We left our campsite at Burnt Cabin, Pennsylvania and continued our travel westward, but this time we resigned ourselves to the fact that we must travel the interstate with the toll road to get where we needed to go. Besides having to pay a toll to use the road we made the mistake of not filling our gas tank before entering the highway. Of course there is no way to exit the highway to purchase gas from a station within any local town without paying a toll and restarting another toll section at that point, so we were captive to using the gas stations contained within the toll system. These were called service plazas and the gas at these locations was over 30 cents a gallon higher than the gas sold outside the system. It seems that everything for sale in these plazas was overpriced because they knew you had little choice but to pay if you wanted to buy something.
We traveled approximately 170 km on this toll highway, and it cost us $26 for the toll. Add that to the high-priced gasoline and it was a very expensive stretch of highway. We exited the toll highway which was Interstate 76 and then followed interstate 70. This took us across the remainder Pennsylvania, through a small piece of West Virginia and into Ohio. We managed to make it as far as Columbus before we decided to stop for a couple of nights. We found a campsite just on the west side of Columbus in a little suburb called Alton.
The Alton RV campground is on a small piece of land where they have set up a campground with tiny little slivers of space for each camper. The spaces are so small you can't park your truck beside or near your trailer, and your neighbors are almost within reach from your window. It is definitely set up for those rv'ers who are passing through and perhaps want to spend their day looking at sites around the city rather than sitting in the campground all day. One nice thing about the campground is that the facilities such as wash rooms and laundry are absolutely spotlessly clean.