Clean Windshields

As I’ve mentioned before, the difficult thing for me about traveling is the traveling. The whole notion of a “stay-cation” was not my invention. Evidently other people feel the same. But travel we must and yesterday was a scheduled travel day for our traveling as we relocated to the North and East climes of New Zealand. A bit about the getting there and where we’ve gotten to…

The getting there was handed over to moi. The first automobile we “hired” gave the heave-ho with its “aire”-conditioner so we had to drop back by the airport and exchange cars. While there it seemed prudent to add me to the rental agreement, which we did, and then it was done. The proverbial shoe would now be on the other foot – quite literally – as I was now on the other side of the car, the right side to be exact, trying to remember how it was all done.

No amount of self-pep talk really helps. Yes, many years ago I had done the driving in Northern Ireland and had managed well enough – but there was whiskey involved…for the passengers. Those lightweights became very docile as they went native which allowed me to make my mistakes absent much snark or gasping. They in fact cheered my efforts – the Bushmills effect.

But this go round was a teetotaling affair – my passengers stone sober and even more so – amped by enormous draughts of flat-whites, the New Zealand version of a triple shot latte. If you can reach back and recall the pressure of being a 16 year old driving the entire family for the first time, you sort of get the picture.

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And then there’s the roundabouts, first made famous to us Americans in the Chevy Chase classic, European Vacation, which you can see here. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

They’ve a roundabout in the small city of Bayfield, America where my daughter and her family lives. It was placed on a county road because a rather persistent chap insisted on it. I was told this history by a state road engineer. He said the gentlemen pushed to have it on the state highway, but that was a no go. Somehow he then convinced the city or county of the need and there it sits in all its circular glory. At any rate, it’s not a great practice run for the New Zealand roundies. Many Bayfieldians, just for spite, drive right over it – squaring the corners – especially the larger delivery trucks and those pulling horse trailers. I have not, not done so.

There’s quite a lot more to this tale. We’ll leave off here for now and round out the roundabouts tomorrow.

Many blessings your way…CJ