10 best bucket-list road trips

The Great American Road Trip is a national rite of passage, says Jamie Jensen, author of Road Trip USA (Avalon, $29.99), a comprehensive guide in its sixth edition. "Before you vote, you should be required to drive across the country and see the variety of people and places," he declares. The key, he says, is to take the journey slowly, stopping to talk to people, to take detours, and to get lost. "It's a different mode of traveling.  Go there...