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<\/a>GTW Hop 6<\/p><\/div>\n
Our first non-ding hop! OK, it was just 94 miles, mostly over interstate, but we have done short-and-easy before and still managed to collect a ding.\u00a0 Let me feel good about this.<\/p>\n
The route was pleasant enough, with rolling hills lining I-66 and the stretch along US 340 containing enough hills and curves to keep my attention.\u00a0 There was little traffic, so it was relatively low on the stress meter.\u00a0 But VA 234, while wide and level, contained lots of lights and moderate traffic.\u00a0 I had to stop more quickly than I like a couple of times, so I can’t recommend that segment for a leisurely Sunday drive.<\/p>\n
Leaving Lorton – and her family – was hard on Jett.\u00a0 She was pretty quite the entire trip.\u00a0 It started to rain about 15 minutes after we arrived in Luray and poured all night, which didn’t help to lighten her mood.\u00a0 Dinner was potato sticks for her and pretzels for me.\u00a0 I think today (Tuesday) will be pretty quiet as well.\u00a0 Our planned trip along Skyline Drive will probably be postponed until Wednesday and may be skipped altogether.\u00a0 Today will be a day of paying monthly bills and catching up on other chores.\u00a0 Like shopping for food.\u00a0 We are running low on potato sticks and pretzels.<\/p>\n
A special note for my mother: sorry! I really, truly did mean to call you yesterday to wish you a happy birthday.\u00a0 I even got so far as to bring up my “contacts” list on my cell phone, but then I got called to active duty to kill a moth.\u00a0 Then we started watching a movie (“Bridesmaids”) and dining on potato sticks and pretzels.\u00a0 Then I fell asleep.\u00a0 I will call today.\u00a0 Hope you had a fun time at the casino.\u00a0 I hope my inheritance is still intact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
96 miles via I-95, VA 234, I-66 and US 340. Cumulative distance: 871 miles. Our first non-ding hop! OK, it was just 94 miles, mostly over interstate, but we have done short-and-easy before and still managed to collect a ding.\u00a0 Let me feel good about this. The route was pleasant enough, with rolling hills lining … 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtw","category-places","category-routes","category-places-va"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}