Re: alfa-digest V7 #66

[drubie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Rubie)]

> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:37:14 -0400
> From: "Simpson, Jr, Joe B." <jbs@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re:Bill's Crazy Alfa Trip Idea
> 
> > Robin Boyar <rboyar@domain.elided> wrote:
> > 
> 	>Having recently taken a tour of the West, I have one
> suggestion- avoid
> 	>the Interstates and take secondary roads.  The obvious choices
> are Route
> 	>1 in CA and Route 66 through the Southwest, but there are other
> equally
> 	>wonderful roads that present a slice of Americana from the 50s
> and 60s.
> 	>Basically, what I did was wake up every morning, and pick a
> thin line on
> 	>the map- but there's a book called Road Trip USA by Jamie
> Jensen which
> 	>outlines many of these roads.  
> 
> There's also a good book called "Blue Highways," written (I think) by
> William Least Heat Moon.
> 
> 	  -joe


Yeah, but are either of these books as good as "Roadside America",
the bizarre guide to every tacky and awful tourist destination
in the US?  Great book for a giggle.

dave.
(safe down under :-)

------------------------------