The British Foreign Office was contacted who traced the call and made a call to that number. I said I needed to make a call to the UK to see if I could arrange payment but it was made to my father to whom I managed to make a quick help message before they stopped me using the phone. what? I was taken into another 'room' where three guys tried to make me sign the bike over to them or pay the 3000. We could not leave without the 'missing' document which would cost us 3000 dollars!! They shut us in a room for six hours in 36 degrees without water or anything else. My surmise is that he had radioed ahead and four guys started to hassle us. The requested document could not be found amongst the others!! More than likely it had been 'confiscated' by 'All is good'. The only ones!!! We were asked for a specific document, not passport, and other bike papers which is the usual line. We rode out with many other bikers but we were stopped at what appeared to be a Police block. He disappeared into an office for some time, came out, handed me the papers and said, 'All is good. Customs inspected and we were released from an international airport! At the gate a guy checked all four clearance documents. We managed to make our way to customs, not far, and cleared the bike through all necessary checks and paperwork. This seemed more than a little dodgy and we suspected that we had been singled out for some unwanted attention. We arrived at the Airport and were told to get a taxi to take us to Customs to pick up the bike but an argument broke out amongst the drivers. Unfortunately Cathy and I had a rather scary experience in Panama. Some of you may have been wondering why there has been a break in the Log entries but let me put you in the picture. Click here to follow further exploits of our journey through Central America >
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