Authored by husband and wife team Stan Posner and best-selling authoress Sandra Phillips-Posner, the travel guidebook Drive I-95 makes traveling down one of America’s principal thoroughfares easier. The author team spent ten hours per day in a car for eight weeks doing the research to make this 3rd Edition possible of the travel guidebook Drive I-95. Drive I-95 includes pet-friendly accommodations, and now this travel guidebook covers the Boston area to the Florida border. Currently, the authors are working on the Florida stretch of this great interstate highway for a future edition of this book.
The book is really loaded with important and useful information for traveling down I-95. This third edition of Drive I-95 opens with a pull out listing of radio stations that you can tune to on your car radio when traveling down this interstate, sorted by musical classification, including National Public Radio and Spanish listings. The coding for the map guides is also part of the pull out, too, along with a guide to using the map symbols.
You then begin the map section of the travel guidebook Drive I-95 in the Boston area, and from the bottom up (heading southbound), begin to see the highlights of each exit (including drugstores, eateries, gas stations, retail shopping) until you get to the Florida border, for roughly 50 pages. Little doggies next to the accommodations indicate pet-friendly establishments. The book then goes into a state by state summary and contact information for interesting spots, some well known, others not, that are within easy driving distance off the exits until page 143. The map highlights the points of interest in orange-red shading, to which a description is featured in the middle of the travel guidebook Drive I-95. I was informed by the authors of Drive I-95 that the places of interest are never far away from the interstate.
I’ve been on I-95 several times because of my visits to a good friend, who lives in Northern Virginia. I discovered via this travel guidebook Drive I-95 a neat venue for both of us to see when I come back. It’s called Historic Occoquan, a former mill town whose area was explored by Captain John Smith. It’s also haunted! Occoquan was described by my good friend as basically a quaint little village town off of Exit 160 (southbound and northbound). My buddy has lived in Norhern Virginia for more than 30 years, but didn’t even know about the town’s skeletons until I told him about it via this incredible travel guidebook!
Then ingeniously, the last major part of this travel guidebook called Drive I-95 is focused on starting south at the Florida border and going up to Boston, running for 50-plus pages. Why is this important? Here’s a perfect example:
You’re in the New York metropolitan area, and want to try a White Castle Burger. If are you are heading southbound, the exit you take is called “Exit 3: Third Ave.” But if you are heading northbound, a different exit number exists that you need to take to get those yummy burgers, which is called “Exit 2B: Webster Ave.”, according to the colorful map. Driving in big metropolitan areas is tough, especially if you don’t drive a lot in heavy traffic, or have to deal with screaming kids. So having the travel guidebook called Drive I-95 in your automobile is like having a guardian angel along for the ride.
The travel guidebook ends with a listing of auto mechanics, campgrounds, and accommodations near to the I-95 exits. Several pages are left blank (lined) for journaling, too!
The travel guidebook Drive I-95 is a must have for your travels up and down this interstate!
Drive I-95, by Stan Posner and Sandra Phillips-Posner, 3rd Edition (2005), ISBN # 1-894979-99-0, 216 Pages. Currently the travel guidebook retails for $22.95 US Dollars, and can be ordered at their website below or by calling 888-GUIDE-95 (888-484-3395). The authors’ website accepts PayPal payments, too!
Reference:
- Drive I-95 Book’s Website: www.drivei95.com
