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Ahh, faithful blogees, at last I can start reporting on things bike again!!......but no photos to record the more intense moments...and it was intense!...after a few false starts and an aborted visit to the warehouse in the port town....about an hours drive from Caracas...on Tuesday...we got off to a bad start yesterday (Wednesday for us)....our driver arrived at 8am to take us back down to the port place....Guaia(?) .....after about 20 kms the freight guy texts us to say he's in traffic, on his way to Caracas...whaaa?..so we have to return to town.....so we meet with our freight guy, his lawyer chica and a import/customs/hot shot/freight guy and they thrash around for an hour or 2...with brief translations in English for us...its like those movies where there's a huge long stretch of dialogue and the sub-title just says....Yes, let's do it....or similar...anyway, the guy agrees to drop his fees and we hunt around and scrape together 620 bucks for him...at least he gave us a good rate!...the 'official' rate to the $US is 2,400 B but the unofficial rate is better and he gave us 2,550.....so that's a little saving....and its off to the warehouse again.
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Bill Shum2006-03-24 21:52:34
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Ahh, faithful blogees, at last I can start reporting on things bike again!!......but no photos to record the more intense moments...and it was intense!...after a few false starts and an aborted visit to the warehouse in the port town....about an hours drive from Caracas...on Tuesday...we got off to a bad start yesterday (Wednesday for us)....our driver arrived at 8am to take us back down to the port place....Guaia(?) .....after about 20 kms the freight guy texts us to say he's in traffic, on his way to Caracas...whaaa?..so we have to return to town.....so we meet with our freight guy, his lawyer chica and a import/customs/hot shot/freight guy and they thrash around for an hour or 2...with brief translations in English for us...its like those movies where there's a huge long stretch of dialogue and the sub-title just says....Yes, let's do it....or similar...anyway, the guy agrees to drop his fees and we hunt around and scrape together 620 bucks for him...at least he gave us a good rate!...the 'official' rate to the $US is 2,400 B but the unofficial rate is better and he gave us 2,550.....so that's a little saving....and its off to the warehouse again.
I had noticed a few days ago...one of those inconsequential little things....I've only got a couple of days of visa left!!!......so we call in to the airport which is near the port in the hope of finding an imigration person...Alfredo, our freight mate, and I wander around following the usual precise, but inaccurate, directions, and finally get to big steel doors that only open inwards....and we're on the inside...prising them open we find ourselves in the baggage hall...no-one in sight (well, almost) 6 huge new baggage carousels, lying still, eerily quiet, deserted dutyfree shops, all the officials' booths empty...there's a couple of guards lounging in the corner and a lone cleaner, swinging his polyvac lazily across the already gleaming floor...this
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steven, 2007-08-05 17:42:49