This picture is from my 2005 Five Bridges Road day trip. The title is obviously a rip-off of Steve Young’s Seven Bridges Road, and I must further confess that, while I did indeed visit five bridges — all covered — on this trip, they were not all on the same road and they are not the reason I began the trip. The reason for the trip, and the source of many of its photos, was the Pumpkin Run car show in Owensville, Ohio. I did have one bridge on the day’s itinerary, and I stopped there after spending time at the car show. While chatting with another visitor to the bridge, I learned that a total of five covered bridges remained in Brown County and I proceeded to visit them all. I suppose calling this the Five Bridges County trip would have been more accurate but not as catchy.

Here’s hoping that I can regain a portion of the credibility lost in revealing just how much of a lie this title is with my visit to the real seven bridges road just two years later.

Trip Peeks are short articles published when my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting. In addition to a photo thumbnail from a completed road trip, each Peek includes a brief description of that photo plus links to the full sized photo and the associated trip journal.