After nervously passing a handful of police checkpoints, that were real police checkpoints and not road blocks set up by the guerrillas which we had been warned about, we successfully reached the border with Ecuador. It was our first border crossing on the southern continent, and considering the trouble we had entering Colombia, we were [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
A good cup of joe
The road between Bogota and Pereria was long and winding, twisting itself up and over the Cordillera Blanca, the northern extent of the Andes mountains. After an 11 hour drive, we arrived at the hotel we had picked out of the book to find the gate locked and the lights off. It was pouring rain [...]
We’re Famous!!!
After a long week of driving through the Bolivian desert on the worst roads (by far) we have traveled, the truck was in need of some major TLC for the suspension and clutch (we´ll write more on that adventure later). So, we drove to Antofagasta- the largest city in Northern Chile- with hopes of a speedy repair… that was a week [...]
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