And we're off!

Like all of our epic journeys, this one began in Skegvegas! We dropped Bertha off at the storage facility on a surprisingly sunny 🌞 morning and took a taxi to the station to go to Gatwick.

This trip has been a long time in the planning and has undergone many changes between first making the booking and now. Tomorrow, we'll fly to Bogota, the capital of Colombia 🇨🇴. We're excited to explore what will be a whole new continent for us. We'll stay in the city for four days before flying up to Cartagena for a couple of weeks.

Then, we'll join our overland truck and spend several months visiting nine of South America's 12 countries. I'm attaching a map of our route to this footprint.

We have loads to look forward to! For today, our journey to the airport went without a hitch. All our connections worked. On the final leg, we bumped into a cousin of my Dad's. We haven’t seen him since we lived in Croydon 20 years ago! It's a very small world 🌎!

We arrived too early to check in at our hotel, so Mark was forced to have his first pint of the trip 😂. Later, we had dinner and an early night ready for our flight in the morning.Read more