Showing posts with label roadtrip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roadtrip. Show all posts

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Some of the Earth's Highest roads!

Some of the highest roads on earth. It takes some serious time, money and skill to locate the highest roads on the planet, so we did it for you. You can enjoy this list from the comfort of your home. Feel free to share which is your favorite!

5) Cime de la Bonette, France - Altitude: 9,192 ft
Who would have thought France was hiding one of the highest roads on Earth, well it is!
4) Mouna Loa, USA - Altitude: 11,145 ft
This is the largest of the five volcanoes known as Hawaii.

3) Khardung La, India - Altitude: 17,582 ft

What a sight, in the middle of India, you’d find this! You wouldn’t want to run out of gas there, “Next station: 60 miles”!

2) Marsimik La, India - Altitude: 18,640 ft
India is quite THE spot for high roads, it’s lucky enough to have two of the roads on this list.

1) Uturuncu, Bolivia - Altitude: 18,923 feet
South America is a famous land for its volcanoes, well now you can also add the highest road. Not only are you REALLY high, but also, you need to be careful as you might get hit with Volcanic eruptions.


Monday, January 27, 2014

Top 5 Audiobooks for your next roadtrip!

The Invention of Wings: A Novel 
Written by: Sue Monk Kidd
Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
Summary: From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees comes a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women. Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.


Imperial Life in the Emerald City 
Written by: Rajiv Chandrasekaran 
Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
Summary: The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, takes us into the Green Zone, headquarters for the American occupation in Iraq. In this bubble separated from wartime realities, the task of reconstructing Iraq is in the hands of 20-somethings chosen for their Republican Party loyalty. They pursue irrelevant neoconservative solutions and pie-in-the-sky policies instead of rebuilding looted buildings and restoring electricity, angering the locals and fueling the insurgency.

Divergent, Book 1 
Written by: Veronica Roth
Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins 
Summary: In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue - Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is - she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
   

Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War 
Written by: Robert M. Gates
Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
Summary: From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he'd long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.



Sycamore Row
Written by: John Grisham  
Length: 20 hrs and 50 mins  
Summary: Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten, will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises far more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly?