{"id":82,"date":"2013-05-14T21:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T01:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/?p=82"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:50:21","slug":"westward-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/2013\/05\/14\/westward-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Westward Ho!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/05\/IMG_3825b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/05\/IMG_3825b.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3825b\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/05\/IMG_3825b.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/05\/IMG_3825b-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/05\/IMG_3825b-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2013\/05\/IMG_3825b-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, after months of planning and weeks of final packing and tidying up the homestead, we shoved off for points west on Monday, May13. We&#8217;d hoped to be on our way by 9 am but were grateful to have gotten away before noon. Here&#8217;s a shot of our camper just before I disconnected her from shore power out in front of the shop. Somehow we managed to get all our stuff, including the dog and all his effects, into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Day 1 was spent in transit to Mariel &amp; Rob&#8217;s house in Hudson, Ohio, about 395 miles from home. It was a great opportunity to test out the handling of our trusty steed on a particularly windy day in Pennsylvania. By the time we reached White Haven, where the PA Turnpike meets I-80, it was actually snowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trip was uneventful and quite comfortable, despite the headwinds, crosswinds and occasionally heavy truck traffic. Candy was a great co-pilot, as we tried to decipher the new GPS\/audio unit. We still have a ways to go before we&#8217;re comfortable with all the functions and settings, but we were able to connect our phones via Bluetooth for hands-free dialing and touch-screen dialing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We arrived at Mariel&#8217;s house in time for a nice pasta dinner with the family. We&#8217;ll be here for a few more days as we continue to plot our itinerary westward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after months of planning and weeks of final packing and tidying up the homestead, we shoved off for points west on Monday, May13. We&#8217;d hoped to be on our way by 9 am but were grateful to have gotten away before noon. Here&#8217;s a shot of our camper just before I disconnected her from &#8230; <a title=\"Westward Ho!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/2013\/05\/14\/westward-ho\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Westward Ho!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-roadtrip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcentral.com\/-\/onward\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}