Day 2, Saturday April 23 - Ocean City, MD to Williamsburg, VA

Starting mileage:  355 Starting time: 8:30 am

Ending mileage: 550 Ending time: 3:30 pm

Travel mileage:  195 Travel time: 7:00 hours

It was nice to walk out of the room and go to the beach first thing in the morning and a comfortable 65 degrees. The waves were still crashing in but it wasn't as windy as the day before. Although the room was great, the hotel utility room was just under our room and made awful noise most of the night so I didn't get much sleep. When I complained at the front desk in the morning they gave back 50% of the room cost which lessened the pain.

Along the highway there were many trees that had what appeared to be Wisteria vines with large clusters of purple flowers - it reminded us of the Wisteria in Japan.

We went over the Chesapeake Bay bridge and tunnel back to the mainland. It is so long that we couldn't see the other end when we started on the bridge. Most of it is just supported on piers in the shallow water. In two spots there are tunnels where the ends are on artificial islands that had to be built up to have a place to descend. The tunnels had to be under water deep enough for large navy and commercial ships to pass over.

Carmen spent several years in Newport News when she was around 7 years old and she wanted to see what it was like, especially the Huntington Park. We were able to find the park and checked out the fishing pier where she and her brother used to go. We had a picnic lunch in the park overlooking the James River. We also visited the Virginia War Museum in the park. When Carmen was last there, the Vietnam, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq wars had not yet taken place. The museum was very up to date, covering history up through the 2014 announcement of troops leaving Afghanistan.

We are spending the night at a Comfort Inn in Williamsburg and had dinner at the Red Hot & Blues restaurant which was very good and good value.

Day 2 route

Carmen at the Virginia War Museum