
– With AAP
1. This couple was on a trip of a lifetime. On day 369, their lives came to a harrowing end.
Last year Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan quit their office jobs to go on an adventure together. But just over a year in, their trip came to a sudden end when they were caught in a random ISIS attack.
The US couple, both 29, had been cycling around Africa, Europe – blogging their journey on Instagram as they went – but it was when they go to the Middle East that things took a dangerous turn.
On July 29 – day 369 of their open-ended trip – the pair were cycling with a group of other tourists along a road in Tajikistan – a central Asian nation bordered by Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, and known for its popular hiking mountains.