The first passengers — on routes that rolled through Paris, Munich, Sofia, Istanbul, Tehran, Lahore and Delhi — needed to be adventurous. Accommodation was often tented, delays were frequent and the roads bumpy. But those who made the trips weren’t hippies.
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