{"id":16117,"date":"2026-06-11T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16117"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:24:23","slug":"tn_12-hop-3-montclair-va-to-worcester-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/11\/tn_12-hop-3-montclair-va-to-worcester-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"TN_12 Hop 3: Montclair VA to Worcester MA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hop 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

576 miles via VA 234, VA 28, VA 7, US 15, I-83, I-78, I-287, I-95, I-495 (west of Boston), MA 9 and US 20. Auto miles 596. Cumulative hop miles: 1611. Cumulative auto miles: 1631. The 20 non-hop miles were due to a trip to the casino near Montclair VA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was another very long, very tiring day of driving. Door-to-door time was about 13 hours, but that included a short visit with an old college friend in Franklin MA, a quick shopping trip at Sam’s Club in Harrisburg PA and a lunch\/bio break stop in NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip began in a light rain and there were several spotty showers along the way. Traffic was heavy and the GPS was frequently disconnecting, which was very annoying. As a result of the GPS problem we traveled farther east on I-78 than I had originally planned, which probably added some unnecessary miles and minutes. All-in-all it wasn’t a pleasant trip. But we arrived safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stayed with Jett’s son Devin and daughter-in-law Mary for 3 nights in Montclair VA. They took us to dinner at the new casino on the second night (thank you!) and dined with Jett’s other son and his wife there. The company and the meal were both good but the casino wasn’t. Both Marlene and I lost money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marlene went to the other VA casino – MGM – the second full day there – with Angie, Devin’s neighbor. She won her money back there. I stayed home and did mostly useful things, including reading (see the preceding book review).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we will spend a week with Jett’s brother, Ray, and his wife, Kim. I will attend some 55th college reunion events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A brief TN_12 wrapup is next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

576 miles via VA 234, VA 28, VA 7, US 15, I-83, I-78, I-287, I-95, I-495 (west of Boston), MA 9 and US 20. Auto miles 596. Cumulative hop miles: 1611. Cumulative auto miles: 1631. The 20 non-hop miles were due to a trip to the casino near Montclair VA. This was another very long, … 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":[46,47,48,8,15,37,10,53,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ct","category-family","category-friends","category-places-ma","category-places-md","category-nj","category-places-ny","category-ri","category-routes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4bX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117","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=16117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16119,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16117\/revisions\/16119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}