January 31, 2011

Today was the last day in Ecuador. We were up around 8 ish and went for breakfast at this nice place that had american breakfast. After that we packed up and were on the road around 10:30. We made it to the boarder at 1 and were in Columbia at 2:30. The reason why it took so long is because apparently our motorcycle import paper for ecuador was new… The aduana had never seen it before. So they were running around while we got ourselves stamped out. They worked the things out with the bike and we were on our way. We got to the Columbia side and we were stamped in with a matter of minutes. We had to go and get our bike imported which took a half hour because the guy that was typing our stuff in was new. He messed up dads VIN # like 3 times. But it was all straightened out and we were in Columbia. First thing we had to do now was get insurance for the bike before we get ourselves in trouble by the police, and man was that ever harder then it sounds. Long story short we got the insurance after about 2 hours of running around through this little boarder town. Getting insurance showed us how fantastic the Columbians really are. We couldn't get enough help. It was great. After that little adventure dad and I carried on for about and hour to Pasto. Once we got into Pasto a local couple, on a motorcycle, showed us to this hotel, it was great. After we got all settled in we went out for some dinner and had a classic columbian dish, Eggs, steak, beans and rice. YUMMY.