The year in numbers with 2024 values in parentheses:

• 3 (7) = Road trips reported
• 69 (68) = Blog posts
• 20 (72) = Days on the road
• 1110 (2,491) = Pictures posted — 732 (671) in the blog and 378 (1,820) in road trips

The last three years have certainly been interesting ones to look back on, statistics-wise. In 2023, I wrote that everything went up except interest, and by that I meant traffic. In 2024, traffic joined the other statistics in posting increases. This year, interest/traffic is just about the only thing that has gone up. Scheduling conflicts and other issues kept me essentially off the road for the entire first half of the year, which naturally resulted in fewer road trips, days on the road, and pictures posted. Blog posts did increase by one, and pictures posted in the blog also went up a bit, but the bulk of pictures always comes from road trips, so the total went down, and neither blog posts nor blog pictures equaled the 2023 numbers. Three of the top five blog posts are frequent members of the list, including last year. The other two are not only new to the top five list, but both were also newly published in 2025. Three of the top five non-blog posts are also frequent list members, but only one appeared last year. Both of the newcomers to the non-blog list were published in 2024. That’s quite a shakeup from last year, when both lists contained four repeats from the year before.

Top Blog Posts:

1. Scoring the Dixie
   This post moves from fifth to first for its ninth top-five finish. It described my tracking of multiple outings on the Dixie High that eventually led to clinching it.
2. Twenty Mile’s Last Stand
   After two consecutive first-place finishes, this post drops slightly for its eleventh appearance in the top-five list. Its subject is a nineteenth-century stagecoach stop destined for destruction by developers.
3. My Wheels – Chapter 1 1960 J. C. Higgins Flightliner
   Back for the twelfth time; the only time this post did not appear in the top five was 2022, when it was sixth.
4. Book Review – Route 66: The First 100 Years – Jim Ross and Shellee Graham
   This review did OK on its own, and posting a link on my Facebook page helped a little, but there is no doubt that the reason it made this list is that both Jim and Shellee posted links to it on their own Facebook pages. It’s a great book, and I’d like to believe I helped sell a copy or two, but I think it is mostly selling itself.
5. An Auto Park Turns Two
   This one got plenty of help, too. It’s about my visit to an Indiana diner and associated car museum during its second anniversary celebration. I posted a Facebook link, and the diner shared the post to its own page.

Top Non-Blog Posts:

1. Alaska
   After a three-year absence, this nearly six-week-long trip makes its sixth top-five appearance with its second first place. 
2. My Fiftieth: Hawaii
   It’s a little hard for me to believe that this is only the second time that the trip where I celebrated my fiftieth state and my seventieth birthday made the top five. It ranked third in 2018.
3. NOTR and PPOO Part 2
   In 2024, I drove the full length of the National Old Trails Road and the Pikes Peak Ocens to Ocean Highway. For reasons not worth repeating, the drive was divided into two parts. Part 2 involved the two named auto trails west of the Ohio-Indiana border. Part 1’s traffic placed it well down the list, but the combined total would top it. Of course, that doesn’t mean that an undivided trip would have garnered the same numbers, but I think it does mean NOTR and PPOO Part 1 deserves a shout-out.
4. Route 66 Miles of Possibility 2024
   This and NOTR and PPOO Part 2 are the newcomers. In real life, the end of the NOTR drive morphed into the start of the drive to the 2024 MOP without a break.
5. Sixty-Six: E2E & F2F
   The only returnee from the 2024 list is my 2012 end-to-end and friend-to-friend drive of Historic Route 66. It was number one last year, and this makes its ninth top-five appearance.

All three of the main traffic measurements were up again this year. Overall site visits grew from 164,460 to 356,700, blog visits rose from 5,236 to 7,268, and page views went from 815,886 to 2,596,26. I said I didn’t think last year’s increases were anything to get excited about, and the same is true this year, but there’s nothing wrong with being mighty pleased.

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