Backpacking Around the World at 72
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nobel1. When I retired at 65, I bought a one-way ticket to Bangkok. Packed a rucksack and waved goodbye to my family. I had no plans I just knew I wanted to travel. Seven years later, I’m still travelling around the world.
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2. So far, I've hugged elephants in Thailand, shared a happy New Year's Eve with a family in China, and eaten copious local delicacies? -be it ants’ eggs in Cambodia or snakes in Taiwan. And I can't imagine ttling down.
3. Until I retired, I’d never dreamed of leaving behind my family for a long holiday but after three decades slogging away running a hair salon and supporting my three children as a single parent, I finally felt free.
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5. I thought it was funny and blogged “about it the next morning - but my youngest son called me up, furious. "Mother! “he cried, “I can't believe you're writing pornography. I thought you were sighteing. “I really hadn't en it like that -I have become very accepting.
6. My most dangerous trip so far was a tour of Kashmir last year. The mountain landscape is dramatic, just like a film t, but it's not a safe place and the Foreign Office advis against traveling around the region becau of terrorism.
7. I was also harasd a few times by men -- it's a very conrvative Muslim area and, as a blonde woman on my own, I stood out. I’m only 5 feet I inch, but I think of mylf as strong. If a man threatens me, I tell him to leave me alone, and I'm prepared to whack him with my camera if he doesn't.
8. Even so, my family long for me to be a normal grandmother to my four grandchildren love them dearly but it's not going to happen. We all have the right to realize our dreams and I still have 101 places to visit on my wish list, including Argentina, to lean the tango.
9. When people say to me, “Don’t you think you're a bit old to be doing this my answer is always the same: I’m healthy 葫芦小金刚6and full of energy. And I don't think anyone should be limited by age.
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