Benefits of Guide Books
Being prepared for a trip gives you a better chance to enjoy
your upcoming trip even before you head out the door. In most
countries there are tourist information services that can
provide you with guide books, as well as a great variety of
planners, booklets, brochures, maps, and everything necessary to
make your trip a unique experience to have as much fun as
possible during your stay in what ever destination you chose.
In fact, not only through official and service channels can you
get guide books, maps and other material to plan your trip but
also through books stores where there are a wide range of
resources and advice for anyone, whether you are traveling on
luxurious budget or on a slim budget. One of these notorious
resources which has attained fame for its commercial success is
Route 66, Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion by Tom Snyder.
"It's tempting to think of old Route 66, stretching from Chicago
to Los Angeles, as a happy accident", introduces Bobby Troup to
which is considered the first modern guide to driving Route 66,
a USA Highway became the most famous road in the American
highway system and possibly the most storied highway in the
world, that originally ran from Chicago, Illinois through
Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and
California before ending at the beach at Santa Monica for a
total distance of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).
This Traveler's Guide depicts the importance and use of Guide
Books, being such a long way to follow up, it would be hard to
make the whole route 66 without maps and other useful readable
tools to complete the trip satisfactorily. Tom Snyder not only
compiled the main points and attractions alongside the road from
its starting point to its opposite end, but he has thoughtfully
separated the driving directions.
Guide Books like these include his trove of route 66 related
anecdotes named as "Roadside Companion" to make the guide even
more useful. Additionally to this fact, one of the book's most
distinctive features are several reproductions of period maps
from the Automobile Club of Southern California, but over which
the route of the modern Interstate was superimposed, giving to
the reader at a glance a perspective of the road ahead before
start the trip itself.
If your are wondering how guide books may serve you, have a look
at Route 66, Traveler's Guide and Roadside Companion to find the
answer, though a book that is fun to read and totally helpful
for planning a Route 66 drive, to use as an example to learn how
to plan for many other travels to any other location worldwide.