Originally Posted by jackal

I would disagree. We rented a car and drove 3,200 km from Lima to Nazca to Ollantaytambo to Cusco to Puno to Arequipa to Nazca and back to Lima last year. I was shocked at how good the roads in Peru were--not at all what I was expecting. Long stretches of empty land, but the scenery was fantastic (and fantastically different from anything I'd ever seen before). That and my recent trip earlier this summer across Newfoundland and the Trans-Labrador Highway are probably the two most interesting road trips I've ever done (and I've covered quite a bit of the U.S. by car, including hitting, as I was surprised to find out when I thought about it, all 50 states in the last 36 months).

And people in Brazil drive similarly to people in Lima (perhaps even more aggressively), but if you've ever driven in NYC, it's really not all that much different than that.