[Leica] IMG: Hello from Pakistan

[thurmanphoto at gmail.com (Wendy Thurman)]

Standing by!

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, simon jessurun <simon.apekop at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> My driver collided wtih a camel that way near jebel Ali.
> Down there they call it faith.You go when it's your time.
> And you arrive inshallah.
> best,simon
> p.s. will let you know when my next Afghan trip starts for  the lagavullin
> desert project.
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Wendy Thurman <thurmanphoto at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >
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