Part four (or is it part five? I can’t remember any longer) of our trip to Pohnpei last July (yep. Still haven’t gotten to the surf trip in October) finds us driving around the island in our rental car. Strangely, all the cars here are from Asian countries so they are right-hand drive cars, but you drive them on the right side of the road. It is a bit confusing. We have done left drive/right side, right drive/left side, left drive/left side, and now right drive/right side. Oh, and center drive/left side (with the tuk tuk in Sri Lanka.
We drove by a bunch of really prime used cars that we could probably have picked up at a real bargain.
Here are a few examples of the fine used cars available on Pohnpei:
Just a little bit of a fixer-upper…
These amazing lightly-used cars are everywhere on the island. If I ever move there I figure I can make millions fixing up these old beauties and reselling them. They are all along the side of the road everywhere you look here.
So many of these mint-condition beauties are just parked in everyone’s front yards, just waiting to be bought and taken to the car show. All you need is a weed eater and a little bit of WD-40.
And you may need a connection at the local tire shop.
There are some really good deals to be had on lightly used, one-owner boats as well. We had a look at a couple here that we are considering.
Even the stop signs are in mint condition here.
It is not just cars and boats that one can find great deals on here…
We found this used tank lot in town.
The perseverance of the organic here is so beautiful. These plants will find a way to the sunlight no matter what obstacles we place in their paths. The 12 hours of blazing sun every day and the rain bringing them the nutrient-rich soil creates the perfect environment for their attainment over the entropic degradation of the metal and concrete of human construction.
Tam and I spend a lot of time on islands and in jungle places. We always love to see how quickly the jungle “wins” in these climates. If you leave our fragile man-made toys out of the box for too long, the tenacious living greenery just takes over. We have seen so many examples of this over the years, and it fills me with hope that some day, eventually, once the infection of human beings has run its course and we are all gone, the earth will inevitably absorb the last remnants of our excess.
It should be a beautiful thing.
Wind, Water, Waves, Wander 