Older Traveler with Kids to Go

I also post on both, another "older with kids" type :-)

Curse you 5waldos! :-)

I'd never thought of myself as an older traveler until you pointed it out in this thread.

Uh oh.

rtw- I thought that being able to post legitimately on both was already a curse. Although sometimes it feels a blessing.

Nice to know I'm not alone in this however. For a while it was creaky knees and strollers- and more than one Oh isn't your grandson cute!

i do post here, but never on 'older travelers'.
but makes me think.... from what age you are an older traveler?????
MiniMox being 4 yrs old, i still feel being a young mother.
but me being 40, i might be old now ;-( ????

I don't know moxxie- I still have an 11 year old, my best friend from high school has a daughter just about your age. You figure.

My youngest is also 11. The oldest is 16.

I have a self imposed age limit of 50 (perhaps 55 - I'll let you know when I get to 50) before reading the Older Travellers thread.

Mind you, I don't have much in common with the Kids2go thread any more: I only have dim memories of "what to do with toddlers on a 12 hour plane trip". I bet it would take me a few tries to fold out a stroller properly too. Perhaps I am having a thorntree induced mid-life crisis!

D.

Oh no- don't do that- no TT mid-lifes. Unfortunately, I am well into 55 plus, so I do older travelers at times. You would laugh to see the 35 year olds lamenting their ancient years. I think that's what got me started in this thinking- many of the old timers self described are young enough to have been my first kids, if I had begun at what was then a reasonably typical age for having kids.

Yes not sure too... I did a RTW with me being 39 and my lad being 7! He is 10 now and i have such itchy feet, but am tied to his education, (he starts senior school in Sept)...
Have done the whole thought process of ...I could be really selfish and just take off with him again, but how would hecope now at this age, would we still get on as well as we did last time, I would never (own moral point) really be able to expect him to 'just come back' and start again like before , so this trip would really have to be life changing ...but that is never a garauntee!