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Road Trip USA: Cross-country Adventures on America's Two-lane Highways (Moon Handbooks Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways) by: Jamie Jensen List Price: £17.99 City Travel Guides Price: £12.59 You Save: £5.40 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 917.304931 EAN: 9781566917667 ISBN: 1566917662 Label: Avalon Travel Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 964 Publication Date: March 31, 2006 Publisher: Avalon Travel Studio: Avalon Travel Sales Rank: 13964 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Book Description: This is the most popular American road guide ever, with more than 200,000 copies sold! With a flexible network of route combinations, extensively cross-referenced to accommodate hundreds of possible itineraries, this third edition now provides complete coverage of more than 40,000 miles of the best All-American highways. Guiding readers from Maine to Malibu, from the Canadian Rockies to the tip of Key West, and all points in between, author Jamie Jensen lets you experience the "real" America while also including need-to-know items for the road: Survival Guides for two dozen cities, call letters of popular local radio stations, facts about regional writers, and oddball trivia. Descriptions of all the great stuff road-trippers will find along the way are included, like funky diners and roadside curiosities, along with eye-catching photos, fun graphics, and user-friendly maps. "An immensely sophisticated masterwork. ....this is quite simply the best book of its type ever published." -- Conde Nast Traveler Synopsis: This is a new full colour edition of this bestselling guide to getting the most out of a road trip across the U.S. It is fully revised and updated, containing 140 detailed maps, as well as light hearted trivia. Now in its expanded fourth edition, the best-selling "Road Trip USA" is better than ever. Inside, you'll find cross-country routes and road-tested advice for adventurers who want to see part of America that the interstates have left behind. Mile-by-mile highlights celebrated major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions roadside curiosities (if you're looking for the world's largest jackalope, you're in luck), local lore, and oddball trivia. Exit the interstates and create your own driving adventures on America's two-land scenic highways. Features include: a flexible network of route combinations, extensively cross-referenced to allow for hundreds of possible itineraries; essential tips for the road: call letters of lively radio stations, "Survival Guides" for two dozen cities, and details on where to eat and sleep; and more than 140 meticulously detailed maps. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - This makes a road trip across the USA sound tedious....which seems a difficult thing to do. What is good about it, is that it describes each town/city and provides a couple of ideas for places to stay/eat which is useful. What it doesn't provide is a good read. I think because it's written by an American, it's not quite right for a British audience - as it doesn't provide the outsider's point of view which I was looking for. I'm not interested in knowing where the best baseball games are in each state nor anything that smacks of patriotism, I want to know when is the best time to travel to each place, what I need to look out for, what are good things to take, car hire information, where will give me a real glimpse of America, the FEEL of the places. The other issue, is that it reads from West ... Read More: Rating:  - OK but too specificThis book is likely an excellent guide for those who have a vague wish to take a road trip around the states but no clear idea of where to go, but if you have any plans or ideas of your own this probably isn't for you - it is more a book of factual anecdotes chronicaling a series of pre-set routes taken by the author than a guidebook, although the information on a specific place may be useful should you arrive there on your route. I would instead recommend the latest Rough Guide to the USA edition. Rating:  - The Travellers ReturnI had long yearned to undertake a USA road trip, but where do you start? And how do you ensure you experience the curiosities that you can find if you venture that little bit from the beaten track? Armed with Jamie in hand we used the "Road Trip USA" as our guide and motored along the US-80 trip. We veered off and saw New Oleans but STILL read through the info from another road trip to give us an idea of what was worth diverting from the straight and narrow to see. A really invaluable resource which gives you more than the average guide book to entertain you along the way. Enjoy the read. Enjoy the preparations that you will have to make, and then savour the journey. Rating:  - The easy drivers guide to small town AmericaJenson's view is that the Interstate is not for real travellers. The book covers a series of coast to coast and border to border trips through small town America in a detail which can be annoying and yet is thoroughly enjoyable. His style is easy, compulsive and, based on our previous experience of some of the places he describes, very honest. Full of throw away descriptions of "blink or you'll miss them" towns, facts and figures, the best places to eat, drink and sleep, and survival guides to the major metropolis en route the book is much more than the stereotypical guide. It offers an insight into an America which is not obtained from the more formal Fodor and Rough Guide style of guidebook. It is that lack of formality which ... Read More: Rating: - A good book to start the planning of your own road tripThis book really does help you get the full flavour of what a road trip across Northern America can really be about. This book covers places of interest and a lot of detailed local information in a compact and informative format. There has been a lot of research put into this book, and you get the sense that the author has actually gone through a similar experience, which is always a help! I recommend this to anyone thinking or who has an interest in doing a road trip across the US. Its a great resource, and small enough to take with you! |
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