This picture is from my 2014 Lincoln Highway Conference trip. The conference was in Tooele, Utah, and the picture is of the wooden Lincoln Highway bridge inside the Dugway Proving Grounds. We visited the “off-limits” area as part of a bus tour. On the way to the conference, I made an effort to reach new-to-me sections of the LH including the Colorado Loop and the route through Elk Mountain, WY, which ultimately lost out to the Medicine Bow route. Both of those involved a lot of unpaved roadway. I spent a night (and had a fabulous dinner) at the Elk Mountain Hotel and another at the Historic Plains Hotel in Cheyenne. The bus tour that took us to Dugway was supposed to include a visit to the Goodyear Cutoff but, despite advance scheduling, it was scuttled by bombing practice. We did get to Orr’s Ranch and Willow Springs Ranch and a second bus tour took us to Ogden and other points east of Tooele.

Getting home was every bit as much fun as getting there or being there. I headed north and made stops at the Golden Spike National Historic Site and the Spiral Jetty before clipping the southeast corner of Idaho. From there to Cincinnati, my stops read like an All-American travel brochure: Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Little Bighorn, Devil’s Tower, Crazy Horse, Mount Rushmore, Wall Drug, Badlands, Corn Palace, Jolly Green Giant, Spam Museum, and Field of Dreams.

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.