Moon Texas Author: Andy Rhodes | Language: English | ISBN:
1598809210 | Format: PDF
Moon Texas Description
About the Author
Andy Rhodes has been living and traveling in Texas since 1994. He calls Austin home, but regularly explores the Texas Hill Country, East Texas pine forests, and Gulf Coast beaches. His favorite destination is the Big Bend region of far West Texas, where the enormous sky and rugged mountains beckon with the promise of solace, serenity, and low humidity. Since 2002, Andy has thoroughly covered the state as editor of the Texas Historical Commission's magazine "The Medallion, " offering him an opportunity to experience the Lone Star State's compelling heritage in both colossal cities and tiny towns. In the process, he's developed a keen appreciation for Texas's vernacular architecture and savory barbecue. Andy's freelance articles have been published in "Home & Away, American Cowboy, " and "Austin Monthly" magazines, and his work has appeared in the "Austin American Statesman" newspaper. In 2009, Andy was named a featured author and served as a panelist at the prestigious Texas Book Festival. Andy earned a journalism degree from Ohio's Miami University in 1993. He lives in Austin with his wife Paula and sons Max and Daniel.
- Series: Moon Handbooks
- Paperback: 476 pages
- Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; Seventh Edition edition (October 11, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1598809210
- ISBN-13: 978-1598809213
- Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
This guidebook has the format of one of the Lonely Planet or Rough Guides that covers an entire continent; it has good breadth of information, but the depth, or detail of coverage of any one location is relatively shallow. That makes it a good starting point, but once you decide on an itinerary, you will have to supplement it with more specific material. I also agree with other reviewers that while the coverage of the major cities is decent, the coverage of smaller towns, even when they are some of the most visited tourist attractions in the state, is disappointing.
After using this guidebook on a trip to Fort Davis area and Big Bend National Park last month, I reevaluated my review of this book, and found I needed to also discuss this book's coverage of this location. As other reviewers have mentioned, this book is likely most useful to the traveler from outside of Texas. Texans will find its focus on the larger cities less helpful, and will want more information on smaller towns and rural areas, for which other regionally published guides are simply better. So since this guide's best bet for a target audience is people from outside Texas, it should focus on destinations people might travel to Texas from the US and internationally for. One of these would be Big Bend National Park, one of Texas's two national parks, and the biggest draw, especially for out-of-staters. While the author SEEMS to understand the importance of Big Bend based on formatting, the amount of information he provided on visiting the park was fairly superficial, there is plenty of easily available information on the internet about Big Bend, most of which provided better, more indepth, more helpful information on visiting the park than this book does.
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