Thursday, September 29, 2016

Santiago Day 1

Day 1

Well what a day or day and a half

We left Auckland ( 7.10pm ) an hour late but made up time arriving at 2 pm , all going good .

Then it was time to find the bike , not easy , then  being directed to Customs (Aduana in Spanish) only to find that they were having some sort of Strikes . We spent the next 3hrs walking from office to office trying to find one that would process us (bastards ) . We were lucky enough to find a young guy Matias Castillo who took the old people under his arm and sorted it out for us ( language being the problem ) .

So by the time we got Customs done it was to late to get the bike ,  tomorrow its up early and back to the Airport to get the bike ( Matias will be there to help, just as well, bloody nice kid )

Ruth and our little Apartment booked on Airbnb

 

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Its almost Time


Well not quite Thursday is D Day
The bike has been packed and sent , we are getting excited Santiago is our first stop but Basil and Charlie aren't to Happy .
So its approx 6 months and about 35,000 kms on the Triumph Tiger around South America