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After a week in Buenos Aires getting the motorcycles sorted out and arranging the sale of the motorcycles we finally handed over the keys... and it was a sad day indeed. Nothing worse than watching someone drive off with your motorcycle. The sale of a motorcycle in a foreign country, especially Argentina, is a bit difficult and a "shade of gray" legally.
This is how it went down. The sale of the motorcycle needed to happen between borders in the "no-man's land." This is easily done between Argentina and Uruguay since there is a passenger ferry that runs between the two countries. We met the buyers at the ferry docks, purchased tickets for the same ferry and got our passports stamped out of Argentina and into Uruguay. Melissa and I went through customs and drove the motorcycles onto the ferry, canceling our temporary import papers for Argentina. The ferry between Buenos Aires took about 1 hour, giving us time to sign the titles over to the new owners and exchange a bit of cash. Once we landed in Colonia the new owners drove the motorcycles off the ferry and received temporary import papers for Uruguay in their name. Now they are free to travel between countries with proper paperwork in their names.
Melissa sold her motorcycle to an Australian and I sold mine to a guy from Seattle... no kidding. Looks like I will be seeing El Higo back in Seattle later this summer. I was even able to swap my duffel bag for the hiking backpack he was using to travel with. So it is official we are now backpackers!
Colonia is a beautiful colonial town. Very small and only took about 30 minutes to walk the town in total. Our first night we decided to try out the "Parrilla libre" a barbequed meal which consisted of three different types of sausage, steak, pork, chicken and some other interesting parts of the cow. Oh and did I mention it was an all you can eat meal for $15 and only served meat... delicious! After we had definitely had our fill of meat and looked forward to some veggies for the next few days. That was until we found out that they were having an "Asado" which again is a meat heavy barbeque consisting of different cuts of beef and chorizo, similar to the meal we had in Buenos Aires with the "Norms". Again delicious.
We spent another night relaxing and planning our trip up the coast of Uruguay and trying to decide which beach to visit first.