TTS Hop 4
212 miles via I-495 (around DC), I-66 and I-81. Cumulative tow miles: 892.
Luxury cabin
I consider this a “low stress” hop because it was almost entirely on interstate highways. I was worried that the first 50 miles – on the I-495 DC Beltway and out I-66 – would have a lot of stop-and-go traffic, but there was almost none of that. Pretty smooth, traffic-wise, though I-81 is always heavy. There are also a lot of hills on I-81, so the gas mileage was pretty lousy – under 8 mpg. But diesel fuel is cheap enough (I filled up at the destination for $2.30/gal) that I didn’t really care.
All in all, a pretty easy hop. But not particularly interesting. I was surprised that the foliage was past prime this far south.
The I-81 south trip reminded me of our first month on the road, way back in 2012. I-81 was the road where we had to leave the RV in the breakdown lane to go into town in search of tires as we had two blowouts in the same day. Good times.
Cherry Hill Park was, once again, awesome. This time we took a “luxury cabin” for two nights so that Jett’s son and grandson could stay with us and avoid multiple 100-mile round trips. We were very impressed. Large, clean, nice furniture, lots of dishes, nice bedding, very comfortable bath. This is probably the nicest cabin we have ever seen. Another plus for Cherry Hill.
We laundered our clothes at their awesome laundry. We later discovered that the park has a second laundry which was even closer to our site.
We used our two days with Jett’s son and grandson to play minigolf, dine out, visit IKEA (a first for me) and have smores around the campfire. A good time was had by all, but was marred by Jett’s severe cold. She couldn’t even hug them goodbye, for fear of making them sick.
Cabin living area
Cabin bedroom
Cabin kitchen
Messing around at minigolf