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Ok gang,

We have been in Punta Arenas for two days now, Eating lots of food, walking around getting in some sights, picking up some last minute gear and driving back and forth to the airport trying to find our baggage. So far we are missing Jason´s bike and Everything else that Jamie Jenny and I put on the plane. this constitutes about $30,000 worth of racing gear thats completely MIA. Now the folks at the airport keep saying ´´sure sure, it will come on the next flight´and the race organizers keep saying ´sure sure we´ll take you to the airport and get your stuff just wait a minute´3 hours later we go and yet again no luggage. it wasn´t bad the first night. ók it´s noraml to have stuff gone for a day thats why we come down a couple days early´ but we have a gear check and kayak test tomorrow at 9:30 am and we still have nothing.

Tonight after the offical opening ceremony Jenny and Jamie squeezed into a small truck with a driver and race organizer to head into the airport for a little temper tantrum...

Jamie just walked in... we are screwed! No one knows anything about our gear. There was an urgent message sent out to the airports they may be at but they aren´t even sure we´ll get anything back at all! You know what that means if we try hard we´ll get $100 per bag from the airline in insurance...

Yacky Quite