A lot of people think having kids means you have to "settle down." Some dads give up their 'old life' and settle in. Others don't give up anything and stay on their own mission.
Check out this documentary Surfwise. It's on Netflix. Strange and interesting. . . .
"Legendary surfer, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, abandoned a successful medical practice to withdraw from the lifestyle of mainstream America. But unlike other American searchers such as Thoreau and Kerouac, Paskowitz took his wife and nine children along for the ride, all eleven of them living in a 24-foot camper. The family spent their days living by Doc's rules on health, fitness, sexuality, and above all surfing. The Paskowitzs' prove that America may be running out of frontiers, but it hasn't run out of frontiersmen. "