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Photo by Alessio Corradini,
on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia,
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Right on , Pat. Several times I decided I wanted to do a fairly straight run to the GT border but wound up exploring sideroads . Five days later I 'm still only as far as Veracruz- and not regretting the slow progress. There's always a next trip to try it
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Hello Strecher Monkey:

Yes, I am very experienced with “Life in Colombia”

I have a visa valid until the end of 2009. It sounds like I can get 6 months and perhaps 3 months more. That would be great for my plans. I was thinking on a Vstrom. The Vstrom is sold both in the USA, Colombia and throughout SA. I am assuming that it is easy to get parts and service this way.

Thanks for your advise!
If anyone is interested, I went to the border with Ecuador and they insisted I had to leave Colombia for the night. Although possibly that was not strictly necessary, I still had to go through the motions of being stamped out and back in again, so I crossed over to Tulcan with the bike for the night. It was no big shakes and everything was cheaper and the bottles of bigger!

I didn't bother with importing the bike into Ecuador as it was Sunday and the aduana was closed, I really couldn't be bothered anyway.

On re-entry, my visa entitled me to a further 202 days and this confused the chica in DIAN for a while but she eventually gave me 3 months for the bike which I hope to renew in Bogota.

It's important not to push the fact that you have any kind of "residency" as this importation is for tourists. You do not get permission to import for the length of your visa. They are not interested in your visa, cedula or otherwise. Play the game - passing through. Other than that everything was really friendly and efficient.

There seems to be no apparent limit on how many times you can do this.
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