Lonely Planet Arizona

We buy this book annually for Spring Break in Arizona. Every year there is a new treat included and the Lonely Planet (Australian) method is to get off the beaten track! Great alternative suggestions here, but they still need to expand and get even more specific without ruining independent travel, of course! Example: my relatives all go to Tortilla Flats out of Mesa and then stop. But then begins the famed "Apache Trail", a truly harrowing adventure drive (ask Deb!) which President Franklin Roosevelt called "the most amazing scenic drive" in America. (Paraphrased closely). Equally exciting are the great restaurant finds, hotels other than the chain-link variety, and some terrific restaurants. (Go to the Turquoise Room in Winslow: rated the #3 restaurant in the USA!), plus stay over at the La Posada train station Inn, a truly grandious hotel and a place we visit yearly! We've used this book for six years in a row, and although "Old Arizona" and the Aboriginal Indian Lifestyles are all but gone (visit Canyon de Chelley!), I saw them as a kid, and like anyone my age, wish that I had lived in the "Wild West" which included amazing Arizona. Buy this book and learn to use it wisely! This is not "Drive-Ins and Dives", as the average Arizona tourist is an elderly Snowbird. You can have great fun here at ANY age, however, but please follow their philosophy and get off the "Main Drag", please! You won't be disappointed!