{"id":20232,"date":"2021-06-16T16:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20232"},"modified":"2021-06-25T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:06:10","slug":"trending-into-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/trending-into-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Trending into Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=summerguide_2021&amp;pageNumber=70&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>U.S. Route 1: An Airstream Adventure, Part II<\/h3>\n<h6>By Colin W. Sargent<\/h6>\n<p>If U. S. Route 1 is The Scarlet Letter, Interstate 95 is the CliffsNotes version.<\/p>\n<p>Our next leg is 204 miles to Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Google Maps recommends that we travel instead 227 miles along Interstate 95. It\u2019s safer. It\u2019s so much faster, with better restrooms. It has uniform signage and standards. Interstate 95 just makes us feel comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, but U. S. Route 1 is America.<\/p>\n<h6>Raleigh I Do<\/h6>\n<p>The State Capitol rotunda in Raleigh has a statue of George Washington\u2026dressed as a Roman senator! The nearby Falls Lake State Recreation Area beckons with five swim beaches, RV hookups, and water views that glow at night, but we have miles to go before we sleep.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Splashing the Potomac<\/h5>\n<p>Our first overnight stop is Pohick Bay Campground in Lorton, Virginia, with breezy, woodsy bike riding and waterfront recreation areas smack dab on the Potomac River, just south of Washington, D.C. Think of this entire area as Mount Vernon, because George Washington\u2019s pharaonic estate once spanned a slice of Virginia that easily covers what is now Route 1 to the Potomac. In fact, Washington\u2019s Distillery and Gristmill is just feet from Route 1. Take the virtual tour of Mount Vernon, virtualtour.mountvernon.org\/, or tear through the matrix and really come here. Sit on the back porch of the Mount Vernon Mansion and answer other travelers\u2019 endless questions about your Airstream. We bought ours because we wanted to see the world up close\u2014and the rivets on the smooth aluminum surface reminded me of pictures of the B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed \u201cWorry Bird\u201d that my Dad flew during World War II. (I guess if I pulled one of those on a trailer, I\u2019d get some questions too.) Don\u2019t miss the murals, the 18th-century music, some great Virginia wine, and the she-crab soup at the Mount Vernon Inn Restaurant, near the gate to the mansion. It\u2019s convenient to the free Mount Vernon parking lot that easily accommodates RVs.<\/p>\n<p><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-trending-fb2.jpg\" alt=\"sg21-trending-fb2\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-trending-fb2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-trending-fb2-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-trending-fb2-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-trending-fb2-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-trending-fb2-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/sg21-trending-fb2-620x326.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Route 1 isn\u2019t numero<br \/>\nuno for nuttin\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20319,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions\/20319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}