Thursday February 5, 2015

An early rest day. After getting cold and wet yesterday and still not getting over our colds, we decided to have an early rest day. The Royal Inn is cheap so we could afford the extra night.

Ralf’s hornet bike “horn” shorted out again at 5:00 in the morning. This bike horn was made in England and when it gets wet it shorts out. Do you not find that a little bit odd – a country that is renowned for its wet weather, designs a horn that cannot deal with wet weather!

As we were having a rest day I decided to do some washing. The people at the motel said the Laundromat was a long way and offered to do our laundry for us in their big industrial washing machine. How kind was that and they didn’t charge us.

We went for a walk to the \”Historic Downtown” Perry. Unfortunately Ralf didn’t bring his camera, although there was not much to take photographs of. They were in the process of building a new park which looked very nice and they had already renovated the old train station. Apart from that there is not much in downtown Perry. Probably because there is a large Wal-Mart on Highway 98 and all the fast food joints are also along the Highway. What did surprise us when we were looking for somewhere to stay is that there are 10 motels/hotels in Perry.

We spent the evening watching TV and relaxing. We will be in Tallahassee tomorrow and are staying at another warmshowers.