Independent Travellers USA 2005 : The Budget Travel Guide

by Barbara Radcliffe-Rogers, Tom Bross, Ann Carroll Burgess, Tony Kelly, Tim Nollen, Lura Rogers, Kirk D Schneider, Roberta Sotonoff, Wendy Wood

• ISBN13: 9781841574240
• ISBN10: 1841574244
• Edition: Miniature
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing

Summary

Independent Travellers USA is an original and practical guide to traveling around this vast and exciting country on a budget. Revised annually, it is crammed with suggested routes to travel, cities and areas to visit, and offers budget options for accommodations, transportation, eating out, and sightseeing. The guide comes with its own tailored free mini weblinks CD.

Author Biography

A team of nine authors worked to create this guidebook: Barbara Radcliffe-Rogers, who remains involved with the book as managing editor, Tom Bross, Ann Carroll Burgess, Tony Kelly, Tim Nollen, Lura Rogers, Kirk D. Schneider, Roberta Sotonoff,and Wendy Wood.

Table of Contents

General Information
Introduction - How to Use this Book	p. 8
Country Map	p. 10
Route Map	p. 12
Reaching the United States	p. 14
Travelling around the USA	p. 16
Cross-country Routes	p. 30
A-Z of Travel Basics	p. 32
Timeline of American History	p. 68
Routes & Cities
The Northeast	p. 70
New York	p. 75
The Catskills and Upper New York State	p. 93
New York-Niagara Falls	p. 98
New York-The Hudson Valley	p. 103
New York-Boston	p. 108
Boston	p. 113
Rhode Island	p. 131
Massachusetts North Shore	p. 139
Boston-Cape Cod by Car	p. 145
Cape Cod and the Islands	p. 151
Maine Coast	p. 157
Boston-White Mountains	p. 166
The Berkshires and Green Mountains	p. 172
The Middle Atlantic	p. 179
New York-Ocean City	p. 184
Philadelphia	p. 191
Pennsylvania Dutch Country	p. 202
Washington DC	p. 204
Baltimore	p. 221
Annapolis	p. 227
Richmond and Williamsburg	p. 232
The Shenandoah Mountain Region	p. 243
Chicago-New York ('Three Rivers')	p. 251
The South	p. 255
New York-Florida	p. 260
Charleston	p. 262
Atlanta	p. 269
Savannah	p. 271
Orlando	p. 278
Florida Beyond the Theme Parks	p. 287
Memphis	p. 295
Chattanooga	p. 301
New Orleans	p. 304
Mobile	p. 316
The Midwest and Plains	p. 320
Chicago	p. 325
Chicago-New York ('Lake Shore')	p. 340
Chicago-New Orleans	p. 344
St Louis	p. 347
Chicago-Santa Fe	p. 354
Black Hills and Badlands	p. 358
Washington-Chicago	p. 362
The Southwest	p. 366
Los Angeles-Orlando ('Sunset Limited')	p. 370
Dallas and Fort Worth	p. 374
San Antonio	p. 377
Big Bend National Park	p. 383
Santa Fe	p. 385
Santa Fe-Durango and Beyond	p. 391
Taos	p. 397
Albuquerque	p. 402
Tucson	p. 406
Chicago-Denver	p. 411
Denver	p. 414
Colorado Driving Loop	p. 421
Denver-San Francisco	p. 426
Los Angeles-Santa Fe	p. 430
Phoenix	p. 433
The Grand Canyon	p. 435
The Northwest	p. 444
Yellowstone National Park	p. 448
Seattle	p. 456
San Juan Islands and Olympic Peninsula	p. 464
The Northern Cascade Mountains	p. 468
Oregon Coast and Cascade Mountains	p. 472
Seattle-Chicago	p. 482
Vancouver and Victoria, Canada	p. 489
Alaska	p. 495
The Far West	p. 497
Los Angeles	p. 502
Southern Utah National Parks	p. 510
Las Vegas	p. 516
Los Angeles-San Diego	p. 518
San Diego	p. 521
San Diego-Santa Barbara	p. 532
Pacific Coast Highway South	p. 537
San Francisco	p. 543
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks	p. 555
Yosemite National Park	p. 561
San Joaquin Valley	p. 570
San Francisco-Oregon Border	p. 574
Los Angeles-Seattle ('Coast Starlight')	p. 583
Hawall	p. 587
Index	p. 589
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Excerpts

"The changing landscape of America looms outside the windows of the 'Southwest Chief'. The train leaves the urban sprawl of Chicago in its dust as it rolls past Illinois's prairies and over two great rivers, the Missouri and the mighty Mississippi. In western Missouri, the railway begins to trace the Santa Fe Trail. Opened in 1821, the trail blazed the way for pioneers, missionaries, trappers and traders from Franklin, Missouri, to Santa Fe. It crosses the spacious wheatfields of Kansas, and the legendary Old West until it ascends the towering Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Ratón Pass into New Mexico's high country near Santa Fe."

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