This is just to let everyone know you won’t find me in the blogosphere any more. I’ve got the 7-year itch, and I’m testing out life without an audience. The vast spaces of outback Australia and intense time with family made me rethink the huge number of hours I spend blogging.
Wishing you all well as you pay homage to decay and stretch your photographic capacities; indulge a passion for gardens, your own and those of other people; move to Portugal and eat cake; find quirky objects and write splendid poetry; walk the Camino; document the allotment and a past in Africa; reflect intimately in photos and words; and have many wonderful adventures in travel and life.
I’ll miss all this. But I’m eager to see the shape my life will take without all the richness you’ve brought to it. Thank you for being so important to me.
snippetsandsnaps 
after many months of keeping leavingamerika.com private i have decided to let it go. blogging is simply a waste of time or a conceit for many; if you like to write, and are good at it, and wish to be read by people seriously enough interested in your work to actually pay to read it, substack is a better option imho. meanwhile thanks for your early support of my blog. now that pig trump is gone, i have my country back, and so have returned home permanently — though travel will become an option once covid is over. cheers!
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We’re missing you very much, but am sure you are thoroughly enjoying the new and different life away from the blogging sphere, and it is lovely to spot that just occasionally you appear in a conversation xxx
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Sorry to to have missed this Meg. I have been absent from WordPress for long stretches but have always looked forward to catching up with my dear virtual friends. Shall miss your evocative photos and writing. Wishing you joy in whatever you decide to do next. Much love 🙂
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You will be missed Meg and I was so looking forward to your outback stories and photos I can only imagine how rich in detail they would’ve been. But moving away from the blogging is liberating and when I had the year off I found I could fit so much more into each day. But I think you will, like I did, miss the interaction of the community. But that fades too. Then after a year I found I wanted to create a record of my activities so came back. And now I sort of envy the freedom you are going to have, I’m even thinking of downsizing the amount I do. Have a great and creative time away from technology and just maybe you will be back in the future. By the way next week Jack and I are going on that long anticipated trip to Broken Hill….
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Thank you so much for following me so faithfully, and for understanding so well my decision to quit blogging.
Enjoy your visit to Broken Hill. I’ve just spent two days there revisiting my past, without actually finding two friends who were to be the centrepiece of the visit. But the landscape hasn’t lost its magic. Travel well, as I know you will.
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Selfishly, I regret your decision — but not really. Good for you, following your own instincts to do what now feels right for you. Be well, be happy, and above all be yourself.
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Thanks you so much for the many pleasures you’ve given me, verbal and visual. Thought of you the other day when I came across two beautifully painted silos.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-30/rochester-cashes-in-on-silo-art-trail-explosion/9918800
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Best wishes and happy travels!
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Thank you – and thank you for travelling with me.
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Oh, Meg! I’m so very sad, but it is your life, and you will be doing what is best for you…. I shall miss your posts, and your responses to mine ….. Wishing you well, and sending my love Sue xx
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I almost missed this and now I will be depressed all day, Meg. 😦 But not really because I still have you in my heart. I’ve thought about you and missed you, but life is for living. No-one can do that better than you. Go, with my very best love! 🙂 🙂
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Farewell and good luck. You will be much missed, and your wonderful photographs that showed so much of a world that some of us have never seen. I hope the future is bright, full of joy and gladness.
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Thank you so much for your appreciation. It was good to have you as a travelling companion.
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Wishing you well – enjoy life!
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Thank you.
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I cannot like this, although I realise it is your life and your decision, I will sorely miss your wonderful posts, your keen observations of life, your beautiful beaches and the nature of your environment and your way with words. It is not often that a post makes me cry, but this has. Your life may be enriched, but mine will have a big hole in it. I hope that one day you will be back. In the meantime have a wonderful journey and believe me when I say i will miss you. A lot. Love, Jude xx
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take care and enjoy a life of joy and adventure
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Wishing you well…hopefully just a break for you, as we do enjoy your insights and photos.
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Wow. I am impressed. You are doing what I often think of doing. Fare well.
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It felt oddly right to stop, once the thought crossed my travelling mind. I’ll miss your inner journeys, but I can always sneak a peek. Enjoy your different life.
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Thanks Meg. Nice to hear from you. I hope you are enjoying life away from the blogs. I certainly have needed to take long breaks in the past but after a while the urge to ‘off load’ some of my impressions and/or photos got the better of me. I think it’s because I live alone and don’t always have people to talk about my experiences. I have found that the online community of bloggers has given me great support and friendship at times when I have really needed that. Perhaps you will feel a need to return one day – perhaps not. If not, all the best. I am itching to know what you are doing instead of blogging but that’s entirely your business. 🙂
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Instead of blogging? Writing in similar mode – it’ll be interesting to see if anything changes without the sense of an audience. I’m not as brave as you and I need to write about a few things privately. I’d like to say sing and paint, but that would be delusional!
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I have similar delusions 🙂 It’s good you are still writing I write a lot of stuff privately too and don’t share everything – as you may recall I sometimes share things I later regret sharing too. I am feeling the need to get more serious about certain projects and write without an audience too. I’m currently winding some online projects – that ebook of haibun that I planned years ago has come back and demanded my attention. I’m grappling with that first and will get something published in the next few months.
Good luck with your writing. I really hope you do return to share some of it at some point but can fully understand your need to work behind the scenes.
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Take care. We all have our priorities in things. I am trying to finally get my four or is it five books published. See you on the other side, mate. Cheers.
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