Great Eastern RV Trips: A Year-Round Guide to the Best Rving in the East

Janet Groene has been a full-time freelance writer and author for thirty years. She is the co-author of Living Aboard Your RV, and author of many other titles. Additionally, she's the author of the long-running column Cooking on the Go for Family Motor Coaching magazine. Janet and her husband have lived full time on the go for many years now, splitting their time between cruising the tropics in their sailboat in the winter and cooling off on the mountains in summer aboard their twenty-one-foot RV. HOMETOWN: DeLand, FL An award-winning travel writer/photographer team, Janet and Gordon Groene spent more than 10 years as full-time wanderers, living aboard a boat in the summer and 21-foot motorhome in the winter. Janet writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column about RVing. The Groenes have collaborated on more than a dozen travel books, 9 of which are still in print, and are at work on three other guides due out next year. Their writing has appeared in publications such as Ladies Home Journal, Travel America, Miami Herald, Providence Journal, and Family Motor Coaching.

• IntroductionPart 1 Spring TripsChapter 1 A Florida-to-Canada Ramble: The Snowbird Follows SpringtimeChapter 2 Illinois and Kentucky: The Land of LincolnChapter 3 The Southern Appalachians: Mansions, Magnolias, and Moon PiesChapter 4 Historic Tennessee and Mississippi: Tracking the Natchez TraceChapter 5 The Call of the Carolinas: Tidewater, Piedmont, and Pine HillsPart 2 Summer TripsChapter 6 A Ride 'Round Chesapeake Bay: Feast on Seafood and SeascapesChapter 7 Canada's Magnificient Maritimes: The Atlantic ProvincesChapter 8 Historic Quebec: Drive Your RV to Francophone CanadaChapter 9 Inviting Michigan: A Mackinac OdysseyChapter 10 New Hampshire Splendor: A White Mountain MeanderPart 3 Autumn TripsChapter 11 Beautiful Ohio: Song of Shining WaterChapter 12 A Coast through Maine: The Wonders Down EastChapter 13 Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana: In the Path of the Plain PeopleChapter 14 New York and Vermont: Autumn in a Neon ForestChapter 15 Lake Erie: All the Way AroundPart 4 Winter TripsChapter 16 A Georgian Idyll: Colonial Coastings and Swamp CrossingsChapter 17 An Amble through Alabama: Winter in the Heart of DixieChapter 18 Tampa to Pensacola: Florida's "Long, Lonely Leg"Chapter 19 A Louisiana Celebration: Sugar, Cajun Spice, and Everything NiceChapter 20 Florida to the Tip: Going All the Way SouthAppendix: ResourcesIndex