reis – blog – travel
So this is kind of a special blog for two reasons; This is the last blog for the foreseeable future and; There’s no map at the bottom showing the route we have driven for the past month, because at the end of March our van went into a container to … Read more
After we finally managed to get diesel in Ciudad Guyana (still black market fuel by the way) we started driving to the coast. In the middle part of Venezuela, the landscape was far less interesting and reminded us of inland Brazil. Farms, burned fields and more trash. Luckily the drive … Read more
The first 10 days of October we spend in and around Panama city. We finally received our parcel with our new drives licences, phone and tablet, even though DHL managed to cause a delay of a week in Panama city, because one employee was sick… Import fees and custom fees … Read more
We started the shipping process in Panama city and the first step was the police inspection. We arrived very early, 6.45 am, at the parking lot behind the offices even though they don’t open until 7.30 am, because they don’t process more than 25 cars a day. We were third … Read more
On the 12th of September we drove in to Panama at the Sixaola border on the Caribbean side. An easy border crossing, only the paperwork for Binkie took a long time, partly due to computer problems. Fortunately nobody at the border demanded to see a drivers license before giving the … Read more
