July 9 Trip to DE, NJ and PA

We left the house about 10 am on July 9.  We traveled north thru Baltimore with no trouble then a few miles before the Millard Tydings Bridge (which carries I-95 over the Susquehanna River) we saw an overhead sign warning that I-95 was closed at exit 93 (the first exit north of that Bridge).  There wasn't much we could do but wait to be detoured onto US 40 but that took over 3 hours from the time we saw the overhead sign. That wasn't the end of our travel problems as the traffic on US 40 didn't move very well either at times.

The image is from a Fox News article on the cause of the problem which involved a fatal crash (the victim being a tow operator). 

We made it to the visitor's center of the Nemours Mansion.

 It has a number of displays related to the life of Alfred I du Pont (1964-1935) who was the head of the company during the installation of mechanization of the Gunpowder factory which in turn led to the enormous wealth of the family (that's du Pont on the left).  

The displays and movie make du Pont into something of a saint with his treatment of workers and his philanthropy.  Youtube has a copy of the movie here.

We stayed overnight at a Day's Inn near Wilmington, DE. There was a kosher deli near there.