I had to do that on the Golden Gate Bridge the day we bought our Dormobile. I held up traffic and did not care. Since then it is either my or my wife in the passenger seat, so toll booths or park entrances are a non-issue.

The hardest part is when there is no passenger and you have to make a left turn at a busy intersection with no turn arrow.

I don't see the left turn problem. Its easily avoided by using a better approach angle, so what if you piss off a couple of numpties by doing it, you might save your life.

Anybody that's ever driven a box body lorry knows you have to do this at some 'angled' junctions even when driving on the 'correct' side of the road for the lorry, otherwise you end up pulling out blind!:funmeterno:

Left turns are only a problem where it is a 4 or more lane road and there is no turn arrow. If you are trying to turn left, the oncoming traffic trying to turn left blocks you view of the oncoming traffic traveling straight. At this particular intersection it is bad enough in a LHD vehicle if a tall delivery truck is blocking your view:

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...1&d=1393007655

With a RHD I have to poke into the oncoming traffic lane to see. It is very helpful to have a passenger here.

thats how I ended up sitting in a police station in Kazan, after a lada drove into my landcruiser. I was stationary and he saw me and locked up quite some distance away, but locked up wheels don't steer so well! but because I was across the centre line trying to see it was classed as my fault, oh, and I was the foreigner!!

3 rights to make a left. Much safer. And you get to see a bit more. 'We' need GPSes with this function :palm: Maybe it can be called 'foreign safety'?

We had the 'RHD vehicles are illegal here sir' conversation with officials over much of West Africa (from Ghana to Cameroon mostly).
It didn't seem like it was a bribe they were after, more that no one had explained to them that the rule is only meant to apply to permanent imports.
The worst it got was with a female officer in Nigeria. She wanted to take us to the station to explain our situation to her boss.
It never amounted to more than a lot of chatting and pointing out that our Carnet entitled us to to drive our vehicle here TEMPORARILY as a TOURIST (even the Nigerian woman saw the light in the end) :thumbup1:

Does get a bit tiresome when it's multiple times a day, but stay polite. Getting agro will achieve nothing.

Happy travels

Do we start a new thread for "Where can't we take our LHD vehicle?" It seems to me that LHD might be easier in most cases when travelling. Not something I ever thought about before!

Living with a LHD vehicle in Australia is not easy, but some cars (like my Moke) are relatively easy to convert to LHD for a trip and then convert back again afterwards. :thumbup1:

Costa Rica
We have just given up trying to get our LR Defender out of a container after 2 weeks of trying in San Jose. We have even tried lawyers but there is a new 2012 law that apparently prohibits all right hand drive vehicle even temporarily passing through Costa Rica. I know some RHD vehicles got from Panama to Nicaragua last year and it may be possible via land borders now if the correct palm is greased. We had expected a problem with El Salvador and got a special permission via the land rover club . It looks like the Darien Gap is getting wider
Chris

Hongkong so I learned today!

Hong Kong?! So a mainland Chinese car can't cross to HK?

Now that would be all kinds of stupid! :clap:

my mistake!

Hong Kong does not allow left hand drive vehicles to be primarily registered in Hong Kong. However, Hong Kong registered vehicles may apply for secondary mainland Chinese registration plates, and these can be driven across the border to mainland China; likewise, left-hand drive cars seen in Hong Kong are usually primarily registered in mainland China and carry supplementary Hong Kong registration plates.

here's a really interesting article on the subject

Right- and left-hand traffic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

usually wikedpedia caveats apply!!

Damn, I want to go to Macau now, just to drive on this!

File:Lotus-bridge-macau.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cheers,

'65% of the world's population live in countries where people drive on the wrong side of the road'

100% of people live in countries where people drive on the 'wrong' side of the road.....

:smartass::smartass::smartass: