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| Bus falls into 300-ft canyon in Chile; ...kills at least 12 Americans | |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 23 2006, 06:30 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/...rash/index.html![]() Always been my nightmare... |
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| LadyElton | Mar 23 2006, 06:45 AM Post #2 |
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I heard about this last night. So sad.
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| George K | Mar 23 2006, 07:00 AM Post #3 |
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Finally
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I HATE heights. I remember my parents driving this road and nearly carping my pants. This is "Going to the Sun Road" in Glacier National Park. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| The 89th Key | Mar 23 2006, 07:31 AM Post #4 |
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This is a road on the Island of Capri, just off of Italy. To get to the top or other side of the island (which is one big hill), you had to take an old bus that drove really fast on roads barely big enough for one bus, around curves, as you looked down the side of the mountain that was at least a 400 foot drop. I also almost carped my pants. You can see the road here, about half way up the mountain cutting horizontally... ![]()
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| JBryan | Mar 23 2006, 07:33 AM Post #5 |
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I am the grey one
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And zig-zagging down the face can be seen the "express route". |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| sue | Mar 23 2006, 08:22 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Yikes! 89th, aren't there boats that could take you around to the other side?Worst nightmare for me too; roads like that terrify me. What a horrible accident.
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| The 89th Key | Mar 23 2006, 08:26 AM Post #7 |
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Well one of the towns is at the top of the mountain anyway, so you'll eventually have to take the bus-ride-from-hell-while-in-paradise anyway! |
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| Optimistic | Mar 23 2006, 08:39 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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:lol: |
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PHOTOS I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. - Mark Twain We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. -T. S. Eliot | |
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