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It is road trip time and this book will take you places you can only imagine for great time with family or friends. Please see wonderful reviews as you scroll down.....

"Charming, informative, beautiful and unique! Loved this book! I loved seeing the illustrations of places I have been and it whetted my appetite to visit more. The book itself is a gem and it points the way to discoveries and adventures."

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"One of my recipients lives in LA County and loves the book. I am a New Jersey transplant in Arizona and I count my proximity California as a perk of living here. Despite having already explored the Golden State and Washington State on numerous occasions, this book has opened my eyes to new places to visit. The illustrations are well done, the text is crisp and humorous, and my only regret is that it was not published in time to gift to another friend who recently visited Los Angeles from New Jersey. I've gifted it to another person and I forsee gifting it again in the future as news of friends traveling to California reaches me. I think this is going to become an instant classic."

"The illustrations are just beautiful. This book points out some details I didn't even know about in California and have always lived here. Would like to see more travel books like this."

"This quirky illustrated book covers historic routes up and down the West Coast by showcasing roadside attractions, beloved landmarks, hidden history, and other offbeat delights for armchair travelers and road-trippers alike. It’s the perfect inspiration for a trip along the coast, or to simply savor as a love letter to the region. 

What better place for a road trip than the West Coast (the best coast, by any measure)? From San Diego, California, all the way up to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, you'll find off-the-beaten-path adventures up and down the coast. This charming illustrated book features both the coastal route via historic Highways 101 and 1 (the PCH) and an inland route up Highway 99, highlighting the natural beauty along the shore while also connecting the traveler to major cities and other attractions. Includes side trips to destinations such as Catalina Island, Joshua Tree National Park, Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks, wine country, Crater Lake National Park, the Columbia River Gorge, Mount Rainier National Park, the San Juan Islands, and Vancouver, BC. Also includes in-depth city guides to San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, and Seattle. Chock-full of unusual facts, hidden history, and Americana, this one-of-a-kind road trip through California, Oregon, and Washington tells a story of the diversity and depth that created the West Coast we know and love today, showcasing both the ever-changing present and vestiges of the past for those who slow down to look. From a co-author of the award-winning Dead Feminists, this guide is perfect for fans of Atlas Obscura, Rebecca Solnit, and Julia Rothman."

Editorial ReviewsReview
An American Booksellers Association Indie Travel Bestseller!

Praise for "The Best Coast":

“The Best Coast, Chandler O’Leary’s illustrated road trip atlas spanning San Diego, Calif., and Washington State, taps into a desire among vacationers to see America as it was before chain restaurants and frequent-flyer mileage homogenized and shrunk the landscape."
—Publishers Weekly

“O’Leary’s guide offers the best of both worlds by taking you off the beaten path without missing out on any bucket-list attractions.”
—Seattle Times

“[Chandler] O’Leary’s bright, delightful watercolors depict worthwhile stops and sights, from the mission architecture of San Diego to the parks of Vancouver, British Columbia. The book is also packed with the kind of dad-approved roadside history (did you know there are wild zebras in California?) that makes for memorable meandering.”
—Seattle magazine

"All the beauty of a west coast road trip, condensed in a beautiful, yet practical book. The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas is perfect for those new to the West, and a wonderful supplement for the natives who haven’t quite been everywhere yet. Handy tips, stunning locations and a number of side trips just in case you decide to do some wandering."
—Powells.com

"In The Best Coast, readers travel with O’Leary from San Diego to her current home state of Washington and back again. In between beautiful, hand-painted illustrations are portraits of roadside attractions, hidden histories, and historic highway guides."
—Roadtrippers magazine

“Not just an indispensable guide to the West Coast, this is a beautiful, one-of-a-kind love letter to some of my favorite places in the world.”
—Geraldine DeRuiter, founder of Everywhereist.com
 
Praise for Chandler O’Leary and Drawn TheRoadAgain.com:
 
“Nobody is clear on the exact ratio of picture-to-words worthiness—some estimates have it as high as 1:1000—but it’s hard to argue that your average travel writer could capture the essence of a place as well as Chandler O’Leary does with her . . . watercolor artwork.”
—Fast Company
 
“O’Leary has a unique perspective on the sense of discovery in the journey as well as the destination.”
—Atlas Obscura 

About the Author and Artist!
"Chandler O'Leary is an illustrator, writer and lettering artist based in Tacoma, Washington. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she is the proprietor of a small stationery imprint called Anagram Press. She is also the author and artist behind Drawn the Road Again, an illustrated travel blog. Her illustrated road trip guide, The Best Coast: A Road Trip Atlas, was published by Sasquatch Books in 2019, followed by a companion book of postcards in 2020. Her next illustrated travel book will be published by Sasquatch Books in 2022.