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MikeJinCO
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Sep 10, 2013

South America Trip

We are beginning planning a 6 month SA trip for a year from now. Probably ship from Jacksonville(possible LA to Chile) to Cartegena and return. We will be getting a smaller TC rig for this trip. My very limited information is that there are few dump stations down there.

The first question is do I need to find a unit or convert one to a cassette toilet or porta-potty system or are people finding enough spots to dump the black tank?

Second question, Is most of the water potable down there or is it bottled only as in Mexico? When I worked in Santiago many years ago I think I drank the tap water.

Third question, how does one handle the 220v power or just primarily depend on solar?

Thanks for the help.

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