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Road Trip!
Journey Along America's
Highways and Byways

Sometimes you just want to throw a suitcase in the car and hit the road! There is a sense of freedom when you drive along America's highways and byways through unfamiliar places. In stories, a road trip often symbolizes the inner journey a character makes. If the price of gas is too high this summer, check out one of our road trip reads to travel without leaving your lawn chair. Reading takes you everywhere!

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." Henry Miller

Road Trip Books

Fiction

  • Berg, Elizabeth       The Pull of the Moon

  • Bruckheimer, Linda       Dreaming Southern

  • Kadohata, Cynthia       The Floating World

  • Kerouac, Jack       On the Road

  • Kingsolver, Barbara       Bean Trees

  • McCarthy, Cormac       The Road

  • McCrumb, Sharyn       St. Dale

  • McLarty, Ron       The Memory of Running

  • McMurtry, Larry       Loop Group, Cadillac Jack

  • Samuel, Barbara       Lady Luck's Map of Vegas

  • Simpson, Mona       Anywhere But Here

  • Steinbeck, John       The Grapes of Wrath

  • Tyler, Anne       Earthly Possessions, Breathing Lessons

  • Waller, Robert James       A Thousand Country Roads: an Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County

  • Williamson, Debrah       Singing with the Top Down

Nonfiction

  • 917.30492 BRYSON       Bryson, Bill      The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

  • 917.3 JENKINS       Jenkins, Peter      A Walk Across America, The Walk West

  • 973.92 KURALT       Kuralt, Charles      Charles Kuralt's America

  • 917.3 HEAT       Least Heat Moon, William      Blue Highways: A Journey into America

  • 917.3049 LEONARD       Leonard, Mike      The Ride of our Lives: Roadside Lessons of an American Family

  • 973 PETERSON       Peterson, Dale      Storyville, USA

  • 973.099 PIRSIG       Pirsig, Robert M      Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  • 917.3049 STEINBECK       Steinbeck, John      Travels with Charley

Travel Guides

  • Fodor's

  • Frommer's

  • Lonely Planet

  • Mobile

  • Moon

  • National Geographic

  • Off the Beaten Path

  • Rand McNally Road Atlas

  • Smithsonian

To find these guides in the library:

Search for the series name
OR
Search for the state or city name and "guidebooks"
OR
Ask a librarian

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Road Trip Movies

Available from the Athens Regional Library System:

  • Bonnie and Clyde

  • Breathing Lessons

  • Broken Flowers

  • Getting There

  • Leaving Normal

  • Little Miss Sunshine

  • Lost in America

  • National Lampoon's Vacation

  • Rain Man

  • Smoke Signals

  • Thelma & Louise

  • Transamerica

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Web Sites

Map your trip with:

www.randmcnally.com

www.mapquest.com

http://maps.google.com

Find out more:

www.aaa.com

www.roadtripamerica.com

www.roadsideamerica.com

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