Quote Originally Posted by Scott Kilbourne View Post
Has anyone actually taken a drive down to South America? I have seen the excellent http://www.well.com/~dreyer/ site, but was wondering if there are any onther sites talking about a drive to South America.

Does anyone have any experiences or links they can share? The site listed above mentions very dangerous parts of Columbia, etc.. Kidnapping, bribes. How many people out there actually do this?
I did send in 1998 a truck and tenttrailer from Vancouver Canada to Lima Peru per container.Flew down and took it out of customs and drove it to Paraguay.It was a adventure to say the least.People are very friendly and helpful.
Roads are rough over the Andes mountains.Broke the springs twice on a 2500 km trip.
My son and I plan a trip next year over Central America and then Col.,Ven., and Brazil to Paraguay.