Our situation right now is a bit troubling. When we entered Bolivia, we didn't go through the aduana (or passport control) and we never got the temporary import papers. We assumed Bolivia was like Chile or Argentina where we would get in trouble if we sold registered bikes. Turns out we were wrong. Now that we are trying to sell it is a big problem that we don't have the temporary import papers, because it means the buyer can't nationalize the bike to get Bolivian papers. It also means our bikes could get impounded (and us deported) if we get caught.

That being said, I had a minor panic attack when I woke up this morning to the hotel receptionist telling me two cops were in the lobby looking at the bikes. I greeted them groggily. They looked at me sternly and asked if they were my bikes. I thought "shit, this is it. someone tipped them off and they are going to take them away and theres nothing i can do"

but then they said they wanted to buy them, since they won't have to worry about papers and making them legal. and they offered us $5000/bike, which is about what we have been getting in terms of offers.

so the big question is this:

Do we sell to the cops, hoping they don't ask us for the papers (I hyperventilate just writing that)

Do we ride to the nearest border and check in legally (it's 600 km away and last week four bikers had their bikes stolen at gun point)

do we sell for 4k/bike to some sketchy brothers

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we are in a pickle

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