Our drive east on I-70 is beautiful. We are now far enough north and far enough east and far enough through September to begin to see a change in the trees. Bright yellow and orange leaves are beginning to fall, and girdles of red-leafed vines cover the trunks of the taller trees. The interstate is devoid of billboards, a welcome relief from the double-sized ones we’ve seen so often, but as if to get around a law, there are large billboards facing the freeway from a few hundred yards inside otherwise beautiful farmland.
We encountered our first significant rainfall of the trip while taking a bypass freeway around Columbus. It drove the temperatures down from the high eighties to 79, but they popped back up after the shower ended.
It was getting late in the day as we crossed the Ohio River into West Virginia; a large, orange moon could barely penetrate the haze. Fifteen miles later we crossed into Pennsylvania and darkness, and found our campground (thanks to Marcia and the KOA operators, not the GPS), our second KOA ($28/night no discount elec & water, other hookups extra), set up and had a light dinner.
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