{"id":121,"date":"2007-03-11T17:14:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldbyroad.com\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/11\/kms-and-cops\/"},"modified":"2007-03-11T17:14:37","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T22:14:37","slug":"kms-and-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldbyroad.com\/expedition\/2007\/03\/11\/kms-and-cops","title":{"rendered":"Km&#8217;s and Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We have been here in <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">New Zealand<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> 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&hellip; hopefully some old habits will not lead to any serious lapses in focus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p>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&rsquo;t worry Mom, this is in kilometers per hour) It wasn&rsquo;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&hellip; 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.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I guess the official tally has started. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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