On Wednesday, frontman Tom DeLonge announced to fans in an Instagram video that the trek, which was scheduled to kick off in Tijuana, Mexico on 11 March, had to be delayed. "I'm so sorry to everyone in South America, that we couldn't be down there. This is something that we've been aiming to do for so long, and we worked so hard, and we just kind of had one of those freak accidents that nobody saw coming. Travis needs to go in and have surgery on his finger and we have to get that well…”