Driving is easy. Really. I thought it would be much harder. It is especially easy in the US where you don't have to worry about some manual transmission making it all needlessly difficult. You got two pedals, one to make the car go forward, and one to make it stop again. Seems logical. In Denmark it would seem nuts to go on the freeway within the first hour of driving (ever), but in Hawaii that's just the way we roll. Feeling very safe with my mentor Flemming sitting next to me I took the wheel and drove the Golden Lightning up to the Northshore, and back down to Kailua on the freeway. Driving to the Northshore is quite easy as there is one very long two lane road that takes you all the way. I did fiddle around with a bit of backing up into traffic in Haleiwa, but still very manageble. The tricky thing seems to be to get some feeling of how big the car actually is. When you are in a Buick and a Hummer comes towards you (it happens all the time over here), you start to wonder: "How wide is this road? Was it really made to accomodate to tractor-size cars approaching each other?" So I end up in the very right portion of the lane quite a lot. It is equally tricky to stop yourself from turning in the direction you are looking. When looking over my shoulder, as ay good driver does when turning or changing lanes I inadvertantly turn the car in the same direction, which caused a bit of trouble. And a bit of panic on the part of my co-driver. Well we made it back alive and hopefully I shall soon be ready to face my biggest driving challenge so far: The Hawaiian drivers test!
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