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Welcome to February’s travel and life recap.
We stuck around Houston for most of February, doing local things and eating at local joints.
Except booking a last minute cruise to Progresso, Mexico to see the one of the new 7 Wonders of the World—more on that later.
Lets dive in.
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The first 31 days of 2025 has come and gone.
I’m sharing this later than I hoped but better late than never.
But it was an eventful month that included saying goodbye to family, a trip to Miami, seeing the American Alligator, checking out a premium airline lounge and snow fall in Houston.
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An annual review is a great way to reflect on the year and plan for the next.
But it’s hard to remember every little detail or highlight for each month.
Enter monthly recaps.
This is a new series of posts where I recap the life lessons, travel and photography highlights for the month.
At the very least, it serves as documentation of our time abroad.
But more importantly, I hope to give you tips, recommendations and insights from the perspective of a travelling photographer and a expat experiencing American life.
The overall theme for December is family and travel.
My husband’s family were visiting from afar to hang out with us for Christmas and ring in the New Year in the US.
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I started this photography and travel blog 8 years ago after a trip to New Zealand.
The blogging world was a different beast back then. It was the golden age of blogs. People went to the internet to look for educational, inspirational and entertaining content from reputable blogs and websites.
Readers were looking for high quality content to help them get better at photography, plan more trips or figure out top rated activities to do on their holidays.
in 2025, things has completely changed.
These days, there is an overwhelming amount of free information at our finger tips and from endless sources.
I mentioned in my 2024 year in review post that I’m planning to start a newsletter in 2025 to complement the Travelling Lens blog.
Today, I want to dive into this thought process more
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Happy new year!
It’s 2 weeks into 2025 and I’ve finally completed my year in review post for 2024.
2024 was a huge year of travel for us.
Mostly they were road trips across Canada and the USA.
I’ve easily added 2 terabytes of travel photos to my backlog in Adobe Lightroom.
By January or February 2024, we finally felt settled into a routine and rhythm for life in the USA. That gave us the time and energy to focus more time towards organising more ambitious trips and travel planning compared to the previous year.
It was not all smooth sailing in though…
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