Sunday, August 14, 2011

Three Awesome Small Towns, Best Seen by Road Trip

Filed under: North America, United States, Traveling the American Road

In the past few weeks, I've spent plenty of time in small towns. They're the kinds of places you only visit on a road trip, when passing through, going to bigger cities and bigger sites that aren't sequestered below the Mason-Dixon, far from a major airport or hidden, for example, in rural Mississippi. (I've never heard my friends, otherwise adventurous types, talk about catching the next flight out of New York to Tupelo.)

But there are great travel experiences to be had in small-town America, where you don't need a lifetime to peel back the layers of history like you might in Philadelphia or Boston. These small towns are manageable, navigable and just plain visitable. (It helps that every single person I met was super-friendly too.) These towns, all with fewer than 50,000 residents, have been some of my favorites stops on the trip, and here's how to see them.Continue reading Three Awesome Small Towns, Best Seen by Road TripThree Awesome Small Towns, Best Seen by Road Trip originally appeared on Gadling on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments



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