Last Updated: May 2026
After the thunder of Niagara Falls, we pointed west and began the long drive toward Indiana — and toward a date with the factory that built our motorhome. The route took us through Erie, Pennsylvania on the southern shore of Lake Erie, then across Ohio in time for an unexpected Halloween celebration in a packed RV park, and finally into the heart of Amish and Mennonite country in northern Indiana. Nappanee was our destination: the birthplace of our Newmar motorhome and the place where the warranty work we’d been scheduling since late summer would finally get done.
We had no particular expectations for any of these stops, which may be why they all surprised us. The peninsula at Presque Isle turned out to be one of the finest state parks on the Great Lakes. Port Clinton, Ohio handed us a fully costumed, 100-trick-or-treater Halloween party we hadn’t planned on. And Nappanee gave us Amish buggies, a round barn theatre, city art, and three weeks of 5am wake-up calls by train horn. You take the beautiful with the industrial.
