Are you a Self Drive Tourist?

To self drive or not to self drive? That is the question. Self-drive tourism is the way forward. No, its the future. Complete with Tourism Radio to keep you on top of what's going on in your immediate surroundings the only thing standing in your way are the wide-eyed, expressionless, bused tourists wanting to hitch a ride on the cool-mobile. So if you don't know if you fit the mold, take the test...you can't turn into a self drive tourist, you're born a self drive tourist. So here goes, know your status, I dare you.

1. You have a map book, Garmin, back up Tom Tom and a hand drawn route that you committed to memory the night before?

2. Your car is a variable Pu Pu platter of McD's, Steers, Woolworths ready-made hamburgers and assorted empty cool drink bottles ranging from Powerade to good old Coke.

3. You try to engage locals in inept conversation. Even when their dead pan stares and yawning clearly indicates that they're either not interested in what you have to say or they don't understand a word of your smiley-smiley chit chat.

4. You ask for directions, not because you need them but because it is kind.

5. You wear the same clothes for several days, mud smeared or not.

6. You have developed a truckers ass.

7. You think "Contiki" is something you should be vaccinated against.

8. You point to short haystacks on open fields and call them sheep (this is an extreme example of many days on the road).

9. You claim public property as your own. "My roads, my route, my, my, my."

10. You can't think of anything better than the open road, Tourism Radio and the memories you're bound to make.

There you have it. If you answered yes to any of the above, get yourself a Tourism Radio device and get packing. And one thing is guaranteed, tomorrow will boast a brand new sun.