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Shipping The Vehicle Part 2 : Being There

August 2, 2013August 2, 2013 jason 7 Comments

After deciding that the Santa Marta experiment was a complete bust, I made the call to drive to Cartagena. I

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Shipping The Vehicle Part 1 : Failure

July 30, 2013July 30, 2013 jason 8 Comments

My goal was to ship the bus from Santa Marta to Houston. We’ve still got vague plans of going all

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Hot Taganga

July 29, 2013July 29, 2013 jason 3 Comments

We spent the better part of the week just trying to clean out the bus and figure out what was

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Full Loop

July 24, 2013July 29, 2013 jason 19 Comments

Talk about anti-climactic. We finished the South American loop. We drove a giant circle around the perimeter of South America

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Hay Gasolina? Hay!

July 23, 2013July 20, 2013 jason 2 Comments

Here’s the gas situation near the border: Beyond Maracaibo in Venezuela, it’s essentially free. Five Bolivars for an entire tank.

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