The drive from Holiday Trav-L-Park in Virginia Beach VA to Pine Grove Campground in Chincoteague VA on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 was longer than any I have made in the last four weeks, 2 hours 15 minutes or 108 miles per Google Maps, and it took me through the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (CBBT), a 17.6-mile bridge–tunnel system at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Generally, the system consists of two one-mile tunnels and three five-mile bridges. I learned while preparing this blog that CBBT is one of only ten bridge-tunnel systems in the world and that three of them are located in the Hampton Roads area of Tidewater Virginia. I was unaware of that when I used the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel to reach Virginia Beach from Newport News VA a week past. We just seem to
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