The Golden Van: GANNET2 Lives

4th of July is among the highlights of the calendar at dwelling. Oddly sufficient nobody in Arequipa cares an excessive amount of in regards to the vacation. This historical metropolis celebrated its 5 hundred and one thing birthday on August fifteenth and already the authorities are placing out extra flags in anticipation.

Little doubt Coca Cola is loading the cabinets in anticipation of the vacations, they usually make this bizarre soda referred to as Inca Kola, impressed advertising and marketing little doubt. It appears like pee, tastes like cream soda with a touch of pear and is known as a bit sickly candy, however it’s in every single place in fact. 

Renzo charged $4100 for the rebuild which is roughly what a rebuilt 62TE transmission would value within the States the place you should purchase one on line and have it delivered.  The digital man charged $650 to clear the limp mode code from the van’s pc which appeared rather a lot to me as we paid $550 for an eight hour tow after we broke down initially, however one can’t argue with success and it took him some work reaching out throughout South America on the lookout for a code reader to clear a Promaster’s proprietary pc. Fashionable engineering…

Every part feels again to regular and lengthy might it final. It was nice to be again driving even when it was Arequipa’s commuter hour. I gave Renzo’s assistants $50 every they usually have been overwhelmed so I hope they spend it very unwisely.

We spend at the moment shifting out of the lodge room again aboard, selecting up laundry, organising Starlink so I can have an honest connection to add footage. Then I fly to Cusco Monday to select up my new passport. After that we wrap up our crowns on the dentist, the place I ought to level out Layne spent $123 for a root canal and $1450 for 3 crowns. You would fly to Lima and switch to Arequipa, keep in a beautiful lodge for ten days and have these dentists do your work for the price of a single crown within the US. Clear trendy and stuffed with lidocaine, and Jaime the husband within the group speaks fluent English.  

In spite of everything that we’re going to take a check trip all the way down to the coast. It’s winter so it received’t be swimming climate however we need to be vacationers once more, tenting in our dwelling strolling Rusty on the seaside and being nomads. A pair extra jobs on GANNET2, suspension and conversion to ethanol flex gas functionality and it ought to cease raining in Brazil. The need to discover is rising. And by the best way fierce winter climate in Chile is closing highways with mudslides even within the Atacama Desert. Final 12 months we acquired caught in a street closure south of Arica after an earthquake closed the PanAmerican Freeway for just a few days, this 12 months that they had rain…

Tropical Brazil appears like a great place to be for us. Precise jungle in a van we hope will run easily.