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The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road [Vinyl Bound]

Cameron Tuttle (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)

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Who hasn't fantasized about ditching work and pulling a Thelma and Louise? Well, don't even think about taking a road trip without a copy of Cameron Tuttle's Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road. Tuttle, who's crisscrossed the country several times, has written a hilarious, in-your-face, travelogue/self-help book (glove-compartment-size with a nifty hot-pink cover) that's sure to get adventure-seeking gals everywhere in their cars. The Bad Girl's Guide is jam-packed with practical and not-so-practical information on where to go (the Elvis Is Alive Museum, Lizzie Borden's House), which Road Sisters to bring along (preferably ones with trust funds), essential tunes (Donna Summer's "Bad Girls," natch), as well as indispensable tips, such as 14 ways to open a beer bottle on your car and 11 uses for a condom (pony-tail holder, snakebite tourniquet). The format, with various sidebars and boxes, is a bit cluttered and the nuts and bolts info a bit sketchy, but Tuttle covers a lot of ground in 192 pages--and she answers that all-important question: what car did Thelma and Louise drive? A '66 Thunderbird convertible. --Jill Fergus

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Cameron Tuttle's degree in English literature from fancy-pants Brown University makes her eminently qualified to write "The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road."

"It gives me great delight to have been paid to write a book about how to pee beside the road without splashing or flashing," says Tuttle, cruising south of Market in her root beer-colored Isuzu Trooper. She's munching beef jerky, often her breakfast of choice on the road.

Her amusing little guide has hit a nerve with nice girls longing for a little Thelma and Louise action. It has sold more than 30,000 copies since it was published in May and just went into its third printing.

"My father thought I'd wasted my education studying English poetry," she says. "I'm getting my revenge writing a pink vinyl book."

Packed inside that hot pink cover is a saucy pastiche of tips and shtick. It's about the pleasures and perils of being a "road sister," freed from the restraints of daily routine and societal expectation-even if just for the weekend. -- San Francisco Chronicle

Then toss Cameron Tuttle's The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road into your glove box, and put the pedal to the metal. I call shotgun. -- Vanity Fair

With its pinky vinyl cover and its tongue-firmly-in-cheek drawing of a "bad girl"-hair flying in an open convertible-Cameron Tuttle's book surely live sup to its name )and so do the daft illustrations by partner-in-crime Susannah Bettag). If you're looking for low-budget, high-adventure cheap thrills, then the irrepressible Tuttle may just be you're kind of guide. "A road trip can be anything you want it to be," she writes. "You decide how to act, where to go, when to stop, and what to do when you stop." What's the best way to prepare for a road trip? By doing nothing of course, what should you expect? Expect nothing. She dispenses advice on what to bring (the phone number of a friend or relative with deep pockets) and what not to bring a (a photo of your boyfriend). And she even suggests places to look for on the road (the site of the first official Elvis sighting or where to see the world's largest cow). Gleefully naughty, girlishly cheeky, sublimely silly, "The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road" is cheesy humor at its hilarious best. Hit the road at your own risk. -- Chicago Tribune

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Remember those family vacations from your childhood, when you spent day after endless day trapped in the back of a sweltering station wagon stuck to the hot vinyl seats with nothing but a Styrofoam ice chest between you and your whining, pinching, biting, carsick siblings while your mother read from some boring guidebook and your father drove frantically from one landmock to the next? Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars For girls who wanna have fun!, July 7 2004
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U. Stutsman-hubbel (Pascoag, RI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road (Vinyl Bound)
I had a roommate who was going on a roadtrip, and her road sister (a coooooool chiquita), gave her this book before they left. I picked it up and read the first 20 pages and thought, "Wow, I better put this down now before I actually take her advice and just go!"
Now I'm planning a road trip with my sister, and thought this would be good pre-reading. I was right and more! This book is chock full of fun ideas that are completely adaptable to who, what, where, when and why! I can hardly wait to pile into the car and go now that I've gobbled this book down, and this book will be with me.
Get this book if you are going on a road trip or if you think you might go on a road trip. And if you'd never go on a road trip, get this book and change your mind!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Road Trip "must-have", April 9 2004
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S. Chavez (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I purchased this on a whim and it is so good. Even better than the "Bad Girl's Journal." Having taken road trips both solo and with girlfriends in my single days, I was IMMEDIATELY captivated, and kept saying, "how true." I'm buying it for all the girls for Christmas this year. (and it is only April!).

Enjoy!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Plus 5 MORE Stars, Mar 25 2004
This review is from: The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road (Vinyl Bound)
Ladies. Do yourself a favor, buy this book! Not only is it RIP ROARINGLY Hilarious, its stuffed full of genuinely useful information as well (I have actually used the "passenger side stall" what a godsend when past the roadside is basically a fifty foot drop!) and of course some not so practically useful but damn entertaining stuff as well.
(Who needs smokey eyeshadow..use the schmutz off your tires! one less thing to bring that takes up room otherwise used for your bad girl contraband!)

This book treats you like the intelligent bold woman you are.
With sound advice on just about anything and ANYONE you will encounter on your roadtrip of life.
Plus a hot pink sticker so you can indentify who else is "cookin under the hood"

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