Today we delivered Gerty to Felixstowe and watched her being loaded into a container for her four week trip to Chile. The ship MSC Romanos leaves next week. It all went very smoothly. We will be closely following her progress on a shipping website and hopefully meet up with her in San Antonio Chile sometime week starting 3rd November. Big thanks to Julie at Imorex, the shipping company, who has been very helpful and answered all our silly questions.

Hi, we are Peter and Lesley Boast and we are planning to travel South America in our Land Rover 110, Gerty. We will be driving the western side of South America, shipping Gerty to San Antonio, Chile in October 2012, and heading south through Chile to Patagonia. Then across into Argentina and up through Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. For those who are considering a similar trip these are some of the preparations we have undertaken. We didn't want...