Hello faithful readers. Perry and I got home a week ago, after our Perry adventure. We still have more Perry places to visit, and hope to get to both Perry, OR and Perry, CA later this summer. After that we…
Author: Diana Lobel
May 21- Perry, UT
We woke up after our fabulous night of sleep and headed out into a windstorm. We had been sort of skirting a storm all day the previous day, having periods of rain, and many wind gusts which can be daunting…
May 20; A Change of Plans
In yesterday’s post I alluded to the elevation at Estes Park- our rv park was around 7,500 feet in elevation, and in town was slightly lower. Today after our early morning tour we were supposed to continue on to Wyoming…
May 19th and 20th. Rocky Mountain National Park; thirty six hours slightly abbreviated:
There are a lot of National Parks we have never visited, Rocky Mountain being one of them. RMNP is the fourth most visited National Park in the country. It boasts multiple peaks topping 14,000 feet, and features many rivers and…
May 19th-Using library wifi so must be brief/ Perry Pun results are in!
Thanks so much fo everyone who entered the Perry Pun contest. The judges have decided to award three first place medals, to Richard Lobel (cause nepotism goes a long way), Wing Pattinli, and to Jamie Ko. And finally a special…
May 17th Bye-bye Toto and Dorothy; Hello, Perry NE?
Today was a long day of driving on long straight roads. Our r.v. site last night was in Chapman, KS, which you might have heard of. It was hit by a damaging EF4 tornado in 2016. We arrived in NE…
May 16th, Perry and LeCompton KS
A somewhat brief and certainly incomplete history of Perry, KS: Perry, KS a town of around 950 residents was in its early days a railroad town. Established in 1865, it was named after John D Perry, the president of the…
May 15th We are super important big shots in Perry, IA
Approaching Perry, IA we stopped for the obligatory town sign photo. This was a nice big one, with flags and landscaping. The town has around 7,500 residents, and the median income is a little higher than most of the Perrys…
May 14th, Perry, WI; where are you?
As you may know from reading this blog, before we left and even as we are traveling I have been researching charities in the towns we are visiting, as I know 2020 was a tough year for so many folks.…
May 13th, you know you have been waiting for it; time for some Perry Puns
Today was a travel day as we moved from Illinois into Iowa. You probably would not have guessed this to be the case, but there is a winery in Iowa, near Cedar Rapids called Cedar Ridge Winery and Distillery. We…