Getting around these days has become more complicated. And if you’re not prepared, you may end up at a toll booth with no cash, something that happened to me recently near Denver. I was just able to scrounge up enough from various compartments in the car, but I could easily have gotten stuck.

Back home, now that I can use my EZ-Pass on the Ohio Turnpike, as well as the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the problem of loose change is taken care of, though toll increases have been recently announced. Notably, drivers paying cash will pay more than EZ-Pass drivers.