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Reflections on 12 Months in the USA: The Highs and Lows as an Aussie Expat Living and Travelling Around the USA

12 month ago, we made the wild decision to move across the world to Texas, USA.

It’s been truly an adventure with many highs and lows. From the chaos of packing and moving, flight cancellations and learning to drive ignoring speed limits. To stunning landscapes, delicious food and sipping cocktails by a Mexican beach with friends.

There is nothing like moving away from your comfort zone to grow as a human.

To move away from familiarity, family, friends, career, home and society norms you understand.

To a similar yet vastly different country has been eye opening (to say the least)

Today, is a big essay. I’ll be sharing some highlights and challenges over the last 12 months of living and travelling based out of Texas, USA.

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2023 Year in Review and Looking Towards 2023

It’s been a while since I last updated this blog.

2023 was a big year of change, growth and life transitions. Some planned and a lot unplanned. Some good and some not so good. But all in all, there were many things to be grateful for. The fact that I’m writing this blog post in the comfort of my new home is a privilege in itself.

I even considered shutting down this blog in 2023 since I haven’t had a lot of time to commit to it. But then a big life change happened…. we’ve moved quite literally across the world to another country in the second half of 2023. More specifically the United States.

There’s a lot of unpack there (figuratively and literally), but I’ll keep my Year In Review focused on the theme of this blog — travelling and photography.

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Belated 2022 Year in Review and Looking Towards 2023

I can’t believe almost 5 months has gone by in 2023!

It’s been a whirlwind of a year on a personal and professional front, which meant I haven’t had a lot of time to devote to personal photography and this blog. As months go by, I’ve contemplated skipping my yearly review.

But I have shared an annual review on this blog for the last 6 years (since the inception of this blog back in 2016) and I’m keen to continue the tradition even if it’s 5 months late!

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2021 Year in Review and looking towards 2022

Happy New Year! I have shared an annual review on this blog for the last 5 years (since the inception of this blog back in 2016. I’m not about to break that tradition! The purpose of these blog posts for me to reflect on my photography and aspects of my life related to photography, and also to discuss what I’m looking forward to in 2022. If anything the last 2 years has taught us is that things don’t always go according to plan and adapting to changes life throws at your is more important than executing the perfect plan.

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2020 Year in Review and looking towards 2021

I have shared an annual review on this blog each year for the last 4 years (since starting this blog back in 2016). Like many people around the world, 2020 has been one rollercoaster of a year. I didn’t quite get my act together to write my review until what is now the end of January 2021. The purpose of this is to reflect on the (crazy) year that was 2020 and discuss what I’m looking forward to in 2021. A word of warning, this ended up being a fairly lengthy post and not all related to photography.

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