Again the morning was clear with no signs of last nights rain storm.

We did some touring around this morning before leaving town. The Tiger was left in the police station yard while Norm acted as chauffeur and tour guide. We travelled up the road to Cerro Punta, on the way stopping to visit and tour a lovely old hotel named Hotel Bambito - tennis courts, thermal indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and horse riding as well as a nice restaurant. Further up the valley we saw extensive market gardens on the hill sides and crews picking carrots. The produce all looked wonderfully fresh and it was all I could do to stop Nina buying bags of the stuff.

The drive back down to CA-1 and and onto the town of David - pronounced day-veed was uneventful returning us to hot and humid conditions. In David we stopped at a Price Smart - for a touch of home - it was just like a US Costco store.

At the Price Smart we bought oil for the vehicles as well as groceries and then headed off in search of a place to change the oil for us. We stopped at a Firestone center and had the oil changed in both the Tiger and Norms Ford. In addition to the $39 we paid for the 3 gallons of oil at Price Smart the Firestone place charged me $10.50 to change the oil and check fluid levels in all axles, transmission, and transfer case. Pretty great deal.

The next chore was to fill up our propane tank, it was last filled in Texas and was below 1/2 full and we wanted to have it filled before hitting Colombia. Since gas stations don't sell propane in this part of the world we went looking for a bulk gas plant. The first one we found could not do it as they did not have a pump. The guys at the second one tried to fill our tank but their pump could not overcome the pressure in the our tank. We were saved when their delivery truck - called a pipa arrived back at the plant; its pump quickly had us filled and happy. Though at that point I learned that central and south america do not use propane but a mixture of propane and butane.

Now the fun was not over for the day as Norm picked this time to inform us that tonight we - Nina and I - would chose the camping spot and go through the process of getting permission to stay wherever we chose.

After driving through David once more to find some candidate sites we eventually selected a newish shopping Mall on the western border of the town. After parking we went in search of the mall security office to try my minimal Spanish on some unsuspecting head of security. Well it took at least 20 minutes to find the administration office. In very bad Spanish I got across the message that - we tourists wanted to park in their parking lot overnight. Somewhat to my surprise the answer was yes - but only one night.With the nights accommodation secured we noticed that there was a covered parking area that would take the Tiger, so we moved in. Lucky too as we had another heavy rainstorm around dusk. But thanks to the covered parking we could sit out on our camp chairs drinking beer and watching the rain.