…with our 08.25  flight to Sydney and onto Santiago Chile for our planned 4 months + adventure in South America/USA and Canada  in our 1978 MGB .

We met some of The Team at the Gate for Santiago flight…. all very excited…even though a 14 hour flight between us and Santiago!

A good flight and as we cross the International Date Line we arrive in Santiago Chile  the same time we left Sydney Australia…ery confusing …to me anyway!!

Met by our fearless Team Leaders , Dave  and Laural Godwin, ,  and enthusiastic guide Simon and Morris from  ProTours Chile , who transports us to our hotel in Santiago…Hotel El Bosque.

Tired and weary but all set to go..

.at 17.00 we meet for a drink or two in foyer

 

and then all go to a local restaurant for dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

.Fun eve but HUGE portion meals so a LESSON here !!!

 

 

 

 

Shez in a spin…packing for Santiago … in a SMALL sailing bag!!!
We leave tomorrow am for Sydney, midday flight to Santiago……Watch this Space !!!

These shots show us loading the eight cars into the two containers – apparently the technical term is “stuffing” them. And in the case of BlueB this we almost did! Simon and Ken had done a magnificent job of preparing a wooden mezzanine floor structure with ramps to allow the fourth car in each container to be transported above the other three. One of the shots shows BlueB backing up the ramp but we hadn’t reckoned on the height of the tool box on BlueB’s luggage rack in relation to the angle of approach and the bracing. Fortunately an eagle-eyed spotter called a halt before the aforesaid potential stuff-up eventuated. Thereafter BlueB was relegated to the lower deck.

We have since heard they arrived in Valparaiso in great shape.

On 25 November 2014 Ross left home in Brisbane to drive to Melbourne where Blue B is to be shipped to Valparaiso South America along with the other seven MGs – David and Laurel, our intrepid leaders from the Gold Coast Queensland in their MGA “RIP”, two MGBs from NSW, three MGBGTs from Victoria and one MGB from South Australia.

Ross’s navigator on this trip was cyclist friend Roger, who kindly offered to accompany Ross on this first 1900 kms + to Melbourne.