Driving in Honolulu

ハワイのJamesから知らせが届きました♪
ベラを去って早６ヶ月。
日本と違い、車社会の中で生活しているのですね。
Jamesと家族の様子が目に浮かんでほほえましいです。

Recently, I've been teaching my wife how to drive.
She drove in Japan so she isn't a complete beginner.
She's doing very well, but a few times I was afraid
for my life. Driving in Hawaii is not so difficult.
Most drivers are very kind and courteous.
They let you cut in front of them or they slow down
when you want to merge. My wife just needs to
get used to driving on the other side of the road.
Since we don't have family here or friends that
can babysit, we have to take our two, small sons
with us. The older one is four years old and
the younger one is a year and a half. Usually,
when I drive, they are very noisy in the backseat:
they sing along to the children's CD playing on
the car stereo, they grab and hit each other and
my older son points at things out the window
and asks many, many questions. “What's that?”
“What does that say?” “What bus number is that?"
and so on. But, when my wife is driving,
they are completely silent. I don't hear a peep
coming from the backseat. I think they are very
nervous, like their father sitting in the passenger seat.

courteous=礼儀正しい、丁寧な