Drive Nacho Drive
A Journey from the American Dream to the End of the World
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Narrated by:
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Sheena Van Orden
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Brad Van Orden
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Written by:
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Brad Van Orden
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Sheena Van Orden
About this listen
On an afternoon just like many before it, Brad Van Orden sat at his desk. When a coworker meandered past his window, Brad succumbed to an impulse and blurted out the most outlandish thing he could think of: “Hey Steve, let's drive your hippie bus to Tierra del Fuego.” This prompted Steve's halfhearted response: “I don't think so.”
But this got Brad thinking: What if we just dropped everything and left? Isn't there more to life than this? He messaged his wife with a question: “Want to do this?” to which she immediately responded: “Yes!” They clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
Drive Nacho Drive tells the hilarious and sometimes harrowing story of what happens when Brad and Sheena Van Orden trade in the American dream for a year on the roads of Central and South America aboard “Nacho”, their quirky and somewhat temperamental Volkswagen van.
As a result of questionable decision-making skills and intermittent bad luck, Brad and Sheena repeatedly find themselves in over their heads. Whether negotiating cliff-hanging roads in rebel territory, getting caught illegally smuggling a transmission in a suitcase over international lines, mounting a stealth mission to steal Nacho back from a deranged Colombian auto dismantler, or clinging to the side of a vegetable truck while descending a 16,000 foot Andean pass, there seems to be no limit to the predicaments that these two can get themselves into.
With Drive Nacho Drive, the Van Ordens deliver a thoughtful, hilarious, and mouthwatering depiction of adventure and misadventure on the Pan-American highway - one that will leave you simultaneously shaking your head and holding your sides, while asking yourself, isn't there more to life than this?
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- richmond skrzypinski
- 2018-10-11
It's worth the time no question: if you're going o
Audible's version of the book Drive Nacho Drive by Brad Van Orden and Cathy Van Orden should be a must-read for anyone thinking of going off on any kind of their own road trip around the world. It is completely worth your time and effort to listen to (or read) this book. OK, so they won't receive a Nobel prize for literature. And one will not mistake this book for a book written by Mark Twain. But, for those who love to travel, or read stories about adventure, exploration and discovery, actual real adventure stories, not just fictional ones, this is a must read, or in this case, listen! Not to mention, in all honesty there aren't that many modern travel adventure books out there. Not good ones. And, even less, that cross multiple continents. So when one does come along you grab it!
The only real negative that I can point out here is the authors themselves attempting to read their own book. They don't have the chops for it. You can easily tell they are not professionals, doing this full-time for a living. It somehow removes something from the book, I'm not exactly sure why, yet other narrators who have some experience usually make a book come more alive. Here, that does not happen. Rather, the author's voices on occasion put me to sleep, despite me finding their reading styles and voices irritating. Luckily the book they wrote and the subject matter is exciting in itself (90% of the time!)
Anyway, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in travel. I know I'll be listening to it a least for the third time in a year very soon. It's perfect to listen to (or read) on a quiet winter's weekend when you just want to stay inside. It will make you dream of going off yourself around the world on your next vacation, while at the same time scaring you off the idea. On the other hand, it does give you some great advice, if, despite the reality, you have the balls to go do it anyway.
Personally, I'm leaving on my own 7-year long (or maybe longer) RV Road Trip around the world this coming May, orrrr . . . maybe, the one after that!
CARPE DIEM everyone!
Richie
c/o the RV Road Trip Around the World (on
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