Road trip

Another new year is upon us and I was working on my ebook that is a reminisce of my 2016 UK radio tour. I was on the road for 4 months with little to no down time at all; you'd be amazed at what can happen in a short period of time. The people I met, other musicians I had the honour to share the stage with and countless rare moments I experienced that will live in my memories forevermore. The ebook will have direct quotes from my journal and details about the moments lived and lessons learned. But

Introduction Traffic congestion and air pollution are becoming growing problems in many cities in Malaysia. In order to discourage automobile dependency, and increase pedestrian activities particularly for short trips, the government has begun to promote non-motorized travel options by improving pedestrian facilities that promote an assured level of convenience, comfort, and security for potential users. One of the facilities that have been provided by the government is the pedestrian bridge

who’s they were. I was in a daze of shock and fear. A few moments later, Dana pulls up in a nearby driveway. He jumps out of the truck in a confused panic. His truck had been overheating and he had fallen behind. I look at the marks in the road where Jamie and his bike had landed, and that was when I realized the miracle of the situation. If Dana had not fallen behind, he would have been right behind the bike. Jamie would have been dead. I never even noticed them pull up. Before I knew

Max My heart thundered under my breast. I was sure my parents could hear me, asleep in their beds inside the two story, gray-siding clad house on Sunnyvale Court. Rain puddled at my feet, soaking the dirt of a thousand walks into my off-brand tennis shoes. I usually enjoyed the rain. I liked the feel of walking barefoot in puddles in the grass and the smell of rain mixed with pine trees. Tonight, the air was cool and the rain was crisp against my skin for an early August in South Carolina. I would

of Pakistan and Afghanistan, you have to make a hazarding trip on an endless dirt road that is unattainable in bad weather. The Kohistani are inherently a violent people who strongly believe in vengeance and had most of their fighting take place between descent groups. For the most part conflict was handled by local leaders, and there was usually no fatal accident due to a lack of fatal weapons. The lack of guns was due to the lack of roads that limited economic development, which limited the amount

despite the situation of the surrounding environment. The Road and Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co, these two novels’ fathers delineate the close bond between them and the children. The road develops into a symbol of the storylines in these novels which initiates the stories for the daughter and the son. Furthermore, the road can be defining as a track to seek for survival and a chance of education. Within these two novels, father’s love

Title of the book and the Author: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy Bio: Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933. He is the eldest son out of six children born to Charles Joseph and Gladys Christina McGrail McCarthy. His name was originally Charles after his father; he later renamed himself Cormac after the Irish King. His family moved to Knoxville when he was six. Cormac was raised as a Roman Catholic; He attended a Catholic High School. He graduated and attended school

ikes Peak is a big, tall, rocky, and beautiful mountain with a fantastic view. As my family and I started driving up the mountain the sun was shining so bright it was a nice warm summer day. The roads are so curvy going up the mountain which is creepy; if put on the outside rail. First it was a beautiful pine tree forest lookout, and saw all these different animal signs. A quarter of the way up we saw a strange sign saying Bigfoot Crossing, so we had to get a picture with it. Once we got out of the

Published in 1957, several years after it was written, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is lauded as one of the most important literary works of the twentieth century. Praised for its role in the counterculture Beat movement that helped shape society today, the novel embraces previously taboo themes like sex, drugs, music, and dissatisfaction with the expectations of ordinary life in early ‘50’s America. According to legend, after years of real life experience of hitchhiking his way back and forth across

in the car the next day. The grandmother was prepared as “She had her big black valise that looked like the head of a hippopotamus in one corner, and underneath it she was hiding a basket with Pitty Sing, the cat, in it (O’Connor 853)”. During the trip, the grandmother took a nap, and when she woke up she realized they were outside of Toombsboro. She remembered an old plantation she had visited when she was a young lady. The grandmother knew Bailey would not want to stop and view the old plantation