I managed to return the hire car without incident. My first driving experience in the US wasn’t too bad. I only got beeped at once and that was when I shot across three lanes of speeding traffic on a freeway to avoid another smug ‘recalculating’ from miss gps. On the bus the other day the chat was about road rage. Apparently it was in the news that a person was shot in the back of the head in a road-rage incident and the bus driver told of a personal road-rage experience. He flicked his headlights to let an oncoming driver know that his lights were on high beam. That driver did a u-turn and followed the bus driver until a red light, then came up to him and said ‘I aught to blow your head off’. We have road rage in Australia too but it is unlikely there would be guns involved. Here it is very likely. I had this in the back of my mind while driving about. The freeways are fairly crazy. I still don’t know what speed you are supposed to travel at as there were no signs that I could see. And cars travelled at varying speeds weaving all over the place. Accidents were common and it is no wonder. Anyway miss gps and I parted ways reasonably amicably. She was very helpful in her way.
I caught the Greyhound bus and arrived in Orlando at 6pm.
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