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> OT-Bolivia's "Road of Death", Do not go there with your 914!!!!
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post Oct 10 2006, 11:53 AM
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Hey Guys,

Here's a 914 road to stay away from. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

It's in Bolivia and called the Stremnaya Road of Death. Interesting place.

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post Oct 10 2006, 11:55 AM
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The last part of the road.

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post Oct 10 2006, 12:13 PM
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post Oct 10 2006, 12:45 PM
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Dam that doesn't look safe. I would ride my bicycle on it but would be afraid the place would give away under a cars weight at any moment.

One thing I noticed in traveling is some countries have really poor engineers. One that really comes to mind is staying at a friends apartment on the 5th floor in a building in Bucarest. Stairs where about 1/2 inch think concrete with one steel rod going thru them and all broken. Very interesting walk when your drunk.
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post Oct 10 2006, 01:45 PM
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Check out these pix.

http://javimoya.com/blog/pics/200607/bolivia.htm

BTW, there was an hour long show about this highway on the History Channel (or maybe the Travel Channel) last week. The host was noticably nervous during much of the trip. As the programmers on the Discovery network are known to milk every last cent out of their investment, you'll be able to catch it many times over the next few days, weeks, months, and even years. It's an old road, built over decades, and at great expense, especially for a country that has no money. Life is tougher in some places, guys, and any road is better than no road at all .......
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post Oct 10 2006, 02:11 PM
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thats a good road, compared to the roads i drive to mining camps in mexico.

i just got used to it.

the first month i was driving roads like the ones in the picture.
i thought i was going puke from fear.

now i can sleep for hours sitting shotgun in pickup truck in the middle of a monsoon rain storm.

never knowing if the road was going to collapse under the weight of the truck.

on roads that look exactly like the ones here.

ya simply learn to trust the process.
ya get VERY ZEN after a while. i learned i had to allow a huge paradigm shift to survive the interior of mexico.

it's a crazy place to travel. especially when you don't if and when you are coming back.

i love mexico. pure and simple.
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post Oct 10 2006, 02:42 PM
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Both the pictures and the link from The Cap'n remind me of the movie "Sorcerer" staring Roy Scheider about desperate men hired to drive badly aged dynamite through some anonymous South American jungle for an oil company.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/
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post Oct 10 2006, 03:00 PM
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Wow, guys expecially Twystd1

You guys have exciting lives.

I drive the 5-mile long bridge between Northern MI & the MI Upper peninsular with the wife. She moans & hids her face on the car seat with a death grip on my leg. She would freak out on those roads & I would be in fear of my life with her in the car. I remember a few years ago someone driving a small car (Yugo??) went over the bridge's railing into Lake Michigan on a windy day. I don't like that bridge.

I think I'll stay on flat U.S.A. roads.

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post Oct 10 2006, 03:08 PM
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Forgot to show a picture of the Machinaw Bridge. It's a long way down & you could land on a lake freighter.

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post Oct 10 2006, 03:26 PM
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yeah i heard about this on the History Channel last week. So mad i missed it.
guess i can catch it soon like ya said.

I would totally take out my rally car and take that road on! that would be some sick fun and driving for sure.

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post Oct 10 2006, 05:40 PM
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"I would totally take out my rally car and take that road on! that would be some sick fun and driving for sure."


I'm with Billy! That road looks like it's be a thriller for sure!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif)

Time to Google Travel Channel!
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post Oct 10 2006, 05:45 PM
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beat you to it, haha

http://www.history.com/shows.do?episodeId=...p;action=detail

gives details as to when its on next and a "long" description.
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post Oct 10 2006, 07:31 PM
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Them roads are way to cool!! I think the bummer is if it got blocked in a couple of ends and someone would have to climb around it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

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post Oct 10 2006, 07:32 PM
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I got to thinking about this, and Googled it Virtually all the hits use almost the same exact phrases, leading me to think the description is bogus. It certainly doesn't look like the road in my earlier link, and doesn't look anything like the one shown on the history channel. And, it's too dry. The word "Stremnaya" sounds Russian, not Spanish. I don't doubt this road exists, I just don't think it's in Bolivia. The Cap'n
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post Oct 10 2006, 09:10 PM
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I saw the episode on the History Channel, and it's definately in Bolivia, goes from La Paz out to the boonies. Amazing engineering feat and quite scary to think of people building this with pick axes and other other hand tools.

Driving it would not be my idea of fun, buses and trucks seem to fall off regularly intno 2000 ft. deep ravines. Makes Californa ravines seem quite tame.
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post Oct 10 2006, 09:21 PM
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23 Million Bolivians before the road, down to 21 million now and dropping...

Common, it was kinda funny..
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post Oct 11 2006, 08:45 AM
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i thought so, haha.

i was implying that it would be fun without all those trucks and buses on there.
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post Oct 11 2006, 09:46 AM
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when you finish that sunday drive you can head east to the Karakoram Highway.
pack your RPG.
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post Oct 11 2006, 09:58 AM
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QUOTE(brer @ Oct 11 2006, 08:46 AM) *

when you finish that sunday drive you can head east to the Karakoram Highway.
pack your RPG.


WCC 08? Think 914 Biathalon. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)
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post Oct 11 2006, 08:07 PM
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QUOTE(obscurity @ Oct 10 2006, 01:42 PM) *

Both the pictures and the link from The Cap'n remind me of the movie "Sorcerer" staring Roy Scheider about desperate men hired to drive badly aged dynamite through some anonymous South American jungle for an oil company.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/

I agree, great movie even if it is a bit predictable....
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