{"id":681,"date":"2012-09-18T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2012-09-18T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:00:21","slug":"gtw-hop-2-warwick-ma-to-milford-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/gtw-hop-2-warwick-ma-to-milford-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"GTW Hop 2: Warwick, MA, to Milford, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>219 miles via MA 2, I-91, I-90, I-87, I-88 and NY 28. Cumulative distance: 324 miles.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_682\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GTW-Hop-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-682\" title=\"GTW Hop 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GTW-Hop-2-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GTW-Hop-2-1024x607.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GTW-Hop-2-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GTW-Hop-2-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GTW-Hop-2-400x237.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GTW-Hop-2.jpg 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GTW Hop 2, Warwick MA to Milford NY<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This hop was mostly on interstate highways and was (thank God!) uneventful.\u00a0 The day was sunny, the sky was dotted with happy puffy clouds and birds were singing.\u00a0 All was well with the world.<\/p>\n<p>But that would be too boring.\u00a0 There is another slight &#8220;ding&#8221; to report (it seems like it is a ding a day, which, as Dave Barry would say, would be a good name for a rock band &#8211; the Dingadays), but to the truck this time.\u00a0 As we left the campground at noon and traversed the rather rough road to the exit, the back corner of the truck came in contact with the suspended pin support bars on the underside of the fiver, snapping off a plastic corner piece.\u00a0 Trivial, really.\u00a0 But annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t we have just ONE incident-free day?<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that the Catskills are really beautiful.\u00a0 We passed many farms and homes that could be fodder for a pastoral painter.<\/p>\n<p>Our home for the next two nights is the Beaver Valley Campground in Milford, NY, just a few miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.\u00a0 Initial impression: best campground yet.\u00a0 The grounds are immaculate, the restrooms spotless and the campsites very well provisioned and maintained.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing this on Tuesday morning and the rain is pouring down.\u00a0 But we don&#8217;t really care: it is a museum day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>219 miles via MA 2, I-91, I-90, I-87, I-88 and NY 28. Cumulative distance: 324 miles. This hop was mostly on interstate highways and was (thank God!) uneventful.\u00a0 The day was sunny, the sky was dotted with happy puffy clouds and birds were singing.\u00a0 All was well with the world. 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