On Saturday in Panama City we went out to the airport to organize shipping the motorcycles and us to South America. Once we got to the cargo area we found out all of the options, we thought we had, evaporated. No one was shipping to Quito Ecuador in December and January and Bogota Colombia was our only choice. So we took a timeout to discuss the merits of going to Colombia. Long story short, we decided the pain of stopping the trip, turning back and subjecting ourselves to Central American’s border torture made Colombia a better looking option. Not a hard decision after we discussed various approaches to additional safeguards while in Colombia. So we are going to Bogota. That conjures up all kinds of negative images.
First we explored shipper options. We went to the most popular shipper, Girag. They told us the only sure option was to drop the motorcycles off in two hours for a Saturday departure. We looked around at the other options and of all things found DHL willing to ship our motorcycles for around the same price as Girag. They were very professional and told us we could ship any day we wanted. So we booked the motorcycles to ship out Monday and bought plan tickets to fly out Tuesday morning. Our plan was to arrive in Bogota early Tuesday, collect the motorcycles and head for Ecuador the next morning.
Saying goodbye to our motorcycles from the taxi.
Next ...to Bogota Colombia, collecting the Motorcycles and avoiding any of Escobar's buds, the FARC and the usual suspects.
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