When we returned from our winter stay in California last March, we went a route to avoid the mountains of Pennsylvania. We crossed the southern states on the I-20 and turned straight north after reaching the I-95 then chose the Chesapeake Bay route crossing on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
Besides of a beautiful scenery and the ferry ride between Delaware and New Jersey one avoids the big traffic in the Philly and Washington/Baltimore .
And today, we again crossed the Chesapeake Bay again. The weather was more than beautiful (a little too hot) and reaching the turn-out behind the toll station, we stopped there for lunch.
There was not the slightest movement of any wave on the water. The bay lay before us like a mirror.
Of course, at the southern end of the bridge is Virginia Beach with a traffic chaos of its own. You gotta make your way through Norfolk as well. We opted for HWY 58 which runs west to the small city of Emporia, VA.
There is a small Walmart with a huge parking lot right beside the I-95. We could access it from Hwy 58. Now, it was only 3:30pm when we pulled in, but soon after 5 other rigs came in.
I went shopping at WallyMart searching for beer, and lo and behold, I lucked out this time.
Since darkness comes early these days we retired inside waiting for cooler nightly air.
Tomorrow we will catch up with the trusty old I-95 again sliding farther south into the Carolinas
So far, so good! :-)
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