We were out early and on the road by 9am, heading south. I had picked up a brochure on the area and it listed a number of antique/collectables shops, so we decided to explore them today. Just down the road a bit, in Milsboro, there were three of them. We arrived at the first one before she opened, but she was kind enough to let us in. She had three floors of stuff. We spent well over an hour there, and then headed to the second shop, which was three floors also - but he didn't have the type of stuff we like to look at so we didn't linger. The third shop was better, but again we didn't find anything related to Wiley.
We had decided that we wanted to try a coastal drive, so we turned on #26 to the beaches. We drove along the coastal highway for a bit, but it was highly developed and commercialized. It reminded us of Florida around Datona Beach. After a bit, we headed back towards the #113, on Highway 90. It was a very pretty drive and fairly quiet. This took us to the #13 and back on to the #113
Back on Highway #113, we continued until we crossed the border into Virginia. We stopped at a tourist information centre/rest stop just past the border, where we had our lunch - muffins from this morning, juice, fruit cup and an apple. It filled us up, and was pretty nutritious.
I picked up a tourist brochure at the information centre, and it talked about a scenic byway near Accomac, so we decided to take that. Before we got to the turnoff, however, we slowed to a stop because of an accident ahead. This was our first (and only accident) today, but it seemed fairly serious with several police cruisers and two ambulances. We are hoping everyone is ok.
The accident actually occurred where we were going to turn off to the byway, so we managed to not have to wait overly long. The byway was a beautiful road and was very quiet. However, much of the time we were limited to 35mph, occasionally rising to 50mph. It took us through quaint small villages and along farmers' fields growing corn and potatoes. The farms here seem to be massive.
Getting off the byway and back onto #113, we found another antique store - this one claims to be the second largest in Virginia, and I believe it was.
We continued on to the Chesapeake Bay Tunnel Bridge. It is just that. A Bridge and a tunnel - two of them actually. The bridge, which was opened in 1964 goes both over the water and tunnels under it. It is 23 miles (37 km) long, and is considered the world’s largest bridge-tunnel complex.
Once over the bridge, we hit the 5 o'clock traffic of Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, but we managed to find our hotel in Chesapeake, and after a rather unusual supper at the Waffle House, are now settled in our room.
Hotel: Quality Inn
Temp: HOT and sunny 32c - clouding over threatening storm in pm
Distance: 192.6 mil3w
Mileage: 26.2 m/gal
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