South Island driving route
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@taniwharugby said in South Island driving route:
@voodoo yeah Hospice are fantastic, must be tough working in that environment!
Absolutely, though genuinely rewarding as well, helping people finish their lives in as comfortable and as dignified a manner possible. Legends.
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@voodoo said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy make you shout if you do head down, be great to grab a beer and compare 2020 clusterfuck stories! 😬
Will do. Clever use of words to get me to buy the beers there...but I would anyway, because I like beer.
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@Snowy said in South Island driving route:
@voodoo said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy make you shout if you do head down, be great to grab a beer and compare 2020 clusterfuck stories! 😬
Will do. Clever use of words to get me to buy the beers there...but I would anyway, because I like beer.
Well I also like beer and I never miss my round, so I guess we'd need to have a few to even it up
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@voodoo said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy said in South Island driving route:
@voodoo said in South Island driving route:
@Snowy make you shout if you do head down, be great to grab a beer and compare 2020 clusterfuck stories! 😬
Will do. Clever use of words to get me to buy the beers there...but I would anyway, because I like beer.
Well I also like beer and I never miss my round, so I guess we'd need to have a few to even it up
and sometimes it's confusing who got the last round so you better get in one more each
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@voodoo said in South Island driving route:
2020 clusterfuck stories
wait, who got one of those? And why didn't the story make the Lockdown thread?
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I'm in good shape "down there" if I do say so myself and I would definitely need a "comfort break" on an 8hr drive!
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@booboo said in South Island driving route:
@JC said in South Island driving route:
@dogmeat All I will say is you’ve clearly got a much better bladder than mine.
At his age?
You taking the piss?
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@booboo said in South Island driving route:
You’ve either given @Snowy a new idea or sprung one of his secret weapons:)
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@Crucial said in South Island driving route:
@booboo said in South Island driving route:
You’ve either given @Snowy a new idea or sprung one of his secret weapons:)
Not saying.
Bizarre story. This is certainly a bit worrying about her intentions "a 2-pound (0.91 kg) drilling hammer"As @JC said it should be in the learning thread. Who knew about these things for starters ? "Maximum Absorbency Garments".
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@JC said in South Island driving route:
In breaking news, it’s now known that it’s possible to drive the entire length of the island on one tank of fuel and without having to stop for a piss. Happy days.
Apparently it's 5 hours from Auckland to Cape Reinga, so the full trip would be around 13 hours. Seems unlikely... Was talking about it with my wife, and I think MoH public servants would generally be trained to accept people's statements at face value, where the police or a department like immigration would be a lot more suspicious.
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Day 1 of the season at Cardrona today. Amazing weather.
There is an Inversion sitting over Wanaka, has been here for days. Just grey fog sitting on the town. Depressing.
But drive up the hill, and it's just blue skies and warmth. So good.
Snow was average, as you'd expect. But great fun, especially for the kids to get their skills back.
Happy days
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As good a place as any for a NZ driving question. Twice on today's trip there have been instances of 2 lanes being funnelled into 1. Both times a few cars have driven down the middle of 2 lanes to prevent anyone going past them and forcing a single lane well ahead of the merge point.
Is that common in NZ? If so, why? Why not just merge at the merge point???
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@voodoo said in South Island driving route:
As good a place as any for a NZ driving question. Twice on today's trip there have been instances of 2 lanes being funnelled into 1. Both times a few cars have driven down the middle of 2 lanes to prevent anyone going past them and forcing a single lane well ahead of the merge point.
Is that common in NZ? If so, why? Why not just merge at the merge point???
Because you have to be in front?
Haven't done a lot of driving in NZ for the past 15 years, but I always got the impression there was a need to "be in front", less than ideal amounts of patience. Speeding up at passing lanes was a particular bugbear.
It's not non-existent this side if the deetch, but definitely less prevalent.
Maybe the roads are narrower and windier with less opportunity to pass so you minimise the need to?
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