I don't recommend it. Driving from Germany to Romania -- from ca. Frankfurt to Bucharest -- is a 3-day drive and it's three days on rapidly declining roads. Add a colicky baby (i.e. very little rest at night) and a heat wave of epic proportions and you have my latest trip.
Michael drove (with) us and that was a good thing - he's a very good driver with fast reaction time and a calm temper. I would have freaked halfway through. What am I saying - I did freak halfway through but it didn't matter much since I was just the navigator...
We had several near-misses by Romanian suicidal drivers (they like to pass you
in the dusk in curves at high speed), including that one bicylist who drove smack across the road between us and the car in front of us, at most 30 feet away and us travelling at 70 mph, and the memorable moment when we had two trucks side by side facing us as we came around a steep curve in the Carpathian mountains. I swear Romanian drivers have a sixth sense, something that tells them when it's only risky to pass and when it's suicidal. There is no other explanation for the fact that we saw only one accident.
It took us six hours to cover 800 km in Germany and Austria. 6 hours to cover 400 km in Hungary. Ten hours to cover 600 km in Romania. Says all, I think.
Posted by claudia at August 24, 2003 08:02 AMCan I just say how impressed I am that you can do the metric-to-US conversions when I would probably still be white-knuckled and babbling from the adrenaline comedown?
Anyway, I am glad you and all are safely there.
C.
Posted by: Carlos at August 25, 2003 06:23 AMhi!
i just got back from seeing april cohen in rio and we, of course, told doug stories. were your ears burning?
missing you,
jess
This is a joke:
A motobiker in hospital.
Question: what happend?
Answer.. It was night, I saw 2 lights of some motocicles coming in the front and I wanted to go between them.
Question: and? what happend?
Answer: it is actually a truck.