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Cheap Bastard's Guide to Austin details endless free and inexpensive opportunities available in the Lone Star State's capital city from theater, concerts, and museums to wine tastings, yoga classes, haircuts, and massages--for native and visiting cheapskates alike. Written in a fun, humorous tone, this unique guide offers sound advice on how to live the good life on the cheap!

Florida hosts some six million campers annually, and many of them stay at the state's public campgrounds and campsites-for reliability, affordability, and their beautiful locations in remote nooks and crannies of the state. Camping Florida is the most comprehensive guide available to the Sunshine State's public campgrounds and campsites. Nearly exhaustive in scope, this guide covers everything from primitive sites to developed ones; and from youth and group sites to teepees, yurts, and cabins fo...

For more than twenty years, the Insiders' Guide series has remained the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information. Written by locals and true insiders, each guide is packed with useful tips on places to stay, restaurants, events, attractions, fun thnigs to do with the kids, nightlife, recreation, shopping, local history, and much more--as well as a comprehensive appendix called "Living Here" that offers information on real estate, education, health care, and more.

The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: * Favorite resta...

Food Lovers' Guides Indispensable handbooks to local gastronomic delights The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including:...

The West Texas frontier - the area encompassing the region stretching from Fort Worth to the Caprock, from Palo Duro Canyon to the San Saba River - has been a crossroads of humanity for thousands of years. Each group of humans who trekked across its sun-drenched prairies had to contend with the challenges of life in an area that has always been a climatic, geographical, political, and cultural borderland. In addressing these challenges, the people of the frontier developed perseverance, toughnes...

The rich history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is reflected in the names of its towns, geographic features, and waterways. A book over twenty years in the making, The Outer Banks Gazetteer is a comprehensive reference guide to the region's place names-over 3,000 entries in all. Along the way, Roger L. Payne has cataloged an incredible history of beaches, inlets, towns and communities, islands, rivers, and even sand dunes. There are also many entries for locations that no longer exist-inlets th...

Welcome to Savannah, Georgia! You have chosen the best way to view one of the most beautiful cities in the country. These easy-to-follow maps and accompanying guide will take you around the city in two walking tours approximately one hour and one and a half hours in length. Walk Number One takes you to the south side of the Historic District and some of the city's most beautiful squares, including Johnson Square, the first square laid out by General James Oglethorpe. Walk Number Two heads north...

Frommer's ShortCuts give you exactly what you need for your trip toThe Shenandoah Valley, Virginia-and no more. In this ebook, you'll get the same expert advice that you'llfind in all Frommer's guides, from candid reviews and detailed mapsto insider tips from our local authors. Plus, we've added planningand background information as well as our signature "Best of"features. This Frommer's ShortCuts to The Shenandoah Valley, Virginia,includes: Shenandoah National Park & the Skyline Drive,Winchest...

Featuring 66 hikes through the most beautiful areas of natural Maryland, this is the perfect resource for the adventurous outdoor photographer. Each hike contains detailed maps and directions, GPS coordinates, and information on difficulty, distance, and duration. Stunning full-color photographs of the state's vistas, waterfalls, forests, and seashores accompany tips on the best lenses, shooting locations, and times of day to get the most breathtaking shots.

The stark yet beautiful barrier islands along the coast of North Carolina--with their well-preserved beaches, abundant wildlife, and rich history--offer natives and summer visitors many things to do both indoors and out. Discover the Outer Banks' newest tourist attractions, as well as limitless opportunities for fun, shopping, and recreation in this land where the Wright Brothers took their historic first flight 100 years ago.

46 day hikes and overnight trips in Virginia and West VirginiaComplete with elevation profiles, topographic maps, descriptions of terrain, and notes on landmarks, side trails, and sheltersIncludes directions to trailheads and information on available parkingCompletely revised and updated to reflect recent trail changesIndexes sort the hikes by difficulty and length

The Kentucky State penitentiary opened its heavy iron gates to the condemned over 100 years ago-yet many of them, long deceased, still walk its corridors. Noted paranormal researcher Steve E. Asher provides true, first-hand accounts of the paranormal as well as his own personal experiences at the state's most violent, controversial-and haunted-prison. He uncovers the shocking testimonies of the men and women who have actually worked behind the prison walls and their encounters with the spirits...

One day a year Kentucky is the most famous state in the union. That's Kentucky Derby Day, the first Saturday in May when the annual Kentucky Derby is run at Churchill Downs. On that day, Kentucky is the home to fast horses, beautiful women, and great whiskey. For the other 364 days it is home to fast women, beautiful horses, and people recovering from too much whiskey.This duality -- hey, we're important today; but tomorrow we're nothing -- is a perfect reflection of a state of great contrasts.K...

This guide to the common wildflowers found in the Gulf Coastal region of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Alabama features 300 beautiful color photographs. Detailed plant descriptions and line art aid in plant identification for botanists and novice enthusiasts alike. Each species description is accompanied by a Comments section giving lore about the plant, its uses, or its name.

The Show Me State has lots to be proud of--the Pony Express, Mark Twain, the International Bowling Museum, a billion-gallon underground lake to name just a few. Everything has a story. With Josh Young at your side, enjoy a hilarious tour of Missouri, where there's a law against worrying squirrels and a museum celebrating the unexplained.

Ever wanted to stay overnight in a fully-furnished concrete teepee? Walk through a prehistoric graveyard of fossilized mammals from the Ice Age? Saddle up a horse for a full-moon trail ride? Visitors will find information on these activities and more detailed in this guide to the Bluegrass State.