My Pimp Ride

Last month I took ownership of my new "used" car. Well it is not much, but I am pretty happy. Strange to think that this is actually the first car that I have owned myself. It is the first car that I have had day to day since the old baby blue Toyota Tercel wagon. This is not really much better on the cool factor, but driving around Tokyo it is really the perfect choice I think. Its small, and good on gas, which for getting around the tiny streets in my neighbourhood is a real necessity.

Driving in Tokyo is something that is a real experience. Wipping along small little roads, with far too much traffic, too many lights and too many parked cars. Beside your car you have cyclists often old women, mothers and kids puttering along old beat out bikes with no air in their tires. Highschool girls on pink scooters lane splitting like no hells angel would back in North Amercia. All this and signs that I am often unable to read. Makes for a fun trip.

The car its self was pretty loaded in the day, it is small but actually quite big inside. Which is nice as you do not really feel boxed in. The car has all the things I was looking for, including a navigation system. This is handy, as I was saying about the signs not in a English... makes it a hell of a lot easier to get from A to B.

We've made one pretty long trip out to Gunma... was just shy of 400km for the round trip. A lot of fun, and it went really smoothly, and I am looking forward to my next one where I hope to go and get out of Tokyo for a little bit.