If I have been to inform you it took all day to vary the tires on our Promaster van you’ll rightfully marvel what the hell we have been doing all day, and the reply could be driving or ready and largely ready.
The tire store on Balmaceda Avenue opens at 9 am so we bought up yesterday at 7:20. We left at a couple of minutes after 9 from the campground and I solely missed one flip so we bought there at 9 twenty. At 9:31 an worker confirmed up, opened the storage went to speak to the opposite buyer ready for service. Ultimately one other worker confirmed and by ten am we have been contained in the store getting our new BF Goodrich KO2s put in. Slowly.
They ordered the tires from the warehouse within the capital on Friday they usually have been right here by Saturday however we had deliberate to get them put in Monday in case there was a delay in supply. That is Chile: so the whole lot went like clockwork. However a gradual clock on this case.
The tires price $300 apiece together with an alignment. I like these gnarly all terrain tires although they put on quick and make noise. With them on the Promaster our heavy van goes wherever affordable, steep hills, gravel, moist dust, and it’s efficiency on sketchy South American roads has been reworked.
After which in fact they give the impression of being good, model spanking new.
They did their job properly and hand tightened the lug nuts and requested in regards to the right tire strain and so forth. Then they did a cautious alignment
The method took three hours and we had nowhere else to be. Oh wait. We had passport pictures to get. We’d executed the ready so now it was time to drive.
I wished a fast trim to look neat for my passport photograph however I bought an hour reduce. And the all vital beard trim. Layne sat and waited for an hour.
So now we had out pictures for our Bolivian visa and I had my image for my passport renewal which we at the moment are planning to get on the US Consulate in Cusco Perú. Then it was time for lunch. Right here’s the factor, having a hamburger in a meals court docket in a mall is one thing we wouldn’t do within the US as a result of now we have our favorites of different locations to eat. Right here, a burger and fries felt a bit like dwelling, not a each day factor however we loved it. And sure it was a bit salty.
Then we cut up and Layne went to Lider which is what they name Walmart in Chile. I went to Sodimac which is a Residence Depot with all kinds of attention-grabbing issues in a retailer that appears similar to Residence Depot. I purchased a bottle of Meguilar plastic cleaner whereas Layne was shopping for something she might see that we’d probably want in Bolivia a spot the place center class groceries aren’t a lot in proof apparently. Not like this comparatively small shopping center in Chile: