318 miles via VA 294, I-95, I-495 (west of Washington DC), I-270, US 15, I-76, PA 72, PA 343, I-78, I-287 and NY 440. Cumulative TN8 hop miles: 1365. Total car miles: 1455. We drove about 50 miles around northern VA while staying with Devin and Mary.
This was not the hop I had planned. The plan was to depart at 10:30am, have lunch with Carl (my PCL2 buddy) on the way to New York and to take the quickest (and very expensive) route there, to arrive before 5pm. But Ooma woke at 7am with a 102 degree fever and a quick home test revealed that she had COVID. Not good news for anyone. So we decided to depart as quickly as possible, to minimize additional exposure to our hosts, skip lunch with Carl and head straight to New York to quarantine in the hotel. Because we had additional time, I decided to take the longer but cheaper and more leisurely route through PA. I also added a few miles on I-76 because Ooma was in need of a rest area and I thought I could find one there (I did). But after jumping up to I-78 (via PA 72 through Lebanon) we encountered a 15-minute delay where all traffic on I-78 was stopped for construction blasting. So not a great route. But we made it to the hotel on Staten Island and got Ooma quickly to bed.