Category Archives: Travel

The Worst Road In The World

March 7, 2016 – 12:26 pm

The North Yungas Road in Bolivia has been touted as the world’s most dangerous road. Paraguayan war prisoners cut the dirt track into jungle cliff in the 1930s. Over two-hundred motorists died on the road in 2006. According to Wikipedia the South Yungas Road connecting La Paz to Chulumani, 64 kilometres (40 mi) east of […]

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Bad Road – Phnom Penh to Thai Border

March 6, 2016 – 10:51 pm

In 2009 the Cambodian government announced the completion of over 1,082 kilometers of roads. The fragile infrastructure improvement came thanks to Chinese and South Korean investments with the national road from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville serving as the showpiece for internal travel, however the important connection between Siem Reap and the Thailand border remains to […]

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Luxembourg 1988

October 9, 2015 – 4:07 am

During the 80s Iceland Air had one of the cheapest flights from New York to Europe. Maybe $300 with a stop-over in Reyjarvik. I took them several times and here’s a photo of the Luxembourg Gorge from 1988. It hasn’t changed much, but the Iceland flights were dropped in 1999. Nothing stays the same. Other […]

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GOING WEST by Peter Nolan Smith

September 23, 2015 – 11:16 am

Several years ago week my young nephew left Boston to drive to California. A good friend was accompanying Franka on his cross-country trip. Knowing the highways of America from coast to coast,I called to offer advice on a route. “We’re first driving to Pittsburgh to see my grandmother.” Zsa Zsa was in a nursing home […]

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FROM BIAK TO MEDAN by Peter Nolan Smith on Kindle

September 23, 2015 – 10:05 am

FROM BIAK TO MEDAN covers my travels from Indonesia’s Irian Jaya to Sumatra in 1991. It was time was before cellphones and ATM. My modes of transport were tramp liners, jets, prop planes, horses, motorbikes, trains and buses. I was a ‘mistah’, but soon learned enough Bahasa Indonesian to know that ‘angin’ was dog and […]

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