Sunday, January 17, 2016

Rewind one day.

Georgetown does not disappoint and we are again greeted by a snarly mess of everything, including a man lying on the highway perpendicular to the center line. He chose a fantastic location on a blind curve so that he was sure to get run over at some point, we had to take the oncoming traffic lane to avoid hitting him, that was a first. 
Our Hostess Tanya. Bidding us farewell or was it Hello?
Our friendly hostess Tanya is surprised to see us back again, but allows us to use her Wifi so that we can find a couple of shipping companies. She is also very helpful and knowledgeable using some of her contacts to find us a reputable company to deal with. This was all looking positive so we checked back into our room and went to the shipping office. They wanted to measure the bikes so we maneuvered through traffic once again only to discover that the shipping company would not deal with us unless we used a freight forwarding company as our agent. This is fairly standard so we were not suspicious of fraud or anything like that. The friendly lady called ahead and gave us good directions as it is a bit difficult to find certain things in this town. We were greeted by another friendly face and after a quick measurement and calculation it was determined that it would cost about $6000CAD to ship the bikes from Georgetown to Lima Peru. This is where the partial Int’l Airport takes effect. The bikes would fly from Georgetown to Miami then back to Lima. This would also be our flight pattern and tickets would be about $1000 each. So, $8000CAD to ship and fly or conquer the jungle. The final straw was that they bikes would not ship out for two weeks.
Guns and Roses hit song “Welcome to the Jungle”. 

Back to the hotel, quick apology to Tanya who is just happy that we were able to find the people and info we needed, then back to Linden we go. Repeat the process minus the Chinese food, and we are away to the races in the a.m.

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