Lonely Planet USA - Country Guide Author:Regis St Louis ?This is a country of road trips and great open skies, where four million miles of highways lead past red-rock deserts, below towering mountain peaks, and across fertile wheat fields that roll of toward the horizon.? ? Regis St Louis, Lonely Planet Writer — Our Promise — You can trust our travel information because Lonely Planet authors visit the ... more »places we write about, each and every edition. We never accept freebies for positive coverage so you can rely on us to tell it like it is.