Talking about the state of roads, I'm reminded of a trip I did in Cambodia once. Some roads I traveled are built on earth foundations a few feet above the surrounding land, so they're above water during the rainy season floods. That can be very effective, providing the earth is laid and rolled in multiple thin layers to make sure it's packed really hard, but to save on time and costs (it's a very poor country, after all, with corruption a daily fact of life), many of them are laid all on one go and only the top layer gets a proper rolling. So once the more hardened top layer gets penetrated by water, the whole thing starts to crumble.
It makes me so happy to know that I live in a country that can afford to make and maintain its roads properly, where priority is given to the actual needs of road users, and where politicians aren't blinkered by whatever pie they've currently got their fingers in.
Oh, hang on...
