This picture is from my 2005 trip to see The New Kid. This was a working trip that I extended with some vacation time and a weekend. I also extended the journal backward a little bit by including a few pictures from working days. The new kid was grandson Noah who had been born barely a month previous to my sailor son who was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, at the time. Most of the drive home was on US-60 with stops at Colonial Williamsburg and in Richmond to visit friends. I even got in a few miles of Blue Ridge Parkway.

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.