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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