Talking about the Hilux and off-roading... by some circumstance I was on a road in Zimbabwe, which I believe was called "National Highway 1" or something similar (definitely national and #1). Anyway, it was mostly a dirt road and it went over mountains and across ditches and looked like
anything but the Interstate highways in the US. At one point, it wound around the side of a steep, high incline and came to a place where a landslide had completely erased the road, leaving an obviously impassable cliff. So what did we do? Well, driver said, "Everyone lean as far LEFT as you can, or we'll fall off the mountain!" Hard to argue with that on short notice, so we did. Only a horrible death was to the right, so why lean
that way after all?
There are two other things I distinctly remember about this occasion:
- I was pretty sure we were perpendicular to the force of gravity in several places. Basically, we were sideways trying not to roll down a sheer cliff.
- The vehicle was a Land Rover. Not the ones Starbucks people drive their kids to school in. But a serious vehicle that lived up to the name. (I'm not sure if it had cup holders.)
I never liked the brand before that, but after crossing terrain that I never would have believed was crossable in one, I had to respect it.
Oh, also we survived.