“Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.” TravelMemoirAsiaTravel QuotesTravel WritingThailandNepalBackpackingVolunteeringTraveling AloneTraveling Abroad Book:Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand Source: Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand
“I ended up in the back seat of a chicken truck’s cab heading through beautiful scenery and disastrous roads to my hotel. About an hour later, we stopped to sell a few hundred of the chickens to a butcher shop.” TravelMemoirTravelerAsiaTravel WritingThailandNepalVolunteeringTraveling AloneTravelogueAbroad Book:Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand Source: Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand
“The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most often, I’m surprised there weren’t more explosions), goats being herded across the highway by ancient women, children playing games in traffic, private cars and buses alike pulling over in the most inconvenient places for a picnic or public bath, and best of all the suicidal overtaking maneuvers (or what we would call ‘passing’) by our bus and others while going downhill at incredible speeds or around hairpin turns uphill with absolutely no power left to actually get around the other vehicle.” MemoirTravel QuotesTravel WritingTravelingMemoir WritingTraveling AloneTravelogue Book:Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand Source: Notes of a Naive Traveler: Nepal and Thailand