{"id":3301,"date":"2015-10-11T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2018-12-01T08:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:28:03","slug":"sts-hop-2-berkley-ma-to-north-scituate-ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/sts-hop-2-berkley-ma-to-north-scituate-ri\/","title":{"rendered":"STS Hop 2: Berkley MA to North Scituate RI"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"STS<\/a>

STS Hop 2<\/p><\/div>\n

51 miles via MA 24, I-495, I-95, I-295 and US 44.<\/p>\n

\"Hitching<\/a>

Hitching up at CW<\/p><\/div>\n

This was a very short hop, but a crucial one. It was our first test of hauling with our repaired truck using the adjusted hitch setting (raised for a more level ride). Fortunately, all went well.<\/p>\n

We picked up the RV at 4pm on Friday and had it safely on the site at Holiday Acres Family Campground<\/a> by 5:30pm. In a steady rain. More misery. I coughed my way through the setup, then collapsed in front of the television – which had no reception, so we watched a movie. The lack of television reception was a surprise as the campground is less than 50 miles from the major Boston channels and is only a few miles from Providence. Even when we were in the desert and the mountains we managed to pull in a dozen or more channels. But that was with the old rig. This doesn’t bode well for using the antenna in the new rig.<\/p>\n

Verizon service was marginal as well. Uploading the photos for this post took over 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

But the bottom line is: we have a functioning rig, we are out of the hotel and we are on our way to Florida.<\/p>\n

Where maybe we will shake these colds.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I mentioned that I got the truck painted before we left MA. I could have painted just the red quarter panel that needed it for $800 or the entire truck \u2013 in a color of my choosing \u2013 for $1500. I opted for the full paint job and chose GMC’s \u201cChampagne Blush\u201d for the color, to more closely match the BigHorn’s color scheme. It turned out to be slightly lighter than I expected, but I am pretty pleased with it overall. What do YOU think?<\/p>\n

\"Rainy<\/a>

Rainy setup at Holiday Acres, featuring the newly-painted truck<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

51 miles via MA 24, I-495, I-95, I-295 and US 44. This was a very short hop, but a crucial one. It was our first test of hauling with our repaired truck using the adjusted hitch setting (raised for a more level ride). Fortunately, all went well. We picked up the RV at 4pm on … 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":[4,53,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-ri","category-routes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-Rf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301","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=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7124,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions\/7124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}