Death Wagon

Learn something new everyday!
Seatbelts are bad luck. If you wear one it means you are just ASKING to get in an accident. Its true! All you really need to ensure your saftey when flying down a mountain in the rain with bald tires passing 3 cars at a time are as many crosses and Jesus statues/pictures as you can fit on your dashboard. On that note, you don't need a rearview mirror either as long as you have at least 9 pictures of Jesus where the rearview mirror used to be. In and around Gori the Stalin/Jesus combination should also do the trick.

Marshutkas are magical mini-vans that can defy the laws of physics. When you think its packed to the brim and could not physically hold another person the driver stops and 5 more people somehow push themselves on. My friend Tim counted 28 people on one marshutka. Its a good workout too because usually I'm forced to hold myself in some twisted position for 20 mintues or so with an old lady's armpit in my face. My friend Emily and I rode in our country director's SUV after soccer camp one day and our first thought was "Oh man you could fit about 10 more people in here!!" It was very strange riding in an SUV also..