Comments on: I’m not going to be traveling on these roads any time soon https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 31 May 2016 23:32:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Sgt. Mom https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1209675 Tue, 31 May 2016 23:32:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1209675 Gah – that reminds me of when I drove the coastal road from Salerno to Positano … sob! It looked like the shortest and easiest route to the place where I had a hotel reservation, after departing from Athens via the ferry from Patras to Brindisi.
It was … seriously scary. A narrow two-lane road, along a ledge about two-thousand feet up a sheer cliff-face above the ocean, zig-zagging along and meeting horrifically large tour buses coming the other way and about half their bulk OVER THE CENTER LINE! Yeah, I was a quivering wreck when I got to the hotel in Positano, but the management was magnificent.
They made me a salad for lunch, with a pitcher of fresh-squeezed orange juice, and told me to go down and relax on the beach and not to even THINK about going anywhere else for that day.

]]> By: Philip https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1209378 Tue, 31 May 2016 21:22:47 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1209378 Yancey, right in front of you every day. All you have to do is take a step. There is a step in a different direction that will avoid it… but the road less traveled, etc.

]]> By: Yancey Ward https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1208829 Tue, 31 May 2016 17:03:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1208829 Where was The Road to Hell?

]]> By: Ray https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1208604 Tue, 31 May 2016 15:20:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1208604 I grew up in New Mexico so I’ve made the journey of death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jornada_del_Muerto

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1208578 Tue, 31 May 2016 15:10:27 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1208578 By the way, Neo when she seeks a politics break, could do a movie favorites list of some kind. Her favorite “overlooked films”, her favorite critically acclaimed but commercial flop films, her favorite atmospheric films, … along with the hows and the whys.

No musicals please …

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1208552 Tue, 31 May 2016 14:57:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1208552 For Neo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgRneVBkC_0

Plenty of cliff scenes too.

This was one of those minor gem films you used to get to see on late night TV

]]> By: Tesh https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1208038 Tue, 31 May 2016 09:35:45 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1208038 The Eshima Ohashi bridge, at least, really isn’t all that bad. The inclines are smaller than some Rocky Mountain pass roads.

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/03/eshima-ohashi-bridge-in-matsue-japan.html

]]> By: Roy Lofquist https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1207809 Tue, 31 May 2016 06:56:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1207809 Funny. A lot of them looked like the Apache Trail in Arizona. The drop offs aren’t quite a thousand feet but after the first hundred or so it doesn’t make much difference.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1207696 Tue, 31 May 2016 05:30:25 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1207696 Wow, sounds like some of those roads could be nearly as dangerous as driving through a rotary in Boston.

]]> By: Sam P https://thenewneo.com/2016/05/30/im-not-going-to-be-traveling-on-these-roads-any-time-soon/#comment-1207505 Tue, 31 May 2016 03:17:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=60078#comment-1207505 Driving through Death Valley requires care in the summer. As I recall, there’s a bunch of roadside warnings that you should make sure you have enough radiator fluid. The last time I went through there (maybe 20 years ago), it was summer but a rare rain had happened recently and the plant life had gone into high speed bloom. Recently, death by GPS apparently is a thing.

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