Hey, I've been there. Well,
through there.
I drove from Charlotte to Louisville, KY a few years ago, and I drove right through Shelby, on the way to I-26. That route is, hands down, the most picturesque long distance drive that I've ever taken. Right through the Blue Ridge in April. Breathtaking scenery.
Wouldn't wanna live there, though...
You just reminded me of a girl I used to know that lived in nearby Boiling Springs; a student at Gardner Webb College. Lovely girl; a tennis player from Israel. For some reason, she assumed that I was a Black Jew (I still haven't the slightest idea where she got that from), and she suddenly lost interest when I told her I wasn't Jewish--
And I had to let her pass.
She keeps on passin' me by....
She keeps on passin' me by....
That hook turn sounds absolutely terrifying. Of course, maybe Aussie drivers are more hospitable than they are here. The local newsrooms would love the hook turn here, because they wouldn't have to go hunting for carnage to show at 6; they could just camp out at a busy intersection and wait for the blood to start flowing. Why, pray tell, do you keep shuttling back and forth from one side of the globe to the other? Don't you have to unload all of your stuff, and basically start over each time you do that?