After many months and years of thinking about travelling to South America, the time had finally come. My girlfriend Sian and I had left our jobs, said goodbye to our friends and family, bought everything we needed including our first few nights accommodation and we were almost ready to go.
With two days remaining until our flight, Sian was on another flight coming back to the UK after spending a week with her family in Ireland. We had already sold most of our possessions so the last thing we had to do was pack.
