Driving is something that is rarely an obstacle. It isn’t something that puts knots in your stomach every time you find yourself sitting in that dreaded drivers seat. In fact, you may find driving relaxing, or maybe even pleasant.

For me, driving has been something that has made me consider faking sick for three weeks now in hopes of avoiding that monstrous, manual, beast of a van. It has had me spewing profanity whilst stalled in the middle of an unprotected left turn intersection. I’ve been so incredibly lost in this complicated maze of one way streets. I have honestly considered myself a danger to the german people…until yesterday.

Ladies and gentlemen. I can drive. WITH CONFIDENCE.

This may not seem ground breaking…but this has made me so much more at ease behind the wheel.

I guess sometimes you have to experience the worst (such as a puking, crying, child in the backseat) and make it out ok, in order to realize that the “hard” things are actually easy peasy lemon squeezy.

But I still miss my Jeep.