This picture is from my 2018 Jefferson Highway Association Conference trip. It shows me standing beside the JH terminus marker in New Orleans following a full-length drive of the highway that resulted in the book Jefferson Highway All the Way. The conference named in the trip title took place in St. Joseph, Missouri, near the midpoint of the highway, and was the anchor point for scheduling the trip.

Of course, most of the trip involved driving the historic Auto Trail from Winnipeg, Ontario, to New Orleans, Louisiana, but I did have to get to and from the highway’s endpoints. The mid-April dates had me dealing with some fairly heavy snowfall on the two-day drive north then the melting snow had me dealing with some mud after I turned south. My oldest son lived in New Orleans at the time so I got to visit him and his family after that selfie with the marker. When I did leave New Orleans, I took advantage of the opportunity to make my second full-length drive of the Natchez Trace.

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.