2025 in Review: A Year of Travel, Light, and Lessons on the Road
2025 in Review: A Year of Travel, Light, and Lessons on the Road Some years are about distance. Others are about depth. 2025 was both. This wasn’t simply a collection of trips or a highlight reel of destinations. It was a year shaped by persistence, recalibration, and growth by missed flights and missed shots, long drives that replaced short ones, physical limits tested at altitude, and plans that unraveled without warning. In one case, an airline folded just weeks before departure, forcing a complete rework of an international trip. And woven through all of it were quiet affirmations: an image published in a magazine, work hanging in a gallery exhibit, and an image placing in the top 32 at the International Photographic Competition (IPC). Those milestones mattered, not as endpoints, but as reassurance that the early mornings, difficult conditions, and long stretches of uncertainty were shaping something real. Travel in 2025 became less about chasing icons and more about respondi...