So everyone here talks about how CRAZY it is to drive off base. They generally describe it as organized chaos. Which I would totally agree with them on that... there are no rules of the road here. People drive in the middle of lanes, off the side of the lanes/road, park your car in the street..anything goes! If they think their car can fit they will fit it, 2 lanes can turn into 5 lanes. It's pure madness lol (You don't even want to get me started on the pedestrians, they have no fear!) They also like to give you a "courtesy" honk to let you know the light JUST turned green and/ or is about to turn green. Apparently it's supposed to be a friendly gesture and we were told to not take offense. Honestly it kind of irritated me a first but now I just laugh and joke with Rene, telling him that he needs to pay attention to the light! All fun and games until you enter the dreaded ROUNDABOUT!!!!
I made this picture nice and big for you all so you can see the traffic lights that are INSIDE the roundabout. WHAAAAATTT???? I have no idea why anyone would think this is a good idea. It literally turns a cluster fuck into a Mega cluster fuck! And heaven forbid you get caught in that circle and the person to your right wants to turn right when you want to got straight... BAHHHH!
So I'm sure you are curious as to why I am writing about driving out here...{just like my last blog about flippin fruit and food, who does that!?} Today was my first day driving off base!!!
IT WAS AMAZING!
I felt like I was in a video game or driving a go kart! I LOVED IT!
I had a blast, I was so scared that I would get all stressed out driving defensively since, in my opinion, I've tamed down as a crazy driver :)
Psshhh! I put all those aggressive driving and defensive driving class, that New Mexico made me take for all my speeding tickets, definitely paid off!!
My friend Alyssa and I had talked about going to the mall in Adan to go to a walmart like store to get a few things that were a heck of a lot cheaper there, then buying them on base (paper towels, tp and junk like that). Plus I wanted to have a chance to drive off base in our crappy rental car before we got our car, JUST in case I did freak out and accidentally hit something :). So I suggested that we should go to the mall today, after the Thursday market of course! So me, Alyssa and 2 of her friends came a long with me on my AWESOME DRIVING ADVENTURE! *insert epic echo voice* Anywho with both mine and Alyssa's awesome observation skills we managed to get to the mall without the help of our handy dandy Garmin navigation. So proud of myself! Oh and not to mention I got us there safely!
I got a little worried about the drive back because 1. it was just around rush hour time (weird they still have rush hour around 5-6pm in Turkey lol) 2. I had to go through the FULL roundabout in order to get home. I thought I did an awesome job, but I think I scared Roxy a little when I got pretty close to another car. I was just trying to avoid getting stuck going around and around in the roundabout (HAHA!) Alright so I can't find a picture of what their "organized chaos" looks like so I'll make sure to get a picture of it the next time we go out!
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