{"id":9278,"date":"2020-06-03T23:54:40","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T03:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=9278"},"modified":"2021-01-16T01:12:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T06:12:15","slug":"tn6-hop-7-florida-ny-to-phillipston-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/03\/tn6-hop-7-florida-ny-to-phillipston-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"TN6 Hop 7: Florida NY to Phillipston MA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TN6 Hop 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

209 tow miles via NY 17A, NY 17, I-84, US 20, MA 49, MA 31, MA 122A MA 68 and US 202. 281 truck miles. Cumulative tow miles: 1,577. Cumulative truck miles: 2,020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We made it! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, no truck problems (except as noted below). There was a light rain and most of the trip was on I-84 which is far down our list of Favorite Roads. There was a minor detour about 10 miles from our destination, but no big deal. Backing into the site was difficult, but that was expected – I have done it twice before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extra truck miles were mostly due to a 60-mile trip I made yesterday to ride by West Point. I didn’t go in as there is some security there, but I wanted to see the area. The elevation was impressive – I can see why a few cannon on the point could block shipping from flowing up the Hudson River. But it was a cloudy day so I took no photos and overall the trip was underwhelming. But it got me out of the RV for 90 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The large and empty “upper area”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our home for 2 nights was the Black Bear Campground<\/a>. This is an expensive RV park – $90 per night. For that price you get a weedy gravel patch, water, sewer, decent WiFi and crappy cable TV. At first I thought it was a small park as only 46 sites were visible (and no obvious amenities such as a swimming pool). But yesterday morning I took Rusty on a long walk to the “upper area” and found that the park is actually quite large – 154 sites, all full hookup. The upper area also has a small meeting room, a basketball court, horseshoe pits and a mini-golf course. On my way down the hill I found the swimming pool (closed due to the pandemic). But the park was maybe 10% occupied. I don’t know if that is more a reflection of the pandemic or the price, but I don’t know how they stay in business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After we got settled I checked my email. There in my inbox was another problem report from the truck: a second P0727 problem alert. This was the problem that I spent $1000 in Virginia hoping to fix. Obviously I didn’t fix it. But the problem report was issued at 1:30pm when I was still nearly 2 hours from my destination. The truck ran fine for those 2 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway I won’t stress about it tonight. Or even this week. I will have to address the ongoing truck reliability issues soon, but it got us to Massachusetts and tonight I will celebrate that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At rest at the end of the TN6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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209 tow miles via NY 17A, NY 17, I-84, US 20, MA 49, MA 31, MA 122A MA 68 and US 202. 281 truck miles. Cumulative tow miles: 1,577. Cumulative truck miles: 2,020. We made it! Again, no truck problems (except as noted below). There was a light rain and most of the trip was … 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":[8,10,4,7,5,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-places-ny","category-places","category-routes","category-rvparks","category-tn6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2pE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278","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=9278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9709,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9278\/revisions\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}