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Because you're not very old (really), you're under the impression that 20 years--of childrearing, say--is a long, long time. I've been out on my own, for 50 years now, which has allowed me time for a fairly vast variety of stuff, including more travel than most people manage. I'm not done yet, and neither are you, with or without kids.
Yeah, you make choices, but committing to childrearing now wouldn't mean the end of your travels; it'd just mean changes in approach, and maybe some different forms of adventure for a while. And when you're my age--a spritely 65 who complains a lot--you'll realize you were barely even started at age 41.
This is hard for you to believe right now, of course. That's ok; you'll see. When I was 39 I took off for a yearlong RTW trip, certain I was running out of time. Heh heh.
Hope that's helpful. At the very least, please get in touch in 25 years so I can remind you that I told you so.
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I did meet some familys on my journeys. Parents who was travelling with 1-3 kids. Extended with "homescooling". I even meet a single mom who was travelling with 2 kids...
So it depends too on your counterpart, how your travel life will looks like with kids.
It has not to be "the end" of extended travelling, maybe you had to take the van.
If we all really have to go the "family / children" way, is very hard to say. What will we regeret in 20 years? How honest are the People with/without kids, after reviewing their decisions after 20 years?
We all have to live with our decisions, so probably we dont want to hurt our own balance with ongoing "self reality checks" with decisions we cant make undone.
Funny to read parallels to " the hidden costs of travelling extended at differtent stages of our life " thoughts..
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Originally Posted by markharf
...you make choices, but committing to childrearing now wouldn't mean the end of your travels; it'd just mean changes in approach, and maybe some different forms of adventure for a while...
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When we were out and about on the bike seeing a good chunk of the world we never met any fellow motorcycle travellers who had kids in tow, but we've spent most of the last twenty years sailing another chunk of it, during which we've met dozens and know of hundreds of yachties who've got their kids with them. Home/boat schooled and the overwhelming majority seem to grow up to be smart, personable young men and women; learning to sail/navigate ain't rocket science and ocean capable yachts don't have to be as expensive as you might think.
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