Tag archive for road trip tips

View gallery Every year our US-based editors team up with Lonely Planet’s expert authors to compile a list of US destinations that are prime for the next year. Best in Travel 2013 already covered two places we think the world should be looking at – San Francisco and the Gulf…

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I understand that train trips aren’t technically road trips, but in the winter, sometimes its good to have travel options. And, oh the things you can see! This year I booked my holiday travels on Amtrak, from KC to DC, really having no idea what…

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It’s that time of the year and ya gotta pack the wagon for the road.  What are some of the essentials that can make or break any trip? Good tunes – iPod, Cds or old school radio – music makes it. “This American Life” –…

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Here is my purely subjective list of folk art faves… from Kelly Ludwig, Detour Art Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain – “God is Love” and so is Leonard. S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden – The oldest visionary site in America Fred Smith’s Wisconsin Concrete Park –…

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