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Along Florida's Expressways

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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.

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.

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.

I have the I-75 book by the same author so I had to have the Florida book. This book is terrific!!! It tells you everything you want & need to know about Florida and the highways. It tells you gas, lodging, restaurants, sights of interest, and even where the police might be looking for you. Also, construction sights, speed limits, what kind of highway, even the author's tips on what lanes to be in and if there is another way around busy traffic areas. This is TERRIFIC!!!!!

I WAS VERY HAPPY WITH ALL THE INFO AVAILABLE IN THIS BOOK. IT ARRIVED JUST BEFORE MY TRIP TO FLORIDA, SO IT WAS IMMEDIATELY PUT TO USE.

This is an excellent book for those who are transplants to Florida or others that are visitors/explorers. It is a detailed account of restaurants, places of interest and a map along the way of your trip.

This is the best travel book I have ever seen. Didn't really even need the map and tour books our automotive club provided for our Florida trip. Very accurate and nicely illustrated and well as easy to understand.

The maps are oriented with South at the top, North at the bottom, which means they are upside-down compared to any other map you may have.
Because of this needless distraction, I downgraded my rating.

Along Florida's Expressways, 2nd Edition by Dave Hunter is another of Dave's Excellent travel guides, designed particularly for the fly/drive visitor. The book is filled with a wealth of information because the author and his wife personally drove every inch of the state's expressways in both directions. The couple tell points of interest you would never find on your own, vital information about rest stops, gas stations, museums, restaurants, and fast food places. But they also include fascinating trivia and fun facts that make the book a good read along the way. The many pages of detailed maps show just 25 miles at a time and tell everything you need to know! This is a MUST for your drive anywhere in Florida.

We bought this after purchasing the "Along Interstate 75" book because we loved the I-75 book so much.