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Imagine visiting Afghanistan! Just hopping in a bus and going over land!!! The reason? It’s more enlightened than the US, and you can smoke hash. How times ha

• treis 4y ago
  >Imagine visiting Afghanistan! Just hopping in a bus and going over land!!! I heard tales of people/companies buying an old city bus in Europe and driving it to Europe. They'd get gas money along the way by charging other travellers and then make more by selling the bus in India.
  • selimthegrim 4y ago
    Dervla Murphy, who just passed, did it by bike.
  • coldtea 4y ago
    There were also the "Magic Bus" rides, frequent commercial but cheapo bus rides from Europe to India... https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/644-dont-buy-shirts-in-herat-down-the-hippie-trail/ https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/644-dont-buy-shirts-in-her...
• coldtea 4y ago
  Well, you can still smoke hash in Afghanistan, I'd bet...
  • gunfighthacksaw 4y ago
    In the 70s it was arguably safer to do so in Afghanistan than the US. Now it’s legal some places in the US and Afghanistan has a brutally repressive moralistic government.
    • op00to 4y ago
      The US isn’t brutally repressive yet, but we’re constantly working on it!
      • seanmcdirmid 4y ago
        Hard drugs are completely decriminalized here in Seattle. You can fen smoke fentanyl on the bus without getting into trouble. Unfortunately. I miss the 80s when people were at least afraid of getting caught.
• grecy 4y ago
  Friends drove in very recently, and had a great time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkT1oRVACc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkT1oRVACc
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