Mish and David

If you follow this blog then you'll get to know Mish and David, my traveling companions for the first leg of Chile and Argentina. Both are extraordinary men with extraordinary wives, familly, and friends. And both will have their most embarasing moments in South America exposed on this blog for our benefit.  

The three of us all have the same make and model motorcycle but with various age and appearance. My bike is the newest and best looking, and is therefore the most likely to be stolen. I'm sure Mish and David are happy about this but they don't know I'm planning to rub dirt and mud all over it after I get it through customs in Chile. A disturbing thought to Harley riders I'm sure.

Mish's shop/garage is in the video below. We used David's shop as well but I didn't get any photo's of work taking place. This is where dreams are transformed into reality.

The Bikes were taken to Interglobal Logistics on December 27th. We had them loaded in boxes ready to be loaded into a cargo container and shipped to Valaparaiso, a port town West of Santiago. Gabriel owns and runs the operation with his wife. They came from Chile and started with nothing. Now when they're not shipping motorcycles to Chile, it seems like they're shipping everything to every part of the world.

On one visit to his office in Hayward we met an American/German who earns a living by shipping old Porches back to Germany; apparantly the German tax structure makes this a better deal than buying in Europe. On another

 visit a group of boisterous Nigerians were shipping Cars and house hold goods to Africa. Apparently they where at risk of overloading the containers weigh limit.

Gabriel ships food, CNC machines, rolls royces, etc. A walk through his warehouse is impressive.