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This book by Rolando Pujol is subtitled "A Celebration of Roadside Americana," a subject about which I am quite enthusiastic. Additionally, being published in 2025, it's quite current compared to similar travel books on the same subject.
I recommend the book to anyone who loves a good, quirky road trip, although I found reading it both delightful and maddening.
On the positive side, it's well written and fun. The production values are outstanding. It's an impressive feat of research that has been lovingly assembled, laid out, and published. It's well worthy of your coffee table, and is perfect for lazy armchair reading.
Sadly, though, despite the title, it's not a book that's well suited to planning, or executing, a roadtrip. While impressively comprehensive, it's organized into large regions. This means that if you're planning a drive from, say, Las Vegas to Palm Springs, you'll need to read the entire Desert Southwest chapter and carefully cull items, map in hand, that might be along the route. With just a little more effort (such as including locations in the index) the publisher could have made this book useful to both armchair and actual travelers.
If the subject interests you, you won't be disappointed in your purchase. It truly is an admirable collection of kitsch and history. Just don't expect to use it on the road without a lot of pre-trip effort. I got my copy at the Amazon, but I also spotted it on the shelves in the excellent travel section of Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago.
See also: My review of a Route 66 travel guide that is useful, but similarly flawed.