Assateague Island and Ocean City
Drove southeast from Williamsburg to Hampton Va and then south under the James River in a tunnel. Pretty cool to go under a body of water. Through Portsmouth and Norfolk and then across the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on a bridge-tunnel. Really cool. Much of it is trestled roadway but there are two mile-long tunnels, two high bridges, and four manmade islands along the way. Fun short cut to what would be a very long go-around.
Trestle portion
Big boats on ocean side of bridge-tunnel
Entrance to one of under sea tunnels
One of the bridges
Back in Virginia and north along the coast to Maryland and then to Assateague Island State Park/National Seashore. We stayed in the state park. Very nice. Quite large but laid out in small loops. Very neat and clean campground with large camp sites. Very large bath house for each loop. Campground was nearly full but did not feel packed. Our camp site was just over a barrier dune from the ocean. (See Facebook post of a couple days ago.)
Atlantic Ocean
Wind surfers
Checked out the National Park campground and were glad we went with the state. Typical older NP campground. Small with lots of sites packed in to campground. Restroom buildings (one per campground) were older and no showers.
Assateague Island and Chincoteague Island, its small neighbor to the south, are the home of the famous wild horses(ponies). We were not sure we might see them because Assateague Island is quite long and the horses are free to roam. No problem. Small herd seems to make state park area its home. At various time there was a herd of about 8-10 horses including one foal roaming around the campground. Campers were a subject of interest for them. Looked out the window to a camp site two over from us to see two horses investigating the inside of a large standup tent while the owners were off to the beach. Had not seen that before.
Horse leaving blue tent
Ocean City. Interesting. Two reasons to visit. One, it is the eastern end of US 50. Had to get picture of sign telling how far to Sacramento to match the one our granddaughter sent us of the western end showing how far to Ocean City.
Two, to see the phenomena that is Ocean City. Picture the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Now cram all of Santa Cruz into three streets running parallel to boardwalk. Now stretch that for over 2 1/4 miles and add another 1/2 mile without boardwalk. Boardwalk is three lanes wide the whole way with half of it supplemented with concrete path just as wide. Large white sand beach on one side with lots of people. The other side is block after block (28+) of shops, restaurants, hotels, arcades, shops, restaurants, hotels, arcades, etc. with no space in between. We went early (9am) and had no problem finding parking in lot a block away. Twenty minutes later would have been a different story. Boardwalk was crowded at 9am. Later – 
One other side light; there was an air show this weekend that included the Thunderbirds. Great place for an air show – right along the beach. Hotels at center of beach had set up tents on beach with chairs under them and were selling space for $30 a seat. Very long lines to get a spot. Whole beach near ground zero was packed umbrella to umbrella. It would have been fun to stay and watch but we opted out. We left at noon. There were four cars jockeying for our parking spot when we left. The road we had breezed in on three hours earlier was three lanes bumper to bumper stopped for almost five miles trying to get into an already full city when we left. We smiled and went to have a soft shell crap sandwich at a market on the way to the campground. Interesting. We can say we have done that. No need to repeat.
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