Poor Nigel. He’s away a lot at the moment, and as soon as he comes back from days/weeks away, I have another new idea about where we can go and what we could be doing. Most of my dreams are exactly that – dreams that in all likelihood will stay dreams forever. We do after all have certain commitments that will have to be met for at least the next 5-10 years. But those commitments won’t last forever – and what is life without a goal or two?

And my goal right now is to do some travelling. Some serious travelling. And I want us to do it while we are young enough to put up with a little less comfort than we might well want in 10 years time.

Lovely Nigel just smiles at me while I tell him I’m researching our gap year, and smaller overland trips that we haven’t a hope of taking in the immediate future – not even in the next 12 months. He humours me though. I did manage to get out of him the other night that he fancies India. Perhaps that can be the first goal?

I AM going to start thinking and planning this thing, and so it starts now. It actually feels like a tiny step made on the journey.