This picture is from my 2022 Route 66 Miles of Possibility trip. The scene is Ron Jones’ customized 1956 Chevrolet parked in front of The Eagle Performing Arts & Conference Center in Pontiac, Illinois, where all conference presentations took place. Obligations at home had me driving non-stop to the conference but that wasn’t really a problem because Pontiac is just about the closest Route 66 gets to my home. There were two days of presentations at the conference along with three evenings of comradery and entertainment and enough free time to work in visits to the many museums in Pontiac.

In the trip’s prelude, I commented about how nice it was to have a conference to go to after all of the shutdowns and delays COVID-19 had caused. I had plans to make up for the express run to the conference with a few days on Sixty-Six but it was not to be. One day after the conference ended, I learned that one of the attendees had tested positive for COVID and I soon had my own positive test results to deal with. My symptoms were nearly non-existent but my drive home was even more expedited than the drive to the conference had been.

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.