I already know more about these things than I know about Covelo. In travel as in sex, the journey can be more intriguing than the destination. By the time we get to Europe I will have planned and plotted the trip for more than six months. That's a ratio of 24 weeks planning time to five weeks travel time. This is why people need travel books.
Travel planning causes one to become picky.
Let's Go is hip and sometimes unreliable. Clearly the best of these guides are the Eyewitness Guides published by DK Publishing. When the Eyewitness Guides were first published about a decade ago they had a fresh new look. They now have been vigorously copied, but not yet surpassed, most closely by the Knopf Guides published by Random House. The Eyewitness format first appeared in this country as smart young people's guides to science and nature.