"For 2,000+ Mile Round-Trip Drivers Only!" (Part V)

[justreading]

I’ll be driving Route 95 from RI to VA next week. Ideally I’d like to stop in Philly or MD. Does anyone have any clean, safe hotels for one night along art 95?

I stay at the Hampton Inn Dumfries/Quantico on my way home from Fla. It's decent for one night. That may be too far for you, trying to get thru Baltimore and DC at the end of you day.

 

[pwdebbie]

I’ll be driving Route 95 from RI to VA next week. Ideally I’d like to stop in Philly or MD. Does anyone have any clean, safe hotels for one night along art 95?

Where are you going in Virginia? If you are heading to the Virgnia coastline, you might want to get off 95 onto 13 and take 13 all the way to Norfolk. I honestly haven't been on the Delaware section of 13 for decades (used to be a regular route to Ocean City, MD for us). I have never gone farther south, but that is a road trip I want to take some day because it includes the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virgnia (not to be confused with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland).

 

[happily single]

Where are you going in Virginia? If you are heading to the Virgnia coastline, you might want to get off 95 onto 13 and take 13 all the way to Norfolk. I honestly haven't been on the Delaware section of 13 for decades (used to be a regular route to Ocean City, MD for us). I have never gone farther south, but that is a road trip I want to take some day because it includes the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virgnia (not to be confused with the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland).

I’m headed to Charlottesville, which appears to be pretty inland. Now I need to go back and look at the map, because I remember the online TripTix telling me the route is mostly Route 95, which doesn’t sound right

 

[MikeF;NJ]

I’m impressed you still have a TripTix from 40 years ago! I did one for this trip and it took me through Philly. I’ll have to double check that

Lol. No, I don't have it any more. It's only in my memory, reading it in the car multiple years going back and forth from Elizabeth NJ to south Florida. They were paper books with plastic multi-ring bindings, about the length and width of a folded map. It routed us down the eastern half of the DC beltway, whereas Google always seems to recommend the western half nowadays.

 

[Mikey15]

I’m headed to Charlottesville, which appears to be pretty inland. Now I need to go back and look at the map, because I remember the online TripTix telling me the route is mostly Route 95, which doesn’t sound right

The quickest route for that drive seems to be mostly I-95 all the way to the DC beltway. Taking I-84 towards Scranton adds an hour and a half but does dodge NYC, Baltimore, and DC traffic while avoiding NYC, NJ Turnpike tolls.

Pros and cons.

 

[OKW Lover]

The quickest route for that drive seems to be mostly I-95 all the way to the DC beltway. Taking I-84 towards Scranton adds an hour and a half but does dodge NYC, Baltimore, and DC traffic while avoiding NYC, NJ Turnpike tolls.

Pros and cons.

WE've done both and prefer the longer in-land route. Yes, on paper it takes longer but in real life it's about the same time-wise and much more relaxed.

 

[happily single]

The quickest route for that drive seems to be mostly I-95 all the way to the DC beltway. Taking I-84 towards Scranton adds an hour and a half but does dodge NYC, Baltimore, and DC traffic while avoiding NYC, NJ Turnpike tolls.

Pros and cons.

I plan on leaving RI about 2-3pm on Saturday. Do you think there will still be NYC traffic?

 

[OKW Lover]

I plan on leaving RI about 2-3pm on Saturday. Do you think there will still be NYC traffic?

That would put you in NYC right during rush hour(s)