This Is My South: The Essential Travel Guide to the Southern States
by Caroline Eubanks, Caroline
Darn, this wasn't nearly as good as I'd hoped. For each state covered, she split it into two or three areas--eastern, central, western--and gave a brief introduction. The introductions were the same old blah you'd read on the state travel guides on the web. Too short; too impersonal; too useless.
The next part of each area was a series of lists--places to eat, places to stay, unusual things to see, tours to take. I found that pretty useful information and made lots of bookmarks. But again, it was so impersonal as to be little more than the information you'd find in a Lonely Planet guide or any travel guide.
Too bad--it had great promise. And was very professionally done. And I mostly agreed with the sort of places she chose to include (thus all the bookmarks).
So it wasn't great, but might have been "worth the price of the book" as they say about recipes.
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