| Location: | Caracus |
The Latino love of stamps and copies in triplicate, combined with a 4pm closing left us stranded at the Customs warehouse with no bike and a "mañana" ringing in our ears. We missed the slot by only twenty minutes and Kevin's offer to pay someone extra was frowned upon immemdiately. Come back Central America!
All our hard work to claw back our day in Central America is now draining away. The plan was to have the bike tonight and leave Caracus at first light. The reality will be back to the Customs warehouse at 8am and hope that it is no more than an hour to get the bike. If we can do this, we may be able to set off about 11am and have only lost 5 hours or so.
We still have our spoke problem with the back wheel. We find out that the quickest we can get spokes to South America even with DHL speediest service is 4 working days. We speak to Camilo Delgado, a Colombian rider from Medellin, who is meeting us on the ride in Caucasia with other riders and explain the problem. He will try his best to scrounge spokes and screws off other GS riders for us so at least we have some to strengthen the back wheel. Just cross your fingers that the wheel holds.
In the meantime we are having spokes sent to BMW in Quito, Ecuador for us to pick up as we should be there next Tuesday or Wednesday.
