She laughed in the face of danger when she was younger, says Letitia Watson. Two kids later, she’ll think twice before boarding a ship full of illegal immigrants on the Malaysian coast. I am so glad my own parents had no idea where (or in what) my husband and I were exploring the world. Backpacking in South America without speaking or understanding a word of Spanish, yet still making it into the Andes mountains, getting into this really scary boat somewhere off the Malaysian coast and only later realizing that it may NOT be the boat meant for tourists and we may just have joined illegal emigrants making for America…
It was so much crazy fun. And while we haven’t lost our sense of adventure, we found a new a new sense of being responsible for our own lives kicked in when we had our first child.
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