On the travel thing: YES. I have flown internationally since I was in diapers, and it has never left my blood. No, I don't remember a damn thing from the 2 month hippie road trip around Europe that my parents took me on when I was 3, but I don't think it was wasted on me, either. I have never stopped traveling, as long as I've had the time and money to do so, and I don't intend that to change when we have kids (having family in 5 countries also enforces that we MUST travel!).
However, I think gg's point is that having kids CHANGES your traveling, more than a little! And yeah, ktsp and I are traveling as much as we can, on our own, for all those things that we won't be able to do when we have kids... just the sheer lack of responsibility that we have while traveling together in our late 20s, child-free, is incomparable. We look forward to traveling with our kids, too... but it will be different, and that's okay... when it happens.
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