Hey, Ho, Let’s Go

While other guidebook publishers included restaurants and accommodations that ranged from budget to luxurious, Let’s Go stayed budget and to this day, readers are not likely to see a four star spot in their books.

The most recent addition to their long list of guidebooks is “Roadtripping USA, The Complete Coast to Coast Guide to America.” This book was researched and written in the Let’s Go tradition— by a group of Harvard students and with the help of editors, including Tom Mercer. For an excerpt, click here.

Tell us about yourself, where are you from and where you are right now.

I'm from Dallas, Texas, I currently live in New York and work as the editor for the Let’s Go guidebooks at St. Martin's Press, the publisher of the series. I've been in travel publishing for over five years now, having started at Let’s Go as a writer.

"The key to having a good time while traveling is to put aside all your expectations (which is a hard thing to do), and just take it one day at a time."

You started at Let’s Go as a researcher, and you're now an editor there. Can you tell us more about that, how you got involved with Let’s Go?

My first Let’s Go assignment was a summer job for me—I traveled to Alaska and hopped ferries and small planes all the way from Ketchikan on the Inside Passage up to Fairbanks.

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