JC Adventures Chapter 2

  Overland to India In early October ’63, crossed the channel yet again, and hitched quickly through Belgium, Germany, Austria and into Yugoslavia.   Yugoslavia Yugoslavia certainly showed it’s time under the Soviet communist system. Very poor and primitive, and little progress…. Street scene Yugoslavia 60’s Yugoslav transport, and the Chevy driven by the mad Turk…. Very little road traffic, but then a big ’55 Chevy with German license plates stopped, driven by a mad Turk, headed for Istanbul. He had been a guest worker in Germany, and was now headed home, with the car full of contraband. Nylon stockings were on top of the pile, but who knows what was hidden underneath…. He was an erratic driver, and I didn’t want to ride with him, but the chance of a ride straight through to Istanbul was too good to pass up, but there were times to come that I wished I had bailed out early…. I still get horrors when I relive the time we were racing downhill on an approach to a one-lane bridge, trying