Road Trip Mishaps

The above comment was in reference to a road trip.

Was driving in the outback with some mates, and got a flat tire. We started to repair it, and a road train went by, and actually stopped about a 1/2 mile up the road. The guy came jogging back to make sure we were ok. That is when we realised we were in the middle of nowhere, and should be more careful.

americans do a lot of driving and places might have dirty water along their route.

Imagine getting a flat tire in that spot and not having a spare..

I drove my car from San Francisco to Panama Canal. It took 1.5 years. What I will remember when I am old is fixing my car in beautiful rural Honduras, sleeping in a hammock there and talking to people. Avoid big cities - when we had car problems and had to improvise shorting fuses with a wire that I obtained from our dashcam USB cable with a pocket knife, we came to think of Tegucigalpa as an inaccessible lucrative capital of the world, dreaming and plotting how to get there. That in the retrosp

what country was the gas station in?

Yes, exactly, no questions there :) I remember here in the 90s (barely post-USSR Hungary) going anywhere with a typical car was almost like a choose your own adventure, where adventure meant something will randomly go wrong, and if you are lucky you have spare parts with you, or maybe you can simply find a workaround (for example when the cooling system loses all the water because the radiator suddenly bursts means you could still make progress, of course slow and stopping if the engine gets too

we drove a dodge caravan around the country a number of times while i was a kid.

Many years ago I took a trip with my mother west from our home near Salt Lake City toward California in our crazy 6 wheeled van. I was a fairly new driver, so when we got to the giant concrete tree I decided to drive out to it.As we were leaving I decided to drive around it a bit where I saw a bunch of other tracks had made circles in the salt. My mother got nervous when she saw what I was doing and started yelling "STOP! STOP!", so I did... Wrong move! While I had been moving, our

I had one blow up on me on the highway... but I can't really give it up...