{"id":6091,"date":"2017-11-20T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2017-11-20T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T22:27:14","slug":"ste3-hop-8-cedar-key-fl-to-sarasota-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/ste3-hop-8-cedar-key-fl-to-sarasota-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"STE3 Hop 8: Cedar Key FL to Sarasota FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>184 miles via FL 24, US 98, I-75 and FL 780. Cumulative tow miles: 1484. Truck miles: 205. Cumulative truck miles: 1975.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_6092\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/STE3-Hop-8.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/STE3-Hop-8.jpg\" alt=\"STE3 Hop 8\" width=\"718\" height=\"739\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/STE3-Hop-8.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/STE3-Hop-8-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/STE3-Hop-8-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/STE3-Hop-8-400x412.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STE3 Hop 8<\/p><\/div>Our penultimate hop (I love that word!). It was a 3-hour jaunt, the first half on US 98 and the second half on I-75. It is a route we have traveled before and the weather was cloudy with occasional drizzle, so it was mostly a matter of covering the miles while we listened to our audiobook.  <\/p>\n<p>But there was one minor incident.  At a stoplight in Crystal River a guy in a pickup pulled up next to me, motioned me to roll down my window and informed me that our left rear stop lights were not working.  We pulled into a parking lot a few blocks later and checked it out. Sure enough, no brake lights on the left side.  I jiggled the umbilical and they came back on.  That was a first &#8211; running a successful light check before starting but having the lights fail anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Our home in Cedar Key was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarkeyrvresort.com\/\">Cedar Key RV Resort<\/a>.  This was a very nice medium-sized park with nice landscaping and a LOT of dog owners.  Rusty met a lot of canine friends.  Our site was a very spacious pull-through at the end of a row, so we had an unobstructed view of woods out our living room window.  Good cable TV.  Daily pickup of both trash and recyclables.  We liked this campground and would return.<\/p>\n<p>I made a quick trip into Cedar Key itself, about 7 miles from the campground.  Not very interesting.  A nice beachfront town, but ho-hum.  I saw nothing there that would make me come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>184 miles via FL 24, US 98, I-75 and FL 780. Cumulative tow miles: 1484. Truck miles: 205. Cumulative truck miles: 1975. Our penultimate hop (I love that word!). It was a 3-hour jaunt, the first half on US 98 and the second half on I-75. It is a route we have traveled before and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/ste3-hop-8-cedar-key-fl-to-sarasota-fl\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":[41,4,7,5,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fl","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-ste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-1Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}