Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways. [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Jamie Jensen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 2006

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 964 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 4th edition (March 31, 2006)
• ISBN-10: 1566917662
• ASIN: B002CMLQXO
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #971,634 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource, June 19, 2006

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J Martin Jellinek (Memphis, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways. (Paperback)

I just returned from a 7,250 mile road trip, following many of the routes in this book, specifically the Great Northern to the Pacific Coast Highway to the Oregon Trail. Jamie's book contained so many useful stopping places, although if I had stopped at all of them, this trip would have taken months rather than weeks. In using the book, you have to choose what works for you - and not everything is of interest. However, he did lead me to some wonderful places like Sullys Hill Nature Preserve in Devil's Lake, MT; the Buffalo Bill Historic Museum in Cody, WY; and the museum dedicated to lumbering in Grand Rapids, MN - all of which I might well have bypassed had it not been for Jamie's recomendations.

If you are planning a road trip this summer, either near or far, this book is a great resource. It is also great for the armchair traveller. But beware, it may get you out of your armchair and on the road. Buyer beware!

45 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but not a great reference, March 8, 2007

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Moshe Jacobson (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways. (Paperback)

This book details five north-south and five east-west journeys across the US. The book is arranged into 10 sections, one for each path, each of which lists, in order, all the sites worth seeing on the particular route in that section.
While it is a good collection of sites, the book is laid out in a way that makes it useful only if you read the entire thing. There is no easy way to look up the attractions by state or as dots on a map or by type or anything like that. There isn't even a table of contents at the beginning of the book or of each section. The only reference you have to a particular site is the blurb itself.
So while some may find this to be a useful guide, I'd say it needs a bit more work before it's a good reference.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars NEW EDITION BETTER THAN EVER, May 8, 2006

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Cara G (portland oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways. (Paperback)

The new edition of Road Trip USA is an amazing read. I've used a previous edition and this edition, now in full color, is filled with inspiring ideas as well as the practical, useful information you need to take a road trip. There's regional routes and bi-coastal routes all on two-lane highways. Amazing info and great photos and illustrations for armschair dreaming. I recommend this book to everyone.