Sat Jan 18, 2020 10:50 am
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avtur3 wrote:Bill McCarthy wrote:Scrub round America - do the North Coast 500 !
Sad to say that until recently I had not heard of the North Coast 500. ..
I've heard (anecdotally. and quite possibly unfairly) that it can be dangerous because it is popular with continental and North American tourists in cars and particularly continentals on motorbikes. With empty roads, long distances between signage, and no road markings except possibly centrelines, continental visitors can easily end up thoughtlessly driving/riding on the right, even if in a RHD hire car, or 'evading right' if they see someone coming the other way. I confess to having occasionally made an analogous error when setting off on similar roads in France in a UK car; fortunately, I've always had a passenger able quickly to remind me. This may, of course, be behind the accident at RAF Creighton.
[replug:
.. there are, of course, similarly beautiful and empty driving routes in the Maritimes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabot_Trail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundl ... _Route_430
early summer ideal for either. St John's had 75cm of snow, 150kph winds yesterday, according to my relatives there .. State of Emergency declared: it's illegal to attempt driving ]
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http://www.jetagemuseum.org/
TripAdvisor Excellence Award 2015
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