Good morning all. Have a safe day.

Gig. You cud get a bama rain. I cant count the pounds of Bermuda seed ive sent to somewhere. And thats expensive seed.

 

Never heard of it Paul, I'll check it out.......... we just got a little down pour

 

Thanks Kper. Ya, I actually had a had time with the have it made thing.... The people (I met) were all great people living like it was 100 (or more) years ago. But they were all happy, really happy. My wife did a lot of translating... they all wanted to know how it was in canada so they asked lots of questions. When wifey would tell they they would just hsake their head and laugh. Maybe they don't know any better, IDK, but it sure gave me a new (another?) perspective on life.... Still thinking about it.

Also gave me another option.... I could sell what I have here and live like a king over there for the rest of my life

Thanks. I am not 100% sure what the deal with that car was but it must have been an environmental thing. It was covered with green fake grass so I am assuming it is some kind of a hybrid.

Speaking of cars..... more than (for sure) 50% of the cars in romania are diesel. LOTS of VW and Audi TDI everywhere. In fact, if not for the smell, I would have filled up the rental car (gas) with diesel!!! GAS nozzles are GREEN and diesel nozzles are BLACK. First pump I went to had 3 black nozzles and 1 green so I am thinking bronze, silver, gold and diesel. Nope.... 3 grades of diesel and only 1 gas nozzle. I thought it was kinda cool. Here we have way more gas pumps than diesel, there it is the opposite.

Driving over there.... thats a whole other story. WOW it took me a week to catch on. Traffic laws are not followed AT ALL. I figured it can't be worse than Mexico........ IT IS big time. But once you get the hang of it, it works. Scary tho....

Have a good day guys

 

Here is a little more infor on the driving........

Like I said, traffic laws are not followed. In the pic below you can see on the pwer pole to the right of the cars a blue sign with red X and circle. This means no parking and no stopping. There is one of these signs every 10' everywhere... as you can see, completely ignored.



Speed limits were commonly doubled or MORE. If the limit was 80 kph there would be people driving 40 and other 160 or more.

Lots of roundabouts, every man for himself....

If you are driving along and an oncomming car is passing (and in your lane) it is YOUR responsibility to get out of the way. I almost leared this one the hard way. Reason is, when they pull out to pass, they pass 10 or 20 vehicles and they can't get back in. It crazy.

I was sitting at a red light (not many traffic lights) crossing 4 lanes of heavy traffic. The guy behind me saw an opening so he started honking. I did not instantly push my way thru so he passed me an went. Traffic had to break and swerve to miss him but he made it.

There are no lanes, someone is constantly 1/2 way in your lane, oncomming or passing you.

You have to drive EXTREMELY agressively to get anywhere. It was very frustrating at first. But once you get the hang of it.... it seems to work.

If people go road rage for getting cut off the whole country would be in a riot. If you want to get in you push your way in. People appear to try and not let you in but they will if you push hard enough. Strange thing is they don't get pissed and honk at you, they give way and let you in, thats the way it is. Even huge trucks and busses..... if you can get your bumper 1" in from of them, you are in. It's scary everyone drive soooooo colse to each other. But I never saw one accident. For the lost pasrt they are all very good drivers. By the third week I was actually having fun driving

Here is a little video I took when there was no traffic, no people on the road and not too many horse carts. Immagine this with 3 wide, people passing at 160 kph, people everywhere, cars bumper to bumper in both directions. This road would be like an interstate!

Next time I go I am definately renting something with WAY more power and better breakes

Have fun fellas

http://s1090.photobucket.com/user/da...e5399.mp4.html

 

Bring the Superduty there Darren...they'll move.

 

hey Darren at least the cars are on the right side of the road.............. how much does fuel cost over there, does the wifes family own a car??

 

I wish, that would be awesome. If I was a rich man I would ship it over there is a heartbeat with a dirtbike in the back A dirtbike would be AWESOME over there!!! Man that would be fun.

I saw this guy in Italy (Padova) and wanted to jump on. It looked a little out of place LOL



Gas and diesel were about $7.50 / gal ($2.00 / litre). One of her cousins husbands who is a cop has a car but thats it. Mostly horses and shoes.

Here is a pic of my wife a fraction of a second before she got punched in the face by my daughter

The trip was pretty hard on the kids

 

The kids had a pretty great time for the most part.
They loved plating with the animals

My daughters favorite chick "red head". I could not convince her it was a rooster. It was white so it was a girl . She played with that guy for days.



They watched some turkeys hatch right from the time thay first started poking their beaks out of the shells. It was pertty cool for them.





Now at Home Depot.... wood fired water heaters We went with #9



Have a good day!

 

wife reps!
(intended)

 

A wood fired water heater, wow........ that's a whole new culture eh Darren

Your kids are sweet hearts D

 

Thanks Guys.

Sure is different G. It was a great experience.
I learned my max to go without a shower is 3 days and I am pretty grouchy on day 3

Next time we go the inlaws will have somewhere for me to shower
And no more walking to the "outhouse"

 

I would say we're all spoiled over here, some hot days I have 2 showers, when you were holing up the drink with your FIL what was that, beer or wine??

 

From what Darren described to me...that is home made wine that is equivalent to grain alcohol that tastes like koolaid. He is quite the fan

 

Savage got it.

That particular one is wine. Everyone grows different varieties of grapes and the wine is all diffierent.... even across the street. I don't really like wine but it was ALL really good! I probably tasted 10 - 12 different varieties. One guy carbonates it somehow which was pertty cool. You would like it G.

They do also (almost all of them) make "whiskey" from prunes or cherries (usually but other stuff too). Then they distill it (they all have "stills") and it makes a very potent drink. I don't know the % but it would be way up there. Drink it straight and chase with wine. If you had 4 shots, waited 10 minutes then stood up you would be in trouble........trust me.....I know

 

Wifey had to drive home from the great grandparents..... every time