There are only so many small boats that can go up the Mekong to see the Pak Ou caves, with their hundreds of Buddha figures, and so many vehicles that can drive the winding roads to the remote ethnic villages, where people who have never fully integrated into Lao society live unwired, in simple wooden houses on stilts as they have for centuries.
An easy country drive down a winding road, obedient commuters letting each other in as we get toward Weston Center, the first town on the route.
Some people treat the drive up the winding roads that lead north, to the nearby Swiss border and Alpine end of Lake Como, as a further exercise in gawping.
The winding roads are fun to drive as you pass the bluest lakes you will ever see, waterfalls gushing with cold melted water and hiking opportunities at every corner.
When people come to visit, I drop the top on my old convertible and take them up the Pacific Coast Highway into Malibu, through Topanga Canyon down the 101 (immortalized in the America song "Ventura Highway") into "The Valley" and then on to Mulholland Drive, where the winding road along a ridgeline provides breathtaking views.
To get there, you have to drive over Pulaski County's winding roads, pass some sagging trailer homes with rusted cars out front, then get out of the car and cut across Bradley's cornfield.
Only God Forgives, which reunites Drive star Ryan Gosling and director Nicolas Winding Refn will be in competition this year alongside Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Roman Polanski's Venus In Fur and Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen brothers.
Two buses arrived earlier this month and drivers are currently being trained to drive the vehicles along the island's winding country roads.
Two buses arrived on the island in January and drivers have now been trained to drive the vehicles along the island's winding country roads.
The journey to Meteora (a 4- to 5-hour drive from Athens) is full of steep, winding roads.
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