A quiet Sunday kayaking around the old part of Houston city was rather a lovely end to this week. To actually get out of my car and move around without the help of gasoline reminds me that there are actually other ways to get around that I used to use! My family never even had [...]
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Alternative transport
Posted in Driving around the globe on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Driving language (no not THAT driving language….)
Posted in Driving around the globe on September 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The words and language we use to describe vehicles, driving, vehicle parts, those who police our driving and pretty much anything to do with putting rubber to the asphalt/concrete/mud/stones is rather colorful to say the least. Even the English language is deconstructed into transport dialects that include many weird ways of explaining everything vehicularly mobile. [...]
Trucks and other terrifying Texan traffic
Posted in Driving around the globe on September 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What has Transactional Analysis and driving in the US got in common? Nothing until you mix a little Kiwi driving with the long arm of the Texan laow. (That’s Texan for ‘law’). I couldn’t wait to get to Texas from India and one reason was because I would be able to drive again. Wohoo – [...]
Flaming Peroduas OK lah!
Posted in Driving around the globe on September 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Everytime you land in another country and exit the airport, you get an instant impression of the country from the way their transport system works. As you exit the revolving/swinging/glass/wooden/automatic doors, you are confronted by different taxis, buses, cars, road signs, horn sounds, trucks, hotel shuttle buses, rental buses… and their respective drivers. There is [...]
Driving in Australia – she’ll be right mate!
Posted in Driving around the globe on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You would think that moving from New Zealand across the Tasman to Australia would not be much of a leap with regard to driving. You would think… I noticed, the way we drive as a nation is often a reflection of cultural ‘norms’, or the unspoken rules of a country and its people. According to [...]
Back to the beginning
Posted in Driving around the globe on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I got my first car when I was 16 years old (lasted 2 months) and my first drivers license when I was 20… don’t ask. I think the car cost me about $30 so that probably explains it. The important thing is that what I learnt during the driving process has served me in many [...]
Driving me mad!
Posted in Driving around the globe on September 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Last evening as I witnessed myself in full honorary Houstonan mode – aka driving like a madwoman down a 10 lane freeway – I got to thinking about all the countries I have driven in. Then I got to thinking about how the driving habits and pecularities in those countries, often reflects the people in those [...]
