The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road
by Cameron Tuttle

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Book Review: this book speaks to me!
Summary: 5 Stars

As I read this book, it brought back memories of all the places my girlfriends and I have been in that quest to escape first, college life, and now "the real world". It made me realize I was ever so pleased that I used half a roll of film on the Mitchell Corn Palace, and that I have pictures of my best friend and I by the sod buffalo and indian at the site of the last standing Pony Express station in Kansas. So what if the pictures of us in Memphis on Beale St. turned out too dark- I know I had the best hard cider and super hot southern style tamales when I was there. And heck, who cares if you have heat stroke and your car is overheating as you head further south in the Mojave desert... Well, maybe I cared a little, but hey, I did it and lived to tell the tale!

This book is great for reliving memories of road trips past, and for pushing you forward to the road trips to come. Even though I just had a wonderful vacation in Cancun with one of my best friends, it's just not the same as hitting the hot blacktop in the summer, looking forward to all the beef jerky and chocolate milk you'll have along the way. Never knowing if you'll be sleeping in the car, pitching a tent in a scary field, or finding a $19 a night motel in Nebraska is one of the best parts of a road trip!

The hot pink cover appeals to the girliness in me, and the sticker in the back is a perfect match for my "I saw Elvis making crop circles" bumper sticker...by the way, a good companion book for Elvis fans is Bill Yenne's "Field Guide to Elvis Shrines" -makes for the perfect trip to find the King...

I would recommend trying everything Cameron Tuttle writes about, with the exception of the "sex with a stranger" advice, and picking up hitchikers (unless the hitchiker is a 15 year old boy on the Navajo reservation in AZ, it's 105 degrees out, and there's 3 of us in the car with him...). I'm too wary of what can happen to be that much of a "bad girl", but I realize this book is written with a lot tongue-in-cheek, and there are badder girls than me, so it definitely has it's place in the book.

I will probably buy copies to give to my fellow road-tripping girlfriends, to inspire them to hit the road with me soon. After all, it's time to hit the road when your salary is less than your age!

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