A highway far, far away

Rico won't be going there anytime soon, either, but the BBC has an article about the Pamir Highway:

The Pamir Highway, known more formally as the M41, runs more than twelve hundred kilometers from the southern Kyrgyzstan town of Osh, through the Pamir Mountains, known as the Roof of the World and along the border of Afghanistan until it ends in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. Originally a northern segment of the Silk Road trading route, the Pamir Highway has been in use for almost two thousand years. In fact, Marco Polo journeyed along this route on his way to China in the thirteenth century. But few other travellers have followed suit since.

Rico says it's another place he won't get to in this lifetime...