03-22-2016, 01:55 PM
I feel great love and great frustration from the locals. There are random signs the locals have put up that have smiley faces or encouraging words.
Yet we have seen at least 3 locals who were driving like complete dangerous, rude maniacs. Eg, on the Road to Hana it is a very dangerous road with small rock slides and narrows to one lane sometimes (for both directions to share). It was poring rain and the speed limit was 25 mph, we were going 25-35 the whole way. Someone came up behind us in a beat-up SUV honking rapidly, flashing his lights, and following us less than half a car length. Before we could find a pull-out to let him pass, he passed us on the left in a no-passing zone blind corner at 40+ mph that could have sent him and/or oncoming traffic off a cliff. It was definitely a local (it was not a rental car). I would have chalked it up to an isolated incident, but similar situations have happened 2 more times while we were exceeding the speed limit by 5-20mph. Some of locals seem to be extremely frustrated with anyone driving less than twice the legal limit.
Yet we have seen at least 3 locals who were driving like complete dangerous, rude maniacs. Eg, on the Road to Hana it is a very dangerous road with small rock slides and narrows to one lane sometimes (for both directions to share). It was poring rain and the speed limit was 25 mph, we were going 25-35 the whole way. Someone came up behind us in a beat-up SUV honking rapidly, flashing his lights, and following us less than half a car length. Before we could find a pull-out to let him pass, he passed us on the left in a no-passing zone blind corner at 40+ mph that could have sent him and/or oncoming traffic off a cliff. It was definitely a local (it was not a rental car). I would have chalked it up to an isolated incident, but similar situations have happened 2 more times while we were exceeding the speed limit by 5-20mph. Some of locals seem to be extremely frustrated with anyone driving less than twice the legal limit.