{"id":733,"date":"2011-08-06T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2014-09-08T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:46:24","slug":"last-minuet-trip-to-colonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Last minuet trip to Colonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get a little too comfortable in Buenos Aires and forget to get my passport and import visa renewed. It&#8217;s been 90 days since I crossed the border in Tierra del Fuego and I leave for Uruguay in a few days. If I show up at the border with an expired passport and import visa the bike will be confiscated. I&#8217;m not convinced I can work some border magic so I opt for a day trip across the Rio de la Plata to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colonia_del_Sacramento\">Colonia, Uruguay<\/a> to freshen my passport stamp, but not before paying a $300 peso fine. <\/p>\n<p>Colonia has a colorful colonial history whereby control of the city alternated a number of times between Spain and Portugal and later Brasil before becoming a permanent fixture of Uruguay. The town is a confluence of Portugeuse and Spanish influences and is a great place to hang out for the day. I get my first taste of Uruguayan beer here and look forward to coming back on the bike.<\/p>\n<p>I catch the boat back to Buenos Aires and get the import visa renewed downtown the following day. Now that I am legal again I will head north for the Rio Uruguay and the border. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-QpgCKfK\/0\/XL\/i-QpgCKfK-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-kp3LrLs\/0\/XL\/i-kp3LrLs-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-R553GDN\/0\/XL\/i-R553GDN-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-KF9CGzL\/0\/XL\/i-KF9CGzL-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-vnHc4Ht\/0\/XL\/i-vnHc4Ht-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-9WKCv9B\/0\/XL\/i-9WKCv9B-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-S6S2TRx\/0\/XL\/i-S6S2TRx-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-mD9m5gz\/0\/XL\/i-mD9m5gz-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-5mKP8T2\/0\/XL\/i-5mKP8T2-XL.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get a little too comfortable in Buenos Aires and forget to get my passport and import visa renewed. It&#8217;s been 90 days since I crossed the border in Tierra del Fuego and I leave for Uruguay in a few days. If I show up at the border with an expired passport and import visa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[269],"tags":[30,68,242,250,8,110,27,9,249],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/coloniacar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Lnhy-bP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ichasehorizons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}