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Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road (Backroads of ...)

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Although this book isn't specifically about Route 66 (where to stay, where to eat, what to see), it is a nice companion for knowing about the other interesting sidetrips along the way. The pictures are beautiful and the text is well written. I'm not disappointed that I bought this book but if you are looking for one that sticks to Route 66 in a roadmap sort of way (like the Route 66 Adventure Handbook does), you will probably be disappointed.

This book was a starting point for us as we plan to do this trip in April 2012, so we needed a starting point for information. This book has provided many references as starting point as well as places of interest that we had no prior knowledge of. The photos and illustrations are great and we will be reading it several times.

Using Route 66 as lead in, Hinckley basically offers us a guide to
'scenic side trips' from various points along Route 66. Again, this book attempts to ride on the route's name and establish it as a base for taking those side trips along it's course.

From that POV, it's not a bad book. Very limited in scope, it nonetheless offers some ideas of places to take side trips. It's not a Route 66 book.

I think that the carnaval Route 66 book, led by the Wallis' offerring of 1990, the book about the route being a real fun thing, has been pretty much played out. Those folks out there who strive to make a living selling Route 66 are forced to come up with new ideas to sell books. Instead of taking a deeper look into what the route really was, or its history, it seems to be better marketing to put out books like this, with a lot of pictures, etc.

After reading this book I had the that feeling that I'd just wasted some money actually buying it. It quickly went to the bottom of the stack of books I know I'll never look at again, let alone read.

Unless you like the side trips off Route 66, I'd advise you to pass on this one.