Well, it only took a couple of days to find our next ride. Meet "Lopez":
Pretty shiny, no? This vehicle was obviously owned by someone who cared WAY too much about his vehicle...cared too much about his MINI-VAN, no less! Lopez is ten years old, and on the inside, he looks new. (Which we are so grateful for. A lot of cars here, you just open up, get one whiff, and know that there's no way it can come home with you.)
Dealerships don't allow you to test drive cars here...so after Lopez was ours, it didn't take us long to figure out why he was so inexpensive for being such a "pimped ride". Obviously, your typical American family here is not in the market for a low-rider in the first place...and we quickly discovered that Okinawan driveways are a challenge to maneuver in this thing, so we have to take it sloooow! (And I guess I should add, Lopez is not technically a low-rider. He has a standard suspension...it's just the aero kit that makes him look like one.)
He has dual sunroofs, the seats turn around to face the back, AND he has a built in navigation system (which might be useful if we could read Kanji) that also gets TV reception. We get one English channel (ABC on AFN) and several Japanese channels. (Have you ever seen a Japanese game show? Crazy!) He does not, however, play DVDs.
Too bad we have the perfect road trip car when the longest road trip we could take is about 2 hours!
Dealerships don't allow you to test drive cars here...so after Lopez was ours, it didn't take us long to figure out why he was so inexpensive for being such a "pimped ride". Obviously, your typical American family here is not in the market for a low-rider in the first place...and we quickly discovered that Okinawan driveways are a challenge to maneuver in this thing, so we have to take it sloooow! (And I guess I should add, Lopez is not technically a low-rider. He has a standard suspension...it's just the aero kit that makes him look like one.)
He has dual sunroofs, the seats turn around to face the back, AND he has a built in navigation system (which might be useful if we could read Kanji) that also gets TV reception. We get one English channel (ABC on AFN) and several Japanese channels. (Have you ever seen a Japanese game show? Crazy!) He does not, however, play DVDs.
Too bad we have the perfect road trip car when the longest road trip we could take is about 2 hours!
Navigator
Driver
(Yes, with his eyes closed! How scary is that?)
That's better...
It didn't take long before I heard yelps of, "Mom! Tell Patrick to stop touching me!" I'm thinking, "With all that room back there? Honestly?"
"What? I'm just sitting here!"
Maybe it was a better idea to keep them separate. And bring candy.
1 comment:
Tooo funny on Lopez! I loved how our seats faced each other and the kids loved being able to look for pictures in the clouds as we drove! Miss that here! Careful on those bumps!!! :)
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