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Enough of Panama, We Want To Be Somewhere Else!

Today we crossed our first frontier in Central America on the bikes and moved into Costa Rica. What a relief! At first all was confusion, with no signs to point out where all the various immigration and customs offices where (in fact we weren’t even sure where the actual border was) but we enlisted the […]

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Arrival in Panama City

The flight to Panama was uneventful with a tedious 3-hour stop over in Bogotá. The bikes were packed on Friday, shipped out of Ecuador on Saturday, we flew out on Sunday and the bikes were promised to be ready for our collection on Monday. We arrived in Panama on Sunday evening at the tail end […]

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Off to Panama and the End in South America

While we were away in the Galapagos, our 2 bikes were in the hands of BMW in Quito in yet another attempt to rectify the cold/high altitude starting problem. In fact on the day they were to go to the dealer, both refused absolutely to start even when left in the sun, which had previously […]

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