{"id":14980,"date":"2025-08-10T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14980"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:42:08","slug":"ts_11-hop-1-new-salem-ma-to-front-royal-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/ts_11-hop-1-new-salem-ma-to-front-royal-va\/","title":{"rendered":"TS_11 Hop 1: New Salem MA to Front Royal VA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TS_11-Hop-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TS_11-Hop-1-1024x589.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TS_11-Hop-1-1024x589.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TS_11-Hop-1-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TS_11-Hop-1-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TS_11-Hop-1.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TS_11 Hop 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>505 miles via US 202, I-291 (north of Springfield MA), I-91, I-84, I-81 and US 340. We stopped for fuel in Belchertown MA and took a bio break and picnic lunch in PA where Marlene took over the driving for the last 200 miles. Auto miles: 505. Cumulative route miles: 505. Cumulative auto miles: 505.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a LONG day on the road using mostly interstate routes that had lots of trucks, lots of construction and many slowdowns. The estimated time of 8 hours stretched to over 9 hours. Then, because that wasn&#8217;t enough, Marlene insisted on visiting a casino nearly an hour away. That resulted in a total of about 11 hours spent in the car on this day. But those miles will be counted in Hop 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>505 miles via US 202, I-291 (north of Springfield MA), I-91, I-84, I-81 and US 340. We stopped for fuel in Belchertown MA and took a bio break and picnic lunch in PA where Marlene took over the driving for the last 200 miles. Auto miles: 505. Cumulative route miles: 505. Cumulative auto miles: 505. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/10\/ts_11-hop-1-new-salem-ma-to-front-royal-va\/\">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":[46,8,15,10,13,7,129,14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ct","category-places-ma","category-places-md","category-places-ny","category-places-pa","category-routes","category-ts_11","category-places-va","category-wv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3TC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14980","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=14980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14983,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14980\/revisions\/14983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}