{"id":14854,"date":"2025-05-30T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14854"},"modified":"2025-05-30T16:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T20:20:27","slug":"eleventh-trip-north-tn_11-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/30\/eleventh-trip-north-tn_11-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleventh trip north (TN_11) preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marlene and I have decided that we will, once again, go north for a few weeks this summer. This trip, my eleventh, will be designated TN_11. It will likely begin Thursday, July 17, and will span 10 nights and over 3,000 miles. The stops along the way are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tallahassee FL<\/strong>. This will be an overnight stop, just because Ft Myers to Beaumont is too long for one hop.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Beaumont TX<\/strong>. We will stop for 3 days to see our good friends John and Debbie who moved to Beaumont from Lehigh Acres FL last year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hot Springs AR<\/strong>. I love this town and Marlene has never seen it. We will spend two nights here just so we have a full day in the city.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pigeon Forge TN<\/strong>. There are a million things to do here but I would love to get back to Dollywood.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cuyahoga Valley National Park<\/strong>. This must be the most obscure national park. I have no idea what is here but we will spend two nights in the area so that we will have a full day to explore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TN_11-plan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TN_11-plan-1024x827.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14855\" style=\"width:489px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TN_11-plan-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TN_11-plan-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TN_11-plan-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TN_11-plan.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TN_11 plan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our destination is Worcester MA where we expect to stay with Jett&#8217;s brother and sister-in-law. While up there we will make an overnight trip to Maine to see if I can find my younger brother who has, once again, stopped communicating with everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be taking Marlene&#8217;s pup, Becky, and that has, to some extent, influenced the route. Both Hot Springs and Cuyahoga Valley National Park are dog-friendly and Dollywood has Doggywood, a really fine dog daycare facility. We will have to find a hotel in Tallahassee that is dog-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlene and I have decided that we will, once again, go north for a few weeks this summer. This trip, my eleventh, will be designated TN_11. It will likely begin Thursday, July 17, and will span 10 nights and over 3,000 miles. The stops along the way are as follows: Our destination is Worcester MA &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/30\/eleventh-trip-north-tn_11-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":[3,7,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation","category-routes","category-tn_11"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3RA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854","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=14854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14856,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14854\/revisions\/14856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}