This has been an epic year, with such great heights: two absolutely "living the dream" type projects, and getting to spend time with Cristina ... and then ending with rather fizzle, unemployed with nothing on the horizon and it could still be another year until Cristina's visa is granted.

As is tradition, we will begin with travel maps:


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   Well 2021 was once again a depressing year of not going anywhere and not seeing my fiancee at all for a second year in a row ):


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   As is tradition let us begin with the map of where I've traveled in the past year:


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   It's time for the yearly year-in-review!! I had to look back on my past entries and photos to remember way back to summer (January-March that is!) 2018, it seems so long ago!

Summer 2018 - In addition to at least one camping trip with my friend Billie, I had discovered the Field Naturalist Club of Victoria and went on a few overnight adventures ( Read more... )

   In 2012 I flew 47,181 miles.
   In 2013 I flew 52,387.
   2015 was 58,649.
   2016: 60,852.
   2017 ... would the upward trend continue?? I had plans to go to Guinea and the Congo both of which fell through...


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   Usually I get my Year In Review posts up within a few days of New Years. Well this is not one of those occasions. It's only... a quarter of the next year late? But tomorrow (March 20th) the sun will cross the equator somewhere over the Congo (ie it's the equinox), thus officially ending summer here, heralding the end of the beekeeping season ( Read more... )

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Wait what? Yes the subject of this entry is 2014. Yes the current year is 2019. It's been bothering my OCD that I never did a review of 2014   So this will be a bit different from the usual review of a year just-past since I have the benefit of hindsight but moreover I barely remember what I did that year so I'm going to have to trawl through my ( Read more... )