Gareth Morgan is on another motorbike trip and speaking regularly to Paul Holmes on the NewstalkZB breakfast show. This time he is in the US. His comments this morning were really interesting. Riding across Virginia and North Carolina, he is staying off the interstates which he says carry big rigs doing 120-130 km. The speed limit is 100 but there is a fair degree of tolerance. On the rural roads you can go for fifty kilometres without seeing a shop but there is a church every one kilometre. On Sunday their carparks are packed with SUVs. The doors are locked and the curtains drawn. And the congregation stays all day. Goodness knows what they do in there, he says. Church attendance in the US is 47 percent but he estimates attendence in these states is more like 80-90 percent (NZ has about 5-6.) You can see maps, photos, listen to or watch the interviews and read Gareth's impressions at the above link. Good stuff.
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