On 10/6/07, Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think Afghanistan in the early 70s was much safer than it is now! My
> single female cousin traveled across Afghanistan (and the rest of Asia) in
> the late '60s on her way home from peace corps in the Philippines.  You
> could do things like that back then!

Pretty sad, since I've heard it's a fascinating country, and I had met
someone from England who rode across Afghanistan, Pakistan and India on a
bicycle, back in the 70s. He said the most hospitable people he had ever met
were in Afghanistan.
There's site online, where a couple of young men drove across the continent
from England to India in a VW bus. They have a journal and a lot of photos.
http://website.lineone.net/~mpburke/home.html
They bypassed Afghanistan and Iraq, but drove through Iran.

W.