Hubby and I are home with our car in one piece and no issues. We literally hadn't seen the car in nearly one full year. In addition to needing gas, it needed the tires inflated more. No problem. I confess we were paranoid that we'd have a fender bender, but luckily didn't. When we got home, Hubby was going to leave it in front of our driveway gate. We live on a dangerous curve. It's hard to back up into the driveway in the dark, but I pushed Hubby to do it, with me directing him. I'll be damned if I want to wake up in the morning to see our car crashed...or stolen. Not that the latter is common here. Anyway, it sure felt strange to be driving in Europe with American gages (mph, mpg, even temperature in Fahrenheit). The speedometer does have kilometer per hour, but as many know it's on the interior section of the gage, while mph is shown bigger. I'm not sure if any of this could eventually be changed by a Subaru dealership. We're afraid, in a way, that if they fiddle with the electronics it will cause problems, needlessly.

I think our 2020 Subaru Crosstrek hybrid is the only one in Czech Republic, other than maybe some that pass throughout from other countries in Europe. There is the Subaru Crosstrek here, but not yet the hybrid. Also, it's not called "Crosstrek", it's called something else Hubby told me, that I forget. So, I'm a foreigner, and so is my car. Even our Czech license plate looks different. Ours had to be created in square shape to fit the place where American license plates go. European "EU" plates (and the space for them on European cars) are a different shape. Hubby thinks that the technical staff here might have had to drive our car to another city in CZ, with our old New Jersey plates on it. Imagine what others here would have thought when seeing that?

@Jennifer 1967, it sounds like you'll have some nice things to do in the near future. And yes, you should stick to your guns about care for your brother. I think as time passes your family will just learn to accept that and find it reasonable. As for my blog, thanks for your kind words.