This picture is from the 2009 Madison Bicentennial. That’s Madison, Indiana, on the banks of the Ohio River. Although the event had been in the works for 200 years, my attendance was rather spontaneous. Even so, I managed to snag a room above Indiana’s oldest tavern more or less in the center of the party. There was a variety of entertainment and two parades; One on and one off the river. The picture is of a Jenny Lind impersonator. The “Swedish Nightingale” performed in Madison in 1851.

When the first Trip Peek was posted back in 2012, 107 trips had been completed and I thought that an endless supply. As the 100th Peek is posted, I am in the middle of trip number 160, and I now realize that the supply is clearly not endless. That end, however, is quite a ways off. At the current rate, I’m probably good for another five years if I and the blog last that long and I never take another trip. I’m not sure about me and/or the blog lasting that long but I do intend to take and document several more trips. I’m thinking the Trip Peek inventory is in pretty good shape.

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.