As I said we left on Friday so to get through NYC, we got up at 3 AM and were on the road by 3:30. Zipped right through NYC at 6:30 in the morning but if we stayed on route 95 we would be going through Baltimore and Philadelphia at their rush hour. To avoid this and to see something new, we went around the big cities by taking the shore route and the Cheaspeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel. It cuts through the countryside of Delaware and Maryland and then connects into Virgina by a 21 mile bridge with two tunnels as it crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
This is the bridge part.
And here is the tunnel.
It added about an hour to the trip but I'm sure I would have lost more than that in rush hour traffic of Baltimore and Philly.
We overnighted in South Carolina and were home in Wimauma by 2 PM on Saturday.
