Arizona New Mexico & the Grand Canyon Trips (Regional Guide) |  | Authors: Becca Blond, Josh Krist, Jennifer Denniston, Wendy Yanagihara
Publisher: Lonely Planet
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ISBN: 1741797292
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Publication Date: February 15, 2009
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58 of the Region's Best Trips!
Whether you're a local looking for a long weekend escape, a visitor looking to explore or you simply need some ideas when family and friends come to visit, Lonely Planet's Trips series offers the best itineraries - and makes it easy to plan the perfect trip time and again.
Theme icons make finding the perfect trip simple - no matter what your interest
Easy-to-use maps for every trip, plus driving times and directions
Explore the region with trips ranging from two days to three weeks, and day trips from Phoenix, Albequerque and Santa Fe
Local experts share their favorite trip ideas, including a former director's tour of film locations, a geologist's rock-hunting expedition and an astronomer's stargazing tour
Iconic Trips chapter covers must-do trips across the region, from Motoring the Mother Road: Route 66 to A Green Chile Adventure
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 Traveling Arizona & New Mexico, Let Lonely Planet be Your Guide July 12, 2009
Sophie Cacique Gaul (Austin, Tejas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I met my friend Katie through Amazon's Friends program. We found out we had a lot in common. We both liked cooking, the ocean and a lot of other things. We've gotten together only two times in person, but we e-mail each other every day, so when Katie brought up the idea of a road trip so that we could really review some Lonely Planet Trips guides, I jumped at the chance to go. We started in Vancouver, Canada, took the Greyhound to Seattle, where we rented a car. We used the Lonely Planet "Pacific Northwest Trips" for this part of our journey. The book was extremely helpful, especially the Highway 101: Land's Edge Leg.
We actually used three of the Lonely Planet Trips books on our Thelma and Louise type road trip. Heading south we drove onto the "California Trips" part of our journey and we saw the Redwoods, which were absolutely breathtaking. We liked and used the sections on the Hidden Wineries, Napa and Sonoma and the Russian River. However, one of the most interesting and fun places we stayed, The Harris Ranch Inn was not in the book. We had lunch there as they are famous for their beef. From there we went one to Southern California and found the beaches sections of the book to be very helpful.
After California we were on the "Arizona, New Mexico & The Grand Canyon Trips" book. It served us well on our leg to the Grand Canyon. I'd never seen it and I'll never forget it. All in all, I can truthfully say Lonely Planet make terrific trip books. Terrific travel books as well. If you're going on the road or going all the way to Africa or Europe, take Lonely Planet along, you'll be glad you did.
Reads Like a Novel, so Well Written this Book is July 2, 2009
Tiffany Ann (Black Diamond Bay)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In another life my sister and I used to travel a lot with our old dad, but lately I've been an arm chair traveler, seeing sites vicariously through a well written travel book and this one is as well written as any I've come across lately. Well, actually all the Lonely Planet books are first rate.
It's been years since I've been to Vegas, but this book took me back. As the authors say, Vegas is seeded and decadent, America's sin city, but a lot of fun. I wanna go. I wanna go to the Grand Canyon, too. Went there when I was a little girl, went there again between the pages of this book. Went to Phoenix and Albuquerque, too. I rafted the great Colorado, did a Steak Lovers tour, did so much more.
I devoured this book like a novel and I feel like I know Arizona and New Mexico almost as if I grew up in them. Now I'm ready to go, if only I could get some time off.
Lots of Sites and Places Between these Pages July 13, 2009
Ophella Paige (Reno, Nevada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I live in Nevada and I've been to both Arizona and New Mexico a lot, been to the Grand Canyon too. Several times. But I've never taken the train from Williams mentioned in this book. I plan on it.
Going through the book I see dozens and dozens of interesting places and things to see that I've missed and I thought I knew the area covered by this guide pretty well. The next time I go on the road in the Southwest I'll be taking this book with me, maybe checking out Bandera's Ice Cave or the Hovenweep National Monument or several of the places I've missed, but should see.
The book reads well, not boring a bit like many travel books are and that's a great big plus. If you're going to Arizona or New Mexico, this would be a good book to take along.
Best Pacific Arizona & New Mexico Travel Book there is July 2, 2009
Zachary Hackett (Reno, Nevada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In 1989 when Sara and I were just kids, we bought our first new car, a Dodge Raider, which is really a rebranded Mitsubishi Montero. We drove that car from Los Angeles to Miami, where we put it in a storage locker and took a flight to London, where we spent a great month. Back in Miami we drove to New York, up into Canada to Nova Scotia, than across that Great Country to Vancouver, then back on down to L.A. I loved that car, loved that trip.
We did that trip with nothing more than a Rand McNally Road Atlas. We saw a lot, but we missed a lot, too. I know that because we just got back from a road trip in that same car and this time we used a similar atlas, but we also armed ourselves with two of the Lonely Planet trip books, PACIFIC NORTHWEST & ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO & THE GRAND CANYON.
These books pointed out site after site and though we didn't visit them all, we took in a bunch. After reading through the books we decided to do 101 down the Pacific Coast from Olympia, WA to Coos Bay, OR. There's a lot to see on that route even without a travel guide, but with one, if you have the time (and we took it) you'll see and experience so much more.
As Sara pointed out in her review, in Arizona we took the train from Williams to the Grand Canyon and though we'd been there a couple times before, it's always breathtaking, always grand. Sara enjoyed the train more then me, hard seats.
Not only are the Lonely Planet books chucky jammed full of sites to see and places to go, but they give you a well written history of the places they talk about and with that you seem to get a sense of belonging to a place, even if it's only for a short while. We've traveled a lot, Sara and me and so I know what I'm talking about when I say these Lonely Planet books really do add value to your traveling experience. These are the best travel books out there, bar none.
Lonely Planet, Arizona & New Mexico, A Good Match July 12, 2009
Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
My friend Sophie ordered two of the same Lonely Planet travel books I did to review, ARIZONA, NEW MEXICO & THE GRAND CANYON and THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. We talk a lot on the phone and we began talking about how we could review these books and over the course of a week or so, we started talking about taking a trip. Not an easy thing for us as Sophie lives in Houston and I was in Portland. Plus, I've got hubby Dub, a big baby who doesn't like to be alone and she's got her loving husband, plus two twin girls. These are all pretty big roadblocks in the way of two girls who want to hit the road for a month or so. But things started coming together. Dub wanted to spend sometime on the boat alone (we spend a good part of every year in the Caribbean living on our sailboat) and do the kind of repairs and things that I just hate. Besides, when he's doing that kind of stuff, he always complains that I'm in the way. And Sophie's husband graciously said that he'd hold down the home front as long as we called every day.
With that out of the way, where to start? Sophie is Canadian, of the east coast variety. She'd never been to Vancouver and I'd always wanted to see the San Juan Islands, so we agreed to meet in Vancouver. We met at the airport, my flight got in a couple hours before hers. We spent two days in Vancouver, then took a four and a half hour trip via Greyhound to Seattle, where we rented a one way rental, a Hyundai for a little over a thousand dollars. A big expense to be sure, but worth it.
Coming down Interstate 5 we turned off on toward Anacortes at Burlington and caught the ferry to Friday Harbor. We stayed at the Orcas Hotel mentioned on Page 152 in the Pacific Northwest book and we let the book be our guide while we were there. Of course we got a lot of help from the locals. We had a great three days there, then it was back onto the ferry and back on the road. Sophie was reading ahead and wanted to go to Powells in Portland, just about the best bookstore on the planet and a favorite haunt of mine. So we did that. Then after I showed her the city, we headed down to the south Oregon City of Grants Pass, then it was off the 5 and onto a gorgeous ride to the California coast where we picked up 101 and headed south along the water, lazing our days away and using the California book (although it had the trip planned out from south to north) to help us along the way, especially following it's advice and visiting the redwoods. Well before San Francisco we turned off of 101, because we wanted to see Clear Lake, apparently not a big tourist spot, because it's not in the book. We stayed in a lakeside cabin for two days, drinking chardonnay and relaxing, then we continued on, caught the 5 again and took it south till we turned off and headed for Napa Valley and two days of heavenly bliss, drinking fine wines and even though there are only eight pages in the California book devoted to Napa, they came in quite handy.
We left Napa on a beautiful day and made it all the way to L.A. and beyond to Long Beach where we spent a couple days, then it was off to Vegas and a new book. The Arizona, New Mexico book covers Vegas very well. We stayed at the Circus Circus for only one night, then it was onto Arizona and the Grand Canyon, which as you can imagine is covered quite nicely. From there we went on to Flagstaff, then Phoenix, blowing through both the cities without stopping, coming to rest in Tucson. I'd been several years ago and it was sad for me to see what the economy has done to this wonderful city. Still we were tired and spent a couple days there. From Tuscon we headed east on Interstate 10, destination Roswell, home of the crash. We didn't see any aliens, but we did, at the book's suggestion, take in the International UFO Museum and Research Center. Fascinating. And from Roswell we drove off the books and into Texas, or as Sophie likes to call it, Tejas. We spent a couple weeks getting from there to New Orleans, but then that's a subject for another review.
So, after all that what's my impression of these Lonely Planet books? I like them, they're pretty darned handy if you're on a road trip. Especially if you're not in a hurry to get anywhere. Could we have done the trip without them, sure, but they were the reason we first started talking about it and why we eventually did it. We, Sophie and Me, and Lonely Planet, we all had a blast together.
Reviewed by Captain Katie Osborne
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