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…
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May 12, Perry MO and Perry, IL
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…
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 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 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…
Friday Apr 30th: A view from a plane
I am writing this from the plane to Orlando. Tomorrow we load in, meet our driver and vehicle and hit the road running. Tomorrow we will drive from Orlando to the Crystal River to Perry, Florida, and then on to…
It’s getting real
Today we drive down to San Diego, about an hour from our house. We will stay in a hotel near the airport and then have an early morning flight to Orlando on Friday morning. Friday we stay in a hotel…
In which you are introduced to the blog:
A blog about our travels to towns named Perry. Or Perryville. Or Lobelville. An ego driven drive across America, from Orlando, Fl. to Irvine, CA. Just a couple of boomers hitting the road in a big ass r.v. Follow…