Jeremy, no disrespect intended. You are now well on your way to graduating like so many others before you into the class for dunces.
You posted a simple question looking for advice. We gave you the advice you sought. You didn't really like that advice and now you are seeking a way to convince yourself that you really don't need to heed that advice anyways because you are pretty sure you know better.
Well, sir you don't. You can't possibly understand the perils you face driving here until you have done it for a good long time. Very few of us drive here after dark unless we absolutely have to and there is a good reason for this. One responder has already told you how his wife was just released from hospital a week ago after hitting a horse on the road at night. Have you ever hit a large animal on the road at speed? Probably not. We have told you that the roads are not great. We have told you it will take you considerably longer to get where you are going than google maps suggests. We have told you that it is just not safe and not a very good idea for you to attempt what you are contemplating.
You picked the worst possible airport to arrive at. You seem hell bent on packing your party into a convey shepherded by two drivers (9 people and luggage isn't going to fit on one rental car) who haven't the foggiest idea how to survive on the roads here. I was on a very well known road where I lived for the first earlier this week and was extremely surprised to find that the pavement ended 5 miles from where I turned onto this road and it continued unpaved, ungravelled, rutted with boulders sticking up in the middle of it for another 60 miles. Do not assume that any road you see snaking through the back country here is paved or even navigable with a non 4X4 vehicle. Even with such a vehicle, it's a big assumption to make that you can actually get from here to there on anything but a "highway".
I hate to say it but I think I may need to be blunt at this point. If you continue to stack the odds against yourself by blindly forging head without sufficient knowledge and experience to do so, you may end up killing yourself and some or all your friends. You could drive off the side of a cliff because there are no guard rails here, you could get creamed by a truck with no brakes coming around a corner on a narrow road, you could be ambushed, robbed and shot on a deserted road that the locals know not to use but google does not. You could find yourself broken down in the middle of nowhere at the mercy of locals who may not have your best interests in mind. You may be extorted by the police. You have no idea what you are getting yourself into, we do and we have told you. We can't make you listen and yes, we have seen many people stop by DR1 and ask for advice and then completely ignore that advice. In some cases, the "we told you so" was painful.
If you are going to do what you seem to be set to do, then please please change the X's below to your Mom's phone number, print it out and tape it to the dashboard of your car when you get here.
Soy est?pido. Me dijeron que esto no era una buena idea. En caso de que no estoy en condiciones, por favor llamar a mi madre.
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Good luck.
