{"id":5158,"date":"2017-08-10T20:16:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2019-02-08T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T16:06:20","slug":"stw1-hop-3-clayton-ny-to-grand-island-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/10\/stw1-hop-3-clayton-ny-to-grand-island-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"STW1 Hop 3: Clayton NY to Grand Island NY"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"STW1<\/a>

STW1 Hop 3<\/p><\/div>\n

238 miles via NY 12, I-81, NY 104, NY 390, I-490 (west of Rochester), I-90, I-290 (around Buffalo) and I-190. Cumulative tow miles: 551. Truck miles: 270. Cumulative truck miles: 933.<\/p>\n

This was the longest – both in terms of distance and time (almost 5 hours) – of any hop we have made in the past year. At 238 miles it pushed the limit of how far we can travel on a single tank. We probably could have made it, but rather than stress out we made a fuel stop at a service plaza on I-90 (the NY State Thruway). I thought this would be the easiest way to get a partial tank, but it turned out to be not so easy because the single diesel pump on the truck side of the plaza was out of service. I guess not many trucks fuel up at these service areas. We decided that, rather than snake our way over to the car pumps, we would use our 5-gallon emergency supply. That was only the second time we have used the emergency supply.<\/p>\n

The route would have been even longer if we had taken the fastest route – I-81 to I-90. More expensive, too, as the New York State Thruway is pretty pricey. I avoid tollways when towing because I am never sure what the charges will be, but opted for a compromise this time – about 50 miles of toll road out of 238 total. About half was on expressway. Most of the rest was on NY 104, which mostly wasn’t bad – a little up-and-down but not many sharp curves. We did, however, run into a nasty stretch of construction just west of Oswego which included 4 separate one-lane sections with flagmen. Very ugly. Jett hated it, but so did I.<\/p>\n

At the final toll plaza I couldn’t get over to the “E-ZPass Only” lane, so had to go through a manned booth. I thought I might be asked to pay extra for the RV that I was towing, but the attendant just cheerfully waved me through. It was comforting to know that I wasn’t cheating the State of New York.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The view from near our site<\/p><\/div>\n

Our home in Clayton was the Merry Knoll Campground<\/a>. It was pretty basic – ordinary swimming pool, a minimal bathhouse, a laundry with 2 washers and 2 dryers. Our site was in an open field which ran down to the St Lawrence River. Scenic, but not so scenic as our previous site at Arrowhead. It was a steep walk down to the water, but once there a broader vista was the reward.<\/p>\n

Not a great place, but perfectly fine for two nights.<\/p>\n

\"Approaching<\/a>

Approaching sunset on the St Lawrence<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

238 miles via NY 12, I-81, NY 104, NY 390, I-490 (west of Rochester), I-90, I-290 (around Buffalo) and I-190. Cumulative tow miles: 551. Truck miles: 270. Cumulative truck miles: 933. This was the longest – both in terms of distance and time (almost 5 hours) – of any hop we have made in the … 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":[10,4,7,5,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ny","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-stw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1lc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158","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=5158"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5158\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}