I'm not quite as intrepid as that sounds - after all it's February and there aren't many tourists so there aren't many cars and barely a handful of tour buses. I started in Salerno (where I rented the car) and drove along the coast to Positano. I thought to return the same way, but storm clouds were looming so I continued through the hills to Sorrento and then on the highway (tunnel road to Pompeii and A3 tollway) back to Salerno.
Italian drivers are crazy. At one point, I had 3-4 cars behind me and nowhere to pull over to let them pass on a very twisty, narrow stretch. One of them started honking and not 2 minutes later, a bright red car came barreling toward me around a blind curve in the middle of the road. If I'd been going any faster, I wouldn't have had time to brake. As it was, he missed me by only a couple feet. A bit later, I was able to get behind a SITA bus, and made pretty good time following in his wake, until he met one of his brethen on a narrow curve. You know the joke, how do two porcupines make love? Well, that's how two buses pass each other . . . very carefully. "My" bus started to back up, so I went into reverse and eventually the 5-6 cars behind me all backed up. Lucky for me, the road was level. If I'd had to back up on a hill, I'm not sure I'd have managed. So I'm not going to follow any more buses. But I did learn quickly to listen for their horns - which they blow as they approach every blind curve.
What a gorgeous rugged coastline, even on a cloudy day. Tomorrow's plan is to go in the opposite direction to Paestum, but Monday promises to be sunny and I'm going to spend the entire day driving slowly and enjoying every moment.