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drsolo
Jun 09, 2014Nomad
My mother and I did the switchbacks of Zion (or Bryce?) and frankly while she drove I was scared stiff. But nothing prepared us for the 1972 roads over Andrijevica in Yugoslavia (now Montenegro). The road was being widened (?) and they would just plow a road out of the side of the mountain as they worked on blasting thru the mountain higher up. This was only one lane so you had to look ahead to see if anyone was coming and pull over where the road was wider to let the vehicle thru, or, chance backing up on the switchback, maybe uphill as well. I was ready to abandon the car and walk. The whole driving experience in Yugoslavia (and the rest of Europe) was absolutely beyond belief... like the fact that horse, donkey and ox carts were on the same road as cars and everyone used their parking lights to drive at night and were really indignant if we tried to use our headlights. Everyone drove as fast as they could and they might as well have yanked off their rear view mirrors as much as they used em. We drove a VW "station wagon" with a mattress in the back and mostly camped with local people. It was quite an experience.
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