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Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways
by
Jamie Jensen
Now in its 10th anniversary 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 celebrate major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities (if you’re looking for the worl...more
Paperback, 964 pages
Published
March 31st 2006
by Avalon Travel Publishing
(first published 1996)
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The fifth edition of Road Trip USA comes at an opportune time. Gas per gallon is down more than a dollar from last year, and in looking at a line graph projecting the U.S. unemployment rate, if it doesn’t trigger a desire to go on an uphill hike in the Colorado mountains, it exposes that there are plenty of people out there with newly found time on their hands. Time, I say, for a road trip.
What Jamie Jensen does with his colored photographs and charming details is provoke us to stop considering...more
What Jamie Jensen does with his colored photographs and charming details is provoke us to stop considering...more
Absolutely INDISPENSABLE book for anyone who is planning an authentic American Road Trip. This isn't your typical travel guide telling you where to find five star lodging and the best golf courses. This book presents real "Golden Age of America" car travel, taking you along two-lane U.S. Highways, through small towns and by roadside attractions less frequented in this increasingly fast-paced and impersonal society. If you're the kind of person who prefers sticking only to the interstate, eating...more
My husband and I wended our way cross country more than once with this book, which tipped us off to some wonderful spots and great experiences. I love it as a gift (along with cash for gas money) for a high school graduate to encourage travel, discovery and seeing it for yourself. The latest edition is a little glossier than the one we started out with (color pictures!), but retains the same tone that makes it a thoughtful resource.
When I was mapping out our road trip, I was really frustrated and disappointed with this book. I felt like it was full of places we had no intention of going to. But the beauty of the book really shined when we are on the road and I realized we can't be in The Big Places everyday. There are amazing things to find along the journey and this book provided so many little gems. A definite must for The Road.
This guide is definitely essential for everybody willing to get to know the USA by car, because it really tries hard to give you all information needed about the road you are on. It even gives you some information about the outdoor landmarks you should see, but not much, which the author compensates with the recommendations of the books and guides about the subject.
I am European, and I used to dream about crossing the USA by car, but now, after reading this guide, I am not so willing anymore. IM...more
I am European, and I used to dream about crossing the USA by car, but now, after reading this guide, I am not so willing anymore. IM...more
A must for the car travelling family vacations. So many spots to pull over and get out of the car that you'll end up off your path but so worth it. We 've been to the home of the corn dog, best chowder in Oregon and Sol Duc Hots Springs in WA. WOn't leave home without it.
Jul 08, 2012
Michael
marked it as to-read
I'm planing a trip out west to Route 66 mid Summer but knew this was something I had to have. Great stuff so far from just scanning and stopping.
This guide book is for the person who wants to experience an old fashioned road trip where the trip is the destination.
This edition covers 11 major road trips. Some going from Canada to Mexico and others from the west coast to the east coast.
The guide is full of sight seeing information for each route and offers may tips for your trip. For instance:
If you were to travel the "Great River Road" from Minnesota to Louisiana, watch out for speed traps in souther Illinois and be sure to stop in Metrop...more
This edition covers 11 major road trips. Some going from Canada to Mexico and others from the west coast to the east coast.
The guide is full of sight seeing information for each route and offers may tips for your trip. For instance:
If you were to travel the "Great River Road" from Minnesota to Louisiana, watch out for speed traps in souther Illinois and be sure to stop in Metrop...more
Mar 03, 2008
Stuck on Lou
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
ramblin' men and women
Shelves:
travel
I highly recommend this book, especially to anyone who is driving across the country. It outlines routes that are off the major highways and highlights points of interest and local history along the way. Also, at one particularly bendy part of route 66, the book tells you that comedian Bobcat Goldthwaite died in a motorcycle accident on those treacherous turns, which will lead to hours of heated debate with your car companions about whether Bobcat Goldthwaite is actually dead (he isn't).
This is one of those books that's really a reference guide every time you even THINK about going somewhere. It's packed full of great tips, locations, restaurants, and points out the quirkiness that is Americana in between. It's got a great layout, and goes in order of the roads, which makes it easy to work with when you're actually on a road trip.
If I even hit a quarter of the places listed in this book, I will consider myself lucky.
If I even hit a quarter of the places listed in this book, I will consider myself lucky.
I didn't read this book from cover to cover just the places that interested me the most. It was well put together and had a lot of good suggestions.
Loved this book! It was a great book while driving cross country. Lots of out of the way, unique sights, restaurants, and lodging. Even though it's 4-5 years old now, we used it again moving back across country in 2007. It was still very helpful. We also referenced their website, www.roadtripusa.com
This should be your first book to read if you want to travel by car off the main drag. It will get you started on trips from east coast to west coast and north to south. I used it for Route 66 and the Great River Road. Good information.
So you do not really read this, but you do Use it for Super Sweet Road Trips. This book has Great Detailed and Colorful Trip maps and Sweet Roadside Attraction Guides.
Lots of great ideas for us in here!! I look forward to putting them all to use over the next two weeks.
My favorite inspirational read - I took this cross country six times & I wanna go again!
The road is calling my name now...
pretty decent guide
it's my bible
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