This picture is from my 2006 A Smoky Thanksgiving trip. It was my second year running away from home for Thanksgiving and  I picked the Great Smoky Mountains for my escape. The photo is of the tunnel on a road promised but never completed. The road was to provide access to cemeteries isolated by the creation of Lake Fontana but the shamefully broken promise only created this “road to nowhere”. Besides a walk through the tunnel, the trip included driving some Dixie Highway and the Cherohala Skyway, riding the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, and doing some sightseeing with Baby Boomer Bob as guide.

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.