This kind of behavior is so alien to the West Coast school of driving that I marvelled at it time and time again. By the time I got to California, it was every man for himself, no lane discipline, no courtesy.

For those of you in California, if some days you notice a particularly acrid smog hanging above the 101, those'll be all the swearwords let out by Rob, on his visits to Rio HQ, while comparing Californian road courtesy unfavourably with British road courtesy. Perhaps next time we should tell him to go and drive round and round Boston a few times to calm down

Peter