Romancing the Roads

A Driving Diva's Firsthand Guide, West of the Mississippi

By (author) Gerry Hempel Davis

Publication date:

15 January 2016

Length of book:

394 pages

Publisher

Taylor Trade Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781630761677

This updated compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. Unlike typical guides, which read more like phone directories, Romancing the Roads is a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Join Gerry on a tour of hotels, B & B's, restaurants, national parks, antique stores, consignment shops, boutiques, and little-known places that make America such a great place for road-tripping. Unless otherwise noted, the author has visited every place mentioned, from the ostrich farm along Interstate 10 in Arizona to the Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes her way from Washington to California and east to the Mississippi River.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Louisiana
2. Arkansas
3. Missouri
4. Iowa
5. Minnesota
6. South Dakota
7. Nebraska
8. Kansas
9. Oklahoma
10. Texas
11. New Mexico
12. Colorado
13. Wyoming
14. Montana
15. Idaho
16. Utah
17. Arizona
18. Nevada
19. Washington
20. Oregon
21. California
Latest Discoveries
Contributors
Index

The memories my friend Charles Kuralt once gave us / Are echoed today by Gerry Hempel Davis / Who also loves driving our country’s back roads / Where America’s romance and beauty explodes. / With the power to touch, to inspire and move. / Somehow I know my friend Charles would approve.