haberdashing:

I’ve been planning out the story I’m going to try to write for NaNoWriMo this year, and it revolves around a road trip that hits every town/city in the US called Paris. However, I’ve never actually been to any of them. (Or if I have, at least, it was uneventful enough that I’ve entirely forgotten about it.)

I would appreciate hearing from people familiar with any of the towns named Paris–I’ve looked around a fair bit on Google, but there’s only so much a straight-up Google search will tell you, you know?

To clarify, since there are a number of Paris places that don’t exactly count as towns (to Wikipedia, to myself, and to my characters), I’d like to know more about:

• Paris, Grant County, Wisconsin
• Paris, Kenosha County, Wisconsin (Yes, there are two in Wisconsin. No, I don’t know how that works.)
• Paris, New York
• Paris, Maine
• Paris, Kentucky
• Paris, Tennessee
• Paris, Illinois
• Paris, Missouri
• Paris, Arkansas
• Paris, Texas
• Paris, Idaho

(Listed in the order they’ll appear in the story, tentatively.)

These places aren’t called Paris, but they also get featured in the story, and I’d be interested in hearing about them as well:

• Wamsutter, Wyoming
• Fairfield, Iowa… or really, just Iowa in general, it’s the main chars’ home state and there are several story points of interest located there

(There will be a handful of other places used as rest stops, but those may change as I play with routes/distances, and I see Wamsutter and Fairfield/Iowa–especially the latter–playing a bigger role than just that.)

I don’t have any specific pieces of information that I’m looking for at the moment, but I’d like to know who I can contact if I have questions or just want to learn more~