No comments about San Juan River Chronicles.

No comments about Ulysses Travel Guide Puerto Vallarta: Travel Better, Enjoy More (Ulysses Travel Guides).

1 comments about Baja Adventures by Land, Air and Sea.

1. Great adventures. The authors were pioneers in showing a variety of ways and modes traveling Baja's land, seas and skies. I learned from the planning and laughed at their misadventures. After reading the book, I found myself eager to plan my own adventures, hopefully, crossing paths with the Patchens. Their journeys by jeeps, hiking boots, canoes, yachts, kayaks, helicopters, airplanes and other unique modes were proof that Baja offers an exciting variety of adventures.

2 comments about Ghost Towns Alive: Trips to New Mexico's Past.

1. Visiting a ghost town can leave you wondering but never knowing what stories lurk behind the crumbled adobe walls, abandoned wagons, and other relics of lives once lived.
   
   Author Linda Harris does a suberb job of introducing the characters who helped form these old towns--the curmudgeons, the criminals, the benefactors, and the adventurers.
   
   Harris also offers the filter of her own heart, soul, and considerable knowledge as an area historian to breathe life into each narrative.
   
   Ghost Towns Alive isn't just a mere recitation of facts, statistics, and driving directions, although you'll find plenty of useful information to get you to your destination. Instead, this book is an absolute must to guide you through an intimate experience of New Mexico's past.



2. Not only is this book a good guide to many of New Mexico's ghost towns, but it is also incredibly readable. It is by far, among my very favorite books on the subject.
   Plus, it passes the one-question test I give to all New Mexico ghost town books: "Does it include Hagan?"
   Hagan, New Mexico--the greatest, most overlooked of all ghost towns anywhere. Many ghost town books just include all the obvious ones, like Shakespeare and Steins, but only the good ones know about Hagan. Not only does this book include Hagan, but it also has a fact or two about it that I've never come across in the rest of my reading.
   Buy this book, stock your car's CD player with Caribou and the "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" soundtrack, and set off driving.
   There's a lot out there waiting for you.

No comments about Mexico Berlitz Pocket Guide.

1 comments about Mexico Madness : Manifesto for a Disenchanted Generation.

1. Mexico Madness: Manifesto For A Disenchanted Generation by Eduardo Garcia Aguilar (a journalist with Agence France-Presse) is a scathing, sober, and meticulous examination of what it means to be Mexican, and what it means to be Latin American. Discussing such hot button political and economic issues as the gathering strength of the Zapatistas, the controversy surrounding NAFTA, and the emotional state of a land and its people, Mexican Madness is a powerful, insightful, candid account, presenting very a series of real problems in a no-holds-barred style of unforgettable writing by a journalist well versed in his craft and knowledgeable about his subject.

2 comments about AAA Easy Reading Road Atlas 2008 (Aaa North American Road Atlas (Large Print)).

1. Ordered from Amazon on 1 Oct.'07, free shipping, slowest delivery time stated was approximately 5-7 days. Checked status on the 4th, hadn't even shipped, new estimated delivery date was the 19th! We depart on the 15th, way too slow, way too late! Maybe so new an edition they don't have it in stock? Then they shouldn't have shown it was in stock! I love Amazon's supremely efficient website, this is my first disappointing order. Sorry Jeff, I guess no one is perfect, you come close though!



2. Bought as a gift for my husband who doesn't want to wear reading glasses while traveling. The wording is large but so many roads are missing that the book is useless. Even the highways from one town to another are missing. You only get the large federal highways. I would NOT recommend buying unless you only go interstate highways.

2 comments about Breakfast Santa Fe Style.

1. Expertly co-authored by New Mexico-based freelance writer Kathy Barco & Valerie Nye (Assistant Professor and Serials Librarian at the College of Santa Fe), Breakfast Santa Fe Style: A Dining Guide To Fancy, Funky, And Family Friendly Restaurants is an informative, fun, and easy-to-use reference collection of restaurants, diners, pubs, grills, and clubs of the Santa Fe area. Presenting readers with an expansive compendium of local favorites, hard to find particulars, and homey, "family friendly" restaurants, Breakfast Santa Fe Style offers a quick and simple method of finding "Fancy, Funky, Family Friendly, and Fast" places, suitable for the likes of any Santa Fe culinary connoisseur. Breakfast Santa Fe Style is very highly recommended for visitors and residents of the Santa Fe area for its extensive and acute knowledge of the best local dining facilities that will enhance any personal or family outing.



2. This is a terrific book: a great concept (they recommend children's or adult books to read while you're eating) & interesting writing. Every entry's different enough, so the book's amusing all the way though. As a native New Mexican, I found lots of restaurants to try that I'd never heard of - & as a librarian, new books to enjoy. Highly recommended!
   Suzy Sultemeier
   Retired librarian with the Albuquerque Public Libraries

4 comments about Moon Handbooks Cabo.

1. Utterly useless. The layout is awful. The recommendations are off the mark. The guy spends so much time showing off that he is one with Cabos that he fails to provide anyting useful that a gringo tourist may need. It was impossible to plan anything using this book, as the information was incomplete, out of date, uninteresting, or just plain wrong (PS Don't eat at Mi Casa...the restaurant is worse than Pepe's, and yet, Mr. Cummings recommends it highly).



2. I made a trip to Cabo last year and found this book quite useful for planning and executing a trip. Do your homework before you go, read it and plan a tentative schedule of events and things to see and do and you will save valuable time when time is of the essence. A more appropriate title might be The Cape Region but it wouldn't have the name recognizability that Cabo does. Tourists tend to visit Cabo San Lucas or as it is known, Cabo, when they fly in. The book covers the whole Cape Region, including the Central Cape where you wil find small towns and if you are so inclined ,hiking trails in the Sierra de la Laguna. For the adventurous soul there is information about camp sites and details about the Canyons found in the Central Cape. The East Cape is only touched upon briefly unfortuantely. There is also a section on La Paz and the vicinity surrounding it.Other sections of the book include both Cabos, San Jose del Cabo and the more popular Cabo San Lucas. We stayed in a condo in San Jose del Cabo as our headquarters and found it quite pleasant and enjoyable. It was quite laid back. By comparison Cabo San Lucas was anything but. If tourist infested regions of Mexico are what you seek in a trip to Mexico than San Lucas is for you. A few visits was enough for me as I preferred the tranquility and slower pace of San Jose. In any event, the book lays out information for both, including The Corridor, which is the 18-mile stretch between San Jose and San Lucas. The book has maps detailing the various accessible beaches along The Corridor, including several surfing breaks on the reef. There are also several diving spots along The Corridor. Restaurants are also suggested but naturally food tastes are subjective and require some common sense and prior knowledge of the food of Baja's coast. The book also covers the West Cape which is not very developed but has the old charm of Mexico. There is lots to discover in the old towns. A major section is dedicated to Todos Santos which is a lushly-vegetated arroyo seco(dried river bed). I found this place to be very interesting , quaint yet quite charming with a bohemian-artist-flair to the town. It is an artist colony of sorts. Here you will find The Hotel California. Each section of the Cape Area features a history of the towns, places to eat, places to stay, including houses for rent, bed-and breakfasts, hostels, guesthouses, apartments,condos and the onmipresent saturation and expansion of hotels. There are also suggestions on things to do that are geared to the tourist, with addresses and maps. There are tips on money changing with locations of various ATM's, post offices, telephones etc. The tourist and party haven, Cabo San Lucas(this is what tourists think of as Cabo)has 30 pages out of 270 pages in the book dedicated to the hussle and bustle of Cabo. The same type of information is available for Cabo San Lucas or Cabo as the other regions, including sports and recreation, useful telephone information etc. but the scope of the book does not focus on Cabo. This is a good book for the adventurous traveler who wants to explore the area by car. We rented a car and traveled every day to a different location and actually spent little time in Cabo, usually only at night. To this end the book was extremely useful for the week we were there. As with any travel book, businesses change, go out of business, are replaced by new owners etc, so be flexible and use common sense. You will enjoy your vacation more that way. I plan to use this book again for another trip to the region but this time for a longer period of time and by my own SUV. This is a recommended book for the Cape Region, from La Paz and everything in between, to Cabo San Lucas, as opposed to just Cabo San Lucas or as it is known, Cabo.



3. IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO TRAVEL TO CABO THEN THIS BOOK IS VERY HELPFUL AND INFORMATIVE. THE BOOK IS DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS WHICH ARE CABO SAN LUCAS THE PLAYGROUND OF THE CABO AREA, THE CORRIDOR WHICH IS THE BEACH AREA, SAN JOSE DEL CABO WHICH IS VERY LAY BACK,QUIET, RESERVED AREA AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS LIKE LA PAZ, EAST CAPE AND WEST CAPE AREA. IT HAS EVERYTHING TO FIT YOUR INDIVIDUAL TASTE. IN SAN LUCAS, SAN JOSE, AND LA PAZ IT HAS MAPS OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA,HOTELS AND DESCRIPTION AND PRICE RANGE, SAME THING WITH RESTAURANTS AND ACTIVITIES SUCH AS FISHING,SNORKELING,ATV'S. ALSO THE BOOK GIVES YOU HINTS ON TRAVEL,MONEY,WHAT TO LOOK FOR AND WHAT NOT TO LOOK FOR. THE ONLY DOWNSIDE IS IT DOES NOT GIVE YOU A PARTICULAR PRICE AT THE HOTELS AND RESTAURANT JUST THE PRICE RANGE



4. I just returned from a week in Cabo and found this book to be hopelessly outdated. On at least four occassions, I took my family in search of restaurants and other attractions featured in the book, only to find they had closed (in some instances, quite some time (even years) ago). And to be clear, I probably only sought out ten places in the book to start with (so we're talking about a 40% hit rate). To me, that is totally unacceptable. By the last two or three days of the trip, we just left the guide in the hotel room. I also found the maps to be difficult to use. I did appreciate some of the narrative in the book.

3 comments about 2007 Mexico Road Atlas "Por las Carreteras de Mexico" by Guia Roji.

1. had older version and this is greatly improved primarily because of beinig in a spiral bound edition. Must easier to use and excellent detail.



2. This certainly is an improvement from my 2000 edition, but still doesn't come close to a good USA road atlas. And it's expensive for what you get.



3. This book was highly recommended to me by a "Tour Operator" doing RV Caravans in Mexico. And I must say, that this is the ultimate book of all the Mexican roads and towns. Easy to use, I especially like the compact suggested roads between cities. Three routes per page, that's compact!
   Even though its all Spanish, a little common sense makes it "readable"