I started out 2023 with the idea to do something new each week, make new memories, try new things.

And now at the end of the year I look back through the posts I've written, the photos I've taken and the experiences I've had.

I think it was okay.

I didn't achieve totally what I had set out to achieve, I barely made a dent in my 'stuff to do' list, along with a spreadsheet of places to go, things to research and other blog and other ideas. I don't think this is a bad thing, I've been constantly updating it throughout the year, building on it so I have choices, and have lots of things on the 'to do list' to work through.

But looking back through the year I'm happy I did something. I feel better having achieved those things. Having gone places, done stuff.

It's weird looking back at the posts, and looking through my photos, and thinking 'was that really then?'.

If I'm honest attempting to walk all the piers of the Peninsula was ambitious, I realise that now. I did actually intend to try again during the winter and never got around to it (maybe 2024 will be the year I succeed at that?).

Lake Glenmaggie and Mount Sugarloaf don't feel like things I did at the start of the year, those places still feel recent in my memories, I can still feel the texture of the rock wall at Glenmaggie, the car park at Mount Sugarloaf. Still recall the smell of the steam, oil and fire at Steamfest.

Agnes Falls was a long drive out there, and then up to July after that it really does feel recent.

But I think this is good, they're new memories, new experiences.

I didn't do as many road trips as I had intended, although did do a Canberra road trip twice. The first of which didn't go to plan, but it still taught me some things, and failure is something to learn from. The second trip was more successful.

There's stuff I did, which I haven't written about, just because it's more mundane things, like weeding in the garden, going to a nursery or trying to find something in Bunnings or Ikea. Times I went out and did stuff, but it's just not stuff that needs sharing, and/or it's something I didn't think I could spin into content.

What has happened though is through some of these new adventures it's inspired me for other road trips and other research projects.

2024 will be some more adventures, new and otherwise, more road trips, and more attempts to have some experiences out and about.