>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.

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-her...

Dervla Murphy, who just passed, did it by bike.

Well, you can still smoke hash in Afghanistan, I'd bet...

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.

The US isn’t brutally repressive yet, but we’re constantly working on it!

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.

Friends drove in very recently, and had a great time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmkT1oRVACc