
Off the Grid
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Only a week after the nation's newspapers were filled with headlines of the first cross-country trip in an electric car, two Louisianans slip quietly across the Rio Grande in south Texas in an attempt to do the unthinkable-drive a factory electric car across seven Third World countries to the "end of the road,? Panama City, Panama.
Without support and armed only with a toolbox, a bag of electrical adapters, and their wits, author Randy Denmon and his friend Dean trudge on through jungles, deserts, volcanoes, rivers, and crater-sized potholes, all the while trying to avoid the drug cartels and corrupt border guards that could mean a quick end to their adventure . . . and their lives. Through it all, the same enormous problem loomed daily: how to charge the car in such a primitive and desolate setting?
Despite the numerous setbacks, Randy never lost his sense of humor. Off the Grid is as much a spiritual journey as a physical one about two guys who dropped everything for one grand twenty-first-century adventure-traveling back in time in a car that seemed to come from the future.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- We're Off
- One Day Earlier
- Drug Lords and Federales
- Don't Come
- Latin Electricity
- Out of the Desert and Into the Tropics
- The Riddle of Mexico
- Ancient Mexico
- Second Thoughts
- Highway to Hell
- Topes and Potholes
- Bouncing into the Clouds
- Stranded by a Snowstorm
- Land of the Maya
- Crazy Drivers, Big Mountains
- Photos
- The Car Steals the Show
- Southern Summer of Love
- Guatemalans' Hospitality and Short Memory
- Guatemalan Math and Bridges
- We Ain't in Orange County
- Fleeced or Robbed?
- Poets, Volcanoes, and Hugo Chavez
- Through the Lobby
- In Mr. Twain's Footsteps
- Just Another Border Crossing
- Highway of Death
- Gringo to the Rescue
- Touch and Go
- Redneck Engineering
- The Real Jungle
- Saved by the Marriott-Again
- Sometimes You Just Have to Wing It
- Postscript
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