Last Updated: July 12, 2026
After a week of repairs at Newmar’s service center in Nappanee, Indiana, we pointed the motorhome west toward Amarillo, Texas — a roughly 1,200-mile drive across the heartland of the country. We were chasing better weather and trying to stay ahead of the active spring storm system moving through the plains. The driving days were long, but the goal was clear: get to drier, calmer air in the Texas Panhandle. We had family in Amarillo we had hoped to visit, but the worsening COVID-19 situation made that impossible. With anywhere from 20 to 80 percent of those infected showing no symptoms or only mild ones, we had no way of knowing whether we carried the virus, and we were not willing to take the risk. We will try again on a future pass through.
