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Wow I am loving this thread
You've all had such interesting lives. I am so boring. One of my biggest regrets is settling down before I'd done any travelling. Maybe one day...

JennyH. Don't say maybe, say I will. I married at 21. 2 kids by 30. Now at 50 the kids are adults, still at home, how do you get them to leave!! Haven't done as much travelling as some but we're getting there. So it does happen eventually.

[Betsysgr8]

the kids are adults, still at home, how do you get them to leave!!

Charge them rent, utilities and grocery, if they pay it, use the money to travel!

Wineoclock - stop cooking for them...esp on Fast days - or tell them they have to fast to live @ home ;>)

What good suggestions! Will have to get off this forum and start putting your plans into action.

Nah stay on the forum and get them to cook ;>)

Ha ha! Love these posts, especially when they veer off into 'life' advice! Go girls go!

To get back on topic - I had been round the world (by ship) before I was six ... It was the early sixties, and my parents decided to try life in NZ, Hawkes Bay, so we went out there on the Canberra in 1962, took our little red VW beetle and I vividly remember travelling down from Auckland to Hastings in this little red car ... It was a real adventure in those days, no motorways, and can remember at one point going across a wooden bridge! Also loads of sheep ! Once we got to Hastings, we stayed in a motel by the race course, until my parents found a 'batch' to rent at Haumoana on the coast. I started school in the village school, and was seen as 'exotic' as I was from UK, used to get kids knocking at the back door asking if I knew the Queen and seen Buckingham Palace! Later that year we saw the Queen when she visited Hastings ... It was a very outdoors life, a bit 'Swallows and Amazons' and I was looked after by all the older kids ...
However after about a year, my parents decided they missed 'the old country' too much (my mum was only 28 and my dad 34) so they decided to come back!! Via cargo ship and the south Pacific / Panama / USA!! This took 3 months as the small Port Chalmers (ship) wended it's was across the South Pacific (3 weeks at sea no sight of land) and up the Eastern Seaboard. I remember a lot of this too, as there were only 12 passengers on board and us kids became mascots of the crew and were spoilt rotten. Lots of interesting stops en route - Panama, Galveston, Tampa, Charleston, Newport News and finally NY, before sailing up the Clyde to land at Greenock, Glasgow ...

Lots of travels since- Italy, Spain, rest of West Europe, Mexico, US, but nothing beats travel as a child ... You really get the bug

Wow I am loving this thread
You've all had such interesting lives. I am so boring. One of my biggest regrets is settling down before I'd done any travelling. Maybe one day...

took my first transcontinental flight at 6 months! my parents got married at 25 and it never stopped their travels. they even took my brother at age 2 years on a bus trip up and down the eastern part of the US (NJ-Michigan-Florida). they still travel, 40+ years later.

never too late to start!

[carorees]

I'm living only about 45 minutes drive from where I was born and have not travelled all that much, so nothing of interest there. However, re the Swedes getting everywhere, my MIL is Swedish and was sent by her father to the UK in the 1950s to improve her English, where she met my FIL (who is Welsh). I have to say, her English is pretty good now after having lived in the UK for over 50 years!!! In fact, she needs to go back to Sweden each year to improve her Swedish!