Americans always complain about the roads or road construction, but do they really have that bad? Apparently not.
Last week I watched a very interesting show on The History Channel entitled Death Road. The show is about a road from Bolivia's (administrative) capital, La Paz, to the remainder of the country. The death road winds it's way down through the Andes Mountains from La Paz to the remainder of the nation.
The worst stretch of the death road is less than 50 miles long and yet it is the site of 200-300 fatalities per year. I was amazed to find out that at times it had a grade of 14%!
A great article from the BBC, very similar to the History Channel presentation.
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