I love your response and am honored to converse with you. It amazes me the diversity of ideas and life experiences on this site, and it is amazing what you can learn when you connect with someone such as yourself with so many interesting ones. I learned a lot during my brief visit to your country in 2008 and found the countryside to be very similar to Oregon where I live and the people to be inviting and kind. BTW, my family drove nothing but Mercedes for years but we sold the little '68 280SL convertible after my mom died. My brother inherited her '02 C240 which he still drives daily.
