Travel in the Big City

We spent five nights in Portland, OR for our vacation. More on the wonderful things we did on vacation later, but...the DRIVING! Drivers in Portland are CRAZY!

Now, if I had said this last year, you would think...yeah, you just got back from Japan and think that driving in ANY small town or on ANY freeway is dangerous!...and you would have been correct. However, I will have you know that I no longer drive local roads and freeways and cities in fear for my life! I have noticed how RELAXED I now am in driving around this area.

Then we went to Portland. Suffice it to say, the driving was VERY stressful! We prayed every day for safety and needed divine safety ALWAYS! Ryu, who worked so hard to get his Idaho driver's license said, after yet another close call, "All of these people have studied to pass and HAVE passed their driver's tests...however NO ONE knows the traffic laws!" To be 100% honest, I DID think - to have SO MANY close calls in such a short amount of time, maybe the problem really IS ME!?!?!? But, really! I don't think so. I was so so glad to get back to my part of the world...at least for the ease in driving. The heat? That's another story!