Dogs and skylines
Hi all, hope everyone is having a good day/night. I just got back from a week vacation in aruba(first time) and I just have to say, what an amazing trip it was. Not a single thing to complain about. The locals are great people, the tourists are civilized, and the island itself is beautiful. During my trip, 2 things really stood out to me. The stray dogs and the abnormal amount of r32s, r33s, and r34s that are on the island.
Everyday, we’d drive to a different beach, or area. While on these drives, we encountered countless stray dogs, which is normal I guess. What I found to be strange was how smart/safe these dogs were. We saw them waiting at cross walks and not just running through the streets, and also saw how friendly almost all of them were. I don’t except anyone to have an answer for this, but how are these dogs so smart? It genuinely surprised us.
Being a huge car enthusiast, I was honestly extremely shocked to see the crazy amount of skylines on the island. Everyday id see a new one. The r32s and r33s didn’t surprise me all that much, but when I started seeing r34s I was in awe. I believe I saw maybe 4 or 5 different r34s on the road, and 2 that were parked and looked like barn finds. I couldn’t believe my eyes, i saw more r34s in a week than I have in a good 10 years in my home country(Canada). Apart from the skylines, there was also a decent amount of s15s, and other modded Hondas and Lexus’s. The car community there is great and it made the trip 2 times better. My question would be, how come there are so many of these cars, and how expensive is it to ship them from Japan?
I also had a chance to visit the palo Marga drag strip, on a local night. It was very cool to see what some the locals do on their Saturday nights. Stock cars, scooters, and tuned cars racing was quite a nice event to be apart of. We were the only tourists there and everybody was looking at us like we were aliens(completely understandable lmao).
Again, what an amazing country Aruba is and I can wait to visit again. Thanks to all who took the time to read this, and a special thanks to anyone who might have answers to my 2 questions!
(Included some car pictures, I couldn’t get any pics of the skylines since they were all driving unfortunately)