Drive Nacho Drive

On an afternoon just like many before it, Brad Van Orden sat at his desk when a coworker meandered past his window. At that moment, 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." Which prompted Steve to halfheartedly respond, "I don't think so." But then Brad got to thinking. What if we just dropped everything and left? Is there more to life than this? He messaged his wife the...
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On an afternoon just like many before it, Brad Van Orden sat at his desk when a coworker meandered past his window. At that moment, 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." Which prompted Steve to halfheartedly respond, "I don't think so." But then Brad got to thinking. What if we just dropped everything and left? Is there more to life than this? He messaged his wife the question: "Want to do this?", which elicited her near immediate response: "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 the roads of Central and South America aboard "Nacho", their quirky and somewhat temperamental Volkswagen van. Spurred on by stubbornness and wanderlust, Brad and Sheena repeatedly find themselves in mind-boggling situations. Whether negotiating cliff-hanging roads in rebel territory, getting caught illegally smuggling a transmission over international lines in a suitcase, mounting a stealth mission to steal Nacho back from a deranged Colombian auto dismantler, or clinging to the sides of a vegetable truck while descending a 16,000 foot Andean pass, there seems no end to the dilemmas 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, is there more to life than this?