A sharp looking Ital Milione heads for sea with the tide in the lower Chesapeake Bay early on the morning of August 6, 2009. The 2008 build ship is flagged in Italy. Photo from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Highway off Virginia Beach, Virginia. The glint of sun is about all we will see of this celestial body on this day. Still, this was a nice sight after an 800 mile drive, arriving in a thunderstorm with torrential rain at 12:30am and sleeping in the car at the rest area on the bridge-tunnel highway until sunrise.