The Highway From Hell

The above picture IS NOT a picture of the Su-ao to Hua-lien highway. It is actually a picture of a highway in Bolivia which a friend sent me. However, it reminded me so much of the Su-ao to Hua-lien highway, I included it here so readers could get the idea of what it was like.

If you notice immediately in front and to the left of the red and yellow lead truck, there is a little bit of highway that bulges out towards the edge. It was little 'passing zones' like this where I often found myself pulling my little red Volkswagen over to let opposite direction trucks pass, since my slowness caused me to be going 'the wrong way' once the highway was opened up to traffic going south to north; technically speaking, the northbound trucks now had the right-of-way. It was quite scary, and, as it got darker, it got even scarier! You can't imagine how relieved we were to see the lights of Hua-lien at the southern end of this treacherous highway.