It's good to have travel books when you go to faraway places. However, what you'll probably use even more over time are books about places to visit within a day's drive of where you live.
This is probably more important once you have kids. I would think you'd want to leave less up to chance and know where you're going and what to expect when you get there. Plus, shorter car trips are a great way to start preparing them for more extensive travel in the future.
One book with a lot of information for seeing Arizona is Day Trips from Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff by Pam Hait. There are lots of suggestions for trips you can take - with accompanying maps. The destinations include lesser-known sites as well as the big attractions.
Because it's so packed with useful stuff, we overlook its counter-intuitive organizational structure (i.e. there's more than one "Day Trip 01" and no index). It's worth the extra page flipping.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Day tripping
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5:37 a.m. post? Who needs sleep:)
ReplyDeleteFrom your travel buddy.
Well, I usually post around 8, but we were halfway to California by then! I could've blogged from the road, but I decided just to enjoy the day instead. I'll post photos later this week.
ReplyDeleteOh AZ is the greatest for day trips. I remember it fondly--a resident from '92-'96, baby.
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