Announcing the Decision to Live Full-Time in an RV

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February 25, 2024 rswfire FEATURED

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unfiltered forward momentum

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pre-departure, decision locked

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toward mobile autonomy, away from a life he states was not his

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[0:01] hi everyone I have a story to share with

[0:04] you I haven't really thought this

[0:06] through I don't know what I'm going to

[0:08] say

[0:11] um I hope you'll stick it out with me

[0:13] and see if this is something that

[0:14] interests you didn't want to wait cuz I

[0:16] want you to see this from the

[0:18] beginning um so let me just start off by

[0:21] saying as you can see I have no teeth

[0:23] I'm 46 years old I lost my teeth from

[0:26] drinking Mountain Dew my whole

[0:28] life there's no amount of money in the

[0:30] world it's going to save you from that

[0:31] so keep your kids away from that stuff I

[0:34] still drink it you know I I I hope that

[0:38] changes hopefully soon right um I'm

[0:41] getting Dentures I I have bottom ones

[0:45] and some temporary top ones but I just

[0:47] can't wear them doesn't work for me I

[0:49] get this gag reflex I actually have a

[0:51] surgery in two days to get implants on

[0:53] the top few months after that from

[0:56] healing I should be able to wear them

[0:59] and I

[1:00] hope you know I'll look like the rest of

[1:02] you

[1:03] then so I want you to know what I'm

[1:07] about to do cuz I'm making some big

[1:09] changes in my

[1:11] life I am about to embark on the biggest

[1:14] journey of my life

[1:16] I'm I am selling all my stuff I have a

[1:21] house full of stuff to get rid of buying

[1:24] a camper and I'm going out there and I'm

[1:26] living the RV

[1:27] lifestyle I wish I had done done this 20

[1:30] years ago and I almost did uh

[1:33] something I wanted to do even 20 years

[1:36] ago I just wanted to visit all the

[1:39] national and state parks and blog about

[1:42] those and encourage people to get out

[1:44] into

[1:45] nature because I think it's the most

[1:47] wonderful thing a person can do in the

[1:51] world I find so much Solace there I

[1:54] always have since I was a

[1:56] child

[1:58] um

[2:01] I bought a pop-up camper and I had like

[2:04] I think it was probably my first Jeep

[2:06] then I had some on my fifth one now but

[2:08] back then it was probably my first Jeep

[2:11] and I drove that thing to New Jersey in

[2:12] wintertime was a pop-up camper winter

[2:15] time cuz I had I had a client there

[2:18] you'll learn more about what I do

[2:20] later

[2:22] um and that just didn't work for me you

[2:24] know was

[2:25] cold pop-up camper that I had I don't

[2:28] really know a lot about them I couldn't

[2:30] you know I don't think I had really the

[2:31] ability to cook

[2:32] anything um nowhere to shower I did have

[2:36] like a a toilet that I never used it was

[2:40] just

[2:41] a like a mobile toilet you know so I

[2:43] just I never used that so I was

[2:45] showering on the campgrounds in the

[2:47] middle of winter and it just wasn't a

[2:49] good experience and I gave up on my

[2:51] dream after that I wish I hadn't but I

[2:55] did and for the next 20 years I have

[2:58] just been living a normal life like

[3:00] everybody else does um just doing my

[3:04] best to get through the world right it's

[3:06] it's very hard isn't

[3:08] it it can be a challenge I think it can

[3:11] be very hard to be human like it's just

[3:15] it's not easy we all struggle we all

[3:18] struggle with different things I

[3:21] mean

[3:22] [Music]

[3:23] um so I don't know I guess that's where

[3:27] my story starts here I want you guys to

[3:29] see see what it's like from the

[3:30] beginning I've recently discovered

[3:33] YouTube you know where um there's quite

[3:35] a lot of

[3:37] RV um not even sure what you call them

[3:40] right just RV lifers or whatever who are

[3:44] documenting their Journeys I don't know

[3:47] if I'll do

[3:49] that um I'm going to try I think but

[3:52] what I really want you to see is what

[3:55] it's like from the beginning from Once

[3:57] the from the time that you've made the

[3:59] decision decision that this is what

[4:00] you're going to

[4:02] do I want you to know what that's like

[4:06] cuz I'm going to experience it and I'm

[4:08] experiencing it

[4:10] now and I haven't seen anything like

[4:12] that and I think I think it's important

[4:15] for people

[4:16] to it helped me to see these other

[4:20] YouTubers living their

[4:22] dreams I was really

[4:25] struggling cuz I I haven't even driven

[4:28] an RV yet I know I'm getting a

[4:30] see I'm scared death to drive it I'm

[4:32] going to be toying my Jeep behind

[4:35] it um you know and i' been really

[4:38] struggling with that how am I going to

[4:39] do this how am I going to go to a gas

[4:42] station

[4:43] um you know driving a big class scene

[4:47] towing a jeep behind it like how how am

[4:49] I going to do that I've never done that

[4:51] you know and I I haven't seen a lot

[4:54] about that um I read a book last night

[4:57] it's pretty short book I I wish wish I

[4:59] could remember the name it was an ebook

[5:01] I read from an

[5:02] RV and he had something to do with um

[5:07] he'd been doing it for seven years and

[5:09] the concept of the book was these are

[5:11] the things I wish I'd known seven years

[5:14] ago and he you know he talked about a

[5:16] lot of things it was a great book U he

[5:19] talked about having to sell your stuff

[5:21] you know all your stuff I've got a house

[5:23] full of stuff just so much

[5:26] stuff um but he never never mentioned

[5:30] the fear of just driving an arvine you

[5:35] know I I I really have trouble picturing

[5:38] me doing that but I know I can you know

[5:43] and I'm going to do it I I'm I've made

[5:46] the decision so that's where I am now

[5:49] I'm I'm at the beginning I'm going

[5:54] to well I have a lot of plans to make

[5:57] basically and I've been I've been doing

[6:00] that um and I got a lot of stuff to sell

[6:03] I have an RV to find I I need

[6:08] to I need

[6:11] to just just so many things right like

[6:14] it's just it's a lot and I want to share

[6:17] that with you I want you guys to see

[6:18] what that's like um cuz I hope it helps

[6:21] somebody else it's a big decision but I

[6:24] think once you make

[6:25] it once you've made that decision you

[6:28] will feel a lot better I I do I

[6:33] I I am so excited to do this like I just

[6:37] know how rewarding it's going to be for

[6:40] me like I just I know that I'm going to

[6:43] love this I know it's going to be

[6:46] challenging I'm not the type of person

[6:51] who um can just

[6:55] ignore the reality of a situation like

[6:58] that's always at the Forefront of my

[6:59] mind mind I know this is going to be

[7:01] hard for me cuz I know me right so I I I

[7:05] just know how much of a challenge it'll

[7:07] be for me to do a lot of things that a

[7:08] lot of people take for

[7:10] granted

[7:11] um you know and and good for them I wish

[7:14] I could it's just that I can't I I I'm

[7:19] an introvert I struggle with being

[7:22] around

[7:23] people um you know it's hard for me it's

[7:25] hard for me to go places it's hard for

[7:27] me just to go anywhere and I've been

[7:29] pretty much locked up in my house ever

[7:31] since covid and that's what four years

[7:33] ago I have not been living it hasn't

[7:36] been a

[7:38] good hasn't been a good way of life and

[7:42] that has to change I had to do

[7:45] something um this wasn't my first idea I

[7:48] was going to buy some land I in December

[7:52] was going to buy some land I wanted to

[7:54] make a campground of my own place for

[7:56] people to come um from scratch I mean

[7:59] that that would have been a big big

[8:01] project fell through I couldn't get the

[8:03] lamb because they couldn't get me a

[8:06] title um but I still had this problem I

[8:10] was

[8:11] unhappy I was unhappy with my job was

[8:15] unhappy with the way I'm

[8:17] living just it wasn't working you know

[8:21] it's just not

[8:25] working I don't know exactly how

[8:30] I decided that RV living was the way for

[8:33] me to go I hadn't been watching anything

[8:36] on YouTube at that point it just was an

[8:38] idea I had

[8:41] um my original idea was that I would

[8:44] find something I could to with my Jeep

[8:45] Wrangler it's a twoo Jeep Wrangler it's

[8:47] a 2023 beautiful it's red it's my third

[8:50] red

[8:51] one I love Jeeps I'm a Jeep guy

[8:56] and I discovered they can't tellw

[8:59] anything they just they can't they can't

[9:01] tellw anything you know well they can

[9:03] tellw a few things right but gener they

[9:05] just they can't tellw much and I have

[9:07] two cats and they're coming with me you

[9:10] know I can't abandon my cats um you'll

[9:12] you'll learn about them because they're

[9:13] going to be a part of this like Bailey

[9:16] he he was abandoned by his mother one

[9:19] day after he was born in winter in

[9:21] Michigan I went up there and got him and

[9:25] you know pretty much raised him from

[9:26] birth

[9:28] he he awesome you know and I mean I

[9:33] still don't understand how how a mother

[9:35] could do that I mean he she just picked

[9:37] up all her babies and went to another

[9:39] porch and left him there this woman she

[9:43] found him out there and took him back to

[9:46] the mother and the mother just rejected

[9:47] it I mean wow right and I'm so grateful

[9:52] and fortunate to have him and then my

[9:55] other cat Oliver

[9:57] he um someone just threw him out of a

[10:00] car here in Kentucky just threw him out

[10:02] of a car into a field I got him on my

[10:05] birthday one year he's I call my

[10:07] birthday cat cuz I just decided I wanted

[10:09] a cat for my birthday so I got him and

[10:11] it was like a few weeks after that that

[10:13] I got

[10:14] Bailey um and since then you know it's

[10:18] been I'm not sure it's been a long time

[10:21] five six years it's about how old they

[10:24] are and you know they're they're my life

[10:27] they have to come with me at to have

[10:29] enough room for them so getting getting

[10:31] back to the point right

[10:33] um my Jeep can only tow 2,000 2,000 lb I

[10:38] I you know I'm thinking wow I have a

[10:40] Jeep Wrangler like this is supposed to

[10:42] be the most rugged vehicle ever made

[10:44] right but you know that's true it's true

[10:47] for you know off-roading things like

[10:49] that it's not true for towing stuff and

[10:53] I I am terrified of

[10:57] towing anything thing um but I thought

[11:01] you know what I could do a a small

[11:04] camper behind my jeep that could work

[11:06] right um no cuz my cat

[11:11] so it just isn't a thing

[11:15] that I have to get over this fear I have

[11:18] get a class

[11:19] C1 and Tow my Jeep behind that cuz I

[11:22] definitely want my Jeep anywhere I go

[11:25] and so that's what I'm going to do I've

[11:27] looked at some I don't know if I'll get

[11:29] a new one or a used one uh the one I'm

[11:32] looking at is new but you know I since

[11:34] having discovered this whole

[11:36] Community

[11:38] um seems to

[11:42] be uh

[11:47] generally I don't know how to say this

[11:49] basically I think people would suggest

[11:52] that I get something used you know

[11:54] something that I can get used to on and

[12:00] um just see how that goes and then if I

[12:02] want something you get it but you know

[12:03] make sure it's it's what I want that I

[12:06] I'm comfortable with it I learn what

[12:09] what features in an RV I need that sort

[12:11] of thing so I'm totally open like I I

[12:15] don't know what I'm going to get yet I

[12:17] just know it'll be Class C cuz I looked

[12:19] at the class B you know the Vans and

[12:21] that just wouldn't work for my cats

[12:23] that's how I look at that one uh it

[12:25] would be easier for me I think but you

[12:27] know no room for my cats situation with

[12:29] like pop-up campers and you know if they

[12:32] have to be under 2,000 lbs you're you're

[12:36] you're you're getting some specialty

[12:38] stuff like really lightweight stuff and

[12:42] they're they're small and you're going

[12:45] to probably do your cooking outside and

[12:48] just you know stuff like that um just

[12:52] not a lot of room and so it just it

[12:54] feels like Class C is the way to go I I

[12:56] do think that I'll do a lot of

[12:57] boondocking like

[12:59] that's something

[13:01] that appeals to me a lot um I don't have

[13:06] to I am fortunate

[13:09] I um I'm I'm a programmer first of all

[13:12] I've been doing that since I was a

[13:14] child and you know I'd say I'm pretty

[13:18] good at it and you know so so I have

[13:20] money I have enough money to buy an

[13:23] arvine um to get all the things I

[13:26] need um

[13:29] so I'm fortunate in that regard and you

[13:32] know so I have a very good start I have

[13:35] to keep working you know I'm not

[13:36] independently wealthy or anything like

[13:38] that I have to keep

[13:40] working um but you know I've got time

[13:43] I've got time to get started to do

[13:46] this and you know I'm very excited

[13:48] there's a lot I'm going to share with

[13:50] you you know I'll just take you around

[13:52] my house

[13:53] and you know show you this is what it

[13:55] looks like I have to sell all this stuff

[13:58] how did I get get all this stuff you

[13:59] know I didn't even need all this stuff I

[14:02] was trying to live a life that was

[14:03] somebody else's it it wasn't mine it

[14:07] never it

[14:10] just I know some of you get

[14:13] it and I guess it's you I'm trying to

[14:15] reach I'm not going to try to be some

[14:17] big YouTuber you know I I consider

[14:20] myself an old guy um no offense to

[14:23] anybody who's older than me I'm like 46

[14:26] now I'll be 47 in two months

[14:30] you know um that's just how I feel at

[14:33] this point in my life I feel like I'm

[14:35] just an old guy who's really going to be

[14:36] interested in me right

[14:39] um probably a pretty select number of

[14:42] people you know and just people are

[14:44] interested in

[14:46] this um this lifestyle and would like to

[14:49] see you know that my thought is you know

[14:51] maybe there are people out there who

[14:53] would like to know what it's like from

[14:55] the beginning cuz I haven't seen that I

[14:57] have been trying to to find videos

[15:00] about people who are afraid to dry ring

[15:03] you know I haven't seen many and

[15:07] and that's a fear I have to get over or

[15:10] get get used to you know I have to

[15:12] become comfortable this is how I

[15:14] describe it I have to become comfortable

[15:16] with the

[15:17] discomfort you know that's

[15:21] what that's the only way I can do this

[15:24] and so that's what led me to YouTube and

[15:27] that's what

[15:30] um made me feel like I could do it too

[15:33] like at that point I felt like okay I

[15:35] can do this I can do

[15:36] it and I want you to see what that's

[15:39] like so I look forward to getting to

[15:41] know you guys thank you bye

[0:01] hi everyone I have a story to share with

[0:04] you I haven't really thought this

[0:06] through I don't know what I'm going to

[0:08] say

[0:11] um I hope you'll stick it out with me

[0:13] and see if this is something that

[0:14] interests you didn't want to wait cuz I

[0:16] want you to see this from the

[0:18] beginning um so let me just start off by

[0:21] saying as you can see I have no teeth

[0:23] I'm 46 years old I lost my teeth from

[0:26] drinking Mountain Dew my whole

[0:28] life there's no amount of money in the

[0:30] world it's going to save you from that

[0:31] so keep your kids away from that stuff I

[0:34] still drink it you know I I I hope that

[0:38] changes hopefully soon right um I'm

[0:41] getting Dentures I I have bottom ones

[0:45] and some temporary top ones but I just

[0:47] can't wear them doesn't work for me I

[0:49] get this gag reflex I actually have a

[0:51] surgery in two days to get implants on

[0:53] the top few months after that from

[0:56] healing I should be able to wear them

[0:59] and I

[1:00] hope you know I'll look like the rest of

[1:02] you

[1:03] then so I want you to know what I'm

[1:07] about to do cuz I'm making some big

[1:09] changes in my

[1:11] life I am about to embark on the biggest

[1:14] journey of my life

[1:16] I'm I am selling all my stuff I have a

[1:21] house full of stuff to get rid of buying

[1:24] a camper and I'm going out there and I'm

[1:26] living the RV

[1:27] lifestyle I wish I had done done this 20

[1:30] years ago and I almost did uh

[1:33] something I wanted to do even 20 years

[1:36] ago I just wanted to visit all the

[1:39] national and state parks and blog about

[1:42] those and encourage people to get out

[1:44] into

[1:45] nature because I think it's the most

[1:47] wonderful thing a person can do in the

[1:51] world I find so much Solace there I

[1:54] always have since I was a

[1:56] child

[1:58] um

[2:01] I bought a pop-up camper and I had like

[2:04] I think it was probably my first Jeep

[2:06] then I had some on my fifth one now but

[2:08] back then it was probably my first Jeep

[2:11] and I drove that thing to New Jersey in

[2:12] wintertime was a pop-up camper winter

[2:15] time cuz I had I had a client there

[2:18] you'll learn more about what I do

[2:20] later

[2:22] um and that just didn't work for me you

[2:24] know was

[2:25] cold pop-up camper that I had I don't

[2:28] really know a lot about them I couldn't

[2:30] you know I don't think I had really the

[2:31] ability to cook

[2:32] anything um nowhere to shower I did have

[2:36] like a a toilet that I never used it was

[2:40] just

[2:41] a like a mobile toilet you know so I

[2:43] just I never used that so I was

[2:45] showering on the campgrounds in the

[2:47] middle of winter and it just wasn't a

[2:49] good experience and I gave up on my

[2:51] dream after that I wish I hadn't but I

[2:55] did and for the next 20 years I have

[2:58] just been living a normal life like

[3:00] everybody else does um just doing my

[3:04] best to get through the world right it's

[3:06] it's very hard isn't

[3:08] it it can be a challenge I think it can

[3:11] be very hard to be human like it's just

[3:15] it's not easy we all struggle we all

[3:18] struggle with different things I

[3:21] mean

[3:22] [Music]

[3:23] um so I don't know I guess that's where

[3:27] my story starts here I want you guys to

[3:29] see see what it's like from the

[3:30] beginning I've recently discovered

[3:33] YouTube you know where um there's quite

[3:35] a lot of

[3:37] RV um not even sure what you call them

[3:40] right just RV lifers or whatever who are

[3:44] documenting their Journeys I don't know

[3:47] if I'll do

[3:49] that um I'm going to try I think but

[3:52] what I really want you to see is what

[3:55] it's like from the beginning from Once

[3:57] the from the time that you've made the

[3:59] decision decision that this is what

[4:00] you're going to

[4:02] do I want you to know what that's like

[4:06] cuz I'm going to experience it and I'm

[4:08] experiencing it

[4:10] now and I haven't seen anything like

[4:12] that and I think I think it's important

[4:15] for people

[4:16] to it helped me to see these other

[4:20] YouTubers living their

[4:22] dreams I was really

[4:25] struggling cuz I I haven't even driven

[4:28] an RV yet I know I'm getting a

[4:30] see I'm scared death to drive it I'm

[4:32] going to be toying my Jeep behind

[4:35] it um you know and i' been really

[4:38] struggling with that how am I going to

[4:39] do this how am I going to go to a gas

[4:42] station

[4:43] um you know driving a big class scene

[4:47] towing a jeep behind it like how how am

[4:49] I going to do that I've never done that

[4:51] you know and I I haven't seen a lot

[4:54] about that um I read a book last night

[4:57] it's pretty short book I I wish wish I

[4:59] could remember the name it was an ebook

[5:01] I read from an

[5:02] RV and he had something to do with um

[5:07] he'd been doing it for seven years and

[5:09] the concept of the book was these are

[5:11] the things I wish I'd known seven years

[5:14] ago and he you know he talked about a

[5:16] lot of things it was a great book U he

[5:19] talked about having to sell your stuff

[5:21] you know all your stuff I've got a house

[5:23] full of stuff just so much

[5:26] stuff um but he never never mentioned

[5:30] the fear of just driving an arvine you

[5:35] know I I I really have trouble picturing

[5:38] me doing that but I know I can you know

[5:43] and I'm going to do it I I'm I've made

[5:46] the decision so that's where I am now

[5:49] I'm I'm at the beginning I'm going

[5:54] to well I have a lot of plans to make

[5:57] basically and I've been I've been doing

[6:00] that um and I got a lot of stuff to sell

[6:03] I have an RV to find I I need

[6:08] to I need

[6:11] to just just so many things right like

[6:14] it's just it's a lot and I want to share

[6:17] that with you I want you guys to see

[6:18] what that's like um cuz I hope it helps

[6:21] somebody else it's a big decision but I

[6:24] think once you make

[6:25] it once you've made that decision you

[6:28] will feel a lot better I I do I

[6:33] I I am so excited to do this like I just

[6:37] know how rewarding it's going to be for

[6:40] me like I just I know that I'm going to

[6:43] love this I know it's going to be

[6:46] challenging I'm not the type of person

[6:51] who um can just

[6:55] ignore the reality of a situation like

[6:58] that's always at the Forefront of my

[6:59] mind mind I know this is going to be

[7:01] hard for me cuz I know me right so I I I

[7:05] just know how much of a challenge it'll

[7:07] be for me to do a lot of things that a

[7:08] lot of people take for

[7:10] granted

[7:11] um you know and and good for them I wish

[7:14] I could it's just that I can't I I I'm

[7:19] an introvert I struggle with being

[7:22] around

[7:23] people um you know it's hard for me it's

[7:25] hard for me to go places it's hard for

[7:27] me just to go anywhere and I've been

[7:29] pretty much locked up in my house ever

[7:31] since covid and that's what four years

[7:33] ago I have not been living it hasn't

[7:36] been a

[7:38] good hasn't been a good way of life and

[7:42] that has to change I had to do

[7:45] something um this wasn't my first idea I

[7:48] was going to buy some land I in December

[7:52] was going to buy some land I wanted to

[7:54] make a campground of my own place for

[7:56] people to come um from scratch I mean

[7:59] that that would have been a big big

[8:01] project fell through I couldn't get the

[8:03] lamb because they couldn't get me a

[8:06] title um but I still had this problem I

[8:10] was

[8:11] unhappy I was unhappy with my job was

[8:15] unhappy with the way I'm

[8:17] living just it wasn't working you know

[8:21] it's just not

[8:25] working I don't know exactly how

[8:30] I decided that RV living was the way for

[8:33] me to go I hadn't been watching anything

[8:36] on YouTube at that point it just was an

[8:38] idea I had

[8:41] um my original idea was that I would

[8:44] find something I could to with my Jeep

[8:45] Wrangler it's a twoo Jeep Wrangler it's

[8:47] a 2023 beautiful it's red it's my third

[8:50] red

[8:51] one I love Jeeps I'm a Jeep guy

[8:56] and I discovered they can't tellw

[8:59] anything they just they can't they can't

[9:01] tellw anything you know well they can

[9:03] tellw a few things right but gener they

[9:05] just they can't tellw much and I have

[9:07] two cats and they're coming with me you

[9:10] know I can't abandon my cats um you'll

[9:12] you'll learn about them because they're

[9:13] going to be a part of this like Bailey

[9:16] he he was abandoned by his mother one

[9:19] day after he was born in winter in

[9:21] Michigan I went up there and got him and

[9:25] you know pretty much raised him from

[9:26] birth

[9:28] he he awesome you know and I mean I

[9:33] still don't understand how how a mother

[9:35] could do that I mean he she just picked

[9:37] up all her babies and went to another

[9:39] porch and left him there this woman she

[9:43] found him out there and took him back to

[9:46] the mother and the mother just rejected

[9:47] it I mean wow right and I'm so grateful

[9:52] and fortunate to have him and then my

[9:55] other cat Oliver

[9:57] he um someone just threw him out of a

[10:00] car here in Kentucky just threw him out

[10:02] of a car into a field I got him on my

[10:05] birthday one year he's I call my

[10:07] birthday cat cuz I just decided I wanted

[10:09] a cat for my birthday so I got him and

[10:11] it was like a few weeks after that that

[10:13] I got

[10:14] Bailey um and since then you know it's

[10:18] been I'm not sure it's been a long time

[10:21] five six years it's about how old they

[10:24] are and you know they're they're my life

[10:27] they have to come with me at to have

[10:29] enough room for them so getting getting

[10:31] back to the point right

[10:33] um my Jeep can only tow 2,000 2,000 lb I

[10:38] I you know I'm thinking wow I have a

[10:40] Jeep Wrangler like this is supposed to

[10:42] be the most rugged vehicle ever made

[10:44] right but you know that's true it's true

[10:47] for you know off-roading things like

[10:49] that it's not true for towing stuff and

[10:53] I I am terrified of

[10:57] towing anything thing um but I thought

[11:01] you know what I could do a a small

[11:04] camper behind my jeep that could work

[11:06] right um no cuz my cat

[11:11] so it just isn't a thing

[11:15] that I have to get over this fear I have

[11:18] get a class

[11:19] C1 and Tow my Jeep behind that cuz I

[11:22] definitely want my Jeep anywhere I go

[11:25] and so that's what I'm going to do I've

[11:27] looked at some I don't know if I'll get

[11:29] a new one or a used one uh the one I'm

[11:32] looking at is new but you know I since

[11:34] having discovered this whole

[11:36] Community

[11:38] um seems to

[11:42] be uh

[11:47] generally I don't know how to say this

[11:49] basically I think people would suggest

[11:52] that I get something used you know

[11:54] something that I can get used to on and

[12:00] um just see how that goes and then if I

[12:02] want something you get it but you know

[12:03] make sure it's it's what I want that I

[12:06] I'm comfortable with it I learn what

[12:09] what features in an RV I need that sort

[12:11] of thing so I'm totally open like I I

[12:15] don't know what I'm going to get yet I

[12:17] just know it'll be Class C cuz I looked

[12:19] at the class B you know the Vans and

[12:21] that just wouldn't work for my cats

[12:23] that's how I look at that one uh it

[12:25] would be easier for me I think but you

[12:27] know no room for my cats situation with

[12:29] like pop-up campers and you know if they

[12:32] have to be under 2,000 lbs you're you're

[12:36] you're you're getting some specialty

[12:38] stuff like really lightweight stuff and

[12:42] they're they're small and you're going

[12:45] to probably do your cooking outside and

[12:48] just you know stuff like that um just

[12:52] not a lot of room and so it just it

[12:54] feels like Class C is the way to go I I

[12:56] do think that I'll do a lot of

[12:57] boondocking like

[12:59] that's something

[13:01] that appeals to me a lot um I don't have

[13:06] to I am fortunate

[13:09] I um I'm I'm a programmer first of all

[13:12] I've been doing that since I was a

[13:14] child and you know I'd say I'm pretty

[13:18] good at it and you know so so I have

[13:20] money I have enough money to buy an

[13:23] arvine um to get all the things I

[13:26] need um

[13:29] so I'm fortunate in that regard and you

[13:32] know so I have a very good start I have

[13:35] to keep working you know I'm not

[13:36] independently wealthy or anything like

[13:38] that I have to keep

[13:40] working um but you know I've got time

[13:43] I've got time to get started to do

[13:46] this and you know I'm very excited

[13:48] there's a lot I'm going to share with

[13:50] you you know I'll just take you around

[13:52] my house

[13:53] and you know show you this is what it

[13:55] looks like I have to sell all this stuff

[13:58] how did I get get all this stuff you

[13:59] know I didn't even need all this stuff I

[14:02] was trying to live a life that was

[14:03] somebody else's it it wasn't mine it

[14:07] never it

[14:10] just I know some of you get

[14:13] it and I guess it's you I'm trying to

[14:15] reach I'm not going to try to be some

[14:17] big YouTuber you know I I consider

[14:20] myself an old guy um no offense to

[14:23] anybody who's older than me I'm like 46

[14:26] now I'll be 47 in two months

[14:30] you know um that's just how I feel at

[14:33] this point in my life I feel like I'm

[14:35] just an old guy who's really going to be

[14:36] interested in me right

[14:39] um probably a pretty select number of

[14:42] people you know and just people are

[14:44] interested in

[14:46] this um this lifestyle and would like to

[14:49] see you know that my thought is you know

[14:51] maybe there are people out there who

[14:53] would like to know what it's like from

[14:55] the beginning cuz I haven't seen that I

[14:57] have been trying to to find videos

[15:00] about people who are afraid to dry ring

[15:03] you know I haven't seen many and

[15:07] and that's a fear I have to get over or

[15:10] get get used to you know I have to

[15:12] become comfortable this is how I

[15:14] describe it I have to become comfortable

[15:16] with the

[15:17] discomfort you know that's

[15:21] what that's the only way I can do this

[15:24] and so that's what led me to YouTube and

[15:27] that's what

[15:30] um made me feel like I could do it too

[15:33] like at that point I felt like okay I

[15:35] can do this I can do

[15:36] it and I want you to see what that's

[15:39] like so I look forward to getting to

[15:41] know you guys thank you bye

First Time Positive for COVID

Feb 15, 2024

Positive for COVID

Feb 20, 2024

15:44

Announcing the Decision to Live Full-Time in an RV

Feb 25, 2024

10:04

Recording Second Video on RV Transition Preparation

Feb 25, 2024

17:49

Assembling Cat Enclosure and Testing RV Gear

Feb 25, 2024

1:03

Recording Before Dental Surgery, Naming Mountain Dew

Feb 26, 2024

49:16

Noting Camera Orientation During Recording

Feb 28, 2024

6:09

Selecting First RV and Placing Deposit

Feb 29, 2024

19:16

Walking Through a Diesel RV in Chattanooga

Mar 1, 2024

4:06

Deciding to Buy the RV After Dealer Visit

Mar 1, 2024

10:21

Driving to the Dealership to Buy the RV

Mar 1, 2024

1:43

Walking the Exterior During Slide Retraction

Mar 1, 2024

3:12

Touring and Applying for RV at Lazy Days

Mar 1, 2024

5:13

Recording Pre-Dawn Dreams Ahead of RV Purchase

Mar 2, 2024

2:15

RV Loan Approved, Delivery Next Week

Mar 2, 2024

6:52

Outlining Five Steps to Full-Time RV Living

Mar 2, 2024

4:40

Researching Towing Limits and Brake Upgrades

Mar 2, 2024

1:19

Documenting RV Cargo Weight Limits

Mar 2, 2024

2:22

Planning West Coast Start for Full-Time Travel

Mar 2, 2024

7:20

Planning Tow Setup and Cat Enclosure Before RV Pickup

Mar 3, 2024

9:13

Recounting Personal History Before the Road Adventure

Mar 3, 2024

15:09

Testing Cat Enclosure Setup for RV Life

Mar 3, 2024

8:10

Filming Oliver's Wild Mood Before RV Move

Mar 4, 2024

6:28

Planning Camper Pickup Drive With Walkie-Talkies

Mar 4, 2024

2:53

Receiving Towing Gear Quote for RV Setup

Mar 4, 2024

2:42

Feeding Dogs, Testing Camera Setup, Cats Outside Early

Mar 4, 2024

1:18

Documenting Cat Setup for Road Life

Mar 4, 2024

4:24

Planning Cat Transport and Containment for RV Life

Mar 4, 2024

18:18

Cataloging RV Equipment Purchases Before Pickup

Mar 5, 2024

6:40

Walking Through RV Departure Preparation Notes

Mar 5, 2024

7:12

Reading RV Preparation Notes on Camera

Mar 5, 2024

13:59

Setting Behavioral Baseline Before Full-Time RV Transition

Mar 6, 2024

4:50

Counting Down 48 Hours to RV Pickup

Mar 6, 2024

19:53

Testing GoPro Setup and Unboxing RV Gear

Mar 7, 2024

23:19

Preparing for RV Pickup and Drive Home

Mar 7, 2024

1:15

Receiving Solar Donation Trophy from Blue Edie Purchase

Mar 7, 2024

14:16

Unboxing Solar and RV Gear Before Pickup

Mar 7, 2024

0:52

Morning Departure for Dealership Visit

Mar 8, 2024

2:19

Taking Delivery of RV in Murfreesboro

Mar 8, 2024

2:31

Driving the RV Home for the First Time

Mar 9, 2024

1:48

Assessing RV Parking Options in Driveway

Mar 9, 2024

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February 25, 2024 rswfire FEATURED

Temp 0.40

Density 0.70

Energetic Quality

unfiltered forward momentum

Journey Phase

pre-departure, decision locked

Directional Vector

toward mobile autonomy, away from a life he states was not his

Narrative

He set the camera down in a house that was still full. February 2024, Kentucky, every room behind him carrying the accumulated weight of a life he would later name on the record as somebody else's — furniture, boxes, the ordinary sediment of two decades of staying put. Bailey and Oliver moved somewhere in that space, five or six years old, both of them retrieved from abandonment. rswfire pressed record without a script. He said so out loud in the first breath: he hadn't thought it through, didn't know what he was going to say, hoped whoever found this would stay with him anyway. He was uploading it because he wanted the record to start before the story did.

The first thing he disclosed was his teeth. Not as confession and not as preamble to something else — he put it at the front because the camera would show it regardless and he had decided the record would run at full disclosure. Forty-six years old, no teeth, Mountain Dew his whole life, and he named the cause plainly and told anyone listening to keep their kids away from it while acknowledging he still drinks it. He described the bottom dentures, the temporary top set he cannot wear, the gag reflex that defeats them. Implants in two days. A few months of healing after that. He said he hoped he would look like the rest of them then, and moved on.

Then the announcement, delivered without buildup: he is selling everything, buying a camper, and going. He said he wished he had done it twenty years ago, and then told the story of the time he almost did. A pop-up camper. His first Jeep — he counted forward and noted he is on his fifth now. A winter drive to New Jersey for a client, no way to cook, no shower, a portable toilet he never used, campground showers in the cold. It didn't work. He gave up on the dream, and named that as the decision it was rather than something that happened to him. Twenty years of what he called living a normal life like everybody else, doing his best to get through the world. He allowed that it can be very hard to be human, and did not elaborate.

He traced the path back to this moment without smoothing it. The first plan wasn't an RV at all — in December he was going to buy land and build a campground from scratch, a place for people to come. The sale collapsed because the title couldn't be produced. The problem it was meant to solve stayed exactly where it was. He states he was unhappy with his job, unhappy with how he was living, that it wasn't working, and that four years locked in the house since COVID had not been a good way of life and had to change. He doesn't know precisely how RV living arrived as the answer. It was an idea before it was research.

The logistics unfolded in front of the camera as constraint resolution rather than as plan. His 2023 Jeep Wrangler — red, the third red one, and he identified himself as a Jeep guy — tows two thousand pounds. He said he had expected more from the most rugged vehicle ever made, and learned that rugged and towing are different specifications. Two thousand pounds means a specialty ultralight trailer, small, cooking done outside. And then the constraint that ended the branch: the cats are coming. He told their origins in full — Bailey, abandoned by his mother one day after birth in a Michigan winter, moved to another porch with his siblings while he was left behind, rejected again when a woman carried him back; Oliver, thrown from a car into a Kentucky field, acquired on rswfire's birthday and named his birthday cat ever since. He said he can't abandon his cats, that they're his life, that whatever he buys has to have room for them. A Class B van was ruled out on the same grounds — easier for him to drive, no room for them. So: a Class C, with the Jeep towed behind it. New or used undetermined; he noted the community leans used and said he was open, that he doesn't yet know what features he needs.

Which left the thing he had been circling. He is scared to death to drive it. He said he can't picture himself doing it — a Class C with a Jeep on the back, pulling into a gas station, none of it something he has ever done. He read an ebook the night before, short, written by a man seven years into the life, a list of what he wished he'd known. Good book. It covered selling your stuff, and rswfire has a house full of stuff. It did not cover the fear of driving. He had searched for videos about people afraid to drive and found almost nothing. That gap is the reason the camera was running: the genre documents the journey, and nobody documents the part where you have decided and have not yet moved. He wanted the beginning on the record because watching other people live their dreams is what made him believe he could, and he wanted to hand back the piece that was missing.

He was clear that nothing about this is a lucky break. He has been a programmer since childhood, said he is pretty good at it, has enough money to buy the RV and outfit it, and stated plainly that he is not independently wealthy and has to keep working. He is not trying to become a big YouTuber. He called himself an old guy, forty-six, forty-seven in two months, and estimated his audience at a pretty select number of people. He said he knows how hard this will be because he knows himself, that he's an introvert, that going anywhere is difficult for him, and that he is not the type who can ignore the reality of a situation. Then he named the only method he has: he has to become comfortable with the discomfort. The RV was unchosen, the route unplanned, the house unsold, the surgery two days out. The decision was already made.

Summary

rswfire opens a first video transmission stating he has not scripted it and wants the record to begin at the point of decision rather than after the fact.

He states he is 46, turning 47 in two months, has no teeth, attributes this to lifelong Mountain Dew consumption, has bottom and temporary top dentures he cannot wear due to a gag reflex, and has implant surgery scheduled in two days.

He declares the core decision: sell the contents of his house, buy a camper, and live the RV lifestyle. He describes an earlier version of this plan roughly twenty years prior — a pop-up camper, a winter drive to a New Jersey client, no cooking or shower capacity — which he abandoned. He notes a December land purchase intended to become his own campground fell through over a title issue.

On equipment, he works through the constraint chain: his 2023 Jeep Wrangler tows only 2,000 lbs; Class B vans lack room for his two cats, Bailey and Oliver, both taken in after abandonment. He concludes on a Class C towing the Jeep, new or used undecided, with boondocking as an interest.

He states he is a programmer since childhood with income to fund the transition and a continuing need to work, describes himself as an introvert who has stayed largely in his house since COVID, names driving and towing as his stated fear, and frames the practice as becoming comfortable with discomfort.

Environment

A single-camera direct-address video recorded indoors at rswfire's house in Kentucky, February 2024. The house is still fully furnished — he references a house full of possessions he intends to liquidate and offers to walk viewers through it in future recordings. Two cats, Bailey and Oliver, are resident in the space.

The digital environment is YouTube, addressed as a first-upload introduction to an audience he expects to be small. He references the RV-documentation channel ecosystem there as the field he is entering, and an unnamed ebook by a seven-year RV occupant read the previous night.

Substrate

The architecture being held is the beginning of a documented transition — rswfire positions the pre-departure phase itself as the missing artifact in an existing genre, and builds the record he could not find. The ontological position is that the decision is the load-bearing element: the RV, the route, and the equipment remain undetermined, but the commitment is stated as fixed and everything else is downstream logistics. Visible imperfection is placed at the front of the transmission rather than hidden — teeth, fear of driving, four years indoors — establishing that the record will run at full disclosure or not at all.

Actions

Performed

•opening a video record without a script
•stating age and dental condition on camera
•declaring the decision to sell everything and live in an RV
•naming fear of driving a Class C and towing
•describing his cats and their origins
•stating vehicle and towing constraints
•stating his profession and financial position
•addressing an anticipated small audience directly

Referenced

•taught himself programming as a child
•bought a pop-up camper roughly twenty years ago
•drove the pop-up to New Jersey in winter for a client
•showered at campgrounds in winter
•abandoned the parks-blogging plan after that trip
•lived indoors continuously since COVID
•attempted to buy land in December to build a campground
•lost the land purchase over an unavailable title
•acquired Oliver on his birthday after Oliver was thrown from a car
•retrieved Bailey from Michigan after maternal rejection
•read an RV ebook the previous night
•watched RV channels on YouTube
•received bottom and temporary top dentures
•owned five Jeeps, currently a 2023 Wrangler

Planned

•undergoing top implant surgery in two days
•wearing upper dentures after months of healing
•selling the contents of the house
•acquiring a Class C RV, new or used undetermined
•towing the Jeep behind the RV
•bringing both cats
•boondocking
•continuing to work as a programmer
•filming a walkthrough of the house and its contents
•documenting the transition from its start
•becoming comfortable with the discomfort of driving

Entities

beings

rswfire — Speaker; 46, programmer since childhood, initiating an RV transition

Bailey — Cat raised from birth after maternal rejection in Michigan; travels with him

Oliver — Cat acquired on his birthday after being thrown from a car in Kentucky

places

Kentucky — Current residence and point of departure

New Jersey — Destination of the winter pop-up camper trip twenty years prior, for a client

Michigan — Where he retrieved Bailey

National and state parks — Original twenty-year-old blogging objective; stated source of solace since childhood

systems

YouTube — Publication platform and the RV-documentation ecosystem he entered as a viewer

Jeep Wrangler (2023) — Two-door, red, fifth Jeep; 2,000 lb tow ceiling that determined the Class C decision

Class C RV — Chosen vehicle class, driven by cat space requirements and Jeep towing

concepts

Mountain Dew — Named cause of tooth loss; still consumed

Boondocking — Off-grid camping mode he states appeals to him

media

Unnamed RV ebook — Read the previous night; seven-year RV occupant's 'things I wish I'd known', silent on driving fear

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

teeth

the road

abandoned and retrieved animals

the house full of stuff

wilderness

the vehicle

beginning

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

decided (the commitment is stated as fixed while all logistics remain open)

pre-threshold (positioned at the start of a transition he has not yet executed)

self-disclosing (visible condition and stated fear placed at the front of the record rather than withheld)

constraint-bound (cats, tow rating, and income requirements determine the shape of the solution)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (dental reconstruction, gag reflex, surgery timeline as gating condition)

logistical (tow ratings, RV class selection, liquidation sequence)

economic (programming income as the funding mechanism; explicitly not independent wealth)

documentary (recording the pre-departure phase as the missing artifact in an existing genre)

relational (two cats as non-negotiable design constraint)

ecological (parks and nature named as the original and continuing draw)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

from the beginning

I've made the decision

comfortable with the discomfort

a life that was somebody else's

all my stuff

the fear of driving

my cats have to come with me

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