Fellow travellers

I´ve now met and spent some time with my fellow travellers. All of them have been travelling for weeks already in South America, I´m the only one just starting. There is one other person from the UK, he´s mid 30´s from Oxford and works for The Times as a digital journalist. There´s a couple in their early 60s from Australia - doing some travelling while they are still fit and able! There is an Australian zookeeper/vetinary doctor in her mid 30s, I´ll be sharing a room with her. Then there is a couple, also in their 30s - he is Australian and has just given up his job, sold his house/car etc. to travel and she is a South African living in Australia who runs her own interior design business. There are another couple of people we will be meeting at a train station later today.
An interesting bunch of people! We also have a local guide and her brother who will be with us for the whole trip, and she´s already been really good to us - managing to exchange an uncomfortable 23 hour train journey on the ´train of death´ for flights at no extra cost. Thank you Patricia!