A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 323 miles from Lebanon, Pennsylvania to Ravenna, Ohio, including several tunnels and narrow toll plazas, with clips from the truck perspective.
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Freeways, highways, and other roads as we move the coach from one site to another. Plus cat pics.
Travel from Lebanon, Pennsylvania to Ravenna, Ohio
We drove our coach 323 miles, about six hours of driving, from Lebanon, Pennsylvania to Ravenna, Ohio.
Here’s a map showing our route, heading west:
An interactive map:
Preparing to toad up:
Geese and goslings on the road:
Entering the Pennsylvania Turnpike:
The first of several rather narrow toll plazas:
I-76 West, aka the turnpike:
Another toll plaza to exit the turnpike for fuel:
Fuel stop:
Back onto the turnpike:
Fun with zoom:
The first of several tunnels:
This U-Haul driver wasn’t very good at lane placement:
Out of the first tunnel and straight into the second one:
The third tunnel:
Service plaza:
Paladin on the dash at the service plaza:
The fourth-and-last tunnel:
Another service plaza:
Bridge construction:
Welcome to Ohio; a frame from the dash cam, as the photo was too obscured by rain (not that this is great):
Huge welcome center parking:
The last toll plaza:
Yay for E-ZPass:
A steep arching bridge over a rail line:
West Branch State Park:
Check-in office:
Our very sloped site:
Video: Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania motorhome travel timelapse
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 162 miles from Ocean View, New Jersey to Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
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:
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:
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:
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:
