Friday, February 29, 2008

Finally!

Well, I am pleased to write that the car is finally here. After another 4 days of problems and payments, the car is in our possession. We owe it all to our friend Fabian. He helped us mow through all the paperwork and Chilean customs forms that we needed. He even had to pretend to be me at one point, using a fake ´gringo´accent and acting confused. It was once again the company in the US that really made things difficult. I won´t go into to much detail, but basically all of this paperwork could have been taken care of while the car was being shipped, but is wasn´t. We thought it was all taken care of when Fabain, I mean, Matthew came out of the loading dock and told me to go by a battery. The american company also forgot to disconect the battery and the car was dead. The battery ended up being backwards, so he started the car with the battery on it´s side and then put in the old battery. Everything is all good now. We said goodbye to Fabian and his amazing family, we couldn´t have done any of this without them and headed south towards Valdivia. We are heading to meet my brother Nick in Beriloche, Argentina

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