As I turn 40, I plan to make midlife my ‘adventure era’

We were going to be the most adventurous family globetrotters the world had ever seen… before we actually had kids.

For a little while after the birth of our first, we managed to cling to these aspirations. With just one toddler, my husband and I managed to briefly continue our pre-childbearing escapades: a term-time jolly to Turks and Caicos; a 12-hour night flight to a safari in Botswana – the jerky, rutting off-roader even lulling our adventurous firstborn to sleep, we boasted.

But then one became two, and two became three – and suddenly, safaris and scuba diving, carnival-chasing and jungle caving, became a thing of the distant past, replaced by family-friendly all-inclusives that we could just about swing around school holidays.

By Kari Colmans
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