Michael I guess your heart is now running in a different grove. We have many broken roads but I've not come across washboard. Plenty of single track roads with passing places near me.
Your drink drive laws must be more relaxed than in Scotland. Here you had better not risk more than 1/2 pint but then our pints are a bit bigger than yours. They recently reduced the limit in Scotland so its now lower than England, Wales & Northern Ireland.