We also met Bruno, Juan's cousin and a former exchange student of Ken and Debbie (who you may remember from our Canadaian blog post almost a year ago). Bruno and Juan stayed with Torrey's folks last year in NZ. Bruno showed us around his hometown of Sierras Bayas.
With Juan and his parents
With heavy hearts, we had to say goodbye to the Gladiator. We have been trying to sell it for weeks now before we fly home to NZ, without much luck. Argentina has incredibly tough vehicle importation laws, which means that it is nearly impossible for an Argentinian to legally keep it in the country. So our target market was tourists, who would take it on a similar trip as ours, but it is the middle of winter here, and any smart tourist (with enough money to buy a sweet van) is not going to be starting a trip at this time of year. We finally found a good home for it, and a buyer who wasn't too interested in doing things by the book. We will miss the van and all the adventures we have had over the last year. It has served us very well, and we hope it will keep running strong for its new owner. It was pretty hard to say goodbye to such a wonderful traveling buddy.
Kellie closing the deal wearing her trademark bargaining slippers
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