Travel Smart: Iowa/Nebraska (Paperback)

~ Kyle Munson (Author) "These neighboring cities are the perfect starting point for your Iowa-Nebraska trip, providing a taste of both states..." (more)
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Product Description

This book takes the hassle out of travel by recommending only the best places to eat, stay, and visit - with prices to fit any budget. With more selective listings, itineraries to help organize driving routes, and a rigorous rating system, Travel-Smart guidebooks help readers build a trip quickly - and easily - around their own needs.

The guide includes road maps, a mileage chart, scenic routes already plotted out, and lots of helpful tips and sidebars. There are even estimates of how long it takes to visit particular sites. Chapters cover Ames, Madison County, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Sioux City, Oglala, Grand Island, North Platte, Lincoln, and much more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 1st edition (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562614924
• ISBN-13: 978-1562614928
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #776,454 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The extra best book that you can buy, with vinyl and stripes, May 2, 2001

By A Customer

I never thought a travel book could be so literate and engaging. It's almost as if the author grew up on the border of Iowa and Nebraska, possibly on the Iowa side. He paints a festive atmosphere about all the visited locales, and he does it with such interest that you can actually SEE the diamond so big it's gonna make you puke at the Iowa State Fair, TASTE the cup-o-pizza they sell at the Grotto of the Redemption, HEAR the townsfolk of Kearney, Nebraska singing "Picking Out a Thermos for You" in the Bandshell on Sunday nights after church, SMELL the perfumed dancers on the private disco floors of Scottsbluff, FEEL the ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, this magazine and the chair at the Iowa Great Lakes.

There was a special on VH1 where a former roommate of Munson was telling a story about living in their apartment, Munson's first. "I just really remember after I'd lived there a while, the guy from U.S. West came with the phone books. Kyle picks it up and starts, like, freaking out about it. He's all, 'The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need! My name in print! That really makes somebody! Things are going to start happening to me now.' And I was all, 'Chill dude.'"

Well, all I can say is that the new Iowa/Nebraska TravelSmart book is here. Buy it if you plan on going to either of those places, or, as the previous reviewer so insightfully stated, buy it if you're going to both.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars KYLE MUNSON RULES!, December 1, 2000

By	john mckinney (USA) - See all my reviews

WHAT A GREAT SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON BOTH IOWA AND NEBRASKA. IT TRULY IS A BLOCKBUSTER OF A READ! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT FOR ANYONE TRAVELING TO EITHER IOWA OR NEBRASKA - OR BOTH. IN FACT IF I DIDN'T ALREADY LIVE IN IOWA - AFTER READING THIS BOOK - I'D CERTAINLY CONSIDER A VISIT. I MAY EVEN GO OVER TO NEBRASKA.