Dave Tapsell
Overland Buses (xxvii)
Afghanistan: August 1971
The eastbound Safaris Overland AEC bus on the road from the Iranian frontier at Islam Qala, to Herat in Afghanistan; we had stopped to look at the two derelict windmills in a small walled village by the side of the road – this may have been Rahzanak, but I'm not really sure. It was very windy, so much so that driving was tiring because you had to constantly pull the steering wheel about half a turn to the left, to prevent the strong northerly wind pushing the bus off the road. I had a job to hold the camera steady to take the photo. The tarpaulin sheet on the roof-rack had ballooned out in the wind.
After all these years I can remember the first names of half the passengers in the photo, they were a good collection of people of all ages. The youngest was Terry, who was just 19 years old; the eldest two were travelling together – the youngest was Dorothy, at 66, and she was heading for the Himalayas to go climbing – her friend was a 76 year old Countess, who was travelling overland to see her daughter in Australia.
Overland Buses (xxvii)
Afghanistan: August 1971
The eastbound Safaris Overland AEC bus on the road from the Iranian frontier at Islam Qala, to Herat in Afghanistan; we had stopped to look at the two derelict windmills in a small walled village by the side of the road – this may have been Rahzanak, but I'm not really sure. It was very windy, so much so that driving was tiring because you had to constantly pull the steering wheel about half a turn to the left, to prevent the strong northerly wind pushing the bus off the road. I had a job to hold the camera steady to take the photo. The tarpaulin sheet on the roof-rack had ballooned out in the wind.
After all these years I can remember the first names of half the passengers in the photo, they were a good collection of people of all ages. The youngest was Terry, who was just 19 years old; the eldest two were travelling together – the youngest was Dorothy, at 66, and she was heading for the Himalayas to go climbing – her friend was a 76 year old Countess, who was travelling overland to see her daughter in Australia.