There is a nice book called "Traveling With the VW Bus and Camper "
(http://tinyurl.com/yp5hf2) that has a story in it about traveling to
Afghanistan. It also has several other stories from people who traveled in
Africa and South America.  Not your typical bus book with van descriptions
but a group of stories written by van owners and write-ups about particular
owners and their vans.

BTW, if you're VW Bus book junky like I am a new book just came out called
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845841115/ref=yml_dp . Plenty of eye
candy.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of W
Peabody
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:11 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: trips you probably shouldn't take in your vanagon - worse than
brain-eating bacteria!

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.