This was a triple H day—hot, humid and we’re staying in Hobart. With all this heat Ron is happy that he took the time to get a hair cut in Williamsville (check out today’s picture). We did not have a nice place to walk near our motel so we got on the road early and headed back to Lake Erie and stopped at Port Clinton where we had a wonderful walk along the breakwater and the channel to the harbour. Port Clinton is a busy little fishing village and calls itself the Walleye Capital of the world. It is said that their New Year’s Eve celebration finds them dropping a 20 foot, 600 pound fibreglass walleye from a crane at midnight. We stopped in Napoleon and Bryan before leaving Ohio. Both have old and well preserved court houses and are the focal piece of the town. We have discovered that the washrooms in the court houses are well equipped and clean. We did find a diner in Bryan that had a full parking lot so we stopped for a late breakfast-early lunch. It was good but not as good as our New England stops.
We left Ohio and entered Indiana travelling along highway 6 through Kendallville and Nappanee before going south to highway 30 to continue West. This area is beautiful farmland with miles of corn fields. We did stop and get some fresh fruit and veggies from a farm stand. Many of the areas farmers are Amish. We did stop at the Borkholder Dutch Village so Ron could have an ice cream and I could look at all the wonderful crafts. Many were homemade but there were also vendors selling made in China crafts. I did more looking than buying. Nappanee looked like an interesting town but was very busy with a huge gathering at Amish Acres so we decided to drive a little further west and ended up in Hobart—we thought it would be interesting as it was a town with a man-made lake in the centre of town—we never did find it on our first drive about but did take time to go for a drive after our dinner and there it was—we were just in time to see the sun set again. It is so much nicer over water. We have noticed a lot more train traffic in this part of the country—even truck trailers that have the capacity to convert to train hook-ups. So far we haven’t seen any passenger trains but plenty of freights.
We left Ohio and entered Indiana travelling along highway 6 through Kendallville and Nappanee before going south to highway 30 to continue West. This area is beautiful farmland with miles of corn fields. We did stop and get some fresh fruit and veggies from a farm stand. Many of the areas farmers are Amish. We did stop at the Borkholder Dutch Village so Ron could have an ice cream and I could look at all the wonderful crafts. Many were homemade but there were also vendors selling made in China crafts. I did more looking than buying. Nappanee looked like an interesting town but was very busy with a huge gathering at Amish Acres so we decided to drive a little further west and ended up in Hobart—we thought it would be interesting as it was a town with a man-made lake in the centre of town—we never did find it on our first drive about but did take time to go for a drive after our dinner and there it was—we were just in time to see the sun set again. It is so much nicer over water. We have noticed a lot more train traffic in this part of the country—even truck trailers that have the capacity to convert to train hook-ups. So far we haven’t seen any passenger trains but plenty of freights.
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