Shipping to Costa Rica - don't!

[Beasts]

Hi
We have been driving our car around the world for the past 3 years and we had the pleasure to be invited to a Horizons Meeting in Argentina, hence the reason we are contacting you.

We are presently having a major battle with Costa Rican officials and customs to get our car out of the port. We asked our shippers to put it in storage which they didn't and we arrived a month later expecting to get our car out easily. The customs officers told us that it was considered abandoned as we had arrived after their 15 day leeway that they have to get your merchandise from the port. We were then told that our car is now the property of Costa Rica. We are driving a British Land Rover, so the steering wheel is on the right and they also changed the rules and regulations to not allow right hand drive cars to be imported into the country (I know this doesn't relate to bikers really but who knows where they will stop!) so we cannot officially import our car into the country and pay the tax.

We need help and ideas and if anyone can help us out that would be fantastic as we have been sitting here for nearly 3 weeks trying our hardest to bite our tongues and not explode!

My advice is don't import your car or bike into Costa Rica and expect it to be put in storage as the bribery and corruption will come into action and you will lose your vehicle

The Beastly Adventure - a drive around the world in a Land Rover FC 101