This year more than most feels like a fresh start. It is the first year of the rest of my life. I have complete freedom and flexibility so no doubt that means that I will completely fail to organize...
A year in review – 2025
2025 was an interesting year. It began in Australia which was a long enough trip for me to have the time and space to decide that it was time to take the leap and prioritize travel again. Giving myself...
Intentions for 2025
This year is an important one for me and I need to pick my intentions carefully. Choose the life I want It’s time to take risks and be reckless. Life is short so I need to make sure that...
Intentions for 2024
I didn’t do too badly with my intentions for 2023 but there is still room for improvement. So the overall aim is to make 2024 a happy, productive year with new experiences and old friends. Here are my intentions: Make...
Intentions for 2023
I looked back at my intentions for 2022 and it’s disappointing how poorly I did at achieving any of them. I think I basically need to try again with the same intentions this year. The only one I was...
Happy New Year!
2022 was a better year for me. Still not life as we know it but definitely living. I traveled enough to feel guilty about my part in contributing to climate change and my only mitigation is that I’m pretty...
Intentions for 2019
After doing terribly with last year’s intentions, my aims for this year are basically the same. This is because these are the things I know will make me happy and therefore it is in my own best interests to...
Intentions for 2018
(Updated because I forgot one!) I know it’s a little late in the month for declaring New Year’s resolutions but it’s a process I enjoy. To be honest my resolutions are generally along the same lines every year, with...
Another year, another adventure
2015 turned out to be a strange year for me. Deciding to bring forward my travel plans meant uprooting myself from my friends and from my everyday life much sooner than I expected. Various factors meant that my initial itinerary...