Romancing the Roads : A Driving Diva's Firsthand Guide, East of the Mississippi (Paperback)

from JaneHuber

I love a good armchair travel guide, but this book is a major disappointment. It's a "firsthand guide" with a heavy emphasis on Florida and Virginia, states in which the author clearly spends a lot of time. Most of the other states get an incredibly short shrift. In the Massachusetts chapter: "It...

from NellieMc

I asked for this book thinking it would be a fun story of traveling about America and finding great stories, ala Bill Bryson, Charles Osgood, Stephen Frye. instead, it's short, superficial notes of just a few places to eat, stay, and visit. This is Volume 1, covering the East of the Miss., but wi...

from ShawnMarie

I am a woman who loves to travel on daytrips to out of the way and hidden spots in my home state of Pennsylvania. I've never felt a need to travel outside the boundaries of our state because there is so much to see IN our state. You'd never know that though from Gerry Hempel Davis' review of Penn...

from acornell

Romancing the Roads is a slickly packaged book, but it is not a travel memoir, rather a travel guide, and as far a guides go it is really lacking. She apologizes right up for missing 4 states east of the Mississippi: Vermont, New Hampshire, Indiana and Mississippi. I live in Indiana and have live...

from katkat50

I've been putting off doing this review, because the book was such a disappointment. The title -- "Romancing the Roads: A Driving Diva's Firsthand Guide" -- suggested to me that this would be more than the usual guide to all the best tourist traps along the road. The book claims: "Unlike typical ...