year no holiday in motion. For a journey of fifteen days in the U.S. was not the case. And then States, whatever they think, are not roads to bike. We traveled with a Pontiac G6, long wide and easy but difficult to put on two suitcases in the trunk. And we found that the best of travel by car in States are radio stations, absolutely fantastic.
It should also pay attention to speed limits in the sense that it is good to travel to the permitted speed limit, or even 5 or 6 mph over, which seems to be tolerated. But traveling significantly below the limit, especially at night, may be suspect. One night
returning from a day out by boat to visit the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior. We were also granted to dine in a fine restaurant that made us forget for a while 'all the junk food suffered so far. Back at the hotel I was driving at 30-35 on a quiet road from 55 mph, talking and listening with Paola John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters on the radio.
Suddenly this idyll is interrupted by a roar of sirens as they appear in the rearview mirror, unequivocal, the flashing lights of a police car. Came up and sat waiting, thinking back to those two glasses of wine consumed restaurant. The police officer approached slowly, goes in just behind my left shoulder and, through the open window, puts a flashlight with a thorough scan which starts the car and its occupants. Usual questions: documents, where you come from, where you go, but decided polite. In short, we learn that a diligent citizen had reported a car, we, who traveled up and maybe the driver could be "toxic"! It was perhaps true that, in addition to drive slowly, to regulate the radio, I got a curve a bit 'close, but here seems to feel all sheriffs! However, the officer explains that he had had to respond to the alert and we had been following for a while 'and verified that travel at reduced speed but also that my guide seemed secure. Besides, we were Italians, and this could explain ... (What did he meant?)
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