{"id":5117,"date":"2017-08-03T18:47:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T22:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5117"},"modified":"2017-08-03T18:47:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T22:47:38","slug":"stw1-hop-1-oakham-ma-to-glenville-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/stw1-hop-1-oakham-ma-to-glenville-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"STW1 Hop 1: Oakham MA to Glenville NY"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"STW1<\/a>

STW1 Hop 1<\/p><\/div>\n

145 miles via MA 148, MA 67, MA 19, US 20, I-90, I-890 (near Schenectady) and NY 5. Cumulative tow miles: 145. Truck miles: 145. Cumulative truck miles: 145.<\/p>\n

The hard part of this route was the 30-plus miles on local roads before we got to I-90. The roads were fine, but this was August in New England, which meant that every road was undergoing repair. There was even about a quarter-mile of one-lane road on MA 19. Once we got to I-90 the rest of the trip was a breeze. We used the transponder for the entire trip, going through the E-ZPass lanes everywhere. Time will tell whether the tollway authorities had a problem with that.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The lake<\/p><\/div>We were sad to leave Massachusetts. We had a very fine couple of months with family and friends. But we weren’t too sad to leave Pine Acres Family Campground<\/a>, our home for the past 2 weeks. It is a fine place, but probably not the best place for us. The things that make the campground exceptional – the kid activities, the swimming pool, the lake, the ice cream shop, the boat rentals – were things we used very little or not at all. It is a great place for families with younger children. Not nearly as great for us.<\/p>\n

The one thing that defines Pine Acres: kids on bikes. Hundreds of them. Everywhere. They ride around the campground during all daylight hours, some going very fast, others still using training wheels. Drivers do a good job of sharing the road with them, but after two weeks it was a relief to get back on the open road. There is a BMX track for the more adventurous bicyclists, but it is a poor second to Normandy Farms’.<\/p>\n

We loved our site. It wasn’t exactly level, which created some stability problems for us, but it was tolerable. The site had a wide expanse of green area on the right and woods on the left. Our only neighbors were a seasonal family below us to the left and occasional transient campers behind us. It was very private with plenty of parking space.<\/p>\n

Our biggest problem with the place was their visitor policy: $10 per person and $5 per car for a visit, regardless of how long. Jett’s sisters came by to play some cards and it cost us $25 to host them for two hours. Ouch! By comparison, the visitor policy for the current campground is $1 per person.<\/p>\n

\"Boat<\/a>

Boat rentals<\/p><\/div>

\"Inlet\"<\/a>

Inlet<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"Packing<\/a>

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

145 miles via MA 148, MA 67, MA 19, US 20, I-90, I-890 (near Schenectady) and NY 5. Cumulative tow miles: 145. Truck miles: 145. Cumulative truck miles: 145. The hard part of this route was the 30-plus miles on local roads before we got to I-90. The roads were fine, but this was August … 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":[8,10,4,7,5,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-places-ny","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-stw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1kx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","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=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5125,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}