This picture is from my 2016 trip to the Jefferson Highway Association Conference in Carthage, Missouri. The picture at right is of artist Lowell Davis in front of his home in Red Oak II. The Jefferson Highway once ran north and south through Carthage and US-66 once ran through east and west. Red Oak II is a little outside of Carthage and sits on neither historic highway which qualifies it as a must-stop for both. Conference presentations took place at an event center right across the road which allowed us to simply stroll over when time permitted. The two-day conference was at the center of a ten-day trip which meant there were many stops, at mostly familiar sites, both going and coming. I even worked in a concert in Tulsa after the conference ended. I missed the conference’s bus tour as it was the same day as the Celebration of the Life of Laurel Kane, who had died in January, at her beloved Afton Station.

The sequence in which Trip Peeks are used is random and determined in advance. They are then used when needed. That this Trip Peek is published so soon after Lowell’s death on November 2 is certainly a striking coincidence.

ADDENDUM 31-Oct-2022: I just now discovered that this post is a repeat (repeek?). The 2016 JHA conference was also the subject of the 29-Nov-19 post. Not only is the sequence random, it’s also kind of sloppy.

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.