geovalue
Adventurer
Where you gonna be perhaps we can meet for a beer
To the Arctic Ocean via the Dalton Road
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DiploStrat
Expedition Leader
Just a brief stopover, sorry.
geovalue
Adventurer
Trucks Held Hostage in Panama Port FREED
We have our tickets to Cartegena Colombia and fly there tomorrow. Our shipping experience has been amazing and we have had lots of anxious moments but also a lot of fun. We named our team the Squeeze Team as that is what they had to do to get the two trucks into a container.
Suddenly the truck looks so big next to the container. Will we really fit the Nissan into this
Logan is chosen as the designated driver as getting out of the truck and container is going to require some gymnastic skills.
Waiting to See if Logan Can Make it Out
Happy Overlanders Trucks in Container and Colombia Here We Come
Happy Shaun from Panama Passage for Helping Make This Happen
We have updated our blog with more photos and details
http://www.adventurouspirits.com/trucks-held-hostage-in-port-freed-by-squeeze-team/
But for the real excitement watch the trucks going into the container needing to be in LOW RANGE an amazing video shot by Shaun and edited by Tom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsu59Ii6hQ8[/ame]"][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsu59Ii6hQ8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsu59Ii6hQ8[/ame]
SOUTH AMERICA HERE WE COME :wings:
Safe travels all
We have our tickets to Cartegena Colombia and fly there tomorrow. Our shipping experience has been amazing and we have had lots of anxious moments but also a lot of fun. We named our team the Squeeze Team as that is what they had to do to get the two trucks into a container.
Suddenly the truck looks so big next to the container. Will we really fit the Nissan into this
Logan is chosen as the designated driver as getting out of the truck and container is going to require some gymnastic skills.
Waiting to See if Logan Can Make it Out
Happy Overlanders Trucks in Container and Colombia Here We Come
Happy Shaun from Panama Passage for Helping Make This Happen
We have updated our blog with more photos and details
http://www.adventurouspirits.com/trucks-held-hostage-in-port-freed-by-squeeze-team/
But for the real excitement watch the trucks going into the container needing to be in LOW RANGE an amazing video shot by Shaun and edited by Tom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsu59Ii6hQ8[/ame]"][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsu59Ii6hQ8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsu59Ii6hQ8[/ame]
SOUTH AMERICA HERE WE COME :wings:
Safe travels all
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shortbus4x4
Expedition Leader
Wow, did you have the grease the sides of the campers so they wouldn't get stuck.:Wow1: That is a tight fit.
This video has to be on the list of Top 10 Overlander shipping adventure...
awesome work guys!
awesome work guys!
I love Shaun's line:
"I've got one thing to tell you - make it happens"
"I've got one thing to tell you - make it happens"
DiploStrat
Expedition Leader
Well Done!
Here's praying for calm seas and gentle crane operators!
Here's praying for calm seas and gentle crane operators!
SChandler
Adventurer
Wow, I guess now I know what it will look like if I ever ship my truck by container.:Wow1: Any reason you drove them in head first vs. backing in? I'd guess that it was easier to get them all the way to the back without actually using the Braille method to find the back wall? Safe travels and good luck unloading them.
geovalue
Adventurer
Thanks for all the comments and good wishes. We drove it in as we have a rear view camera on the back for ease of getting it out by reversing, so hopefully that will work.
But we still dont have our truck out of the port in Cartagena.
Hey Panama Passage you need to open up a resource centre in Cartagena. It has been a week of frustration for all of the 10 overlander who shipped their 5 vehicle last week. We need you here with us!
We still dont have our trucks but Tom and Logan (PanAmNotes) are back at the port today so hopefully they will return with our trucks this evening
I have updated our blog of our waiting in Colombia with the question Where are our trucks?
http://www.adventurouspirits.com/colombia-where-are-our-trucks/
Safe travels
But we still dont have our truck out of the port in Cartagena.
Hey Panama Passage you need to open up a resource centre in Cartagena. It has been a week of frustration for all of the 10 overlander who shipped their 5 vehicle last week. We need you here with us!
We still dont have our trucks but Tom and Logan (PanAmNotes) are back at the port today so hopefully they will return with our trucks this evening
I have updated our blog of our waiting in Colombia with the question Where are our trucks?
http://www.adventurouspirits.com/colombia-where-are-our-trucks/
Safe travels
cellularsteve2
Adventurer
It is 320 AM and I just got caught up reading your posts. Thanks again for sharing. Very enjoyable.
steve
steve
geovalue
Adventurer
Still No Trucks
Stranger things have happened, yet no one could have dreamed up what happened to us at the port. There are tales of a Chinese conspiracy, requests for bribes, required documents produced or missing, demands for more money and finally when we think our agent has the final required piece of paper she disappears. We wait knowing the port is closing within minutes, she said she would only be a minute, people start leaving, and an ambulance arrives and then departs. We wait; it is now beginning to get dark, offices are closing and our agent has disappeared with our final piece of paper. We ask around, does anyone know what happened to our agent. Finally, they break the news to us; she has been taken to hospital by ambulance! OMG where is our final piece of paper. She fell down the stairs and they think she might have broken her arm. We go home without our trucks. We hope she is okay and wonder if we will ever see her again or our trucks.
Is that our container ship I see
Nothing could have prepared us for the shipping drama that has unfolded in Colombia. We thought the loading of the trucks by the Squeeze Team in Panama was interesting but that was only the beginning of what must surely be the most jinxed Panama Colombia shipping event. With Bills of Lading the most important document lost at sea, and finally when we have the clearance to get our truck we are told there is no room at the port to unload it and anyway our container is at another port. This has become a comedy of errors only it is not funny anymore. We want our truck! Maybe today everyone hold thumbs we get it today.
We decided to drown our misery in mud on Sunday naturally the port is closed for business. It was fun however and a reminder of why overlanding is all about adventure, mishaps and good times.
We updated our blog today
http://www.adventurouspirits.com/still-no-truck-but-we-get-closer/
Safe travels all
Stranger things have happened, yet no one could have dreamed up what happened to us at the port. There are tales of a Chinese conspiracy, requests for bribes, required documents produced or missing, demands for more money and finally when we think our agent has the final required piece of paper she disappears. We wait knowing the port is closing within minutes, she said she would only be a minute, people start leaving, and an ambulance arrives and then departs. We wait; it is now beginning to get dark, offices are closing and our agent has disappeared with our final piece of paper. We ask around, does anyone know what happened to our agent. Finally, they break the news to us; she has been taken to hospital by ambulance! OMG where is our final piece of paper. She fell down the stairs and they think she might have broken her arm. We go home without our trucks. We hope she is okay and wonder if we will ever see her again or our trucks.
Is that our container ship I see
Nothing could have prepared us for the shipping drama that has unfolded in Colombia. We thought the loading of the trucks by the Squeeze Team in Panama was interesting but that was only the beginning of what must surely be the most jinxed Panama Colombia shipping event. With Bills of Lading the most important document lost at sea, and finally when we have the clearance to get our truck we are told there is no room at the port to unload it and anyway our container is at another port. This has become a comedy of errors only it is not funny anymore. We want our truck! Maybe today everyone hold thumbs we get it today.
We decided to drown our misery in mud on Sunday naturally the port is closed for business. It was fun however and a reminder of why overlanding is all about adventure, mishaps and good times.
We updated our blog today
http://www.adventurouspirits.com/still-no-truck-but-we-get-closer/
Safe travels all
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You can be sure that this is already in the planning...sorry we weren't ready yet for you...