The way of life on an island...Part 2

Now that we have our home for the winter, which is in the most perfect location for us! Our next step is to find a car. There is so much to see and do on the island that a car is a must. You can only walk for so long in the heat and/or rain, and going shopping for anything becomes a whole new task on it own. So we went car shopping. There were a few hurdles that stood in our way, language barrier was the biggest one, we also had to be careful not to be hussled by anyone. We dont need anything special, just something to get us from point A to point B without breaking down.
We started talking to our landlady about buying cheap car. Her and her son helped us out and were able to find a great car, way better than we were expecting to get. We were planning on only spending $500-600. But once we started looking at those cars we realized we were going to have to spend more. In that price range the cars would only start if you HotWired it, and only if you were lucky it would start. We found a minivan for $1500 and talked the guy down to $1200. We have a 1994 Mercury Villager with only 180,000 mile. It has a DVD player and CD player, AC and all windows limo tented.
We did run into a few hiccups but the biggest problem was getting the title in our name. You have to be a Puerto Rican resident with Drivers License. To get a license was going to take forever so our friend Miguel helped us out again and put it in his name. But for the most part buying the car was simple even more so since our landlady Illa and her son were so helpful.
Everything has seem to fall into place since we have gotten here. Finding a place to live and a car to buy were easier than we expected, and both times got more than we ever imagined we could get.