And so it begins

Hello and welcome to the first edition of the GRAYnomad chronicles .

Over the past three years I have been writing a diary detailing the building of our motor home. As the construction drew to an end people began asking me if I would continue with a diary when we hit the road.

Well the short answer is "yes", but I also want to talk about photography, living on the road and occasionally I get the urge to sound off about something entirely different or simply make an observation about life.

Given the above I felt that a the previous diary format was not suitable, and decided to create the GRAYnomad chronicles

How long will it last? I have no idea. How will I upload it to the web while on the road? I don't know. Will I bore you to tears? I hope not.

As you can see I don't know much but that's never stopped me from talking before.

On the road
We now live permanently in our motor home and we learn new stuff about this lifestyle almost on a daily basis. Lots of this will be interesting to other full-timers and those contemplating a sea change (or is that a road change?).

As we learn how to do things, like make our own toilet chemicals to save money, I'll tell you. As we have experiences I'll also tell you. Hopefully this will not only be interesting but also informative and smooth the way for you if you're just entering this lifestyle or trying to decide if it's for you.

Photography
I've been working and/or playing in photography for about 30 years. I'm passionate about all forms of image making from large format bellows cameras to digital video.

Feral Fotographer (that's me) will talk about subjects from simple composition to Scheimpflug movements on view cameras and how to get a decent shot of your motor home.

Activities
Me and the Misses (or should that be the Misses and I) sometimes do interesting outdoorsey things like canoe down the Murray or bushwalk in the Kosciuszko high country.

An account of these adventures often makes interesting reading and may entice you to have a go, or if you don't need enticing, maybe just give you the information to do something similar.

What else?
Product reviews, caravan park reviews, rest areas, whatever both takes my fancy and that I think will be interesting to you.

So there you have it, hopefully we can come up with something of interest to you. If not, maybe you should drop us a line and make a suggestion. Even better, how about submitting a story or a "reader's tip", we've all got clever ideas, why not share them?.

Till next time then, and remember,

don't dream it, be it!