Sunday, June 22, 2014

Eastern shore of Virginia 6/21/14

 
We left the Jamestown settlement...
 


and traveled bridges…


tunnels…


long flat highways...

 
and fought a GPS that wanted us to make a U-turn in the middle of a tunnel.



We drove to the eastern shore of Virginia by way of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, a 17-mile long trestle bridge…

 
that incorporates two mile-long tunnels to provide uninterrupted shipping lanes between the Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay.



 
The two red buildings in the photo below are the entrances and exits to one of the tunnels.  You can see a boat in the shipping lane.

 
Arriving on Virginia’s eastern shore.

 

4 Comments:

At June 22, 2014 at 6:33 PM , Blogger Jane said...

Hi Jim and Anne, I'm joining you in the middle because of a muddle and technical difficulties. I hope there's some land beyond that second red building--it doesn't look like it!

 
At June 22, 2014 at 8:39 PM , Blogger Jim and Anne said...

It's hard to see in the picture, but the bridge continues beyond the second building.

 
At June 22, 2014 at 9:04 PM , Blogger John said...

Thank God you are not a sailing vessel at this point!

 
At June 23, 2014 at 9:44 PM , Blogger Jim and Anne said...

Actually, John, the distance between those two red buildings is a mile.

 

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