{"id":16145,"date":"2026-06-18T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=16145"},"modified":"2026-06-18T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:06:54","slug":"ts_12-hop-1-worcester-ma-to-manteo-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/ts_12-hop-1-worcester-ma-to-manteo-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"TS_12 Hop 1: Worcester MA to Manteo NC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

616 miles via I-90. I-84, I-91, CT 15, Hutchinson Parkway, Cross-County Parkway, I-87, I-95, DE 1, US 113, some back roads into NC, US 50, US 13, I-64, VA 168, US 158 and US 64 with a refueling stop in Carney’s Point NJ and a couple of bio breaks. This was a LONG day of driving – off by 6am, arriving around 8pm. But the weather was good and, except for slow morning traffic through CT, there were no major delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because doing the “no toll” route would have added at least 90 minutes to an already long day, we opted to pay tolls. A LOT of tolls. I haven’t completely tallied them, but they were probably over $40. About half of this was the toll over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel<\/a>. It is only the second time I have traversed this bridge\/tunnel. It isn’t visually impressive – just a very long causeway and a few bridges, with two long submerged tunnels. But I am sure it was a remarkable engineering feat. They are still working on it, adding two more lanes to the tunnel sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TS_12 Hop 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel through the windshield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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616 miles via I-90. I-84, I-91, CT 15, Hutchinson Parkway, Cross-County Parkway, I-87, I-95, DE 1, US 113, some back roads into NC, US 50, US 13, I-64, VA 168, US 158 and US 64 with a refueling stop in Carney’s Point NJ and a couple of bio breaks. This was a LONG day of … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46,45,8,15,38,37,10,152,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ct","category-de","category-places-ma","category-places-md","category-nc","category-nj","category-places-ny","category-ts_12","category-places-va"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-4cp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16149,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16145\/revisions\/16149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}