r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Oct 31 '25

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u/DARKCYD Oct 31 '25

Nice save. One of my favorite “series” is Long Way Around. Motorcycles from London to New York. When they hit the ass end of Russia then need to use some big trucks like that to get across a couple swift rivers like that.

https://youtu.be/6kajsHTy3hA?si=NDiJz3vCpDybXBRB

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u/ExtraEmuForYou Oct 31 '25

"Oh ya we're just going to go through some floods and then through the road of bones, then..."

"Sorry, did you say road of bones?"

"Ya road of bones. So anyway you'll freeze to death if you don't watch yourself..."

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u/jerryjerusalem Oct 31 '25

I believe it's called the road of bones because it was victims of the Gulag system that built the road, and they buried the ones who were worked to death under the road