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Twelve-year-old Anya walks along a trail near Mt. Fitz Roy in the Patagonian region in Argentina.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not that he hadn\u2019t known that things were bad before, but Drew Bailey knew things had truly hit bottom when students living in the same apartment complex were fed two bread rolls and a cup of oatmeal as a meal.<\/p>\n

Their ONLY meal of the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the reality check for everybody,\u201d says Bailey,\u00a0UC Foundation associate professor and program coordinator for sport, outdoor recreation and tourism management for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

The reality is that Bailey, his wife Stephanie and 12-year-old daughter Anya were quarantined in Peru for 12 days in March because of the coronavirus. But when it first happened, there was no information on when they could leave the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had no idea when this was going to end,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n

The family had come to South America in February, visiting Chile, Ecuador and Argentina for the first month. Peru was next on their list. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in South America on March 7, but \u201cit wasn\u2019t a big deal at that point,\u201d Bailey says.<\/p>\n

In late March it became a big deal. At the time, the Bailey\u2019s\u00a0home base was an apartment in Cuzco, the capital of the Incan empire from the 13th<\/sup>\u00a0to\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a016th<\/sup>\u00a0century.<\/p>\n

They were visiting Peru\u2019s Lake Titicaca\u2014about seven hours away from Cuzco\u2014when the first virus case was reported in Cuzco.<\/p>\n

\u201cI received an email about 11:30 at night that said, \u2018Did you see the news?\u2019\u201d Bailey says.<\/p>\n

They left the lake the next morning, heading back to Cuzco and planning to board a plane for the U.S. They didn\u2019t; they couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were guys with big guns in the airport. All the tourists were lined up outside, hoping they could get a flight out,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n

No one could leave the country by car or plane or even by walking out, he said. So the Bailey\u2019s options were not just limited, they were non-existent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn America, it\u2019s a recommendation not to go places. It\u2019s not a recommendation down there. The military and police were out there to make sure you were in lockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou knew you weren\u2019t going to sneak around and go to the market. You can\u2019t drive down to the store. You can\u2019t bike. You couldn\u2019t walk together. You can go to the market one time a day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each day, people signed a document to verify that they\u2019d gone to the store only once.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf police saw you more than once, they knew you weren\u2019t supposed to be there. It was a $250 fine just to let your kid play outside.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the days ran on, their studio apartment \u201cgot pretty small\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur daughter handled it the best. She was cooking, and she loves to cook. She was doing that, watching some shows, a lot of Harry Potter movies. My wife and I were going insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

A group of high school and college students was living in an apartment in the same complex as the Baileys. Online message boards kept everyone in touch.<\/p>\n

Food was delivered to students each day, but one night about 7 p.m., they posted a message saying they hadn\u2019t received any food all day. When the meal came, they posted a photo of dinner: Two dinner rolls and a cup of oatmeal. It was a wake-up moment, Bailey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe realized in an instant that, if someone in our apartment complex tested positive, we could be stuck here in a long time, barricaded in our room,\u201d Bailey said.<\/p>\n

Luckily, no one did.<\/p>\n

To get out of Peru, Americans put their names on a waiting list from the U.S. Embassy. Every night, a certain number of Americans would receive a notice telling them to be at the airport by 9 a.m. the next morning.\u00a0 They would board a plane whose ultimate destination was Miami. There was limited seating, Bailey said, so not everyone got out at the same time.<\/p>\n

Twelve days after the lockdown began, the Baileys received their letter and the next morning were on a plane headed to the U.S.<\/p>\n

And yes, Bailey said, the passengers erupted with cheers when the plane took off.<\/p>\n

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Torres del Paine National Park in Chile <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The Bailey family in front of Lake Titicaca on the border between Peru and Bolivia. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Wild Magellanic penguin colony nesting in Santa Cruz, Argentina. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Cerro Torre is one of the mountains of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field in South America. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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The El TelerifiQo sky tram in the Ecuadoran capital of Quito is one of the highest aerial lifts in the world. It takes passengers to the top of the Pichincha volcano. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Rainbow Mountain in Peru <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Stephanie and Anya enjoying the view of Lago Roca in Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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View of Cuzco, Peru, from the Mirador Camina de Inca. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Evening view from the BnB where the Baileys stayed while quarantined in Cuzco, Peru. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Yoga stretches in Quito, Ecuador with the Virgin del Panecillo\u2014the silver angel\u2014in the background. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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People wait in line at the Cuzco airport to board a plane out of the country. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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