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'Spench Bridge

2/11/2016

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We depart Laguna, and boy have we worked up an appetite! In about 40 Kms, we arrive at a stupid cute suspension bridge, and low and behold, the handlebars fit. Let's ride!

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We approach the lunch stop, but the gate is closed and locked. As I rummage through the tank bag to double check the name and Blaster is taking happy snaps of Kellie and Keith....the gate is opened. I think how incredibly lucky this is!
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How's this for super cute décor?
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We have a pretty big language barrier, but we manage to figure out they only opened the gate because they recognized the Freedom bikes. Ah, we are a "friend of Court's". It's not terribly uncommon to not get menu, and not really know the pricing before we eat. Imagine our surprise when yesterday the lunch meal for four people was $13.50. Today, it's $80! Some "buddy" discount we got.

However, the food was absolutely scrumptious, so it's hard to feel bad for parting with some cash.

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We are going to spend the next 3 days on the South Pacific. It's clear that meal pricing is going to be spendy than in the Andes, and somehow WiFi is abundant, yet VISA machines are not. Even more quizzical, ATMs are far and few between. We decide to hit Pedernales for an ATM, as it's the last one for 150KMs!

Since it's Sunday we try 4 different ATMs that Garmin said exist. They were either inside the bank or Garmin is a liar. We finally find one and it will only take ATMs cards that have the chip on them. Great. I would love to cash advance against my credit card ($). The next day, I count my money and realize that it's short $20. I sigh that the ATM screwed up. Nope Keith was shorted $20 too....I guess that an ATM fee? So, pretty much I paid 25% in ATM fees/cash advance fees to get some cash (which apparently I didn't end up really needing anyhow).

A life lesson in there somewhere.

I have my nose stuck pretty far up my GPS' butt, as we depart the ATM. We are going to cross the Equator again, so I am counting down to Latitude 0! I don't know what I expecting to mark the equator, but Blaster and I both passed this Billboard...
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Pretty quick we realize our mistake and make a Ubee. Kellie and Keith are good sports to follow us, but after we double park the bikes on the side of the road, they refuse to get off. It takes some coaxing to convince them we are on equator again!

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