KICKSTARTING OUR DREAM
“I’ve been thinking,” Kim said as we drove home from a weekend away, our two young children blissfully asleep in the back of our motorhome, having spent the day running up and down hills in the beautiful Brecon Beacons. “What if…?”
She paused, her words fading away, as if she was having second thoughts about what she was going to say. “What if what?” I asked, eager to know what she had intended to share.
“It doesn’t matter, it’s just a crazy idea.”
“You’re talking to the person who once entered a chilli-eating contest in Zanzibar to win a bag of saffron – how crazy can it be?”
“Well, what if we took the children out of school and went travelling for a year? Just us, the motorhome and the open road.”
It wasn’t what I had expected her to say, but in an instant my mind was filled with a kaleidoscope of images as the possibilities of such a
