Sentences with phrase «mile trip across»

Situated off the northeast coast of Malaysia, Pulau Bidong (pulau means island in Malay) was largely uninhabited until shortly after the fall of Saigon in April 1975 (see Beyond the Book for The Sympathizer) when the first refugees from Vietnam, a boatload of 47 people, made the hazardous 700 mile trip across the South China sea.

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In a single day on a business trip, Gerber says he will often have five meetings in a 40 - mile spread across sprawling Los Angeles, the nation's 12th largest city by area.

By June 1, I was already doing short commuting trips across town, and then by mid-June I was riding on trails a good 30 miles or more.

That's what over an over 5000 mile round trip across the U.S will do to you, plus a lot of driving around while I was at home.

Columnist Amy Russell explains a trip she and her friends are planning in which they will walk 7,000 miles across Africa to raise funds and awareness about the need for clean water.

One team, led by scientists in the United Kingdom and Brazil, drove more than 1,200 miles across Brazil — «a Top Gear — style road trip,» one scientist quipped — with a portable device that could produce a complete catalog of the virus's genes in less than a day.

B - Cycle, the company that designs the bike - sharing systems used in Denver and more than 20 other cities across the country, says that on all of its systems combined, 2.1 million bike trips covering 4.5 million miles have been made on its bicycles since 2010, all of which have offset more than 2,948 metric tons of CO2 emissions and saved more than 330,000 gallons of gasoline, B - Cycle spokeswoman Marina Marich said.

Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15 - minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.

These fixes left Hoey with a near - perfect modern highway cruiser for a long, boring drive across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and into Manhattan for a 10 - day, 1,478 - mile round - trip to the New York International Auto Show.

In a trip across the US, this means I need to stop for fuel about every 120 miles.

On the other hand, the M550i is a cosseting mile muncher that would be one of the best picks in this field to drive across the country or for any road trip.

On a 1,400 - mile road trip across Pennsylvania, into upstate New York, and through the streets of Brooklyn, our Four Seasons 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost was a one - of - a-kind delight for me and everyone who crossed my path.

The Passat TDI never averaged less than 37.5 mpg on any of the trip's four legs and averaged about 39.9 mpg across the entire 1900 - mile journey.

If you win, a month - long, 3100 - mile road trip across the continent awaits, with typical reality TV show challenges set along the way.

He'd need the energy for the trip across two states, 500 + miles, and many, many mountains.

GM says it knows HD pickups are often used for towing in adverse conditions so they are testing the bejeesus out of the trucks: Before they're released to dealers, the trucks will undergo more than 6 million miles (240 trips around the earth) of durability testing in the torture chambers at GM's Milford Proving Ground, over deserts and mountains of Nevada and across the frozen flats of Kapuskasing, Ontario.

Now after a trip across the country with 6 people, I have over 9,000 miles

We have driven this van across country six times averaging about 7,000 miles per trip.

MADE IN THE USA Wine Across America: A Photographic Road Trip, by husband - and - wife team Charles O'Rear and Daphne Larkin, took two years and 80,000 miles to create; but as a coffee - table book, it makes a pretty travel brochure.

Infamous chronicles the 56 days between the Urschel kidnapping and Kelly's eventual capture, an epic road trip of close to 20,000 miles across the South and the Midwest with the Feds in hot pursuit.

That said, business - class flights across the Atlantic start at 60,000 miles for a one - way ticket, so you'll have to save up a few more miles to afford a round - trip fare.

We combined miles for one - way trips across different airlines and put together our own itinerary.

I fly across the Pacific often and I used to rack up quite a few miles with «miles for distance» — 15,000 for a round trip.

It will take you two trips across the country to earn those miles (that's over $ 500 in airfare) or you can buy the box that retails for $ 50.

The California Zephyr departs Chicago for a trip across the American Midwest, climbing through the Rocky Mountains and looking down on mile - high Denver, Colorado en route to San Francisco.

Most Memorable Travel Experience: Completing a five week, 9000 - mile road trip across the USA.

You used to be able to fly to nearby domestic destinations for fewer miles than flying across the country, but now most airlines have a blanket 25,000 mile round - trip domestic award no matter where you are traveling in the United States.

Flying across the Atlantic to Africa will cost 80,000 miles round - trip for an economy seat and 140,000 miles first class.

You can fly flat across the Atlantic ocean in business class for just 36,620 miles round trip...

Mermaid I goes on another biodiversity trip across 500 nautical miles from the heart of Raja Ampat all the way to Ambon considered one of the best macro destinations in Indonesia.

I recount a seven - day, sickness 1,500 - mile road trip across Namibia with four of my friends through a series of lessons we learned along the way.

Overnight Adventures Our overnight trip is for the adventurous: a boat ride across the deep blue, camping on a remote island, and miles and miles of fish in the wild.

The Miles to Memories team earns millions of miles / points each year to take amazing trips across the globe.

• A gallery director on a 75 - day, 12,000 - mile trip through 45 art communities across the United States stops in at the Chrysler: «Hands down it is by far one of the best collections of art we have had the pleasure of viewing.»

In the 1800s, for example, traveling a few hundred miles across the U.S. meant taking a steam - powered train, and the trip could take days.

Arguably the world's first Travelblog, VisorAdventure, Alan travelled 10,000 miles across the US using only a wireless Handspring PDA to document the trip.

The Teen Council members should be no different, especially as they spent a significant amount of time preparing for these meetings, and traveled over 650 miles round - trip across the state to meet with their representatives.»

«Why would anyone in their right mind plan a trip of nearly 5,000 miles across this vast country of ours at the worst possible time of year?»

I have loved every single mile of my almost 10,000 mile road trip across 30 states in my School Bus Tiny Home.»