The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road

by Cameron Tuttle and Keah Brown

From the author of the very funny and successful "Paranoids Pocket Guide," comes the ultimate self-help book for women. It's a guide to the open road that's strictly AAAthat's attitude, adventure, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: B0002RTTZS
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Helpful - Handy and Hilarious!

"The Bad Girl's Guide To The Open Road" by Cameron Tuttle is a must have for any courageous and travel minded gal in her 20's and 30's. This humorous and very helpful guide will teach you how to change a tire, things to do with a nerf ball and all the wonderful and creative ways to be safe on the open road. It's pure delight in the unexpected is what makes this pocket size treasure such a treat. With a well designed and interesting flow, this book will advise you all the way across America. It will also give you ideas for the completely unexpected and things you NEVER think will happen - BUT just might.For any girl with a bit of adventure in her heart and a full tank of gas! Really delightful!

this book speaks to me!

As a veteran of numerous road trips, I was very excited to read this book and see if I've done anything "wrong". I realized you pretty much can't go wrong if you always allow for things not to go quite how you imagined, and just have fun. Cameron Tuttle's advice is always hilarious, but quite helpful, and provoked a lot of "hmmm...I never thought of trying that" comments from me. As I read this book, it brought back memories of all the places my girlfriends and I have been in that quest to escape first, college life, and now "the real world". It made me realize I was ever so pleased that I used half a roll of film on the Mitchell Corn Palace, and that I have pictures of my best friend and I by the sod buffalo and indian at the site of the last standing Pony Express station in Kansas. So what if the pictures of us in Memphis on Beale St. turned out too dark- I know I had the best hard cider and super hot southern style tamales when I was there. And heck, who cares if you have heat stroke and your car is overheating as you head further south in the Mojave desert... Well, maybe I cared a little, but hey, I did it and lived to tell the tale! This book is great for reliving memories of road trips past, and for pushing you forward to the road trips to come. Even though I just had a wonderful vacation in Cancun with one of my best friends, it's just not the same as hitting the hot blacktop in the summer, looking forward to all the beef jerky and chocolate milk you'll have along the way. Never knowing if you'll be sleeping in the car, pitching a tent in a scary field, or finding a $19 a night motel in Nebraska is one of the best parts of a road trip!The hot pink cover appeals to the girliness in me, and the sticker in the back is a perfect match for my "I saw Elvis making crop circles" bumper sticker...by the way, a good companion book for Elvis fans is Bill Yenne's "Field Guide to Elvis Shrines" -makes for the perfect trip to find the King...I would recommend trying everything Cameron Tuttle writes about, with the exception of the "sex with a stranger" advice, and picking up hitchikers (unless the hitchiker is a 15 year old boy on the Navajo reservation in AZ, it's 105 degrees out, and there's 3 of us in the car with him...). I'm too wary of what can happen to be that much of a "bad girl", but I realize this book is written with a lot tongue-in-cheek, and there are badder girls than me, so it definitely has it's place in the book. I will probably buy copies to give to my fellow road-tripping girlfriends, to inspire them to hit the road with me soon. After all, it's time to hit the road when your salary is less than your age!

This is such a happy book!

I love this book. It is so great to leaf through when you're feeling frustrated at school/work/home... It's really funny in a cute-sy kind of way. The intense girly-ness of this book can be a turnoff but it's also part of its charm. (Consider: the book itself is fuschia) But I dug it. It would make a great gift, but it's worth getting yourself.

Makes me want to grab my keys and hit the highway!

Both the seasoned road-tripping chick and the vicarious tripper will appreciate Cameron's 'you-go-girl' 'tude. She is truly the McGyver of the open road offering practical (if not outrageously funny) solutions to potential pickles like cooking your roadside delicacies on the hood of your car. A must-have for every girl who's ever wanted to throw caution to the wind, crank the Duran Duran and put the petal to the metal!

Finally, a book for all the "Road Sisters"!!

As a seasoned "Road Sister" I was delighted to find this book waiting for me when I returned from my annual road trip home from Boston to Houston. A friend sent it for a birthday gift and it's one of the best I've received. A veteran of four transcontinental drives (San Francisco to New York) I could relate to nearly every single page. I *should* have written this, but Cameron Tuttle beat me to it. Bitch!