You never think this will be you, but of course it will be, some day.
I’m just a few days into my South American journey when I trip over an unexpectedly placed kerb stone in Montevideo, stagger across the road like a comic actor in a silent movie, and fall flat on the far side, my face narrowly missing the fender of a parked car.
For the next two weeks I take it easy, gingerly shuffling between stateroom, restaurant and bar, groaning like a walrus and earning the alarm and assistance of the delightful crew. It’s not really the way to see Patagonia, but better than being in a Uruguayan hospital.I wouldn’t recommend cracking ribs while overseas but, in a way, it did me good. It focused the thoughts that had been jiggling in the back of my mind for a while.
I hope so. If there’s not something wrong with you in old age, then you’re dead, as a cruise passenger tells me over a cocktail.She’s a little unsympathetic about the cracked ribs, I think, but then she’s 20 years older than me, and has who-knows-what ailments. My cracked ribs have shown me I’m not the eternally youthful traveller I think I am. As I age, I’ll have to adapt, and slow down, and travel differently. But it teaches me this: seize the day.
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