Along Florida's Expressways [Spiral-bound]

Dave Hunter (Author)

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 202 pages
• Publisher: Mile Oak Publishing (October 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1896819451
• ISBN-13: 978-1896819457
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #951,958 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable!, September 8, 2006

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Patricia L. Poole - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Along Florida's Expressways (Spiral-bound)

With "Along Florida's Expressways", Dave Hunter has produced a second indispensable travel guide. He is also the author of "Along I-75", the snowbird's best friend on their trip to Florida. "Along I-75" provides details of every gas station, hotel, restaurant, and more at every exit between Detroit MI and Lake Park GA, as well as "insider" information and historical notes. However, the shortcoming of that book is it abandons the reader at the Georgia border to make their own way to their Florida destination. For years, Mr. Hunter provided (free, on request) a bare bones pamphlet detailing I-75 from the border to Tampa, but that left many gaps. Now, with the advent of "Along Florida's Expressways", all gaps have been closed.

This volume has the same basic design as "Along I-75": 25 mile strip maps, accompanied by pages of text. However, because so many different roads are covered in this book, it is not as easy to use as it's counterpart. Finding the pages which apply to your own travel plans can be difficult, so bookmarking them with a paper clip is recommended. Perhaps in future editons, tabbed dividers will be inserted to label and divide one set of highway maps from another.

That said, it is hard to imagine any other improvements on this guide. No matter your destination, every service at every exit is detailed, making it simple to plan your trip.

One fact worth noting: "Along Florida's Expressways" will be updated in September of odd years (ie., September 2007). The companion volume will be updated in September of even years. This schedule is just about right. In past, when "Along I-75" was updated annually, it was possible to skip a year and use the old edition for a second trip. However, after two years the information was too stale to be useful. Dave Hunter has filled an important niche with his two guides, and I look forward to new editions of both for years to come.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent trip-guide and recourse for anyone aspiring to move to, or vacation in Florida, March 3, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Along Florida's Expressways (Spiral-bound)

Along Florida's Expressways by Dave Hunter is an exclusive and precise look into the "public knowledge" navigation of Florida, intending to bring ease to the traveler or newcomer of the interstates and bigger cities of the Sun State. Enhanced with a 25 miles-per-page full-colored strip maps, Along Florida's Expressways provides the reader with and easy-to-use and helpful guide through and around Florida. Highly recommended, Along Florida's Expressways is an excellent trip-guide and recourse for anyone aspiring to move to, or vacation in Florida.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful-but confusing, January 17, 2009

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M. Fallon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Along Florida's Expressways (Spiral-bound)

This book is helpful but confusing in it's layout. The maps are not as easy to read as the Drive I-95 book. The map pages contain a lot of information and so the pages are hard to read and decipher. It was helpful in that it started at the Georgia border where the Drive I-95 book ends. It also has info for all the other roads in FL such as I-4, 75, 10 etc. In this book, one map contains all info for each way as opposed to the Drive I95 book which has separate maps for North and South. It was more difficult to navigate the maps going in the opposite direction of the layout.

We used it on a recent trip to DisneyWorld driving from SC (using the I95 and I4 maps in FL and the Drive I95 book for GA & SC). It lists all of the rest stops and has close up maps of the Orlando area, which helped alot. All in all I would recommend it, but look it over before you use the maps to get used to the layout.