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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Another problem I have is lack of drivers. My wife is not a driver, which leaves me to drive. Most of her family that comes to visit doesn't drive either. Her sister is legally blind, for an example. So that puts the burden on me. Maybe some day the kids will get their licenses and be good drivers and can take a second car. Until then, it can be hard to move everyone every once in a while, especially when there's no public transportation here and towns are an hour away from each other.
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
At any rate, uncle and family flew in this weekend. So we are 8 packed in the Avalon again. Yeah.
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These statements don't compute for me. You say your wife "is not a driver". She physically cannot drive or she just doesn't want to learn to drive? Because I can't see how you can live in a rural area with 1 hour between towns without both adults in the family driving. How does she get groceries, take the kids to school, go to work, etc? How do you go through life in rural American and never learn to drive? Both my parents grew up in rural areas and were driving around the farm at the age of 8 - 10 and legally driving on public roads at 14.
I can't see piling 8 people into the Avalon because you had family fly in. We had family fly in a few weeks ago and had more people than seats in our cars so we rented a car at the airport. You had 7 other people in your car and none of them had a drivers license?
As for 8 passenger vehicles - I grew up riding in the rear facing seat of one of these. Oldmobile Custom Cruiser. Seats 8 (3 on the front bench, 3 on the middle bench, 2 on the rear bench) It is a GM B-Body, came in other GM brands and was made from 1971 to 1992. Dead simple to work on.
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