{"id":12742,"date":"2023-08-24T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2024-02-29T20:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T01:40:47","slug":"the-ninth-trip-south-ts9-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/24\/the-ninth-trip-south-ts9-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"The ninth trip south (TS9) preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My ninth trip south (designated TS9) will start in 6 days, on August 30. The plan is to arrive back in Fort Myers on September 8, then leave September 10 on the 30-night transpacific cruise. I won&#8217;t even unpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the TN9, I will not be alone on the TS9 &#8211; Marlene will accompany me. She is with me now in Worcester, having arrived August 20. I will report next on our first 5 days together in Worcester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The TS9 route is being driven by the following requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TS9-plan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TS9-plan-1024x1016.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12743\" width=\"429\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TS9-plan-1024x1016.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TS9-plan-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TS9-plan-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TS9-plan-768x762.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/TS9-plan.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>TS9 plan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spend at least two days in New York City (Marlene has never been there).<\/li><li>Spend at least two nights in northern Virginia with Jett&#8217;s sons and grandson.<\/li><li>Spend at least two nights in Acworth GA with Marlene&#8217;s son.<\/li><li>Arrive in Fort Myers by September 8 (we need a full day to adjust our luggage for the cruise).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Those requirements leave just two days free and we will spend them in Charlotte NC &#8211; a city I have visited before but haven&#8217;t fully explored. To get from northern Virginia to Charlotte we will route ourselves into western Virginia and will traverse a section of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Ridge_Parkway\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Ridge_Parkway\">Blue Ridge Parkway<\/a> &#8211; another place Marlene has never been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan, then, is 9 nights in 5 hops covering almost 1,800 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ninth trip south (designated TS9) will start in 6 days, on August 30. The plan is to arrive back in Fort Myers on September 8, then leave September 10 on the 30-night transpacific cruise. I won&#8217;t even unpack. Unlike the TN9, I will not be alone on the TS9 &#8211; Marlene will accompany me. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/24\/the-ninth-trip-south-ts9-preview\/\">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":[3,7,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation","category-routes","category-ts9"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3jw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742","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=12742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13668,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12742\/revisions\/13668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}