About
On the road for over ten years — first a Sprinter camper, then a 4×4 Sprinter with a cabin, now the Toyota Hilux. Long distances, no hurry. The truck has to run; the rest sorts itself out — and there is nearly always a camera with me.
Each vehicle taught me something: the Sprinter camper to begin with, the 4×4 Sprinter with a cabin for rougher ground, now the Hilux for the really long hauls. The logic has stayed the same — reliable, repairable, enough and no more.
Calm, curious, no need for a plan. Routes, weather and light interest me more than sights. I always have a few ideas, but it is the weather that decides — and the best days are rarely the planned ones.
Three vehicles, the same lessons learned the hard way: early on I carried too much, loaded too heavy, planned too much. These days less comes along, but the right things — and with it the discipline to actually know my weight and my consumption. Most things don’t break because something cheap gives out, but because you overload them or ask too much of them. And the best days come from following the weather instead of the plan. The really long haul is still ahead of me — whatever goes wrong before then, I’ll write down here honestly.
Not travelling to clock up kilometres — but to take places, roads and light away with me so that something stays: an image, a story, sometimes just a quiet memory.