Jessica Dunham is a veteran journalist whose ardour as a journey author is the open highway. She is aware of the well-traveled roads alongside Route 66 and Interstate 5. And he or she is aware of the less-visited locales, just like the evening sky over Marfa, Texas, which incorporates mysterious blinking lights.
Dunham, the creator of “The Open Highway: 50 Highway Journeys within the USA” is our visitor this week on The Weekly Driver Podcast.
Co-host Bruce Aldrich and I interview Dunham about her newest e book (it’s an up to date version) and in addition concerning the pleasures of touring — on good days and dangerous days. She discusses how the numerous locations she’s traveled had been condensed into the 50 locations within the e book.
Based on its media info, the e book contains “lists of the most effective coastal drives, cross-country journeys, journeys for teenagers and awe-inspiring views.”
The e book, obtainable on all main on-line retailers, is organized by area and contains strategies for a weekend getaway to a cross-country journey.
Descriptions embrace a leaf-peep alongside the Blue Ridge Parkway, wildflowers on Arizona’s Apache Path, kitschy roadside points of interest alongside Route 66, crossing the Continental Divide in Colorado and falling asleep to the sound of crashing waves at your campsite in Large Sur.
Dunman writes about consuming your means by means of Vermont’s farms, dairies, orchards and maple homes. She particulars gulf shrimp and fried okra within the South, oysters and craft beers Oregon and shaved ice alongside the scenic Oahu Coastal Loop.
The great e book options planning sources from easy-to-use maps, useful information on issues to do, lodging and eating for each route, clear instructions to every route’s start line and suggestions for minimizing your environmental influence alongside the way in which.
Dunham’s enthusiasm for journey, whether or not on a solo trek, with girlfriends or together with her husband and the couple’s two canine is clear in her upbeat demeanor.
The e book additionally contains important suggestions for well being and security on the highway, navigating climate circumstances, methods for road-tripping with children and four-legged associates in addition to playlists and podcasts for accompaniment of the open highway.
In addition to her new e book, Dunham has huge expertise as a journey author. She was a journey information editor at Madden Media and has contributed to PHOENIX journal, Midwest Residing, Trendy Luxurious and Runner’s World. She’s additionally co-written and solo written a number of different journey books.
Please be part of us for a energetic half-hour. Dunham shares her eager perception as a traveler and creator, and she or he shares a couple of travails from the open highway.
