We spent a restless morning waiting around the hotel and shopping at nearby stores for groceries and buying some additional minutes for the Colombian phone chip . Unlocking my Blackberry to work with any phone chip is turning out to be a good move.

As 2:00 pm approached we headed off to the shipping company office finding it without much trouble. Then we hit a series of minor or at least annoying little hurdles.

• the boat was outside Cartagena harbor but there was no dock space, it would not dock until sometime early tomorrow morning,

• the shipping company could not give us a release on the vehicle because the boat had not docked and we owed some more money to the Panama shipping agent - seems the vehicle was bigger than we had stated when they measured it on loading in Panama,

• just to make this a pesky issue we could not pay the extra shipping to the Columbian agent we had to find a way of getting money to the Panamanian agent,

• needless to say by this time local banks were closed so there was no chance of paying today that way,

• neither of our US banks could wire the money without us being present in the bank, and BofA would not do it because we did not have an investment advisor!! - we will be closing all BofA accounts when we return,

• cannot be done online as neither of our banks allow online transfer of money to accounts at another bank,

The up shot is we finished the night without a solution.

In the agents office today we met three groups of Argentines (and one French man) shipping vehicles to Panama from Colombia. They are separately heading for Central and North America. I will set up a link page and put their website addresses on it.