I've just been reading 'Wild Roads - The story of transcontinental motoring'. One of the stories concerned an attempt in 1955 to drive from England to the far east (not counting the English Channel and the Bosphorus!); the route taking in the Stilwell Road:
Peering into the darkness, the travellers could see that the country was becoming flatter around them. After sixty-seven miles, covered in twelve hours, they reached the Kachin village of Shingbwiyang, where they stopped for the night in the inspection bungalow used by officials. The expedition were delighted with their progress so far. The last moonson had been light, and there had been no landslides. Their axes and shovels had barely been used. Here they learned that two or three trucks came up every year from Myitkyina, which was promising. All around now were the wrecks of trucks, tanks, bulldozers and other expensive equipment abandoned during the war...
Sorry folks, Burma again! Is it too much to expect that things will still be there?