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walburgablack replied to your post “About the Kyrgyz confusion, while it is obvs #aesthetic, it’s also…”
oh, I wasn’t assuming you were judging, but that’s an aesthetic choice I haven’t really seen in Western media, but happens a lot even in India, so the entrance to a perfectly nice hotel is a tin shed five minutes down a hillside on a goat-track.
Oh, yeah. And like, around here, it rains so much that if you have an unpaved road, what you have for much of the year is a mudpit. So unimproved dirt roads are only usable if they’re very, very lightly used– as in, extremely light automobile traffic, like maybe a single car per day. And even that– on the farm, there are certain pastures that are just inaccessible from the first snowfall through about mid-April, because they’re too wet to handle vehicle traffic, even one 4-wheel-drive Jeep.
Our road, when I was a kid, had that problem as well– my father had to call in to work on more than one occasion because snow or rain had made our road impassable. Before I was in kindergarten, though, they cut down a bunch of the trees and widened the road, so I don’t really remember it like that. Still, they didn’t pave it until after I moved out, and there were a few days per year when you just had to take it slow. We actually fought the town about paving it, because we kept horses and didn’t shoe them. You can’t ride unshod horses on pavement, it’ll split their hooves.
But in an area without that wet a season / long a winter, a dirt road is perfectly reasonable, I would imagine. Especially if there’s less motorized and more foot/horse traffic.
(I think this is an aesthetic in the American Southwest, as well, but i haven’t been there since I was a child, and then only briefly, so I don’t recall. I bet I could Streetview around Tucson and find out, though.)
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walburgablack replied to your post “About the Kyrgyz confusion, while it is obvs #aesthetic, it’s also…”
oh, I wasn’t assuming you were judging, but that’s an aesthetic choice I haven’t really seen in Western media, but happens a lot even in India, so the entrance to a perfectly nice hotel is a tin shed five minutes down a hillside on a goat-track.
Oh, yeah. And like, around here, it rains so much that if you have an unpaved road, what you have for much of the year is a mudpit. So unimproved dirt roads are only usable if they’re very, very lightly used– as in, extremely light automobile traffic, like maybe a single car per day. And even that– on the farm, there are certain pastures that are just inaccessible from the first snowfall through about mid-April, because they’re too wet to handle vehicle traffic, even one 4-wheel-drive Jeep.
Our road, when I was a kid, had that problem as well– my father had to call in to work on more than one occasion because snow or rain had made our road impassable. Before I was in kindergarten, though, they cut down a bunch of the trees and widened the road, so I don’t really remember it like that. Still, they didn’t pave it until after I moved out, and there were a few days per year when you just had to take it slow. We actually fought the town about paving it, because we kept horses and didn’t shoe them. You can’t ride unshod horses on pavement, it’ll split their hooves.
But in an area without that wet a season / long a winter, a dirt road is perfectly reasonable, I would imagine. Especially if there’s less motorized and more foot/horse traffic.
(I think this is an aesthetic in the American Southwest, as well, but i haven’t been there since I was a child, and then only briefly, so I don’t recall. I bet I could Streetview around Tucson and find out, though.)
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