Product Description
Moon USA Travel Planner is a sampler of top travel destinations in the U.S. Excerpted from Moon’s Handbooks series, this eBook offers information on vacation spots ranging from Washington’s San Juan Islands to Florida’s Gulf Coast. Rather than providing in-depth coverage on just one location, this is a fun-to-browse guide that offers overviews of fifty-two individual cities, states, regions, and national parks and monuments—along with a trip-planning section, suggested itineraries, maps, and photos for each one. With chapters on Napa and Sonoma, Yellowstone, New Mexico, Michigan, Kentucky, New York, Rhode Island, and more, Moon USA Travel Planner gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
Product Details
- Published on: 2011-05-11
- Released on: 2011-05-16
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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Not Very Realistic and Too High LevelBy Michael P. Gallagher
The book description appeared promising, but I was a bit disappointed and was glad this was offered for free: most of the content describing various areas are extremely high-level and appear to be in less detail than a Wikipedia summary.
Being from Texas, I decided to first check out the Texas section and the book's associated recommendations of how to spend a week traveling the state. If you follow the book's recommendations, you will spend most of your time driving vs. really being able to see anything. For example, even at a steady 70 mph of driving you will spend at least 4 hours in the car on Day 3, 8 hours on Day 4, 7 hours on Day 8, and 5 hours on Day 9. I don't believe you will be able to see too much on your trip except the bumber of the car or truck in front of you.
I didn't think the recommended "to do" on some of the trips was very realistic. For example, the guide recommends you spend day 9 in Houston at the Space Center; the Space Center is about 4.5 hours from San Antonio (assuming you don't have to stop for a break). The Space Center is a great destination and would take at least a full day to enjoy it all, but the book assumes you can drive from San Antonio to Houston, visit the Space Center, then hop in the car for another hour or so drive to spend the rest of your day checking out the Museum District - you could spend days in the Museum District. Not very realistic.
The book does have a lot of nice pictures, hence the tremendous size of the book in the Kindle format.
While this was free, if you are looking for a realistic guide to plan a vacation I would recommend something else.
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