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Summary: A guide for road trips by people who get road trips.
Review: A great, great guide. This book "gets it" in a way no Frommer's ever could. It's the trip, man, not the destination. :-) The places it suggest visiting are interesting, generally inexpensive, and honestly portrayed. This is a great book for people who think bus trips and interstates are a terrible way to see what America is really about. The author understands what an adventure a road trip can be. Very cool.
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Summary: Great road trip book
Review: After my first trip across country, I wanted to write a real road trip book. All of my US guide books give good information about big cities but little about small towns and back roads. The real gems I found on cross country trips were a cheese factory in Wisconsin or an ice cream shop in Iowa. Luckily I found this book before my second cross country trip. It was really great. It gives about 8 different 2-lane highway routes usually stretching from the Pacific to the Atlantic or from Canada to the Southern tips of the US. It doesn't cover everywhere I want to go, but it's great if you're going on a long road trip... or if you live near one of the 2-Lane Highways in the book. Although it gives information about large cities along the way, you may want a supplement if you plan on spending lots of time in big cities. This book focuses more on the interesting places between those major cities.
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Summary: Good for the quirks!
Review: I have the first printing of this book, and indeed, many of the places listed were interesting to visit, if not for their excitement then at least for their quaintness.On a trip to Yellowstone, NP in 1997, I was able to stop at the Big Q cafe in Quasqueton, IA for breakfast, off of US-20. If it wasn't for this book, I would have probably spent most of that morning hungry. This is a good overall guidebook for a long trip; however, if you plan on really exploring an area, than no book of this size can do it justice. Treat yourself to a more thorough collection of guides for that specific area. Some of the information is repeated from other Moon guidebooks; this is not a bad thing. I found the layout very inviting and the information helpful.
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Summary: Hit the road, Jack
Review: I love this book. I have used the section on the coast between Los Angeles and San Francisco for planning a driving trip. It is a refreshing change to find so many local and low-key, even quirky places detailed, without neglecting the standards like Hearst Castle. The rest of the book is terrific armchair reading, fuel for fantasy travels.
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Summary: not for those on a budget
Review: I purchased this book because it seems like a really great concept, a book with road trips all planned out for you, where to eat, sleep, etc. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite what I had expected. It is interesting at times, its fun to find out little tidbits of info about the little towns you pass by, but if you're planning a roadtrip on a budget, make sure you have some other source of information along.
This book does not deal with places to stay or eat for cheap (or even very much at all), if you are not totally familiar with an area, do not count on this book to help you find a place to crash for the night. Most of the lodging that it features are novelty sort of places, and can be pretty high-end (at leats for me). And it doesn't really tell you where to grab a bite to eat on the road either.
I found the directions lacking as well. I am not a great navigator, and at times I found it hard to figure out where to go, so I ended up just abandoning any hope of following one of the routes. It also didn't really tell anything about road conditions.
If you are planning a road trip, I think you would be better off to do most of the research yourself. It was interesting in a couple of aspects though, so if you have some extra cash laying around and you've already pretty much planned the trip out yourself, it is kinda interesting. It is certainly not indispensible though. And make sure you have an alternate guidebook and an atlas (the maps in this book are definitely lacking).
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Summary: Very Negative
Review: I returned this book because I found it to be very negative. For someone who enjoys to travel and loves to find unexplored (by me) roads, I looked forward to recieving this book. What a dissapointment. This author was very negative and had something to say on just about every road he wrote about. For example, instead of talking about the virtues of Plantation Alley, the author calls it Chemical Corridor. Yuck. There are many lovely books available about traveling and a good map will provide you with many roads unexplored. I would suggest that you skip this book altogether.
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Summary: This book made my cross country trip great!
Review: I rode 6600 miles through the US on a motorcycle, with most of the routes chosen from this book. This book made my trip great. The restaurants, hotels and roads are well thought out and have clearly been visited first hand by the author and his team. Don't take a road trip without this book.
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Summary: Blind Man Traveling
Review: I thought this sounded like an interesting book, but then I decided to read what Jensen had to say about where I live - Athens, Ohio - which is on US 50. I'm guessing the author never really visited Athens, because there is no possible way that he could have thought Athens to be pleasant, attractive, and progressive.
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Summary: A Road Trip Must
Review: I used this book on a trip following the Mississippi, from New Orleans to Chicago, and it made my road trip epic. Without it, I would have missed spectacular yet obscure sights like the restaurant shaped like a mammy in Mississippi and the world's largest ketchup bottle in southern Illinois. You will miss so much if you just drive on the eight-lane interstates, yet seeing the cool stuff on the two-lane roads can be hit or miss without someone to show you the way. Let this book be your guide. A gem for all road trip pilgrims.
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Summary: Your Best Road Trip Companion!
Review: If you are planning a cross country road trip -- you must have this guide along! The author touches the pulse of road-trippers eveywhere: the quest for the zany, unexpected and downright quirky! When you are ready to plan your trip of a lifetime, be sure to check out "Live Your Road Trip Dream: Travel for a year for the cost of staying home". The authors will get your moving from the dreaming to the doing in no time at all.
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