I visited the USA this summer and travelled around most of the country by train, which was really enjoyable and inexpensive and made it possible to see many places that are otherwise more of a problem to visit (such as the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon and desert country).
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blissfully weird travel guide contains 354 uniquely entertaining pages jam-packed with everything that's oddball, eerie, crazed and madcap about the great US of A.The first chapters describe what counts as "eccentric" (Friedman's definition stretches to take in the anarchic, the radical, and the thrillingly dull). After a brief diversion, which describes particularly eccentric people (such as the man who built a replica Holy Land out of cold cream jars), eccentric sports (think concrete canoeing, or rubber-duck races) and eccentric groups (Geek Pride anyone?), she gets to the meat of her peculiarity platter, a gazetteer where America's fruitcakes, wackos, nutters and heroic bores, and the weird places and events for which they are responsible, are listed and annotated state by state. This invaluable section is thus the place to go if you want to know about the Mike Weaver Drain Tile Museum (New York), or the Emma Crawford Coffin Races (Colorado). As you might expect, California and the Mid-West feature strongly, but the East Coast does surprisingly well too. Who in their right mind could resist Jack Mason's New Jersey Bar, "Penis Bones"? Or the Lobster Taxis of Bar Harbor, Massachusetts? Or the World Grits Festival of Little St George, South Carolina?Some travel guides are such fun they are worth reading in their own right; this is, quite definitely, one of them. --Sean Thomas
blissfully weird travel guide contains 354 uniquely entertaining pages jam-packed with everything that's oddball, eerie, crazed and madcap about the great US of A.The first chapters describe what counts as "eccentric" (Friedman's definition stretches to take in the anarchic, the radical, and the thrillingly dull). After a brief diversion, which describes particularly eccentric people (such as the man who built a replica Holy Land out of cold cream jars), eccentric sports (think concrete canoeing, or rubber-duck races) and eccentric groups (Geek Pride anyone?), she gets to the meat of her peculiarity platter, a gazetteer where America's fruitcakes, wackos, nutters and heroic bores, and the weird places and events for which they are responsible, are listed and annotated state by state. This invaluable section is thus the place to go if you want to know about the Mike Weaver Drain Tile Museum (New York), or the Emma Crawford Coffin Races (Colorado). As you might expect, California and the Mid-West feature strongly, but the East Coast does surprisingly well too. Who in their right mind could resist Jack Mason's New Jersey Bar, "Penis Bones"? Or the Lobster Taxis of Bar Harbor, Massachusetts? Or the World Grits Festival of Little St George, South Carolina?Some travel guides are such fun they are worth reading in their own right; this is, quite definitely, one of them. --Sean Thomas
A review by Eileenrose on Bradt Travel Guide to USA by Rail - Bradt Travel Guide September 10th, 2001
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I visited the USA this summer and travelled around most of the country by train, which was really enjoyable and inexpensive and made it possible to see many places that are otherwise more of a problem to visit (such as the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon and desert country).
US train travel is quite different to anything I've encountered anywhere else so it was essential to have John Pitt's guidebook USA by Rail guidebook to help me find my way around. A new edition has recently been published so it's bang up to date with all the latest trains (including Amtrak's superb high-speed Acela, capable of 150 mph) and has route guides for all long-distance trains in the States and Canada. The associated USA by Rail website (http://www.usa-by-rail.com) has lots of useful free information, including rail pass prices, route details, travel tips and the chance to win Amtrak rail passes and computer games.
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