Bad news: We did not get our cars. The container ship only arrived today at 5am, and it took until 3pm that it was all unloaded. We could prepare some things before that, but with the big chunks we had to wait for the ship to be all cleared. That didn’t leave much time until the closing time of the customs office.
We were a group of three – my container partner, a French father of 6 who’s traveling in an RV, and me. We were sent to so many places and rushed there by taxi or by foot, it felt like a gigantic treasure hunt and was actually quite exciting. Also, we got to see the city center of Cartagena. Just the fact that we didn’t finish today was a little disappointment.
Tomorrow we will for sure (that’s at least what they said) get our cars. But it is now obvious as never before that I won’t make it by car to Chile until next Tuesday. I need to talk to my office down there to see whether there is a little flexibility left or whether I’ll have to temporarily park the car here, fly down and get it later.