A similar and similarly valuable tome is the British Book of the Road.
Great layout, usability.  I took one on the legedary ride in the rain around
the British Isles in the 80s.

A GPS tells you where you are.  A map shows you how to get from there to
somewhere more desirable.  No batteries required  folds easily can be used a
emergency fan, rain shelter or tinder.

Fond of maps, recovering cartaholic.

Pensionerd.  "we're the fugawi"

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca
> wrote:

> A couple of months ago I bought a book I wished I had for my past 15 years
> of travelling with the VW camper. I've had many guidebooks and also many
> maps and road atlases (in fact I have several shelves full). The problem
> with guidebooks is typically that they have too much text and no or inferior
> maps. So lots to read, but hard to guess what makes an worthwhile side trip;
> then if I decide to side trip to some out-of-the way place I often get lost
> (even with a GPS and maps since some of the gems aren't marked on maps or
> GPS waypoints. Maps of course tell you how to go places, but don't help you
> decide where to go.
>
> The book I got a while ago is "Canadian Book of the Road". I got it at a
> used book sale. It seems to have been available from CAA in the 80's. Some
> people might think that sounds dated, but I found it accurate. Little has
> changed in the countryside. The big advantage with this book is that it
> merges maps, text and pictures in a good balance. Just enough text + a
> picture to tell me if a goal is worthwhile or not. Then this text and
> pictures are well integrated onto the map page of the region with the route
> highlighted. Many of the glossy ad filled maps one picks up in tourist
> information centres attempt something like this, but tend to fail because
> they point to mainly commercial attractions. The Book of the Road has a
> succinct non-biased description. And it covers the whole Canada. Much better
> done than the usual free CAA/AAA books, pamphlets and maps.
>
>
> Looks like it can still be bought used if anyone is interested:
> http://www.amazon.com/Canadian-Book-Road-Canada/dp/0888500807
>
> Did AAA or someone else do a similar book for the USA? How about Mexico?
>
>
> Martin (and '82 Westy 1.9TD "Poppie")
>