A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 162 miles from Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
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Travel from Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania
We drove our coach 162 miles, about three hours of driving, from Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading northwest:
An interactive map:
Taking out the trash on the way out of the campground:
Tollway:
Bridge over Great Egg Harbor Bay:
Walt Whitman Bridge over Delaware River:
Wide toll plaza:
Philadelphia:
Heavy traffic:
St John the Baptist church:
Another toll plaza:
Very close roadworks barrier:
Paladin on the dash leaving a rest area:
Another super-narrow toll plaza:
Heading towards Hershey:
Chicken:
Thousand Trails:
Following our coach to our site:
Our site:
Compact garbage bin fits next to toilet
There isn’t a lot of room in the rear and mid bathrooms of our coach, so we looked for a compact garbage bin that would fit next to the toilet.
We found one on Amazon (but it isn’t available there anymore; there are similar ones if you search):
It has a handle to remove the inner bin:
And a built-in toilet brush:
A compact solution for a small space.
Thousand Trails Lake & Shore
We stayed at Thousand Trails Lake & Shore in Ocean View, New Jersey. (Campground Reviews listing.)
A fairly typical Thousand Trails campground, mostly full of park models and annual sites, with a small section for transients.
Dates:
- Check in: 2025-04-13
- Check out: 2025-04-20
- 7 nights
Weather:
- Partly sunny
- High temps 53-71°F, lows 40-56°F
- Some wind, gusts to 28 MPH
Noise:
- No road noise
- No train horn noise
- Some neighbor noise
- Industrial noise from a mine next to the campground during working hours (and sometimes overnight)
Site:
- #E16, back-in, sand
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach
- Unlevel site; high on rear and passenger side; used hydraulic leveling
- Sand site about 50 feet long by 45 feet wide
- Picnic table
- Fire pit
- Tall trees
- Somewhat clean site
- Elevation 20 feet, front facing NW
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, somewhat conveniently located at back of site
- 60 PSI water, somewhat conveniently located at back of site
- Good sewer connection, very conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 430-630 Mbps down, 45 Mbps up, 19 ms ping
- AT&T: 220-280 Mbps down, 17 Mbps up, 58 ms ping
- Verizon: 5 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up, 25 ms ping (our SIM has 5 Mbps max)
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: none
Amenities:
- Garbage dumpsters near entrance
- Pool
- Beach
- Water park
Our review on Campground Reviews:
Nice park close to Jersey Shore activities
Most of this park is occupied by annual sites/park models, with a small area for “transient” visitors like us. We arrived not long after they’d opened for the season, and there was a bit of a hassle as they adjusted to the new way of assigning sites. The gate that’s supposed to be used by RVs checking in was out of commission, so we had to go through the car gate, which doesn’t have a keypad high enough to reach from the RV. The girl at the front desk said she’d keep an eye out and let us in, but she’d obviously forgotten or gone somewhere else in the 5 minutes it took us to unhook the tow vehicle, so we were stuck. I saw at least one other camper have the same problem a couple of days later, as well.
Once we got to our site, it was long enough for our motorhome and wide enough to park beside it. The site was a little unlevel, but better than some others. Nice little lake and beach on the property, and during the hot months, I imagine the pool and splash pad areas are super busy. Trash disposal is very far from the camping area, so slightly inconvenient if you don’t have a golf cart or take it in your car when you go out. There was also some low hum of nearby industrial noise, but it wasn’t too loud inside the RV. We camped at Thousand Trails Lake & Shore in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
Our first new state of the year, we were able to add the New Jersey sticker to our map:
Lake and sunset:
Seasonally closed water park:
Other sites:
Nothing too exciting about it, but we wouldn’t mind staying here again.
Video: College Park, Maryland to Ocean View, New Jersey motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 164 miles from College Park, Maryland to Ocean View, New Jersey.
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:
