Km’s and Cops
By Steve Bouey in
We have been here in New Zealand for a little over 2 weeks now and have been on the road here for just as long. Getting used to driving a right hand drive car on the left hand side of the road is actually not that difficult although they do have a few yielding laws that make absolutely no sense at all and only exist here in NZ. I think the more difficult test will come when we have our Toyotas which are left hand drive in countries where the roads are as well… hopefully some old habits will not lead to any serious lapses in focus.
It also happens that the other day while driving on our way to Fox Glacier I got pulled over by a police officer just south of Hokitika. After thinking that we were getting pulled over as a result of Shoppman not wearing a seatbelt, the officer informed me that he had clocked me at 115. (Don’t worry Mom, this is in kilometers per hour) It wasn’t that big of a deal, the speed limit was 100 and after a glance at my out-of-country license and some words of caution, he let me go. This little encounter got us both thinking… how many times would we be pulled over during the course of the expedition and in how many countries and for what different types of reasons. I guess the official tally has started.
