Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen

From Barnes & Noble

The third edition of this durable classic packs more than 900 pages of trip tips, historical factoids, and accommodation information. In fact, Road Trip USA is so full of delightful highway tours and stop suggestions that novelists as well as tourists mine it for travel data.

From the Publisher

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 celebrate 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.

Library Journal

Jensen, the author of two books in the "Rough Guides" travel series (Penguin), knows that to really see the United States the traveler must exit the interstate highways and enter the two-lane byways. Covering 11 cross-country, noninterstate roads that traverse the nation north to south or east to west, Jensen documents the local color of American popular culturethe out-of-the-way monument, throwback diner, area radio station, or local brewery. He provides historical lore and amusing trivia about points along the way, as well as practical advice on where to stay, where to find tourist offices, and how to find updates on local road conditions. An appendix includes "Survival Guides," which offers travel information on two dozen major cities, and an annotated reading list. Jensen's guide is essential for travelers who are more interested in finding the real America than the fastest way from points A to B. Highly recommended.Pamela W. Bellows, Northwestern Connecticut Community Technical Coll. Lib., Winstead

Product Details

• ISBN: 1566917662
  
• ISBN-13: 9781566917667
• Format: Paperback, 890pp
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Pub. Date: April 2006
• Edition Description: Fourth Edition
• Edition Number: 4
• Sales Rank: 18,172
• Series: Road Trip USA Series