I know that I will never have enough time to write very much. We have been so busy doing everything and seeing everything. About the second day we were here, I came to the (brilliant) conclusion that we could not do it all in the 5 weeks we have. What was I thinking anyway?? So that brought a certain measure of peace. Just don't worry abot what we miss. We will have to come back some day! I hope we can!
I will start with a bit about driving, since that was the first thing we had to deal with. I dared not start out down the road without a prayer first; I was so concerned about driving on the left side of the road, driving the diesel campervan (bigger than I thought it would be) and how I would do at shifting with my left hand. The prayer certainly helped. After a few minutes of getting used to the vehicle by stalling it every time I tried to get it going, I finally got the hang of it. Maneuvering it took a little bit of getting used to. It stuck out of parking stalls, but at least I could park it in a parking lot. All told, so far, I had one minor snafu with scraping against the bumper of a parked car (just a little bit of paint damage, no dent); and three times when I accidentally went on the right lane instead of the left. The first two of those were inconsequential, just as I was making a right turn which happened OK anyway. The worst was last week in Wellington when I went down the in ramp of the parking terrace where we were. Aack. It was steep, narrow, curved, had concrete curbs on both sides, and was hard enough driving up it in the first place (frontwards)! Backing up it was not fun! It didn't occur to me until I was safely far away from it and down the road to take a picture. Fortunately, it was near the end of the day and no one was trying to go INTO the parking lot! And, for the record, this was in the little car we rented after the campervan.
All is well!
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