Glad that you made it - eventually.

I had the slight extra complication that we need a visa to get into Brazil and to issue that without requiring a flight or ticket onwards, I had to give the man a copy of my (legitimate) Montana Title.

As for the actual crossing, I could have driven a Sherman Tank across and nobody would have known. I did the passport thing on the Argentinian side by taking both passports in, leaving the copilot to watch the truck. Man objected a little but processed both passports anyway. Got back in the truck and drove out expecting to get flagged down by a man demanding the TIP. 100 yards down the road and obviously well out of the border post and still no man. UhOh! Needed to hand in the TIP so the previous owners won't get bunged if they ever return. So pulled off the main drag and walked back waving the TIP. Hello! Anybody? Nobody! Spotted a man lounging against the wall way over to the side and walked over still waving the TIP and asked him where I should hand it in. He jumped up and said "right here". Phew! Gave him my best relieved-smile, thrust the TIP at him and he took it. Said thanks a bunch, see you later and walked back to the truck which was well out of sight from there.

So the 850 pesos I spent on the PODER was a complete waste of money, but given that we would never have gotten over the border without the Poder the first time, it was good insurance to have the same documentation this time..
The other waste was having two insurance policies running concurrently but again, good precaution against problems.

Brazil side was similar non-event and we were away.

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Tony
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