Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sounds much like Afghanistan. Of course, here the Pakistani lorry in all it's decorated finery is a deadly piece of machinery when over-loaded as normal and driven on mountain roads with poor brakes. I've spent a little time in Kuwait (a place best avoided) and heard that a very large percentage of traffic accidents there are fatal due to extreme high speed desert driving- often with the lights off! Wendy On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Hugh Thompson <hewthompson at mac.com> wrote: > Spencer - as I noted to Wendy, Pindy is crazy, but it is the same in most > other towns and cities, Islamabad is the exception. > > > On 5-Nov-09, at 7:32 AM, Spencer Cheng wrote: > > My guide drove the wrong way down a one way street in 'Pindi because there >> was a traffic jam. Another guide went whipping around blind corners on >> tiny >> dirt roads. They are good people in general. >> > > Yes, this tends to be normal practice from my observations. Then there are > the motor bikes, and pedal bikes > > > >> Basic rule was "might is right" on the KKH. It works. >> >> We were cycling up/down the KKH. Once one figures out the aforementioned >> basic rule, it's not bad. Just have to watch out for the leftover stone on >> the road they use to mark traffic accidents in lieu of flares or safety >> triangles. Hitting one of those on a bicycle at speed would ruin one's >> day. >> > > Yes, you are right, that is what they do for holes in the road, and then > take for ever to do the repair. One day I am going to do a little study on > that. > > Hugh > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >