Glad it worked out. I, too, would give much credit to Rob Tillaart for his straightforward DHT library!
Now I am fighting with a UART application on the ESP32 -- a port from ESP8266. Will have to start a thread soon to see if someone can help me figure out my problem (not quite ready to give up ...

Hi Blair,

I am having no problems with my ESP32 and DHT22 system, reading continually and reliably and posting to a cloud based system (Blynk -- updates the app on my phone every 10 seconds with two devices on one screen).
However, I have typed a reply twice previously only to loose it for not ...