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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Just before 10pm, he was driving his rented Toyota north on the Shenandoah Highway, State Highway 65, near Murchison. The area of rural highway has a 100-kilometre-per-hour speed limit, has no lighting and frequent corners." Ah, he thought he was on Skyline drive.[/quote] I driven that stretch. The road isn't much different than Skyline drive despite being called a highway - it's windy and narrow. There are even one lane bridges. We're not talking about a road like I-95 here -it's pretty challenging to drive in rural areas in NZ. I'm curious why a tourist would be driving at 10pm in that area, because frankly, it's a not very exciting area - mainly rural, and primarily famous as the site of a major earthquake in the 1960s. Murchison has about 600 residents. Now that I live in Virginia, it's amusing that there is a river (creek) and range called the Shenandoahs in the South Island of NZ. From what I can tell, the name was given to the area during gold mining days in the 1860s.[/quote]
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