well, if you heard it once, you've heard a thousand times before, as the saying goes . So get ready, this is my version. I'm back in the old U.S.of A. New Jersey actually a quaint picturesque town called Cranford. Until then, two decades have passed and I was happy to catch up with all my old friends and haunts. Zap, bang, boom. "You lived in Bali, in a time warp zone, the reality concept. No friends, no dens, gone with the wind." The man I'm a legend in my own mind, he once upon a time.
This is about traffic and driving in traffic Bali culture on the left side of the road. Okay, I'm still in New Jersey and so the story continues. Since I am out of the country for so long, my license had expired. I'm on the driving course in a parking lot somewhere outside Cranford, stop, go-u- turn park. As the instructor, educated. "Okay, make a left turn. What the hell do you think you are doing? "Who, me?" Yes, you are on the wrong side of the road. "
Shit, piss and corruption, failed automatically. Six weeks at least before another test drive. In New Jersey, you can not get from a supermarket without a license. Here goes the panic button. Mr.Instructer man, have you never been to Bali, Indonesia. no? well that's where I come from. that How about if I told you, you'd never pass the first test without being ly freaked out?
first, he left the driving lane, so naturally programmed my instincts kicked on the left side . would not you agree that it would call for a second chance Mr. Instructor said: "this is what the rescheduling is for." Wait a minute. I have a family, two children, a boy and a girl. You do not want them to starve. How do I get to the supermarket? Look, I'm a real good driver, actually great. Twenty years in Bali without so much as a scratch, saving five lives a day at least. Mr. Teacher, "What do you mean save five lives a day?"
Okay, let me draw a mental picture. To start steering inputs are used not only for signaling turning left and right, but as instructions to tell you to stay on your left or stay to your right. It can be very confusing if you are not made to understand. the flashing lights are used to signal the oncoming driver to inform him to slow down, or has the right of way, it's almost like a shooting. he who blinks first has the right of way, you must be vigilant. you saw bands video of obstacles for driver education course? well let me tell you, it's a walk in the park compared to driving in Bali. There are no traffic lights properly speak outside the ring roads, very few police traffic control, and one thing is atmosphere - no rules, in a way, like organized chaos. For most Balinese seem pedestrians rarely where they go, they come from everywhere and nowhere; Whether walking, running or carrying children, taking parking spaces without warning or directions and there must be ten motorcycles to each car. You can easily feel like you are surrounded by a cloud of mosquitoes. They pass on the left, move to the right, cut you always try to gain an inch.
This also applies to the traffic coming too. Then there are the bikes that slowly open their way, as if there was nobody else on the road. Now talk of roads, bypasses, no problem Sanur to Nusa Dua and along the airport and a newly formed called Sunset Road. Otherwise, all the town that you can go through can be an experience. Excluding speed demons, the road could be full of potholes, unpaved roads or locations of rocks or piles of sand up a hill, carpet placements filled with sun drying rice while due to having more room to place elsewhere. All the way up the mountain is two driving lanes, in a sporadic car park on both sides. So if you do not mind driving in the thumb capabilities, it is a breeze. Oh, and then there are the spacers. True or false person wants to give way until the traffic is so constructed that they are pushed out of the way. And as always mosquitoes are all conditions doubly difficult. Oh did I mention the dogs, cats, cows, ducks and geese.
"Enough! I do not want to hear more, I am the image. Since I do not have another book planned for half an hour, I'll give you a shot. "Zam Booolie, doolie cal, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, thank you ever so kindly Mr. Teacher Man.
With my mind on the right side of the road, I had no problem with taking the test of the road. I must have impressed Mr. Instructor with my overzealous descriptions Bali interference. in general, I really took a break, but alas, within a month, I found myself in Bali.
Chow mein, Salvador Bali.