The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road

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Summary: Attractive AND durable
Review: This little baby is attractive (Barbie pink to appeal to our femininity) yet durable (plastic cover to shield it from drive-thru burger grease and bug splats). Conveniently pocket-sized, THE BAD GIRL'S GUIDE TO THE OPEN ROAD is a must-have for any woman who's on-the-go.

Punctuated by hilarious drawings, this little book contains big tips, fashion tips, ways to stay law-abiding, and even trivia. This book pointedly teaches you how to "get in touch with your badness" and manages to be wildly entertaining in the process.

Highly recommended if a.)your secret heroes are Thelma and Louise; b.)you feel the need for speed; c.)you are tired of playing 20 questions and the license plate game; and/or d.)you're ready to take to the open road.

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Summary: The Bumper sticker is on my car!
Review: I found this book in a little gift shop...read it cover to cover and went back to buy several more for my friends. As other reviewers have said, I loved it because I could have written it myself - but Ms. Tuttle did a much better job. This is the book for any woman who has ever descibed her travel plans, only to have someone ask, "why would you drive when you can fly?". Next time, hand them this book as an answer. Not only did it make me laugh out loud, but it gave me useful advice - and the confidence that I am not a mutant, but just haven't met all of those road sisters out there. The plastic cover also comes in handy when you're on a road trip and your tent leaks, as mine did...all of my gear was drenched, the book sustained no injuries.

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Summary: Road Trip "must-have"
Review: I purchased this on a whim and it is so good. Even better than the "Bad Girl's Journal." Having taken road trips both solo and with girlfriends in my single days, I was IMMEDIATELY captivated, and kept saying, "how true." I'm buying it for all the girls for Christmas this year. (and it is only April!).

Enjoy!

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Summary: this book speaks to me!
Review: As a veteran of numerous road trips, I was very excited to read this book and see if I've done anything "wrong". I realized you pretty much can't go wrong if you always allow for things not to go quite how you imagined, and just have fun. Cameron Tuttle's advice is always hilarious, but quite helpful, and provoked a lot of "hmmm...I never thought of trying that" comments from me.

As I read this book, it brought back memories of all the places my girlfriends and I have been in that quest to escape first, college life, and now "the real world". It made me realize I was ever so pleased that I used half a roll of film on the Mitchell Corn Palace, and that I have pictures of my best friend and I by the sod buffalo and indian at the site of the last standing Pony Express station in Kansas. So what if the pictures of us in Memphis on Beale St. turned out too dark- I know I had the best hard cider and super hot southern style tamales when I was there. And heck, who cares if you have heat stroke and your car is overheating as you head further south in the Mojave desert... Well, maybe I cared a little, but hey, I did it and lived to tell the tale!

This book is great for reliving memories of road trips past, and for pushing you forward to the road trips to come. Even though I just had a wonderful vacation in Cancun with one of my best friends, it's just not the same as hitting the hot blacktop in the summer, looking forward to all the beef jerky and chocolate milk you'll have along the way. Never knowing if you'll be sleeping in the car, pitching a tent in a scary field, or finding a $19 a night motel in Nebraska is one of the best parts of a road trip!

The hot pink cover appeals to the girliness in me, and the sticker in the back is a perfect match for my "I saw Elvis making crop circles" bumper sticker...by the way, a good companion book for Elvis fans is Bill Yenne's "Field Guide to Elvis Shrines" -makes for the perfect trip to find the King...

I would recommend trying everything Cameron Tuttle writes about, with the exception of the "sex with a stranger" advice, and picking up hitchikers (unless the hitchiker is a 15 year old boy on the Navajo reservation in AZ, it's 105 degrees out, and there's 3 of us in the car with him...). I'm too wary of what can happen to be that much of a "bad girl", but I realize this book is written with a lot tongue-in-cheek, and there are badder girls than me, so it definitely has it's place in the book.

I will probably buy copies to give to my fellow road-tripping girlfriends, to inspire them to hit the road with me soon. After all, it's time to hit the road when your salary is less than your age!

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Summary: Road Trip "must-have"
Review: I purchased this on a whim and it is so good. Even better than the "Bad Girl's Journal." Having taken road trips both solo and with girlfriends in my single days, I was IMMEDIATELY captivated, and kept saying, "how true." I'm buying it for all the girls for Christmas this year. (and it is only April!).

Enjoy!

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Summary: Plus 5 MORE Stars
Review: Ladies. Do yourself a favor, buy this book! Not only is it RIP ROARINGLY Hilarious, its stuffed full of genuinely useful information as well (I have actually used the "passenger side stall" what a godsend when past the roadside is basically a fifty foot drop!) and of course some not so practically useful but damn entertaining stuff as well.
(Who needs smokey eyeshadow..use the schmutz off your tires! one less thing to bring that takes up room otherwise used for your bad girl contraband!)

This book treats you like the intelligent bold woman you are.
With sound advice on just about anything and ANYONE you will encounter on your roadtrip of life.
Plus a hot pink sticker so you can indentify who else is "cookin under the hood"

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Summary: Hot pink salvation!
Review: "The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road" is the first, and greatest, of Tuttle's hugely popular Bad Girl franchise, and for good reason. This book--no kidding--stays in the glove compartment next to my car insurance and registration. Not only is it hysterical, the fun and useless advice (how to use roadside condiments as a facial) are sitting right there next to the all-girls-need-to-know-this advice (how to connect the jumper cables to a car battery). I don't think it would be a stretch to say that Cameron Tuttle saved my life.

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Summary: So true
Review: Had me laughing out loud. This book is really funny. Cameron Tuttle and I could be sisters as we really think alike. I just wish I could write like her. Fast read, most entertaining.

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Summary: Stuck in traffic for 2 hours - this book saves the day.
Review: On a road trip with my girlfriends, we ended up stuck in traffic for almost 2 hours. I turned to this book for a rescue from the boredom. We ended up playing a game suggested in the book where each player starts at a car door and runs around the car opening and closing doors, trying to catch up with the player ahead of them. It was hysterical for us and the other motorists. This book goes on every trip now!

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Summary: very witty
Review: I love the Bad Girl's publications. They are funny and practical (ok, maybe not everything in them is practical) and a very nice antidote to the people telling us to be more ladylike and reserved. Bad Girls do have more fun!!