Full name: New Roadside America: The Modern Traveler's Guide to the Wild and Wonderful World of America's Tourist

Author: Doug Kirby Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780671769314 0671769316

I went to a book fair with Gina and I found this in the dollar section and I was like, alllright! This is right up my alley!Then I got home and realized it was written in 1992. Damn! This stuff doesn't exist anymore. This book is full of animal acts, circus side shows, and strange museums so it's more a relic of the past than a guide to random statues and things.I'm pretty disappointed. I mean, I can't even go to Confederama in Chattanooga, TN anymore. I totally need...whatever racist shit they sold there. And omg, there's no way these space-aged themed hotels still exist. Did they give you those space themed pjs in the picture? Oh god. I will never know.It's pretty cool that it mentioned Centralia, and the future birth place of captain James T. Kirk.Not to mention the stupid drive thru redwood and giant Paul Bunyan/Babe the Blue Ox statue in Klamath, Ca. It's hardly worth seeing, but I feel entitled to have my childhood roadside attraction destinations mentioned in every roadside encyclopedia ever. Similar books: The Most Scenic Drives in America by Reader's Digest Hunting Mister Heartbreak by Jonathan Raban A Woman's Passion for Travel by Marybeth Bond To the Ends of the Earth by Paul Theroux Pole To Pole by Michael Palin Full Circle by Michael Palin Deep South by Paul Theroux Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin Equator by Thurston Clarke The Tao of Travel by Paul Theroux Road Trip USA by Jamie Jensen Vagabonding by Rolf Potts Falling Off the Map by Pico Iyer Slow Boats Home by Gavin Young Roads to Quoz by William Least Heat-Moon