I’d taken the step. The flights were booked. I’d be on my way to Colombia in no time! The months leading up to my trip, however, made me somewhat apprehensive. ‘Don’t get kidnapped by drug barons’ one friend joked to me. The worry that washed over my relative’s face when I told her I was heading to Colombia sent my stomach turning. To add to my growing anxiety, a friend was telling me about his trip to Colombia only a few months before. His friend was shot in the face during a robbery gone wrong. By some miracle, she was okay but, if that didn’t instil fear, then I don’t…