On and Off the Beaten Path: The best road trips in twenty years of travel in the U.S. and Canada. This item is unavailable.On and Off the Beaten Path: The best road trips in twenty years of travel in the U.S. and Canada

On and Off the Beaten Path is an account of the best road trips that Carole Bell Ford and her husband have enjoyed during twenty years of traveling in the U.S. and Canada. A departure from her previous books, it begins in 1996 with a five-month-long trip around the U.S. It was their first in a camper, although these trips can be taken in a car or other type of vehicle. This book originated in detailed journals that Ford kept during her travels, which she revisited, updated, and compiled into this narrative. They’re not only enjoyable to read but might inspire you to take similar trips. They include visits to well-known places—the Florida Keys, Mesa Verde, the Grand Canyon, the geological wonders of Yellowstone National Park—as well as to other places, off the beaten path. To Parry Sound and the Thirty-thousand Islands in Lake Huron; the Bay of Fundy; the Upper Mississippi Valley in Ohio; the fascinating Wolf Park in Indiana; Mountain View, Arkansas, and the wonderful Ozark Folk Center; the Natchez Trace, and many more.This book is not a blog. The stories focus on the places that were visited and are enriched with cultural, geographic and historical background. And because Ford is an avid and good cook, some recipes, adjusted for easy preparation in a camper kitchen, are included. They appear in an appendix and, for those who think of trips as a time to get away from the kitchen, they are easy to ignore.