Being vaccinated against yellow fever is a requirement in order to apply for visa for Bolivia. We paid $170 in US and a little under $100 in Romania and we got in exchange two shots plus two nice looking certificates.
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Vaccination
The bike is here
Yesterday Radu brought the bike to the garage. Romanian style hauling.
We’ve got some options
Just found this bike at a local dealer. Has some front end damage, however the rest looks OK. Only 6k miles. We agreed on $2150 for the bike plus a new battery. The cost of fixing should be under $1k. If nothing else comes up, we think we might get this one.
Scala Rider Q2
Today I got the chance to test our duplex communication device. I got from Amazon.com a Scala Rider Q2 Multiset manufactured by Cardo for $250. A really fun thing to have and a must for longer trips. We can now share impressions about scenery, traffic, route and so on. Plus, it plays music/radio (from a stereo jack input), it can be used to control a GPS and it can act as a telephone headset. The Multiset can be used to communicate rider to passenger or between two riders, while the Teamset is a cheaper alternative that permits communication between rider and passenger only.
Whire riding in the mountains, I was able to hear my companion loud and clear when he was even 500m away from me. However, if the peer goes out of sight, the sound quality became poor or is interrupted temporarily. After 1hr charge time we were able to talk almost continuously for 4-5 hours without deplet
ing the accumulators.
Leatherman Wave + tie downs
The toys started coming in. I got this Leatherman Wave for $65 on Amazon. Does not look as cool as my friends Skeletool, but it has more tools and i think this is more important for us. Also, two pairs of tie downs should be useful in case we need to add unexpected cargo.
Leatherman Wave