Trip to Shomal

We picked up my cousin Farshad and along with Mahboob and Shahram headed north the next day. We took The CHaloos road that has been around for many years. In fact for years it has been the only way to go to the Caspian sea from Tehran. They are now working on alternate routes. They have built a highway from Rash to Tehran. It was raining, the road was slick and it actually snowed that day. THe road scared the crap out of me. It was a winding road and people pass when they are not supposed to. We saw a fatal accident on the way. A car was pinned under a big truck. People also have no concerns for their lives and life of others. People carried their children in their lap in the front seat. Nooone had seat belts on. THere is heavy police presence and they ticket heavily. Still, people drive like maniacs and there are way too many fatal accidents on the roads. My cousin ( Mahboob's brother and Farshad's uncle ) Was killed along with his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident. He was a genious. He was very smart and very insightful. Mahboob said the last phone conversation withe Mansour was when her nephew Jalil ( who acts and thinks a lot like Mansour and is studying to get his Masters right now in Rasht ) asked her how Remote controls work. She called Mansour and he told her to tell Jalil that these devices will interact with each other and soon many devices will be controlled from long distances, but that is nothing compared to human relations and interactions where brothers and sisiters are able to understand each other and feel each other's pain from long distances.
We spent the first night in Namak abrood. It was a long journey that day. We goth there and rented a villa.
More to come...