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Originally Posted by Mervifwdc
Lima was the wildest drive for us yet….[snip]….My hat is off to you bikers, not an easy ride.
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Yes, Peru was more awkward than Colombia and Ecuador, but I still can't remember anything so bad that it hadn't happened just as often in other places. Maybe there are a limited number of true psychopaths driving trucks and buses, and I just happened not to run into any?
I'd heard Lima was going to be intolerable, and had no desire to actually stop there anyway, so with vast trepidation I made plans to spend a half-day riding right through from north to south. An hour later I was out the other side and back on the desert, feeling somewhat hyper-alert but lacking the heart-pounding and gut-wrenching I've felt elsewhere.
If I measured national driving habits by whether people came around blind corners in my lane or tried to force me into the ditches, I'd be pretty glum about the workings of the world, and I'd definitely not have enjoyed coastal Italy or the rides through the Moroccan Atlas. And then there's my own hometown….
Mark
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