This picture is from my Bunkin’ With Unk trip although that is obviously not my uncle in the photo. The uncle of which I speak had taken to wintering in Florida and in January of 2012 I decided to accept his invitation to spend a little time with him at Lake Alfred between Winter Haven and Lakeland. I more or less dashed to Orlando on expressways then moved to the old Dixie Highway. During my time at his place, my uncle and I took in a little more Dixie Highway, including that brick segment near Espanola that had scared me off back in 2008, and I made a solo run to Bok Tower. When it came time to leave, I headed west on what some call the Tampa Loop of the Dixie Highway. None of this loop was ever formally made part of the Dixie Highway although much of it was tentatively recognized by the Dixie Highway Association pending certain conditions that were never met. This not quite official Dixie Highway passes by  Weeki Wachee Springs which is how I managed a photograph with Mermaid Karri.

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.