Bienvenidos, Estados Unidos!
Hurray! After a relatively painless customs clearing in the Miami Free Zone, we paid for and received the paperwork at Seaboard Marine on Thursday and picked up the van in Miami yesterday. The van was mostly intact, less our keychain and compass, plus a thick layer of dust and muddy foot and hand prints. It was awesome to be back in the van and we were very happy with the shipping outcome. The container with our boxes has yet to clear customs since it is consolidated with other cargo, but we hope to pick them up (again, relatively intact!) on Monday. In the meantime, we are relaxing in the Florida sunshine although it feels awfully cold after 11 months south of the border! More entries on our Panama trip forthcoming....
Customs in the Miami Free Zone (what a clean sterile building - nothing like the other customs offices we've been in lately!)
Colony Hotel on South Beach - a little nightlife in Miami while waiting for the boat
Port of Miami - getting our authorization and one day passes
The Van!
Starts up like a charm
Missing - one Vegas keychain and one dashboard compass
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