{"id":14081,"date":"2024-08-20T12:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14081"},"modified":"2024-08-22T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T17:30:31","slug":"tn_10-hop-2-port-canaveral-fl-to-florence-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/20\/tn_10-hop-2-port-canaveral-fl-to-florence-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"TN_10 Hop 2: Port Canaveral FL to Florence SC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TN_10 Hop 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

466 miles via I-95 and a bunch of local roads in Brunswick GA. Auto miles: 479 (the extra miles driven in Brunswick GA looking for a tire – see below). Cumulative route miles: 659. Cumulative auto miles: 684.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was supposed to be an easy hop – just a straight shot up I-95. But sometimes a simple hop becomes an adventure. And Hop 2 was certainly an adventure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip was uneventful through Florida. We stopped for gas and coffee at a Loves Travel Center north of Jacksonville. But shortly after we entered GA it seemed that the road started getting rough. At first I thought nothing of it. But it got worse. The steering started to pull to the right and the rough ride soon became a thumping. I thought I was getting a flat tire. But when I stopped to check I found that the pressure in the front right tire was just fine. But something was clearly wrong. My theory: the tread was separating and the tire was going “out of round.” That is a precursor to a blowout. So, with some urgency, we exited I-95 in Brunswick GA and started looking for a tire shop. On a Sunday. Yeah. Good luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We traveled to 3 places without success, but each time getting a suggestion for a place to try next. We eventually found a tire shop – Mavis – that was both open and had the right size tire in stock. But they couldn’t fix it until Monday. Next try, Walmart. Same story. At that point I cancelled our hotel reservation, thinking that we most likely would have to stay in Brunswick overnight. But we persisted. We found a Firestore tire center that could look at it if we could just wait a bit. Marlene put on her best “damsel in distress” act and they got the car in pretty quickly. The technician took a photo of the tire and showed it to us – it was, indeed, bulging and on the verge of a blowout. They installed a new tire and we continued on our way. It was a 3-hour delay but not a full day delay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried to recover the reservation at Baymont by Wyndham in Florence, without success. So we just traveled there hoping they would have a room available. They did, but it was on the second floor, no elevator. Our bags are very heavy and it had been a long, stressful day. I asked for a first floor room. The clerk found one but seemed uncertain. He gave me a keycard and said “take a look.” I did. It was far from ideal but I figured it was just for one night. So we took the room, moved our luggage in and, I thought, would settle in for the night. But no. After Marlene had a chance to fully absorb how awful the room was – especially the disgusting bathroom – we decided we couldn’t stay there. So we put everything back in the car, I returned the keycard and got a refund, then drove next door to the Super 8 by Wyndham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which was very nice. And for just a couple dollars more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Same hotel chain (with different brands), same location (literally next door to each other), almost identical pricing, but vastly different quality. Go figure<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We unpacked for a second time then went to the Cracker Barrel on the other side of the Baymont and had a nice dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

466 miles via I-95 and a bunch of local roads in Brunswick GA. Auto miles: 479 (the extra miles driven in Brunswick GA looking for a tire – see below). Cumulative route miles: 659. Cumulative auto miles: 684. This was supposed to be an easy hop – just a straight shot up I-95. But sometimes … 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":[41,39,106,7,40,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-ga","category-hotels","category-routes","category-sc","category-tn_10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3F7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081","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=14081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14098,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14081\/revisions\/14098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}