[Traveling by motorcycle through Latin America] 1/03/2009 05:17:00 PM
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Paul
Jan 3, 2009, 9:05:13 PM1/3/09
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Long week here with tough classes, US Customs issues and learning a new city, culture and ways of living.
On December 30 all the office personal throw their shredded desk calanders out the multi story buildings as a way of letting go of the last year...and then they start to party for two days and try to go back to work. I suspect little work gets done.
New Year night the streets were hopping with celebrators and then the sky erupted with thousands of personal fireworks! By that time, I had given up on the ´tecno club´(too loud and too young a crowd for this old cat) and retiered to the roof top to enjoy the dispay. There were some serious explosions most small town USA would have enjoyed in their fire works.
The annual Dakar race is in Arg. and Chile this year, and like the Ididarod, has a cerimonial start.
This occured near the apartment....so how could this be missed! Two blocks away the three miles of barricads ended and the riders and drivers faced tens of thousands of fans and supporters.
Lots of kissed babys (and gals) as drivers showed off while waiting their turn with the mob. And it was very warm so the suited riders were suffering. Anyhow, that was a chance of a life time.
US Customs of Miami does not live in the USA. The agent in charge of my shipment keeps finding one more thing he/she wants before releasing the crate.
They now have the original tital (thanks to Carol) and will soon have: keys to ignition and aluminum boxes, copy of drivers lic. (for signiture authentification) and the original export power of attorney to the fed ex agent responsible for my crate. This POA was interesting to find here, and could not have happened with out the assistance of the school staff. There are no notarys here. Instead there are Escribanos-a generational position. This man, in his 70s, holds his fathers position who held his fathers position. They have law degrees but are not allowed to work in the courts but only sign as witnesses to some one signing a document. They do not have embossed stamps, their name and position give them all the authority needed. He thought highly of his trip to Alaska. Just hope the agent thinks this will be OK a document.
That box of keys and documents cost 80 us to ship three day fed. ex. Oh, that was with Arg. export tax. There are no other fed ex options here. The Customs agent will open the crate and root around after the paper work is surrenderd. Crazy!! Then I hope he releases the crate for shipment. We shall see what happens next week.
Still have not been able to upload photos on this conputer.
Looking forword to hitting the road.
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Posted By Paul to Traveling by motorcycle through Latin America at 1/03/2009 05:17:00 PM
On December 30 all the office personal throw their shredded desk calanders out the multi story buildings as a way of letting go of the last year...and then they start to party for two days and try to go back to work. I suspect little work gets done.
New Year night the streets were hopping with celebrators and then the sky erupted with thousands of personal fireworks! By that time, I had given up on the ´tecno club´(too loud and too young a crowd for this old cat) and retiered to the roof top to enjoy the dispay. There were some serious explosions most small town USA would have enjoyed in their fire works.
The annual Dakar race is in Arg. and Chile this year, and like the Ididarod, has a cerimonial start.
This occured near the apartment....so how could this be missed! Two blocks away the three miles of barricads ended and the riders and drivers faced tens of thousands of fans and supporters.
Lots of kissed babys (and gals) as drivers showed off while waiting their turn with the mob. And it was very warm so the suited riders were suffering. Anyhow, that was a chance of a life time.
US Customs of Miami does not live in the USA. The agent in charge of my shipment keeps finding one more thing he/she wants before releasing the crate.
They now have the original tital (thanks to Carol) and will soon have: keys to ignition and aluminum boxes, copy of drivers lic. (for signiture authentification) and the original export power of attorney to the fed ex agent responsible for my crate. This POA was interesting to find here, and could not have happened with out the assistance of the school staff. There are no notarys here. Instead there are Escribanos-a generational position. This man, in his 70s, holds his fathers position who held his fathers position. They have law degrees but are not allowed to work in the courts but only sign as witnesses to some one signing a document. They do not have embossed stamps, their name and position give them all the authority needed. He thought highly of his trip to Alaska. Just hope the agent thinks this will be OK a document.
That box of keys and documents cost 80 us to ship three day fed. ex. Oh, that was with Arg. export tax. There are no other fed ex options here. The Customs agent will open the crate and root around after the paper work is surrenderd. Crazy!! Then I hope he releases the crate for shipment. We shall see what happens next week.
Still have not been able to upload photos on this conputer.
Looking forword to hitting the road.
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