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Road Trip USA Route 66

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If you have Road Trip USA then don't bother with Road Trip USA Route 66. There is not very much additional material. For an overview of Route 66, this is an okay book. If you want a lot of detail about the route, there are many other books that are much beter. Road Trip USA Route 66 gives an overview of the route, the towns on the route and a little history about the route. There are no turn directions, which are needed if you intend to travel Route 66, which I highly recommend (it will take you two weeks to a month to travel all 2400 miles and see most of the well-known sites). Route 66 is not marked very well in many of the states it passes through. This is why you have to have detailed maps or a book that details the route.

By the way, the original Road Trip USA is a good overview book of the main non-interstate, transcontenental highways in the USA. I have used it many times to travel with my wife, in our convertible, on long weekends.

We've just completed a Route 66 road trip and this little book was our bible, I wouldn't have been without it!!

This book is well written and easy to follow, with plenty of pictures of things to see and do along the way. It covers the cute, kitschy places you may want to stop, and also a couple of practical suggestions for places to eat and stay in most cities. It also has handy info for side trips off Route 66 that you will probably want to do while you're there. I found it very useful.

Note: The book assumes you'll be driving East to West like most people. We went backwards, so we just had to read the book backwards. Also, the book does include a few small maps, but they're not really sufficient on their own. We used a GPS so we didn't need to worry about the maps. Also, the book isn't fully comprehensive, there are a few spots and even towns that it misses, but it's so small and compact that it's easy to carry around with you every day, so that's an acceptable compromise.

I bought several books for our Route 66 trip, and this was by far the best.

I found this book OK. This was my first book and it was informative and had many great pictures and facts.

My local Corvette Club was doing a road trip down the historic Route 66 in Missouri. I wanted a road map that would let me know today's actual highways/roadways to supplement the club's basic narrative trip directions. What I received was a freelance sketch with narrative. There was no way to judge the route over existing highways and no scale of mileage. It was sophmoric and useless. A total rip off.