Our favorite part of this trip has been in person interactions with people who call these small towns home. This started in back in Perry, GA at the wonderful Perfect Pear, where we met Megan Brent. Today we had the…
Author: Diana Lobel
May 11th, Perry County, MO and Perryville, MO and no mo!
Perry County, MO like many of these Perry communities was named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a great hero of the war of 1812. The first non-natives to visit were the French, coming south from Canada, they described the first…
May 10th, Lobelville, TN, where Perry should be king.
Lobelville, located in Perry County, TN was established in 1854 along the Buffalo River as a trading post by the french trader, Henri de Lobel. It never fulfilled its promise as a successful fur trading outpost because of the proximity…
May 9th, Nashville, Music City
It is easy to see how Nashville got its nickname of Music City. It is the home to the Grand Ole Opry, numerous music studios, both small and large, and streets lined with bars with live bands playing all day.…
May 7 Great Smoky Mountains and into Tennessee
I had mentioned that Von, our driver stays in a hotel each night. Due to the difficulty finding Uber in some of these smaller locations, he stayed in a Yurt last night. It was really fun hearing him on the…
May 6th, Charlotte to Marion NC
After a somewhat anxious night, wondering if Bessie was going to need to be sent off to service for a few days and how we would handle that we spoke to Von who had located a truck mechanic who said…
5th of May Charleston to Perry, SC and Beyond
We rose early this morning so we could take advantage of the nice park where we have stayed the past two nights. St James Island County Park has many amenities including many trails. It hosts a triathlon once a year…
May the Fourth, Star Wars Day
We stayed at a campground outside of Charleston that was very rustic this time. This one is in a large county park, and unlike some of our other campgrounds, this has miles of trails and several lakes as well as…
May 3rd, off to Savannah and Charleston
Today’s travel takes us northeast from Georgia into South Carolina. We stopped in Savannah for a couple of hours, and visited the Perry Lane Hotel, located on…you guessed correctly, Perry Lane. The rooftop bar there is called the Peregrin and…
May 2nd- Sweet Georgia Peach
Perry, GA is our second stop on our trip. In preparation for our trip I did quite a bit of research on these namesake towns, and found that Perry, GA has a tourism board! I wrote to them and they…