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Do you have kids?
Why do people have kids anyway? Honest question!
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got a 4 year old and inherited and now 14 year old, then 8 year old when I got married. Has curbed my travelling quite a bit.
Partly for financial reasons but also I didn't want to take the little un on trips until she was older and a bit more robust. Took the time to get my truck rebuilt! reckon she's ready now. All I have to do now is find some money!!
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My long trips were curtailed once I had children, however, I gave my wife 10 years notice that once our youngest entered Uni (at age 17 in 2008), and there were no more private school fees to pay, that I wanted to take 6 months off to ride through China and Russia. Since then, my wife and I have taken two fortnightly trips overseas each year, renting a bike in each location (our ageing cat is now the reason that my wife won't leave home for longer).
During the twenty years prior to that my travel was limited to periods of 2 weeks to a month away, with the occasional family road trip of a month at a time. I was also fortunate in that I had lots of business travel during this period, which sated my desires for further travel somewhat.
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I want to take my daughter with me....... she is 7.
Does make the prep more challenging, and limit when I can go though!
But she will get to see a bit of the world I hope!
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I want to take my daughter with me....... she is 7.
Does make the prep more challenging, and limit when I can go though!
But she will get to see a bit of the world I hope!
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Go for it. Your daughter will learn more in one trip, than a lifetime of pictures & tales 
Mine are all grown now & the grandkids have started sprouting in numbers  whilst mine were young, the kids came with me when we just did weekends away & trailering.
They are all riders themselves now
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I have one daughter. She could pitch her own tent by the time she was 5 years old.
We went on several long trips together - I just pulled her out of school and hit the road (you can do that in Australia).
In '06 when she was 16, we spent 5 months two-up on a scooter thru the Swiss Alps, Germany, Italy etc
Got her bike licence as soon as we got back to Oz.
She is now obsessed with travelling - currently scuba diving in Iceland, backpacking thru Mexico then sky-diving in US. No idea where she gets it from.
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I don't have kids and I don't have a life. I work and I save my vacations and make arrangements to go on long motorcycle trips. To me, it's the only thing worth doing. There is culture, reading, movies, but that's not "doing".
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Why do people have kids anyway? Honest question!
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I want some, eventually, when I've done a few round the world, like at 40 years old. It just seems more healthy to be living in a family of love then to live by myself or with just a girlfriend, but that's just me.
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Why do people have kids anyway? Honest question!
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People and animale reproduce, its the way life work.
But i must admit that not having kids makes a lot of things more easy, especialy traveling.
But having kids is also a lot of fun and joy for me, you laugh a lot and you make eachother happy!!
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