Why I'm doing all of this

Back on the 10th of July, my wife and I were arranging a council kerbside collection of random odds and ends that we'd accumulated over the last few years. It is a good way to get rid of large items that you can't sell and don't want anymore. You can get one free collection each year so we thought it was a good way to get rid of an old mattress, an old broken fridge as well as some broken kids outdoor play equipment. Most things end up getting recycled which is good.
Whilst crawling around under the house looking for other things that we could dispose of, I came across some old tax records and other paperwork from several businesses that I was involved with over ten years ago. I've been a Check-Out Chick, Wedding DJ, Barman, CEO of my own company, Manager, Sales Person, I.T. technician, unemployed, part-time, casual, full time, commission based, over paid, under paid, not paid, not had money to pay others, this, that and many things in between, you get the picture. In Australia you are only required to keep tax records for seven years, I was a little late with lodging my records for several years, so when I did sort it all out I had several folders full of tax records, invoices, bills and general business documentation that I hung onto in a plastic tub under the house just in case.
I was planning on shredding the paperwork and putting it in the recycling bin. As it was cold out, I decided to light a fire in the fire pit to keep me warm whilst I did the shredding. I had the shredder mounted above the recycling bin to make things easy but after about 10 minutes the shredder just jammed up and one of the rollers stopped feeding paper through the blades. After a few minutes of fighting with the shredder I decided that it wasn't worth trying to fix it so I threw it in the bin. I still had several folders full of paperwork to dispose of so I thought I'd just throw them on the fire.....
Much smoking, blowing and waving a piece of card over the coals to keep everything alight later, I had a raging paper fire. As I sat there drinking a beer or two, watching the old company constitution paperwork go up in flames, I got to thinking. For the last year or two I've had this idea to start a two YouTube channels. The first channel was to be about motocamping, the second channel was to be about starting a YouTube channel. So if you haven't figured it out by now, whilst watching all the old business documents burn and reminiscing about all the things I'd done in my past, I decided that it was time to do something and not just keep telling myself that one day I would. I decided that instead of two YouTube channels that I would just do the motocamping one and I would start a blog documenting my journey instead of making a second channel. I also decided that I wouldn't try and promote this blog, that I would just do it and if anyone ever found it and subscribed or whatever to you to follow blogs, then that would be cool. I wanted the blog to be 100% natural, nothing made up, no help from friends, no paying for placements or anything like that. If you have found this blog through social media or any other way, it's not because of anything I've done, it's either someone else has found it and shared it or, you have just stumbled across it yourself. I treat this blog just like a personal diary, I don't try and make it anything in particular, it is just me and my random thoughts. I do try to stick to one topic per post though.
As I was feeling happy with my decisions around the fire pit, I decided that I should take some photos and video to mark the occasion that I decided that I would stop dreaming and start doing.
To date, I think most of the visits to my blog have been me, in the stats area of Blogger you can see some things and there isn't a lot of activity going on currently. I do however have 12 visits from the U.S., so unless it is a web crawler or something, then maybe people are already starting to find this blog. If you are reading this, please just make a comment to let me know that you are a real person and not a machine. You don't have to like what I write, just let me know that you found this little corner of the internet.
The photo at the top of this post is from that fateful night one month ago, I hope my enthusiasm continues to be strong.

Bomber.
One month since the book burning.