Holiday Road: Reading By Listening

Driving from DC to Kentucky and back is not a horrible journey. The trek takes you through lots of different and beautiful scenery. Western Maryland is nice, and once you get into Kentucky you got all those horse farms, and there is nothing prettier than seeing rolling hills with lots of horses hanging out. Just makes you feel like you are back home. West Virginia is not bad to look at, as long as you don't stop to talk to the people or eat anything. Because all they eat is fast food and more fast food.

It's about 13 hours total each way, so my goddess divine and I had to keep ourselves entertained, and playing the license plate game or the alphabet game just isn't getting it done. The lady gets carsick if she reads while in the car, so that wouldn't do either, and we have vastly different tastes in music, meaning, she hates everything I like. So loading up the iPod was out. The result? We gave audiobooks a try.

And I must say, I was pleasantly surprised. I was always worried about not being able to keep up and lose focus while driving, but it wasn't hard at all. Helps that we "read/listened" to some light-hearted fare, no Dickens or anything intense like that. All three, The Broker, The Appeal and The Ghost were all solid reads. The Appeal was a tad too slow at times, but it was decent in the end. The Broker was much more up-tempo, while The Ghost was a short 3 hours long and made the most of it.

I am definitely going to invest in more audiobooks the next time I take a road trip. It certainly helps pass the time, and as long as it's a solid book, you can't go wrong.