Date:         Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:11:02 -0700
Reply-To:     W Peabody <w.peabody@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         W Peabody <w.peabody@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: trips you probably shouldn't take in your vanagon - worse
              than brain-eating bacteria!
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On 10/6/07, Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think Afghanistan in the early 70s was much safer than it is now! My
> single female cousin traveled across Afghanistan (and the rest of Asia) in
> the late '60s on her way home from peace corps in the Philippines.  You
> could do things like that back then!


Pretty sad, since I've heard it's a fascinating country, and I had met
someone from England who rode across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on a
bicycle, back in the 70s. He said the most hospitable people he had ever met
were in Afghanistan.
There's site online, where a couple of young men drove across the continent
from England to India in a VW bus. They have a journal and a lot of photos.
http://website.lineone.net/~mpburke/home.html
They bypassed Afghanistan and Iraq, but drove through Iran.

W.