Three recent university graduates from Winnipeg are grateful to be home in self-isolation after they were stuck in limbo in Peru for more than a week when the South American nation closed its borders to curb the spread of COVID-19.
The young, almost life-long friends started their trip in mid-January in Colombia to celebrate their graduations, 23-year-old Grace McMorris explained in a FaceTime interview Thursday.
At that time, they weren’t overly concerned with COVID-19, having only seen news reports about the virus’s spread in Wuhan, China.
They felt safe enough to travel through Colombia and then Ecuador before going to the last leg of their trip in early March.