Post 47: Rooms All Set, last hurdle covered (40 days)

Fellow Adventurers,

This post has been a few days in the making, but much has happened and there is much to report:

Firstly, the room situation has finally been resolved, and June will be moving into my place for the month of October as I had previously mentioned to save more money.

My room will be going to a nice young lady named Ana, who currently lives in Junes hometown of Medford, NJ, coincidentally.

Junes' room was a bit more of a challenge to figure out, but her roomies decided on a guy from the Boston area named Brendon, who seemed to be a good fit for everyone. She confirmed with him tonight, which means we are really over our last hurdle and have accomplish all of our major pre-departure goals.

Of course there is work yet to be done...We are still trying to figure out the best way to go about spending our five or so days in Venezuela. The thought now is to get an inclusive package that comes with air transport to and from Canaima out of Caracas. Now that we have our arriving and departing flights, this will be more simple.

If we have time and money to spare, we are going to try and make a trek to the top of a Tepuyi. We hope to book this within the next two to three weeks, as time is running out quickly and we have much else to plan. Worse case, we just buy tickets for Cuidad Bolivar and go there ourselves to arrange a tour of the falls, but we would really like to have it all figured out before hand.

We have also been studying up on the price of other flights that may need to be purchased before or during the trip, to save time/money/effort/have security. They are as follows:

1. Bogota to Quito (we have heard bad things about the border between Colombia and Ecuador)
2. Quito/Guayaquil to Lima (the border is said to be bad, and the journey longer than a day)
3. Montevideo to Iguazu Falls (time/money saving)
4. Rio de Janeiro to Belem (longest distance we have to cover at around 2000 miles!)
5. Manaus/Belem to Miami/New York City. (we may take the boat back to Belem)

Also of note, we created a ChipIn widget (located on the right side panel) for the blog to hopefully get a few extra bucks from those who may want to help us along the way, or maybe just to show their appreciation for the blog. In our appreciation for your contribution, we will gladly make you a short video from wherever we currently are to say thanks, and perhaps let you enjoy the beer you bought for us, with us. 

(much, much, much) More soon...

40 days!

G+J