Romancing the Roads - by Gerry Hempel Davis (Paperback)

About the Book

This compendium of observations, discoveries, reviews, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads as a diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways, from Maine to Florida and west to the Mississippi. ...

Book Synopsis

This compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads not as a phone directory but more as a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Unless otherwise noted, the author has visited every place mentioned, from Bud's Discount Center in Jasper, Alabama to the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes her way from Maine to Florida and west to the Mississippi River.

Review Quotes

The memories my friend Charles Kuralt once gave us / Are echoed today by Gerry Hempel Davis / Who also loves driving our country's back roads / Where America's romance and beauty explodes. / With the power to touch, to inspire and move. / Somehow I know my friend Charles would approve.

When I was a kid, Dinah Shore sang, 'See the USA in your Chevrolet / America is asking you to call / Drive your Chevrolet through the USA / America's the Greatest land of all.' In this book, Gerry Davis heard Dinah's call, and she sees the USA.

About the Author

Gerry Hempel Davis worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, was the youngest producer of the Ed Sullivan Show, and was for several years a correspondent for The Today Show. She is the author of the authorized history of The Today Show as well as The Moving Experience. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.