Hi. Apologies for the lack of activity on here but some real life issues have popped up that I needed to work though. Keen to get back in the action soon however.
My wife and I have always been people who liked to explore unknown places. This sense of adventure is something hopefully will be able to pass onto our kids. I find its important to always keep the end on mind when evaluating options with your life. And by the end; I mean the actual end. What will this next 12 months you have planned look like when you look back on it at the end? Will you think it was time well spent? Or will it look like you're wasting your time treading water when you could have been swimming over to see something interesting.
Only time will tell of course what you will actually think. But I have found it a helpful metric for me in evaluating priorities over the years. I had a bit of a heart attack scare this past week; I had acute chest pain and shortness of breath. I am 41 but my grandfather died of a heart attack when he was 50, my cousin had one in his 40s (and lived), and my dad had one (and lived) so had to take it seriously. So I had a very long one hour drive into the hospital to think about where my life was at while not knowing what was happening. Priorities change quickly in times like that. All was well (it was not a heart attack) but it provided some time to think with some rarified perspective.
Hope your all well and living to the full. Photo is my kids in a dungeon fit for pirate treasure at a fort in the Caribbean
If you would like to learn a little bit more about my background in photography you can read the interview 
Robert Downie
Love Life, Love Photography
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