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Affordable Road Trips
Aired October 07, 2003 - 10:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Ready to get away, but don't want to break the bank? Well, gas and go. You can see history and scenery from the car window, and you can do it on a dime. "Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel" magazine lists several affordable road trips in the October issue, and Pauline Frommer is senior editor for the magazine. She is with us in New York this morning.
Pauline, good to have you with us once again.
PAULINE FROMMER, SR. EDITOR, "ARTHUR FROMMER'S BUDGET TRAVEL": Why road trip instead of airfare?
FROMMER: Well, there's nothing cheap than a road trip, and there's no better way to the see the country in a way that';s humanly possible. You see it from your car, you get out, you hike, you make your own time as you travel around.
KAGAN: All right, let's check out some of the best ones. Let's start in recall country, California, and the northern California coast.
FROMMER: Right. California is more than just bizarre politics. It also has some of the most dramatic scenery in the nation. We picked a northern California route, which takes you down Route 1. You go to a Stinson Beach, Point Reyus National Seashore, wonderful Sonoma County, where you go to Mendocino, and of course Redwood National Park, which is home to our country's greatest national -- natural wonders, or one of them, the redwoods, which are the tallest living creatures on Earth, and definitely worth a visit.
KAGAN: Absolutely. And when you say road trip, don't you think car. I once road my bike down Highway One. A little dangerous, but very pretty.
Let's move on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
FROMMER: Sure, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a great place for people who have trouble with authority, because you have almost 500 miles without a stop sign and without a traffic light. It also has a fabulous array of ever-changing panoramas.
You can visit wonderful Appalachian farm museums. You can go the charming town of Flowing Rock. You can get off the parkway and go to Asheville to visit the historic Biltmore Estate, which is a chateau of 250 rooms based on the chateaus in France. And we suggest that people finish up at the museum of the Cherokee Indians in Cherokee to learn about the fascinating, yet tragic Trail of Tears. It's wonderful. KAGAN: It does look pretty, especially this time of year with the leaves changing. We're going to move back west to Colorado. What are YOU going to find out there?
FROMMER: Well, we suggest the San Juan Skiway, which takes you way up into the San Juan Mountains, which scrape the sky at 14,000 feet. We recommend visits to Gunason (ph) National Park, to Telluride, where you can take a free gondola up to the top for an incredible vista to Dolores, which is home of the Anastasy (ph) Heritage Center, where you can see the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, and finish up in Silverton, which is one of the classic Old West mining towns.
KAGAN: Also on the list in the West is Utah's Canyon Country, but I am going to skip that to come to the South, because that's the region we haven't touched, and the Civil War trail.
FROMMER: Yes, well, between Washington D.C. and Richmond, there was just 100 miles, and it was in those 100 miles that most of the battles of the Civil War were fought, or the most significant ones. So we recommend going to Gettysburg, of course, going to Antietam, which was the home of the bloody day war, going to Appomattox, where the peace was signed. And you also, of course, want to go to Harpers Ferry National Park, which was the target of the abolitionist John Brown's famous raid. It's a lot of history. Fabulous, there are also terrific vineyards in the area, much to see in a very small area.
KAGAN: You're making it hard to focus on work this Tuesday morning. Pauline, thank you for the tip. Pauline Frommer with out road trips. Thank you for that.
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Aired October 7, 2003 - 10:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Ready to get away, but don't want to break the bank? Well, gas and go. You can see history and scenery from the car window, and you can do it on a dime. "Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel" magazine lists several affordable road trips in the October issue, and Pauline Frommer is senior editor for the magazine. She is with us in New York this morning.
Pauline, good to have you with us once again.
PAULINE FROMMER, SR. EDITOR, "ARTHUR FROMMER'S BUDGET TRAVEL": Why road trip instead of airfare?
FROMMER: Well, there's nothing cheap than a road trip, and there's no better way to the see the country in a way that';s humanly possible. You see it from your car, you get out, you hike, you make your own time as you travel around.
KAGAN: All right, let's check out some of the best ones. Let's start in recall country, California, and the northern California coast.
FROMMER: Right. California is more than just bizarre politics. It also has some of the most dramatic scenery in the nation. We picked a northern California route, which takes you down Route 1. You go to a Stinson Beach, Point Reyus National Seashore, wonderful Sonoma County, where you go to Mendocino, and of course Redwood National Park, which is home to our country's greatest national -- natural wonders, or one of them, the redwoods, which are the tallest living creatures on Earth, and definitely worth a visit.
KAGAN: Absolutely. And when you say road trip, don't you think car. I once road my bike down Highway One. A little dangerous, but very pretty.
Let's move on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
FROMMER: Sure, the Blue Ridge Parkway is a great place for people who have trouble with authority, because you have almost 500 miles without a stop sign and without a traffic light. It also has a fabulous array of ever-changing panoramas.
You can visit wonderful Appalachian farm museums. You can go the charming town of Flowing Rock. You can get off the parkway and go to Asheville to visit the historic Biltmore Estate, which is a chateau of 250 rooms based on the chateaus in France. And we suggest that people finish up at the museum of the Cherokee Indians in Cherokee to learn about the fascinating, yet tragic Trail of Tears. It's wonderful. KAGAN: It does look pretty, especially this time of year with the leaves changing. We're going to move back west to Colorado. What are YOU going to find out there?
FROMMER: Well, we suggest the San Juan Skiway, which takes you way up into the San Juan Mountains, which scrape the sky at 14,000 feet. We recommend visits to Gunason (ph) National Park, to Telluride, where you can take a free gondola up to the top for an incredible vista to Dolores, which is home of the Anastasy (ph) Heritage Center, where you can see the cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park, and finish up in Silverton, which is one of the classic Old West mining towns.
KAGAN: Also on the list in the West is Utah's Canyon Country, but I am going to skip that to come to the South, because that's the region we haven't touched, and the Civil War trail.
FROMMER: Yes, well, between Washington D.C. and Richmond, there was just 100 miles, and it was in those 100 miles that most of the battles of the Civil War were fought, or the most significant ones. So we recommend going to Gettysburg, of course, going to Antietam, which was the home of the bloody day war, going to Appomattox, where the peace was signed. And you also, of course, want to go to Harpers Ferry National Park, which was the target of the abolitionist John Brown's famous raid. It's a lot of history. Fabulous, there are also terrific vineyards in the area, much to see in a very small area.
KAGAN: You're making it hard to focus on work this Tuesday morning. Pauline, thank you for the tip. Pauline Frommer with out road trips. Thank you for that.
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