Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Death Road

A Roller Coaster

rickety rocketry
dust flying
heart skinking
horn beeping
eyes bulging
people panting
hands sweating 
Teeter totter

The Death Road



(We were not even officially on the death road when we passed by this bus. It had just fallen of the skinny cliffside road that we were on as we could see all the passengers taking their luggage out of the bus. No one appeared to be injured.)

The turns are so tight that it is a miracle a bus can even squeeze down this road. Not only that, cars are coming from both directions & when they meet up someone has to reverse basically teetering over the edge. It is beyond intense. It was an 18 hour bus ride total, but it felt like a 18 hour roller coaster ride you could not get off of. When you go to a theme park you can choose what rides you want to ride, and somehow there is a feeling of invincibility. Not when you are on a shady bus hovering over cliffs.