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Sightseein' and RVin': Travel Adventures after 50

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The authors have an uncanny ability to find everything there is to do and experience in each place they travel to. They don't just stop and look, like typical tourists. They learn everything they can about the culture, geography, history, uniqueness of a place and experience it with all their senses. For example, at Death Valley: "We stopped to walk through the remains of a gold-mining operation...the silence was fascinating. It wasn't a 'deafening quiet,' where you're in a closed room and can hear your heartbeat, but a strange lack of sound and space and time." "Taking a step on the dry rocky ground made a crunching sound that might be heard by a coyote in those mountains." The Chinese laborers at the borax mines "who dug these mine shafts and built these adobe buildings in the 120 degree summer heat also had to boil the minerals extracted from the ground before loading the pure borax into the 20-mule team wagons for their 60-mile haul. Can you imagine that heat?" (p.141)
This book has added to my list of must-see places, and changed it into a list of must-experience places. The authors have become my personal travel guides.

For years I have wanted to travel through all of the Continental US. Through this book, I have had a front seat view of all the places I ever want to travel too and more. I've seen sights, heard sounds, and enjoyed food through Sue and Ed as they have shared their experiences as they traveled through this great land. Don't miss out on the adventures that await you as you travel through this book.

This book opened my eyes to the joys of RVing and the Wonders of our Country! It's not a "how-to" book but more of a "why-to" or "why-not" story of two mid-westerners who broke tradition and set off to follow their dreams. While pursuing their goal of touring all the states, they explored National Parks and popular vacation spots, along with discovering unique destinations you won't find in guidebooks. I highly recommend this entertaining book to RVers, future RVers, armchair travelers and wannabees.

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Easy reading style. Lots of photos.
Full of great tips on places to park in cities for the night (free).
Best of all, it was written by two people aged 65+ who actually DID this.
They tell how they got WON CASH and donations-of-goods for doing gigs on their way around USA.
Very encouraging for anyone aged over 65 who wants to see the country, up close and at ordinary people level.
Brian Morris <RV around USA on $10 a Day>

This book was more of a personal travelogue than I expected. Too much" We went here,saw that, we went there, saw that", etc. Not enough narrative about the people they met and the places they stayed for my tastes. I would have liked to have heard about the trials and tribulations, frustrations, and problems encountered, along with the good stuff.