Dec 8th - Panama City
The final few miles of the whole tour.
We have now covered 7,448 miles in 31 days. We have visited seven Central American countries. Of the original 25 cars only two have been unable to complete the tour. We have crossed from the Pacific to the Caribbean and back again. We have visited six capital cities, missing out on Guatemala City, although we glimpsed it from the mountain pass we climbed to the south of the city. The weather has been almost total sunshine except for a couple days towards the very end of the tour. The hottest day was in Baja California when the temperature reached 35 celsius and the coldest when we climbed the mountains south of San Jose and it fell to five degrees.
The drive from the hotel to the shipping agent located by the Panama Canal took just twenty minutes. I was joined by Bob & Thelma Howells and Terence English, both in the Landcruisers.
It took us an hour and a half to get all the customs documentation done so that the cars can be shipped out. I learnt that mine will be leaving Panama on the 27th and arriving in Los Angeles on January 3rd. It will be sharing a container with Bob & Thelma Howells' Landcruiser as they will be joining us on our drive across the States in March/April 2007. This will be our own private trip and once again I will be doing a blog of our adventures.
Once the trip across the States is finished we both aim to ship our cars direct to India for the HERO 4x4xplore Indian event, starting in October 2007. If it is half as good as Panamericana has been we will be well satisfied.
We have now covered 7,448 miles in 31 days. We have visited seven Central American countries. Of the original 25 cars only two have been unable to complete the tour. We have crossed from the Pacific to the Caribbean and back again. We have visited six capital cities, missing out on Guatemala City, although we glimpsed it from the mountain pass we climbed to the south of the city. The weather has been almost total sunshine except for a couple days towards the very end of the tour. The hottest day was in Baja California when the temperature reached 35 celsius and the coldest when we climbed the mountains south of San Jose and it fell to five degrees.
The drive from the hotel to the shipping agent located by the Panama Canal took just twenty minutes. I was joined by Bob & Thelma Howells and Terence English, both in the Landcruisers.
It took us an hour and a half to get all the customs documentation done so that the cars can be shipped out. I learnt that mine will be leaving Panama on the 27th and arriving in Los Angeles on January 3rd. It will be sharing a container with Bob & Thelma Howells' Landcruiser as they will be joining us on our drive across the States in March/April 2007. This will be our own private trip and once again I will be doing a blog of our adventures.
Once the trip across the States is finished we both aim to ship our cars direct to India for the HERO 4x4xplore Indian event, starting in October 2007. If it is half as good as Panamericana has been we will be well satisfied.
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