Comments on: The 'Death Road', the Rastas, and driving in Ethiopia http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/3958 Ethiopian News & Opinion Journal Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:36:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Derege http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/3958/comment-page-1#comment-45598 Derege Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:12:56 +0000 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/?p=3958#comment-45598 Nice, make me homesick! Are all those ppl parking in the middle of the street in Broolyn, NY from Ethiopia too? Enjoy your stay. Derege from NYC Nice, make me homesick! Are all those ppl parking in the middle of the street in Broolyn, NY from Ethiopia too?

Enjoy your stay.

Derege from NYC

]]> By: elmer http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/3958/comment-page-1#comment-45589 elmer Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:29:56 +0000 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/?p=3958#comment-45589 I have been to Ethiopia a numerous times already, being involved in a gospel literature program based in the Piassa, Addis Ababa. I know excatly what you are describing, being a passenger on those roads. I have cringed so many times in trying to figure out what those oncoming vehicles meant by flashing their headlights. Did they mean go or don't do it or what?? And if you are following a lumbering smoking truck on a hill and can't see for passing and then the truck puts on his left turn signal, a sign that it is clear to pass. Once I figured that one out I wouldn'y panic anymore if the driver took off through the dust around the truck. Not to mention their prevailing habit of hugging the left side of the road on blind left curves..... Diving on the center of road lines....... etc In spite of it all I love Ethiopia, the land of thirteen month's of sunshine. (I too have spent a night in Shashemene, and have been to Awassa 4 or 5 times. Hope you have a good trip to Lilabela. I've never benn up north. I have been to Ethiopia a numerous times already, being involved in a gospel literature program based in the Piassa, Addis Ababa. I know excatly what you are describing, being a passenger on those roads. I have cringed so many times in trying to figure out what those oncoming vehicles meant by flashing their headlights. Did they mean go or don't do it or what?? And if you are following a lumbering smoking truck on a hill and can't see for passing and then the truck puts on his left turn signal, a sign that it is clear to pass. Once I figured that one out I wouldn'y panic anymore if the driver took off through the dust around the truck. Not to mention their prevailing habit of hugging the left side of the road on blind left curves….. Diving on the center of road lines……. etc
In spite of it all I love Ethiopia, the land of thirteen month's of sunshine. (I too have spent a night in Shashemene, and have been to Awassa 4 or 5 times.
Hope you have a good trip to Lilabela. I've never benn up north.

]]> By: Selam http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/3958/comment-page-1#comment-45569 Selam Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:21:36 +0000 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/?p=3958#comment-45569 thanks again. It is fun to read and is full of interesting insights. I loved your description of acacia tree with its top 'flattened as if the sky was a heavy weight pushing it down'. Perfect description. They drive like that in Mexico too, except the roads are a little better. Until I got used to it It was freaky the chances they take. How about telling us about your interactions with the people? take care my friend. thanks again. It is fun to read and is full of interesting insights. I loved your description of acacia tree with its top 'flattened as if the sky was a heavy weight pushing it down'. Perfect description. They drive like that in Mexico too, except the roads are a little better. Until I got used to it It was freaky the chances they take. How about telling us about your interactions with the people? take care my friend.

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