When you visit
Uruguay, you'll notice the cars.
You'll see some incredibly crunk, instant-$200-ticket
(in the USA)
clunkers freely circulating.
Because cars are incredibly expensive.
Search for a 2002 Toyota 4Runner with 125,000 miles in the land of the
Untied Snakes - $6-9,000? You'll find the same vehicle advertised for
sale in Uruguay for $30,000 or more.
Have
fun...
I'm not ready to document our attempts to buy a vehicle
here
(too close, too
painful), so let me instead present some images - first,
of a vehicle we spotted a few blocks from our house this afternoon -
gotta love it:
Homemade pickemup, complete with sheet plastic rear window.
Here you can see vehicle we spotted in Montevideo a couple days ago -
Citroën
2CV:
Ready for a road trip,
eh?
Cute and funky, but this afternoon I saw the same
(actually a 3CV)
next to a MID-sized Toyota pickup - HiLux, I think. And look at the car
to its side -even smaller. Shee-it! This is scary stuff!
On the
interbalnieria - the four-lane 'freeway' -
hahahaha - between
Montevideo and
oh-so-chic
Punta Del Este - you'll find the vehicle on the right going 90 mph
passing the vehicle on the left going 45 mph - which itself is passing
bicyclists , wheezing motor scooters, and perhaps a horse and buggy.
Not to mention pedestrians.
All for what it's worth, which probably ain't much.
Cheers,
Doug