A headline which caught my eye in last Sunday's Post was "Highway 12 to economic heaven" with a report concerning the rich potential of this route which stretches west to east from Tak on the Myanmar border to Mukdahan, just this side of the Mekong River from Laos.
The reason for my interest is that for the past dozen years I have regularly travelled on a short anonymous stretch of this highway blissfully unaware that I was actually on the road to heaven or even nirvana. Frankly I will settle for any highway that promises a quiet life unbothered by politicians, generals, gendarmes and loudspeakers.
