Had we not reached our campsite in the dark last night, I could have shown a bit more what Ohio looks like.  As it is, within about half an hour after paying for our campsite this morning, we were out of Ohio.  I paid in the Bob Evans homestead museum which is right next to the first Bob Evans restaurant, and they said I had to at least get something from the restaurant so I could have bragging rights to having eaten at the first Bob Evans restaurant.  I went in and got Mark a cinnamon roll and myself a cornmeal muffin, so there!

I took a few pictures before we left. I found this shy violet in our campsite.

It wasn’t a bad campsite in the daylight. In the dark, it was difficult to maneuver.

The Bob Evans farm and restaurant.

Our last view of Ohio.

As we crossed into West Virginia, Mark and I broke out with the John Denver song, Country Roads, Take Me Home!

I discovered in the Quilt Museum in Paducah that Door County isn’t the only place that has barn quilts.

Here’s a better example from West Virginia.

There appeared to be two or three nuclear towers and I’m not sure what the other smoke stacks were for.

This is Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital.

My favorite photo ops are when I’m standing still.  We stopped at a rest stop and I took advantage of the opportunity to take some better pictures.

A brilliant red tree

Red berries on bare branches

The hillside next to the rest stop

…and the hills beyond

We knew before we left Ohio that we were going to need gas, but the first truck stop Mark tried wasn’t going to work for the length of our RV towing the pickup.  It was 56 miles to the next truck stop and the first one Mark checked was also not going to work, but we did manage to find one across the street that we could fit into.  While we were there, Mark cleaned the windows so I could take pictures out of them.  Thank you, Mark!

Mark cleaning the windshield

We saw this bizarre looking place; some kind of technology center.

It has taken a while, but Dobby finally made a brief foray on the dashboard while we were moving. It usually takes him a week or so of travel to feel comfortable enough to do that.

The kind of fall color I’ve been waiting to see–a full hillside of it!

Crossing into Pennsylvania

We were looking forward to camping at a KOA tonight where things are usually set up pretty well for RV’s.  We took the exit off the highway, drove through neighborhoods, and finally down this one lane road where we met vehicles coming toward us twice.

Yikes!

Even as we were being led to our site it was a tight squeeze.

As I got to examining our road atlas, I realized that the straight shot I had planned for getting to our site tomorrow night is a toll road all the way.  We would dearly love to avoid toll roads as much as possible, so we looked for alternate routes.  The next shortest route will be if we drive back down to Morgantown, West Virginia (about an hour from here) and east through upper Maryland before heading north again.  We could have avoided this tight squeeze and had an hour shorter drive both days if I’d made reservations for us in Morgantown in the first place.  *SIGH*

Mom reports that she took Cal to see the naturopathic doctor this afternoon and the doctor will start Vitamin C infusions for him next Friday.  He will be getting them simultaneously with his radiation treatments.  I will keep you posted on how it goes.  If this works and you know of someone with cancer, they may be able to benefit from what you read here.