Trying to get my motorcycle out of the airport in Quito, Ecuador! |S6 - E4|

Good morning Internet, it is 8.30 in the morning and welcome back to the channel welcome to the first real day here in Quito, Ecuador and check out the place where I am staying. This is an Airbnb that I rented and it is so cool, it's like a loft house so upstairs over there, there's the bathroom and then the bedroom is over there and then you got living room, kitchen and then an office area, dining room so I'm really happy to stay here. I'm actually the first guest they told me since the start of the pandemic so that tells you a little bit about that tourism is definitely for sure not restarted in Ecuador at all, there are no tourists around and so I'm the first guest again after a really long time to stay here which is pretty cool and anyway the biggest news I'm immediately going to tell you is that I just checked and Alaska has also arrived here in Quito this morning like an hour ago so that is super good news so now the next big challenge is here and that means trying to get Alaska custom cleared and out of the airport so what I'm going to do, I have had contact with a local agent but it was all a little bit last minute which was my fault so I'm not really sure, they don't really know I'm coming, I said I would come Tuesday morning if the bike is here but I don't really have a contact person yet and anything like that but I thought you know what I'm just going to rock up at their office hopefully one person is going to come with me to the airport and help me with all the custom clearance so that's the plan so I'm just going to put my jacket on, I'm going to bring my helmet of course because the idea is to ride Alaska out of the airport, I'm not sure if they'll let me officially, probably not but the other two times in Oman and also in Argentina I also managed to do that so I'm just going to try again and see if it works As you can see it is raining, I think I have picked a not the best time of the year to be in Quito or to be in like the higher mountains of Ecuador, it is raining everywhere and I looked at the weather forecast and it's going to be raining the whole week and the next week so I might have to change my plans a little bit based on the weather I've obviously been super spoiled with.. wait there's another door here.. I've been just been super spoiled with the weather in Southern Africa, I never had to look for the weather forecast or anything like that, it was just blue skies and sunshine every day but of course that's not really the case all the time everywhere in the world So I'm staying in the historical center of Quito which is really cool most of the historical center it's all auto free so you're not allowed to come there with cars and motorbikes and everything but I'm staying just on the edge, just one street away from the auto free zone Welcome to a rainy Quito I'm going to see if I can try to find a taxi that will take me to the agent, oh there's one oh another one, wait for me It's in the corner of Avenida de los Chiris and Avenida Eloy Alfaro Avenida de los Chiris Yes, Chiris and Eloy Alfaro And Eloy Alfaro, yes Let's go Okay, thank you Have a good trip Goodbye I think it's this one, let me see if I can find the right building Hello, hello I'm looking for Torres and Torres Okay so I am now with Bayro, he works for the local agent that is helping me to fetch Alaska and what we first did we went to the bank, I had to deposit five dollars in the bank and I'm not very sure what it was for and now we just came from immigration I got another paper and that means that with this paper we can now go to the airport and then hopefully sort out all the custom stuff so that is the plan so as always it's a little bit of a mission but step by step we're getting there and all of this is done so now let's get to the airport It is now 5 30, it took the whole day to get all the papers done and to get custom clearance it was not easy but it's done so now we're quickly going to unpack Alaska, I have to reconnect the battery, chuck some fuel in the tank and then we go Oh sorry, okay, thank you very much, good night, bye, goodbye Here we go, here we go What a day, what a day, oh it all took so long, it took so long It is now already dark and I'm now riding back to my Airbnb, it all worked out in the end, it just took a long time especially with customs, they were just having some questions and getting the temporary input permit that was basically the hardest thing and then on the last moment they wanted the original airway bill which had to come still from the airlines, anyway doesn't matter, I'm here, Alaska is here Yes, I'm so happy so yeah I'm gonna just end this video now because I have to find my way back to my Airbnb, it's a 30 minute ride but it's already getting dark so I must pay a little bit more attention so that was it for today, I really hope you like this video if you did, please give me a big thumbs up and subscribe down below and then I'll see you in the next video