Road Tripping in the US - Updated

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8. I love Road Tripping as well

Since my husband and I are semi-retired and our children are grown, we take a couple 3 week roadtrips per year. We'll take the freeways to get quickly further from home and then get off the freeways and meander to our destinations. I like your idea of "no chains" tour. We pretty much do the same thing, although we also camp a lot. We bring along Guy Fieri's "Diners, Drive-Inns and Dives" and Jane and Michael Sterns "Roadfood" books. Some of the places have been great, others seemed to go downhill. We'll also drive through a town and lunchtime and just look for the cafe with all the cars parked outside. We've had some wonderful, memorable meals that way.

I don't usually take internet access with me although I did on a trip this spring. I used "TripAdvisor" to find/price motels.

Another thing I do, as the navigator, is draw on our atlas the route we took with markers for where we ate lunch and where/when we slept.

Wave back at you, I haven't found the smilies lookup yet!