A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 164 miles from College Park, Maryland to Ocean View, New Jersey.
Author: David
Travel from College Park, Maryland to Ocean View, New Jersey
We drove our coach 164 miles, about three hours of driving, from College Park, Maryland to Ocean View, New Jersey.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:
An interactive map:
Fort McHenry Tunnel, under the Baltimore harbor:
Roadworks with a very close barrier on I-95 North:
Rest stop:
Crab for lunch… a mistake, as it took about 25 minutes to get the food:
Susquehanna River:
Fun with zoom:
Welcome to Delaware, blink and you’ll miss it:
Toll plaza:
Delaware Memorial Bridge:
Welcome to New Jersey:
Truck rest area:
Muffler man statue:
Our destination:
Using magnets to hold a cupboard door out of the way
Under the galley/kitchen sink in our coach is a cupboard with a large pull-out drawer, where amongst other things we store our garbage bag, held open with clips. (We used to use a couple of bins there, but a single large bag is more convenient).
That’s all very good, but the right-hand cupboard door swings wide, and gets in the way when standing in front of the dishwasher (to the right of this cupboard):
To solve that, I added a magnet to the drawer, held on by a Command Strip:
An opposite polarity magnet is stuck on to the cupboard door by a glue dot (I originally used a glue dot for both, but it didn’t stay stuck to the wood of the drawer):
The two magnets are positioned so that they join to hold the door against the drawer:
Much better:
I also have another magnet further back on the drawer:
Which holds the door in place when the drawer is fully extended:
A small thing, but a nice improvement.
Cherry Hill Park
We stayed at Cherry Hill Park in College Park, Maryland. (Campground Reviews listing.)
Our second stay here. We had originally planned to stay longer, but changed our plans to save money by staying for free at Thousand Trails parks instead. But we ended up here for one night anyway, to break up an otherwise too long travel day.
This is a very nice resort, convenient to the DC area, though this time was just a convenient stop on our journey north.
Dates:
- Check in: 2025-04-12
- Check out: 2025-04-13
- 1 night
Weather:
- Cloudy
- High temp 51°F, low 53°F
- Little wind, gusts to 22 MPH
Noise:
- Some freeway noise
- No train horn noise
- Negligible neighbor noise
Site:
- #616, pull-through, gravel
- Didn’t need to disconnect toad, and didn’t, since only one night
- Mostly level site; used air leveling, since only one night
- Gravel driveway about 70 feet long by 12 feet wide
- About 14 feet to neighbor on driver side (which was empty)
- About 40 feet to a road on passenger side
- Picnic table and patio table & chairs on a brick patio
- Fire pit
- Charcoal grill
- A small tree
- Clean site
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, fairly conveniently located
- Didn’t use the water or sewer, since only one night
Internet (in usage priority order):
- AT&T: 765 Mbps down, 36-50 Mbps up, 19-35 ms ping
- Campground Wi-Fi: didn’t use, but last time was 20 Mpbs down, 20 Mbps up, 8 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 38 ms ping
- T-Mobile: negligible service
- Starlink: not used
Amenities:
- Garbage bins
- Pools
- Onsite cafe and food delivery to site
- Package delivery to office
- Bus to DC mall
- Tour buses
Part of our review on Campground Reviews from our previous stay (omitting comments about the specific site):
Location, location, location!
If you want to visit the DC area with your motorhome, trailer, fifth-wheel, tent, or what-have-you, this is THE place to do it. It’s convenient to the Beltway and close to a Metro stop for all your sightseeing needs. They also offer tours from the campground, which is just the cherry on top. The campground is top-notch and well-kept, with all the amenities you could want (including food delivery right to your site), which is a plus on a travel day. […] We camped at Cherry Hill Park – Washington, D.C. In a Motorhome.
A handy campground map for getting to our site (though this was the wrong one for our specific site):
And on the other site, a map of campground features:
An interactive map:
Our site:
See our previous stay for more photos.
We’d be happy to stay here again.
Video: Gloucester, Virginia to College Park, Maryland motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 178 miles from Gloucester, Virginia to College Park, Maryland.
Travel from Gloucester, Virginia to College Park, Maryland
We drove our coach 178 miles, about three hours of driving, from Gloucester, Virginia to College Park, Maryland.
We had planned to drive double that distance to our next destination, which would have been over six hours driving, but we wisely decided to split that up into two legs. We prefer to limit travel days to around three hours.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading north:
An interactive map:
Leaving our site:
Exiting the campground:
Fun with zoom:
Drawbridge:
I-64 West:
I-95 North:
Exit:
Fuel stop:
Parking with trucks; since we can’t reverse with our toad attached, we need to find back-to-back sites we can pull through:
Heading in for lunch:
Popeyes for lunch:
Back to our coach:
Paladin on the dash:
Oversize load:
Lots of traffic on the other side:
Fun with zoom:
Paladin on the dash:
National Museum of the Marine Corps:
Truck rest area:
Heavy traffic:
Breakdown?
“Caution Horses”:
Lanes divide:
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge:
Maryland Welcomes You:
I-95 and I-495 North:
Swoopers; two cars going into the lane in front of us:
Exit to College Park:
Arriving at Cherry Hill Park:
Security gate:
Our site:
In order to get to our site we needed to head between cabins to loop around:
Approaching our site:
Colonial Williamsburg
We visited Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia again this year.
An interactive map:
Another interactive map on their website.
Visitor center:
We went to the Sweet Tea & Barley restaurant for lunch:
Then wandered around:
An interesting place.
Thousand Trails Chesapeake Bay
We stayed at Thousand Trails Chesapeake Bay in Gloucester, Virginia. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A fairly nice Thousand Trails campground.
Dates:
- Check in: 2025-04-01
- Check out: 2025-04-13
- 12 nights
Weather:
- Mix of sunny, cloudy, rainy
- High temps 52-83°F, lows 34-67°F
- Some wind, gusts to 32 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train horn noise
- Lots of neighbor noise
Site:
- #B65, back-in, gravel
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked in front of coach
- Fairly unlevel site; high on passenger side and front; used hydraulic leveling
- Gravel driveway about 60 feet long by 25 feet wide
- 30 feet to neighbors on both sides
- Trees between sites
- Picnic table
- Fire pit
- Tall trees
- Clean site
- Elevation 30 feet, front facing NW
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, conveniently located
- 50 PSI water, conveniently located
- Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- Starlink: 56-177 Mbps down, 10-30 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 70 ms ping (our SIM has 5 Mbps max)
- AT&T: 82-111 Mbps down, 0.75-1 Mbps up, 127 ms ping
- T-Mobile: 1.5 Mbps down, 0.2 Mbps up, 50 ms ping
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters
- Pool
- Ice cream shop
- On-site cafe
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Nice place for a longer stay
This is a fairly typical Thousand Trails park with 50A full hookups. Our site was mostly level, but look out after it rains, because they have some drainage issues. It was nice to have a restaurant on site that serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Like most Thousand Trails, they have now switched to assigned sites, which I like. Also, like most Thousand Trails, they no longer accept packages. The local Post Office does General Delivery, and the nearest Amazon Locker is in West Point. We camped at Thousand Trails Chesapeake Bay in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
What’s new and burning law:
An interactive map:
Our site:
Utilities:
Some rainy days, and a little surface flooding:
Pavilion:
Cafe:
Dinner:
Breakfast:
Another menu:
Pizza, mac & cheese, brownie:
Camp store (featuring ice cream):
Seasonally closed swimming pool:
Dog park:
Dumpsters:
Other sites:
Piankatank River:
We’d be happy to stay here again.
Video: Emporia to Gloucester, Virginia motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 104 miles from Emporia to Gloucester, Virginia.
Travel from Emporia to Gloucester, Virginia
We drove our coach 104 miles, about two hours of driving, from Emporia to Gloucester, Virginia.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northeast:
An interactive map:
I-95 North:
Exit to I-295 North:
Bridge over James River:
James River:
Exit to I-64:
Virginia Welcome Center:
“Virginia is for Lovers”:
Brochures:
I collected a bunch:
Back to our coach:
Route 33 east:
Bridge by a packaging products plant:
Mattaponi River:
Route 198:
Arriving at Thousand Trails Cheaspeake Bay:
This was the first day the campground was open for the season, so there was a long line to check in. We joined the line at 12:53 (check in started at noon):
At 13:00:
At 13:21:
Guided to our site (unnecessarily, it wasn’t hard to find) at 13:30:
Our site:
