Comments on: El Camino de la Muerte http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/ A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:23:49 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Maria http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2977 Maria Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:34:36 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2977 Yep! That's the one exactly... Locals think that the man is cursed and refuse to get on the same bus with him. I was amazed to hear that story, but can't say the poor man has bad luck. With such a devilish road, it's just so likely that anybody riding it every day will be involved in multiple accidents. If anything, I'm amazed that he has survived twice. Cursed? I'd say blessed!... Of course except for losing his loved ones. Yep! That’s the one exactly…
Locals think that the man is cursed and refuse to get on the same bus with him. I was amazed to hear that story, but can’t say the poor man has bad luck. With such a devilish road, it’s just so likely that anybody riding it every day will be involved in multiple accidents. If anything, I’m amazed that he has survived twice. Cursed? I’d say blessed!… Of course except for losing his loved ones.

]]> By: Marla http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2976 Marla Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:30:08 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2976 yikes!! Was that the documentary where they interviewed a guy who had survived a bus crash where his wife and son were killed on that road and then survived a second bus accident on his way back from the hospital? That was in the Andes too. What incredible journies people make in the course of living. yikes!! Was that the documentary where they interviewed a guy who had survived a bus crash where his wife and son were killed on that road and then survived a second bus accident on his way back from the hospital? That was in the Andes too.

What incredible journies people make in the course of living.

]]> By: Maria http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2919 Maria Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:44:28 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2919 On that list, number 5: The hiking trail in China! Holly cow! On that list, number 5: The hiking trail in China! Holly cow!

]]> By: Jennifer http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2918 Jennifer Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:17:28 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2918 Your entry reminded me of a post on Kottke.org from last December. He posted a link to a list of the <a href="http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/most-dangerous-roads-in-world.html" rel="nofollow">top 5 most dangerous roads</a>. The #1? Your Bolivian Death Road! (Hope that worked... Never used HTML in a reply yet!) Your entry reminded me of a post on Kottke.org from last December. He posted a link to a list of the top 5 most dangerous roads.

The #1? Your Bolivian Death Road!

(Hope that worked… Never used HTML in a reply yet!)

]]> By: me http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2894 me Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:54:10 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2894 Please, no more mountain bike. Get him some walking shoes and don't allow him to cross the road. The one lane country road by my Aunt Mary and Uncle Obers farm had a sharp blind curve right next to the house. You were supposed to blow your horn before going around that curve. Of course there were fewer than 10 cars a day that traveled that road. There was a very curvey road from Erwin to Knoxville, highway 11E. The nickname for the highway was that bloodly 11E. Please, no more mountain bike. Get him some walking shoes and don’t allow him to cross the road.

The one lane country road by my Aunt Mary and Uncle Obers farm had a sharp blind curve right next to the house. You were supposed to blow your horn before going around that curve. Of course there were fewer than 10 cars a day that traveled that road. There was a very curvey road from Erwin to Knoxville, highway 11E. The nickname for the highway was that bloodly 11E.

]]> By: Maria http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2862 Maria Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:42:05 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2862 No, we forget... We keep thinking we have unlimited chances... Joey already forgot all the tears at the ER, the months of recovery, the fear of surgery, and how scared he was to have gotten paralyzed. Why must we keep tempting fait, until we really get it bad? No, we forget… We keep thinking we have unlimited chances… Joey already forgot all the tears at the ER, the months of recovery, the fear of surgery, and how scared he was to have gotten paralyzed. Why must we keep tempting fait, until we really get it bad?

]]> By: Petie http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2861 Petie Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:08:29 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2861 Oh, more on the topic... We traveled one of these types of roads in Coasta Rica. It was amazingly dangerous. I couldn't believe it.... and the bridge we crossed of loose planks over a flood swollen river. What were we thinking!? ...and why didn't we take pictures!? Oh, more on the topic… We traveled one of these types of roads in Coasta Rica. It was amazingly dangerous. I couldn’t believe it…. and the bridge we crossed of loose planks over a flood swollen river. What were we thinking!? …and why didn’t we take pictures!?

]]> By: Petie http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2860 Petie Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:06:26 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2860 Joey wants to bike again? sigh. As I clipped Elise's nails and made one bleed on accident (I did the same thing to Joelle as an infant), I literally chuckled to myself (yes, very inappropriate for the moment) because I thought, "wow, we really don't learn from our mistakes, do we?" Joey wants to bike again? sigh. As I clipped Elise’s nails and made one bleed on accident (I did the same thing to Joelle as an infant), I literally chuckled to myself (yes, very inappropriate for the moment) because I thought, “wow, we really don’t learn from our mistakes, do we?”

]]> By: Maria http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2849 Maria Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:08:09 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2849 Indeed. But what a rich travel journal you would end up with at the end... Indeed. But what a rich travel journal you would end up with at the end…

]]> By: mandarine http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2848 mandarine Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:03:21 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2007/04/el-camino-de-la-muerte/#comment-2848 Really, I would love to travel old style: a train to Cartagena, then a ship down to Argentina,then Cape Horn, then Valparaiso, and into Peru and Bolivia on horse back with llamas. The problem is: one needs to be outrageously rich to be able to travel that way. Really, I would love to travel old style: a train to Cartagena, then a ship down to Argentina,then Cape Horn, then Valparaiso, and into Peru and Bolivia on horse back with llamas.
The problem is: one needs to be outrageously rich to be able to travel that way.

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