After 5 hours we made it the "100 kms" to the port.
Conor, Troy and Tom left the hotel at 1230 to walk "5" blocks and pick up the rental car. Two and a half hours later they showed up at the hotel. The rental place was 55 blocks away...
Glenna stayed at the hotel to find directions. 3 hotel staff tried to find the location - we tried google maps. Finally a tourist mentioned she knew where it was a suburb of BA - the equivalent of Kingston being a suburb of Toronto. We set of with at least an idea of what city we were heading to ha ha.
Once we go to Zapata we stopped at a taxi stand. It took three of us to interpret the directions from the taxi driver (no one here speaks any English). With these sketchy directions we headed off. Luckily when we hit the highway we started to see Dakar vehicles heading toward us on the other side of the highway. We reverse followed them to the port another 30 km.
Finally we arrived just after 5. Only two people could get into the closed port so Tom and Conor headed in to see how the trucks faired on the stormy trip across the ocean.
Tomorrow we will be back here at 8 am to pick up the trucks and install the safety equipment. From there it will be off to scrutineering.
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