It is a lot of checking and rechecking, and not being complacent about anything, but it's SO WORTH IT. I travelled a lot in my younger years (spent 6 & 1/2 years out of NZ from 23-30 years old, doing what is known in NZ as OE - Overseas Experience - and it was such a blast!). I love travelling and seeing different places, and only wish someone had suggested TOURISM/TRAVEL as a job for me when I was 20!!! We had no one helping us decide on careers (and my mum left school at 13 to work in a shop and then picking fruit until she got married and had kids!) so I had NO CLUE about anything like that back then! *sigh* Too late now! HA!
Having kids meant all our resources were spent on providing to their needs once we married, so Hawaii in 2016 was the first time we'd been out of the country since 1995, and now we have things a little more comfortable, we are determined to do a bit more travel while we still can. I will be happy if we can do the UK and some of Europe around 2020 (about 6 weeks with luck) and then my other dream is Peru (Macchu Pichu and the Nazca Lines) after that when we can save enough, and then I will be happy to stay in NZ and travel around here a bit more when we can (we've seen a fair bit now; really only have the bottom half of the South Island to check out that we haven't done), if we don't go on any further overseas trips! I would just travel and travel if I could afford it, though!!!
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Having kids meant all our resources were spent on providing to their needs once we married, so Hawaii in 2016 was the first time we'd been out of the country since 1995, and now we have things a little more comfortable, we are determined to do a bit more travel while we still can. I will be happy if we can do the UK and some of Europe around 2020 (about 6 weeks with luck) and then my other dream is Peru (Macchu Pichu and the Nazca Lines) after that when we can save enough, and then I will be happy to stay in NZ and travel around here a bit more when we can (we've seen a fair bit now; really only have the bottom half of the South Island to check out that we haven't done), if we don't go on any further overseas trips! I would just travel and travel if I could afford it, though!!!