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Seymour Gets Stuffed

April 8, 2018

All those hours spent weaving our way through narrow streets in pueblos in Mexico, along barely wide enough “roads” that hung off of cliffs in Peru, through four lane city highways packed six cars wide….they have really paid off. After partly airing down the tires and rear suspension to meet the height limitations of the container, Derek, without even breaking a sweat, expertly backed Seymour into a glove tight shipping container, with nary a scratch nor a dent. All this without the use of side mirrors (they were folded in so that Seymour would fit), nor rearview mirror, as all you see when you look in it is our camper. There was a man in the container, behind the truck, shouting instructions to Derek, in Spanish…but Derek could neither see nor hear the man. But with the help of another worker outside of the container, Seymour officially got stuffed.

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Uruguay: Beaches, Coastal Towns and Rolling Countryside.

March 22, 2019 – April 7, 2019

We had an appointment to load the truck into a container in the port of Montevideo for the 8th of April, so we had more than 2 weeks to fill. We had no real plan, other than that we knew we would have a week to explore Montevideo after the truck went into the container, so we started driving east, passing through the city of Montevideo and found some water front camping.

The beaches in Uruguay are beautiful and quiet this time of year. We are not sure if this is technically on the ocean yet, or still the Rio de la Plata…the camping spot was called “Camping Rio Plata”, but we are very close to where the Rio de la Plata becomes one with the Atlantic ocean.
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Cartagena….Welcome to South America!

May 25, 2018 to June 1, 2018

Upon arriving in Cartagena, we needed pesos, as always, and then looked for a place we could stay for a few days until we could get our truck back. It was super hot we were carrying our travel bags and we had our dog in tow. Fortunately, we found our land legs, a bank machine and some free wifi pretty quickly. Derek waited outside with the dog while I went into the air-conditioned shopping mall and selected a convenient hotel.

The container was supposed to arrive on Friday the 25th, the same day that we arrived, but when we were finally able to get some shipping information, we found out that the shipment had been delayed…at first we were told that the truck would arrive on Wednesday the 30th, then we were told it would arrive on Monday the 28th. Eventually, it actually arrived on the 29th.

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Mainland Panama

May 8, 2018 – May 20, 2018

Arriving back on the mainland from the islands of Bocas Del Toro, we were happy to see our truck exactly as we had left it.  We began the drive inland, and within minutes of leaving the small village of Almirante, a roadside police officer was signalling for us to pull over.  He approached the car, and informed us that we were speeding and this was an infraction. It looked like we had left the village several kilometres ago but apparently the speed limit here was still 40 kmh.  He asked for Derek’s driver’s license and passport.  He asked Derek to get out of the car to show him the reading on the radar gun which, was laying on the hood of the police car…70km/h!..funny, we hadn’t seen him anywhere near the cop car or the radar gun which was on the other side of the road, as we had approached.  Derek was pretty sure we hadn’t been going 70 kph anyway but didn’t say anything….it all seemed a bit fishy.

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