It is strangly funny. I was so worked up about driving on the left hand side of the road (aka the wrong side of the road) and then when I got to Australia, it was almost anticlimatic. Things went very smoothly.
Here is the weird part. Now, back in the states, when I am a little tired, or in a confusing situation, or there is no traffic to give me any cues, all of a sudden, I flash and think that I am on the wrong side of the road. I am on the right side of the road. I am doing nothing wrong. My subconcious just jumps in and does a “gut check” to make sure that I am driving correctly.
This never happened while driving in Australia. Everything seemed perfectly natural while driving there.
All I can guess is that little bits of hardwired code deep in my brain are being reprogrammed to handle driving on either side of the road – once in a while these reprogramming actions are noticable (i.e. a few neurons are being rebooted with a different Spring configuration).
Damn weird how the human brain works. It will be interesting to see how long these little flash backs last. Also when I next drive on the left hand side of the road – if perhaps, I am more confused than I was the first time.