a 12-year-old. Didn&#8217;t happen.<\/li><li>The Toyota ran well.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lowlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rain in Charleston SC. I was hoping to get more sightseeing time, but not in a deluge.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Only one minor lowlight suggests that this was a pretty successful trip north overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Planned versus actual route:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-plan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"913\" data-id=\"12706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-plan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-plan.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-plan-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>TN9 plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-actual.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"913\" data-id=\"12707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-actual.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-actual.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TN9-actual-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>TN8 actual<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two diversions from the plan were the whimsical trip to the Appomattox Courthouse and the decision to approach CT via PA rather than up the NJ Turnpike (which I dislike).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my ninth trip north (TN9) on Sunday. This was my first trip with no travel companion of any kind &#8211; person or dog. Time for a wrapup. By the numbers: 10 days, 9 nights, 6 hops, 1,724 route miles (287 miles per hop). Only 33 extra miles &#8211; I didn&#8217;t use the car &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/09\/tn9-wrapup\/\">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":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tn9"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","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=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13664,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions\/13664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}