I tend to be adventurous, but it is a luxury I can afford because I have nobody depending on me and there is a lot of freedom in that. If not for all the responsibilities people have, I think they would be adventurous, too. But there are children to raise properly, stability to ensure, mortgages to pay and tuition for the next generation, which is much more important work and much harder to get right.
From 19 December 2012 to last August I was sailing solo throughout the Caribbean. Many fine adventures and people along the way. I finished with a wild trip from St. Lucia down the Brazilian coast, then across to Ascension Island and back to Barbados, a 12,000km/7,500mi/6,500nm round trip, solo. But my most meaningful adventure was working as a trauma nurse out of a tent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Every minute of that will stick with me forever.