A review of Jamie Jensen's best-selling guide book, Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways, (Fifth Edition, Avalon Travel, 2009). With 11 road trips to choose from, covering classic American landscapes such as the Appalachian Trail, Atlantic Coast, Oregon Trail, and the famed Route 66, Road Trip USA steers intrepid road warriors through major cities like San Francisco and Chicago as well as remote, but charming all-American towns.

There were many times during my stay in New York City in the spring of 2008, when I stood on a subway platform beneath the streets of Manhattan, and watched some work detail, or maintenance squad disappear into the dark, dimly lit tunnels of the New York subway system. Jennifer Toth's 'The Mole People' is not a story about the thousands of maintenance men and women working for the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority. Instead, the book tells the story of thousands of New York's homeless who turn abandoned subway tunnels deep underneath Manhattan into their homes.