{"id":4957,"date":"2017-06-10T11:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T15:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2019-01-20T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:15:27","slug":"net-hop-2-foxboro-ma-to-salisbury-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/10\/net-hop-2-foxboro-ma-to-salisbury-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"NET Hop 2: Foxboro MA to Salisbury MA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NET Hop 2<\/p><\/div>\n

91 miles via US-1, I-495 (around Boston), US-1 (again) and US-1A. Cumulative tow miles: 129. Truck miles: 245. Cumulative truck miles: 1119.<\/p>\n

This was an easy, short hop with all but about 10 miles being on I-495. The weather was good and the traffic was moderate. A piece of cake.<\/p>\n

Jett followed in the Yaris, going via I-95 instead of I-495, thereby cutting a few miles off of her trip. But the travel time was similar.<\/p>\n

Our home for the past 11 days was the Normandy Farms Family Campground<\/a> in Foxboro (or Foxborough, if you prefer) MA, just a few miles south of Gillette Stadium<\/a>, home field of the NFL CHAMPION<\/span><\/strong> New England Patriots. The Patriots started their conditioning workouts while we were there and I guess we could have gone there and watched some millionaires doing jumping jacks, but we passed.<\/p>\n

At the present time the Normandy Farms website claims that the Travel Channel has included them in a list of the 13 best campgrounds in the world. We can’t dispute that as it is in our personal list of the top 2 campgrounds we have stayed at in our 4 years of travel (the other being Gulf Waters). Adjectives that come to mind when describing this place are “superb”, “clean”, “professionally-run” and “exceptional.” Oh, yeah… “expensive.” It ain’t cheap, folks. But you get your money’s worth.<\/p>\n

First, the facilities. Our site was large enough for our rig and our two vehicles, with enough space left over to fit in our outdoor carpet, our grill and about 6 visitor vehicles. And the sites are staggered so that I could keep the shades up on both side-facing rear windows and see nothing but trees. Also, a huge recreation center featuring an indoor pool, an adults-only loft, an exercise room and an arcade. Three more outdoor pools. At least two playgrounds, a basketball court, a beach volleyball court, some first-rate bocce courts, the best outdoor horseshoe pits that I have ever seen, a softball field, a baseball field (where the staff set up soccer nets), shuffleboard courts, pickleball courts (still under construction), a huge dog park (over an acre, with a dog washing station), a fishing pond, a great campground store and, most surprisingly, a first-rate disc golf course and a BMX bike track.<\/p>\n

Second, the staff. I don’t know who trains these people but they are doing a great job. Despite most of the office staff being young, they were courteous, pleasant, efficient and very professional. No attitude or gum-chewing here.<\/p>\n

The only negative thing about our stay at Normandy Farms was the weather. Simply horrible. Most days were cold and wet. We spent at least 4 of the 11 days hunkered down in the RV, with the heat on and the rain beating on the roof. But we did have a few light-rain days (I am not sure that any were completely dry) so I was able to get out to three cemeteries. And Jett’s sisters came to visit and we had some rousing card games. So it wasn’t a washout by any means. But it sure could have been better.<\/p>\n

There is also a small but very nice slots-only Plainridge Park Casino<\/a> about 5 miles away where I was able, against all odds (literally) to win money. Jett lost, though, so it was pretty much a wash.<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/a>

Our site<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dog<\/a>

Dog park<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Outdoor<\/a>

Outdoor pool at dusk<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Indoor<\/a>

Indoor pool<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Adult<\/a>

Adult loft<\/p><\/div>\n

\"BMX<\/a>

BMX track<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

91 miles via US-1, I-495 (around Boston), US-1 (again) and US-1A. Cumulative tow miles: 129. Truck miles: 245. Cumulative truck miles: 1119. This was an easy, short hop with all but about 10 miles being on I-495. The weather was good and the traffic was moderate. A piece of cake. Jett followed in the Yaris, … 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":[8,60,4,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-net","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1hX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","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=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7376,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/7376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}