There is a nice book called "Traveling With the VW Bus and Camper " (http://tinyurl.com/yp5hf2) that has a story in it about traveling to Afghanistan. It also has several other stories from people who traveled in Africa and South America. Not your typical bus book with van descriptions but a group of stories written by van owners and write-ups about particular owners and their vans. BTW, if you're VW Bus book junky like I am a new book just came out called http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845841115/ref=yml_dp . Plenty of eye candy. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of W Peabody Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:11 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: trips you probably shouldn't take in your vanagon - worse than brain-eating bacteria! 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. |
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