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Oso
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Think Mex 1 hairy?
I've always hated that stretch just above Sta. Rosalia, but it's a piece of cake compared to this. (I don't know where it is.)
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/dangerous-roads.html
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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Bruce R Leech
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there used to be a lot of rodes like that in Mexico.
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vandenberg
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Looks like some we saw in Costa Rica. However, lots of roads like that in Central and South America. Definitely scary !!!
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DanO
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Now I know why there are so many bus plunge articles in the papers. Reminds me of the William Friedkin movie "Sorcerer."
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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elgatoloco
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Wow! 
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vgabndo
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Great pictures...
Along the South Fork of the Salmon River in Siskiyou County CA, between Cecilville and "The Forks", we presently have a once-paved road which is cliff
up-cliff down. It is economically unreasonable to fill the places where the outside has sloughed away, so lately they've just painted big white "shark
mouth" shapes around the voids to warn of the certain death that would come from the slightest carelessness. It is a gorgeous drive. The pool and drop
river is emerald green. I wish I had a picture.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Barry A.
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Vgnbndo------
----Thank you for that bit of info------here I have something right in my own backyard (Redding, Ca) and did not even know it.
We will certainly make the effort to see it, soon, and we will hope to survive.
Thanks, again. Barry
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Sallysouth
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It reminds me of some of the roads in Costa Rica also! Lots of white knuckling going on there!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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Mango
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Those roads look pretty insane. The pictures remind me of some roads I've been on in the mountains of Veracruz/Puebla/Oaxaca. It looks like a cloud
forest to me. So Southern Mexico/Central America is my guess.
The first time I went to Batopillas in the Copper Canyon the road was so hairball and narrow that I rode on the roof of the bus. At least I had a
chance to grab for a cactus on the way down if we went over. The quick access to Tecate and tequlia in my bag on the roof rack helped calm my nerves
too.
The road to Batopillas is much better/wider nowdays.
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Barry A.
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Mango------
----a truly great pic----------I too have navigated that road and I will never forget it------but the rewards of Batopilas are worth it. 
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BajaNomad
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Not quite the same... but the pictures make the road to San Javier from Loreto come to mind.
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Bob H
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Costa Rica is a great possibility, but the more I look at these roads the more I think roads to the rain forrests in Peru.
Bob H
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Skipjack Joe
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I agree with Bob H. Peru or Bolivia would be my guess.
I just wanted to add a few things to this post since it brought back a flood of memories. The roads shown are traveled by buses in Peru to the towns
on the rainforest side of the Andes. As a new passenger the most frightening thing about it is that you can't see the road out of the window. The
wheels are so close to the edge that now matter how you crane your neck you look out into space below.
But the scariest of all is when two buses meet and have to pass each other. They sort of move back and forth next to each other, each one trying to
use every inch available, and not have the wheel go over the edge.
Know what's even crazier? They do this at night. You buy an overnight ticket and off they go. After awhile you can only handle so much tension and you
just resign yourself to the fates and go to sleep.
I gotta tell you though, it's a real high, a real thrill. I saw scenery that I will never forget.
[Edited on 7-13-2006 by Skipjack Joe]
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BajaGeoff
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Costa Rica has some scary roads but I never saw anything quite like this! I have to wonder what they do when two vehicles come from opposing
directions? Rock-Paper-Scissors to see who has to drive in reverse to the wider section of road?
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vandenberg
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Have driven some hairy mountain roads in Northern California. Recall one single lane dirt road going to Iowa Hill, alongside the American River. And I
was always told that in case of oncoming traffic, the one going downhill ,backs up till you find a wide enough spot to pass.
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Barry A.
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Vandenberg-------Iowa Hill road-----
I drove that road about twice a month for 5 years, and yes, it is really interesting.
Your advice about who gives way on a single lane road is the same as I have always understood------the truck going downhill backs up and yields the
right-of-way to the uphill vehicle. The theory here is that it is easier to see the road behind you if it is rising away from you. The guy going up
hill would have a difficult time seeing the road behind him as it is falling down (away?) out of his/her sight.
Iowa hill is a very interesting place, especially considering it is in California. Lots of strange things going on back in the woods on IOWA HILL.
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Bob H
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Skipjack, I was on one of these buses too and the back door fell off. A couple of people jumped out, got the door back up to the bus and the people
inside just held on to it and we continued on our way. I guess it was repaired later.
 Bob H
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Bajame
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Looks like the roads in India! We were caught in a landslide on our way up in the Himalayas.
We all want a peaceful world, filled with love and laughter, but we fill ourselves with anger and hate trying to fiqure out how to achive it.
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osoflojo
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I think the Peru/Bolivia guesses are right on. Judging from the dress of the people and that one licensc plate that looks suspiciously Bolivian.
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Cypress
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High country roads are wild. Have seen petroglyhs on the rock-side and looked down at eagles on the air-side. No speed limits, go as fast as you want.
The pucker factor reaches the accelerator and binds with the break pedal to make for a reduced speed zone.
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