Romancing the Roads: A Driving Diva's Firsthand Guide, East of the Mississippi [Paperback]

This newly updated compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads not as a phone directory but more as a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Unless otherwise noted, the author has visited every place mentioned, from Bud's Discount Center in Jasper, Alabama to the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes her way from Maine to Florida and west to the Mississippi River.Gerry Hempel Davis worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, was the youngest producer of the Ed Sullivan Show, and was for several years a correspondent for The Today Show. She is the author of the authorized history of The Today Show as well as The Moving Experience. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Maine
2. Massachusetts
3. Connecticut
4. Rhode Island
5. New York
6. New Jersey
7. Pennsylvania
8. Delaware
9. Maryland
10. Washington D.C.
11. Virginia
12. West Virginia
13. Kentucky
14. Tennessee
15. North Carolina
16. South Carolina
17. Georgia
18. Florida
19. Florida: East Coast
20. Florida: West Coast
21. Alabama
22. Ohio
23. Michigan
24. Illinois
25. Wisconsin
26. Latest Discoveries
Contributors
IndexThe memories my friend Charles Kuralt once gave us, / Are echoed today by Gerry Hempel Davis, / Who also loves driving our country’s back roads. / Where America’s romance and beauty explodes / With the power to touch, to inspire and move. / Somehow I know my friend Charles would approve.When I was a kid, Dinah Shore sang, ‘See the USA in your Chevrolet / America is asking you to call / Drive your Chevrolet through the USA / America&rsqlÃ$