From Salta we travelled over the 4,700m pass (Paso de Jama) to San Pedro de Atacama. We travelled through the largest and dryest desert in the world- it was amazing.

We then arrived in Iquique, which is a duty free port, the only legal place we could sell the motorcycle to a Chilean. We put posters everywhere and put the bike out at the beach on the weekend- where everyone was!! We had a few guys look at it, but they didnt have enough money to buy it. We then went to the only big Japanese motorcycle shop in the Free-zone and they didnt even look at it- said they had enough bikes to sell!! Our hearts sank- what were we going to do. The pressure was building up to get home and we were getting nowhere fast.

We decided to go shopping in the freezone and parked the bike outside the bike shop- target marketing!! When we returned the bike shop owner made us a really low offer on the bike. Then Grant and Susan Johnson from Horizons Unlimited rescued us!! They put our bike on the home page and said how desperate we were and the buyers came out of the woodwork- in the end we had four offers for the bike and chose the most convenient offer, but not the highest one (believe it or not!)

We found a like minded traveller- Daniel on the Lonely Planet website who was looking to buy a motorbike- he was in Buenos Aires and we were in Iquique- top end of Chile. We decided to meet in La Serena - Central Chile.

How we did the paperwork: We went to Customs in La Serena and they redid the motorcycle paperwork in Daniels name, took the ´entered with motorcycle´ stamp off our passport, put ´entered with motorcycle´stamp on Daniels passport, changed it all in the Customs computer and we were off- no money paid, no hassles! We then gave Daniel a bill of sale and put the registration in his name.
After this we were free to cross the border without the bike and he was free to leave with the bike.

We have set ´Miss Adventure´ free to continue travelling the world! Daniel is going to drive her up to North America- where we came from! We are glad that is all behind us now. We then did a tour- the first time we had travelled in a car for 14 months and then hopped on a bus to Vina del Mar- Chiles beach resort town and RELAXED for the first time in a month- the relief was enormous.