Mitigating RV Fears and Insulating the Camper

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[0:01] good morning everyone it's Sunday 10: in

[0:04] the morning I've been up a couple hours

[0:06] at least the cats and I slept in the

[0:09] camper last night there was a big

[0:11] thunderstorm I'll I'll try to share some

[0:14] of that with you I don't think I took

[0:15] very good footage though Bailey you stay

[0:18] down there stay down there he's always

[0:21] wanting attention he's head buting me he

[0:24] might come up here I don't have a whole

[0:26] lot to say I just wanted to tell you how

[0:28] sore I feel

[0:31] I just feel sore everywhere my legs hurt

[0:33] my arms hurt my whole body hurts like

[0:37] I'm getting

[0:38] old hi Bailey say hi to

[0:43] everybody

[0:44] so one of the things I wanted to say

[0:47] this morning though is a couple of you

[0:50] have started to comment and you're

[0:52] saying really nice things and you're

[0:54] asking for my advice

[0:56] and I'm super honored by that I really

[1:00] am and I will try to always give you the

[1:02] best advice I

[1:04] can I've always been that kind of a

[1:07] person um as an introvert as a highly

[1:10] sensitive person I do process a lot of I

[1:13] don't really know where it comes from if

[1:15] you read up on like what infj means you

[1:18] maybe kind of understand me

[1:21] better um I'm not saying that I

[1:24] completely subscribe to that it's called

[1:26] the Myers Briggs personality test but

[1:29] it'll get you close

[2:27] [Music]

[2:30] you know that's why I'm just so

[2:32] sore um and and a little tired too I

[2:35] just didn't sleep too well I don't know

[2:38] how other people do it I wish I did cuz

[2:40] I feel like I'm just winging everything

[2:43] guys you need to know that I I am

[2:45] winging everything I I decided to live

[2:48] in an RV before I even knew there was an

[2:50] RV Community I didn't know about the

[2:53] YouTube Community I didn't know about it

[2:56] I only ended up on here because I real

[2:59] ized how scared I was and I I was my

[3:03] biggest fear

[3:04] was driving the RV you know cuz I was

[3:08] just so worried that I would hurt

[3:10] someone that I'd sideswipe someone and

[3:13] so I got on YouTube and I searched for

[3:15] that and nothing came up nothing at all

[3:18] and that's why I started my channel

[3:19] because I thought well if nobody else is

[3:22] talking about this then

[3:24] either either nobody has this fear but

[3:29] that doesn't seem logic like likely does

[3:31] it so it's just that nobody's talked

[3:34] about it you know I think it's because a

[3:36] lot of the YouTube channels they start

[3:39] off sometimes years after they've been

[3:42] on the road right and they're just not

[3:44] thinking about it

[3:46] um I mean I could be wrong I always I

[3:49] always want to say that I could be wrong

[3:52] these are just my thoughts on it

[3:55] and my goal really was to try to help

[4:00] anyone who comes after me to know that

[4:03] you know those fears are normal and you

[4:06] can probably get over them cuz I say

[4:09] probably because I'm not over them yet

[4:11] right

[4:12] so I did a good job driving home I

[4:15] really did but I did have my dad behind

[4:17] me and that was kind of like a security

[4:20] blanket over the whole

[4:22] RV and I won't have that when I'm on the

[4:25] road I mean there's a lot of things I'm

[4:27] trying to do to mitigate that fear I I

[4:29] feel like if you have a fear you can

[4:32] either push through it but that's not

[4:34] the easy way that's the hard way that I

[4:37] mean I had a fear of choking to death

[4:39] for over a decade there was no pushing

[4:42] through that there was only one solution

[4:45] to that and that was to get medicated

[4:47] you know that's life and it worked and

[4:50] and I'm

[4:51] grateful um so some fears you just you

[4:55] really can't push through them but then

[4:57] there are other kinds of fears and these

[4:59] fears do have a lot to do with just the

[5:01] fear of the unknown just it's a

[5:03] different kind of fear and that kind of

[5:05] fear I feel like you can mitigate it's

[5:07] the kind of fear where you think

[5:10] about what can I do to lessen that fear

[5:14] cuz that's what I'm doing so okay I can

[5:16] lessen this fear if I have more cameras

[5:18] if I can see around me more if I can see

[5:21] the sides of my RV a lot easier then I

[5:25] know I'll never sideswipe someone so

[5:27] then there's no reason for that fear

[5:29] there's other ones there's

[5:31] like I'm still not sure how I'm going to

[5:33] really navigate gas stations I do know

[5:36] that it'll be easier for me cuz I have a

[5:37] diesel and I can go to trucker stops but

[5:40] that does require me to really be good

[5:42] at planning that sort of thing and I'm

[5:44] just not and I'm going to have to get

[5:47] better at it and I know I am getting to

[5:50] dump stations just just all of that

[5:52] right it

[5:53] just I still have fears around that

[5:56] getting propane

[5:58] just

[6:00] all of that is fear of the unknown and

[6:03] you can mitigate that you can research

[6:05] it you can watch YouTube and then when

[6:07] you get out there I think you probably

[6:09] just discover that it's not nearly as

[6:11] bad as you're making it out to be

[6:15] right cuz I guess there's a giant

[6:17] Community out there that you know so

[6:19] that means it's an industry and that

[6:20] means there's just all kinds of support

[6:22] services around that industry right

[6:24] you're going to find what you need

[6:28] everywhere that you need it I mean I

[6:31] kind of think that's how it works so

[6:33] really don't think I should be so

[6:35] concerned but I'm just sharing with you

[6:38] my thoughts

[6:39] on how I try to tackle my fears because

[6:42] I don't want them to control me I didn't

[6:45] get up on top of my roof and I still

[6:46] feel like that's the challenge I need to

[6:48] overcome I I need to be able to get up

[6:50] there it's my responsibility to go up

[6:54] there um well you know what I did

[6:57] mitigate that fear I bought a of um a

[7:01] ladder that collapses so I can take it

[7:05] with me that so I can get up there on

[7:07] the side I don't have to climb up on top

[7:09] of it I can just stay on the ladder but

[7:11] I can still access everything there I

[7:14] think that's just you know okay that's a

[7:16] great compromise for me that that that's

[7:19] a thing I can do it's still a little

[7:22] scary but it's a thing I can do so just

[7:26] think that way if you can it helps me

[7:28] I've got a few C that I'll share I don't

[7:31] know what I'm doing today I just I have

[7:33] no idea I feel I wish I could just have

[7:37] a rest day but I just don't feel like I

[7:40] have I don't have the time a few hours

[7:44] without food and you would think that

[7:45] these cats were famished the way they're

[7:49] acting this is a little bit after they

[7:51] got started oh my

[7:54] God these are some of the most spoiled

[7:56] cats I know have ever known and I have

[7:59] known own a lot of

[8:01] cats you guys will live I promise so I

[8:05] was just thinking how silly I felt for

[8:07] suspecting the birds for doing something

[8:10] to my my

[8:11] tanks and I realized something it was

[8:14] the birds it was the birds they cut

[8:18] those cables I know they did those birds

[8:20] hate me you know a bird once shat right

[8:24] on my head on the way to a job interview

[8:26] while I was walking down the

[8:28] sidewalk and you should see what they do

[8:30] to my

[8:32] deck I can hear them out there right now

[8:35] it's the

[8:41] birds well we're having our first

[8:44] thunderstorm in the

[8:46] camper woke me up it's pretty loud

[8:49] thunder both of the cats are little

[8:52] creeped out

[8:54] too the bed with

[8:58] me this here

[9:00] and see what we can hear or

[9:10] see okay guys

[9:14] green

[9:28] green just rain

[9:32] guys

[9:34] wor it's just

[9:58] rain feel like

[10:25] it's okay

[10:27] be it's okay

[10:31] really don't have to

[10:34] worry it's just

[10:37] rain it's just

[10:40] rain rain is not very

[10:43] important it's not anything to worry

[10:45] about

[10:47] guys it's just rain that's all it

[10:50] is just

[10:52] water Sur you hear it in the

[10:55] house don't you guys hear it in the

[10:58] house

[11:01] se you act this

[11:04] way never se you act like

[11:08] this it's just

[11:12] rain just some

[11:19] rain

[11:21] maybe look it's just

[11:25] rain just

[11:28] rain

[11:34] calm down calm

[11:57] down work

[12:00] I feel like if you don't panic then they

[12:02] won't panic I mean there's no reason to

[12:04] panic right but so I'm off to an early

[12:08] start today it's my coffee can ATT

[12:11] test oh this is my bed area the cat's

[12:14] nice slapped in here last night uh went

[12:17] pretty good there was a thunderstorm

[12:19] scared the cats pretty

[12:21] bad other than that was pretty fine

[12:23] except it's just still cold over here

[12:25] but let's just work this out right so

[12:29] this this

[12:30] is this is what the bottom of my bed

[12:33] looks like now under here I can't get a

[12:36] good view of this for you so I'm not

[12:38] even going to try but I know this void

[12:41] space is for now it makes sense that's

[12:42] where the slide comes in right that

[12:45] piece right there but if you look in

[12:48] there there's that object I don't know

[12:50] what it is that black object um so

[12:55] anything I assume anything going up to

[12:57] that height it's going to have

[13:00] clearance you know so you could have

[13:02] insulated that if you wanted to do a

[13:05] high quality job on these things right

[13:07] of course they don't

[13:10] um I suspect

[13:13] that if I were to open this out it would

[13:17] just be a giant void with some cables

[13:19] most of which could be insulated but I'm

[13:22] not comfortable pointing that

[13:24] out I wish I were you know if I had the

[13:26] skills I'd do it um the issue is I mean

[13:31] what if I pull this thing out and I just

[13:33] really can't get it back together again

[13:36] there's really no reason to pull this

[13:37] board up because we know it's under

[13:39] there it's just a small void where the

[13:41] slide comes

[13:42] in if we come over

[13:46] here you know all this is all of

[13:51] this is part of the

[13:54] slide um and I don't think these are

[13:57] perfect seals you know like there's I've

[14:01] got to come up with something here and

[14:04] up here I I realized this the other day

[14:07] that's the slide right

[14:09] so you can feel some air from there like

[14:14] it's not a lot but I bet you you know I

[14:16] bet you it

[14:18] contributes and then there's this area

[14:20] over

[14:22] here

[14:25] I'm there's like nothing under there I

[14:27] don't think I'm going to be able to

[14:28] really get under here not not with my

[14:31] skill set right so but I did find some

[14:33] places where it definitely needed

[14:35] insulating or where cold air is

[14:37] definitely coming in I don't know what

[14:39] to call this stuff I think it's called

[14:42] PVC pipe but it's not a pipe it goes

[14:45] over a pipe to insulate it right

[14:47] so I'm you know whatever that

[14:50] is put it up here cuz there is there's a

[14:53] gap you you know cold air comes right

[14:55] through

[14:56] it and then just along the side of the

[14:58] so

[15:00] and then under the bed all the way

[15:03] across I mean that's really all I can do

[15:07] nobody wants their home to look like

[15:08] that some gaffer tape right but no one

[15:12] wants to be cold either can't show this

[15:15] to you too well but you know so just do

[15:17] that I actually think that it will help

[15:19] I just don't know how hard this will be

[15:21] to put in there with my bed here with

[15:25] the mattress and everything else we'll

[15:26] see how that goes cuz I'm going to have

[15:28] to take it out before I pull in my

[15:29] slides that'll just become part of my

[15:31] process and put it back in when I get to

[15:34] my next camping spot not sure about over

[15:37] here I'm going to check it out I just

[15:39] need to say this if they ever come up

[15:42] with a comfortable mattress that you can

[15:45] put your sheets on without 10 years of

[15:47] yoga practice I'm buying

[15:51] it guys what's happening to me I'm

[15:54] becoming a real man today I had this

[15:57] thought I could just drill a whole ho

[15:59] down here and a hole down here put a

[16:02] rope around it in order to secure the

[16:04] spot for my cat I would have never had

[16:07] that thought before look at these cats

[16:10] already getting their fur

[16:13] everywhere it is a constant

[16:15] battle one thing I have not figured out

[16:18] is what I am going to do with my shoes I

[16:20] have two pairs of sandals wearing one of

[16:22] them and those shoes that's it and

[16:25] nowhere to put them I think they I think

[16:27] they live on the stairs guys I'm a

[16:30] genius look what I just gained access

[16:33] to I learned from my kitchen experience

[16:37] pull the drawers out and look under

[16:39] there I am insulating that and I'm doing

[16:43] it right

[16:45] now okay maybe not I don't know what

[16:48] that thing is I'm going have to think

[16:50] about it

[16:52] like you know I couldn't really get

[16:54] blueb board in there because it's got to

[16:55] fit the size of the hole and I could do

[16:58] it in

[16:59] pieces it's worth

[17:02] considering h i mean this is just like

[17:06] this could be a project for later I

[17:08] guess I have so much to do maybe this is

[17:11] a project for later but I'm thinking

[17:14] maybe I don't know put some reflecti

[17:18] around that thing just to protect it and

[17:19] then pink insulation everywhere and

[17:21] rboard on the

[17:23] sides tell me what you think so I just

[17:26] finished editing my video I'm going to

[17:28] add this this to the end it's 18 minutes

[17:31] so far I would love to know what you

[17:33] guys think are they too

[17:35] long do you have any advice any anything

[17:39] you want to share at all I would love to

[17:40] hear it I really would I'm I'm new to

[17:43] this and I'm

[17:45] just you guys are the ones watching what

[17:48] can I do better what am I not doing

[17:51] anything I'd love to hear

[17:53] it hey everyone I hope you enjoyed that

[17:56] video it helps a lot if you like and

[17:58] comment on them and I hope you'll

[18:00] consider subscribing thank you

[0:01] good morning everyone it's Sunday 10: in

[0:04] the morning I've been up a couple hours

[0:06] at least the cats and I slept in the

[0:09] camper last night there was a big

[0:11] thunderstorm I'll I'll try to share some

[0:14] of that with you I don't think I took

[0:15] very good footage though Bailey you stay

[0:18] down there stay down there he's always

[0:21] wanting attention he's head buting me he

[0:24] might come up here I don't have a whole

[0:26] lot to say I just wanted to tell you how

[0:28] sore I feel

[0:31] I just feel sore everywhere my legs hurt

[0:33] my arms hurt my whole body hurts like

[0:37] I'm getting

[0:38] old hi Bailey say hi to

[0:43] everybody

[0:44] so one of the things I wanted to say

[0:47] this morning though is a couple of you

[0:50] have started to comment and you're

[0:52] saying really nice things and you're

[0:54] asking for my advice

[0:56] and I'm super honored by that I really

[1:00] am and I will try to always give you the

[1:02] best advice I

[1:04] can I've always been that kind of a

[1:07] person um as an introvert as a highly

[1:10] sensitive person I do process a lot of I

[1:13] don't really know where it comes from if

[1:15] you read up on like what infj means you

[1:18] maybe kind of understand me

[1:21] better um I'm not saying that I

[1:24] completely subscribe to that it's called

[1:26] the Myers Briggs personality test but

[1:29] it'll get you close

[2:27] [Music]

[2:30] you know that's why I'm just so

[2:32] sore um and and a little tired too I

[2:35] just didn't sleep too well I don't know

[2:38] how other people do it I wish I did cuz

[2:40] I feel like I'm just winging everything

[2:43] guys you need to know that I I am

[2:45] winging everything I I decided to live

[2:48] in an RV before I even knew there was an

[2:50] RV Community I didn't know about the

[2:53] YouTube Community I didn't know about it

[2:56] I only ended up on here because I real

[2:59] ized how scared I was and I I was my

[3:03] biggest fear

[3:04] was driving the RV you know cuz I was

[3:08] just so worried that I would hurt

[3:10] someone that I'd sideswipe someone and

[3:13] so I got on YouTube and I searched for

[3:15] that and nothing came up nothing at all

[3:18] and that's why I started my channel

[3:19] because I thought well if nobody else is

[3:22] talking about this then

[3:24] either either nobody has this fear but

[3:29] that doesn't seem logic like likely does

[3:31] it so it's just that nobody's talked

[3:34] about it you know I think it's because a

[3:36] lot of the YouTube channels they start

[3:39] off sometimes years after they've been

[3:42] on the road right and they're just not

[3:44] thinking about it

[3:46] um I mean I could be wrong I always I

[3:49] always want to say that I could be wrong

[3:52] these are just my thoughts on it

[3:55] and my goal really was to try to help

[4:00] anyone who comes after me to know that

[4:03] you know those fears are normal and you

[4:06] can probably get over them cuz I say

[4:09] probably because I'm not over them yet

[4:11] right

[4:12] so I did a good job driving home I

[4:15] really did but I did have my dad behind

[4:17] me and that was kind of like a security

[4:20] blanket over the whole

[4:22] RV and I won't have that when I'm on the

[4:25] road I mean there's a lot of things I'm

[4:27] trying to do to mitigate that fear I I

[4:29] feel like if you have a fear you can

[4:32] either push through it but that's not

[4:34] the easy way that's the hard way that I

[4:37] mean I had a fear of choking to death

[4:39] for over a decade there was no pushing

[4:42] through that there was only one solution

[4:45] to that and that was to get medicated

[4:47] you know that's life and it worked and

[4:50] and I'm

[4:51] grateful um so some fears you just you

[4:55] really can't push through them but then

[4:57] there are other kinds of fears and these

[4:59] fears do have a lot to do with just the

[5:01] fear of the unknown just it's a

[5:03] different kind of fear and that kind of

[5:05] fear I feel like you can mitigate it's

[5:07] the kind of fear where you think

[5:10] about what can I do to lessen that fear

[5:14] cuz that's what I'm doing so okay I can

[5:16] lessen this fear if I have more cameras

[5:18] if I can see around me more if I can see

[5:21] the sides of my RV a lot easier then I

[5:25] know I'll never sideswipe someone so

[5:27] then there's no reason for that fear

[5:29] there's other ones there's

[5:31] like I'm still not sure how I'm going to

[5:33] really navigate gas stations I do know

[5:36] that it'll be easier for me cuz I have a

[5:37] diesel and I can go to trucker stops but

[5:40] that does require me to really be good

[5:42] at planning that sort of thing and I'm

[5:44] just not and I'm going to have to get

[5:47] better at it and I know I am getting to

[5:50] dump stations just just all of that

[5:52] right it

[5:53] just I still have fears around that

[5:56] getting propane

[5:58] just

[6:00] all of that is fear of the unknown and

[6:03] you can mitigate that you can research

[6:05] it you can watch YouTube and then when

[6:07] you get out there I think you probably

[6:09] just discover that it's not nearly as

[6:11] bad as you're making it out to be

[6:15] right cuz I guess there's a giant

[6:17] Community out there that you know so

[6:19] that means it's an industry and that

[6:20] means there's just all kinds of support

[6:22] services around that industry right

[6:24] you're going to find what you need

[6:28] everywhere that you need it I mean I

[6:31] kind of think that's how it works so

[6:33] really don't think I should be so

[6:35] concerned but I'm just sharing with you

[6:38] my thoughts

[6:39] on how I try to tackle my fears because

[6:42] I don't want them to control me I didn't

[6:45] get up on top of my roof and I still

[6:46] feel like that's the challenge I need to

[6:48] overcome I I need to be able to get up

[6:50] there it's my responsibility to go up

[6:54] there um well you know what I did

[6:57] mitigate that fear I bought a of um a

[7:01] ladder that collapses so I can take it

[7:05] with me that so I can get up there on

[7:07] the side I don't have to climb up on top

[7:09] of it I can just stay on the ladder but

[7:11] I can still access everything there I

[7:14] think that's just you know okay that's a

[7:16] great compromise for me that that that's

[7:19] a thing I can do it's still a little

[7:22] scary but it's a thing I can do so just

[7:26] think that way if you can it helps me

[7:28] I've got a few C that I'll share I don't

[7:31] know what I'm doing today I just I have

[7:33] no idea I feel I wish I could just have

[7:37] a rest day but I just don't feel like I

[7:40] have I don't have the time a few hours

[7:44] without food and you would think that

[7:45] these cats were famished the way they're

[7:49] acting this is a little bit after they

[7:51] got started oh my

[7:54] God these are some of the most spoiled

[7:56] cats I know have ever known and I have

[7:59] known own a lot of

[8:01] cats you guys will live I promise so I

[8:05] was just thinking how silly I felt for

[8:07] suspecting the birds for doing something

[8:10] to my my

[8:11] tanks and I realized something it was

[8:14] the birds it was the birds they cut

[8:18] those cables I know they did those birds

[8:20] hate me you know a bird once shat right

[8:24] on my head on the way to a job interview

[8:26] while I was walking down the

[8:28] sidewalk and you should see what they do

[8:30] to my

[8:32] deck I can hear them out there right now

[8:35] it's the

[8:41] birds well we're having our first

[8:44] thunderstorm in the

[8:46] camper woke me up it's pretty loud

[8:49] thunder both of the cats are little

[8:52] creeped out

[8:54] too the bed with

[8:58] me this here

[9:00] and see what we can hear or

[9:10] see okay guys

[9:14] green

[9:28] green just rain

[9:32] guys

[9:34] wor it's just

[9:58] rain feel like

[10:25] it's okay

[10:27] be it's okay

[10:31] really don't have to

[10:34] worry it's just

[10:37] rain it's just

[10:40] rain rain is not very

[10:43] important it's not anything to worry

[10:45] about

[10:47] guys it's just rain that's all it

[10:50] is just

[10:52] water Sur you hear it in the

[10:55] house don't you guys hear it in the

[10:58] house

[11:01] se you act this

[11:04] way never se you act like

[11:08] this it's just

[11:12] rain just some

[11:19] rain

[11:21] maybe look it's just

[11:25] rain just

[11:28] rain

[11:34] calm down calm

[11:57] down work

[12:00] I feel like if you don't panic then they

[12:02] won't panic I mean there's no reason to

[12:04] panic right but so I'm off to an early

[12:08] start today it's my coffee can ATT

[12:11] test oh this is my bed area the cat's

[12:14] nice slapped in here last night uh went

[12:17] pretty good there was a thunderstorm

[12:19] scared the cats pretty

[12:21] bad other than that was pretty fine

[12:23] except it's just still cold over here

[12:25] but let's just work this out right so

[12:29] this this

[12:30] is this is what the bottom of my bed

[12:33] looks like now under here I can't get a

[12:36] good view of this for you so I'm not

[12:38] even going to try but I know this void

[12:41] space is for now it makes sense that's

[12:42] where the slide comes in right that

[12:45] piece right there but if you look in

[12:48] there there's that object I don't know

[12:50] what it is that black object um so

[12:55] anything I assume anything going up to

[12:57] that height it's going to have

[13:00] clearance you know so you could have

[13:02] insulated that if you wanted to do a

[13:05] high quality job on these things right

[13:07] of course they don't

[13:10] um I suspect

[13:13] that if I were to open this out it would

[13:17] just be a giant void with some cables

[13:19] most of which could be insulated but I'm

[13:22] not comfortable pointing that

[13:24] out I wish I were you know if I had the

[13:26] skills I'd do it um the issue is I mean

[13:31] what if I pull this thing out and I just

[13:33] really can't get it back together again

[13:36] there's really no reason to pull this

[13:37] board up because we know it's under

[13:39] there it's just a small void where the

[13:41] slide comes

[13:42] in if we come over

[13:46] here you know all this is all of

[13:51] this is part of the

[13:54] slide um and I don't think these are

[13:57] perfect seals you know like there's I've

[14:01] got to come up with something here and

[14:04] up here I I realized this the other day

[14:07] that's the slide right

[14:09] so you can feel some air from there like

[14:14] it's not a lot but I bet you you know I

[14:16] bet you it

[14:18] contributes and then there's this area

[14:20] over

[14:22] here

[14:25] I'm there's like nothing under there I

[14:27] don't think I'm going to be able to

[14:28] really get under here not not with my

[14:31] skill set right so but I did find some

[14:33] places where it definitely needed

[14:35] insulating or where cold air is

[14:37] definitely coming in I don't know what

[14:39] to call this stuff I think it's called

[14:42] PVC pipe but it's not a pipe it goes

[14:45] over a pipe to insulate it right

[14:47] so I'm you know whatever that

[14:50] is put it up here cuz there is there's a

[14:53] gap you you know cold air comes right

[14:55] through

[14:56] it and then just along the side of the

[14:58] so

[15:00] and then under the bed all the way

[15:03] across I mean that's really all I can do

[15:07] nobody wants their home to look like

[15:08] that some gaffer tape right but no one

[15:12] wants to be cold either can't show this

[15:15] to you too well but you know so just do

[15:17] that I actually think that it will help

[15:19] I just don't know how hard this will be

[15:21] to put in there with my bed here with

[15:25] the mattress and everything else we'll

[15:26] see how that goes cuz I'm going to have

[15:28] to take it out before I pull in my

[15:29] slides that'll just become part of my

[15:31] process and put it back in when I get to

[15:34] my next camping spot not sure about over

[15:37] here I'm going to check it out I just

[15:39] need to say this if they ever come up

[15:42] with a comfortable mattress that you can

[15:45] put your sheets on without 10 years of

[15:47] yoga practice I'm buying

[15:51] it guys what's happening to me I'm

[15:54] becoming a real man today I had this

[15:57] thought I could just drill a whole ho

[15:59] down here and a hole down here put a

[16:02] rope around it in order to secure the

[16:04] spot for my cat I would have never had

[16:07] that thought before look at these cats

[16:10] already getting their fur

[16:13] everywhere it is a constant

[16:15] battle one thing I have not figured out

[16:18] is what I am going to do with my shoes I

[16:20] have two pairs of sandals wearing one of

[16:22] them and those shoes that's it and

[16:25] nowhere to put them I think they I think

[16:27] they live on the stairs guys I'm a

[16:30] genius look what I just gained access

[16:33] to I learned from my kitchen experience

[16:37] pull the drawers out and look under

[16:39] there I am insulating that and I'm doing

[16:43] it right

[16:45] now okay maybe not I don't know what

[16:48] that thing is I'm going have to think

[16:50] about it

[16:52] like you know I couldn't really get

[16:54] blueb board in there because it's got to

[16:55] fit the size of the hole and I could do

[16:58] it in

[16:59] pieces it's worth

[17:02] considering h i mean this is just like

[17:06] this could be a project for later I

[17:08] guess I have so much to do maybe this is

[17:11] a project for later but I'm thinking

[17:14] maybe I don't know put some reflecti

[17:18] around that thing just to protect it and

[17:19] then pink insulation everywhere and

[17:21] rboard on the

[17:23] sides tell me what you think so I just

[17:26] finished editing my video I'm going to

[17:28] add this this to the end it's 18 minutes

[17:31] so far I would love to know what you

[17:33] guys think are they too

[17:35] long do you have any advice any anything

[17:39] you want to share at all I would love to

[17:40] hear it I really would I'm I'm new to

[17:43] this and I'm

[17:45] just you guys are the ones watching what

[17:48] can I do better what am I not doing

[17:51] anything I'd love to hear

[17:53] it hey everyone I hope you enjoyed that

[17:56] video it helps a lot if you like and

[17:58] comment on them and I hope you'll

[18:00] consider subscribing thank you

1:20

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10:17

Insulating RV Underbelly, Filming First Edited Video

Mar 16, 2024

5:36

Completing First Insulation Project in the RV

Mar 16, 2024

13:57

Reviewing Channel Performance and Camera System Purchase

Mar 18, 2024

8:10

Insulating the RV and Tracking Temperature Gains

Mar 19, 2024

4:27

Redoing RV Insulation in Freezing Conditions

Mar 19, 2024

4:09

Assessing Transition Pace Before Departure

Mar 20, 2024

1:35

Setting April 11th Departure Date for Full-Time RV Life

Mar 20, 2024

8:25

Crediting Caroline's RV Life for Starting the Journey

Mar 22, 2024

7:13

Retrieving Outfitted Jeep and Planning RV Buildout

Mar 22, 2024

7:00

Insulating the Camper Kitchen and Living Area

Mar 23, 2024

1:39

Sorting Possessions at the Tradeoff Stage

Mar 23, 2024

5:40

Organizing and Insulating the Camper Build

Mar 24, 2024

5:32

Rug Shopping, Discord Launch, and Camper Flooring

Mar 25, 2024

12:51

Giving Lease Notice and Outfitting the RV

Mar 28, 2024

9:34

Documenting Homelessness Ahead of RV Transition

Mar 29, 2024

11:29

Diagnosing RV Plumbing and Naming Caroline

Mar 29, 2024

2:36

Resolving RV Tank Cables With Mobile Tech

Mar 30, 2024

9:11

Outfitting the RV Before the April 30 Move-Out

Mar 30, 2024

4:20

Announcing First Month of Campground Bookings

Mar 31, 2024

18:03

Mitigating RV Fears and Insulating the Camper

Mar 31, 2024

16:15

Preparing Camper Departure and Dissolving the House

Apr 1, 2024

7:43

Sorting Possessions Before Departure

Apr 3, 2024

13:07

Riding Out Thunderstorms, Thanking Early Adopters

Apr 3, 2024

15:11

Riding Out Storm in RV With Cats

Apr 3, 2024

10:08

One Week Out: Packing, Cold, and Cats

Apr 4, 2024

9:32

Insulating the Camper and Organizing Move-In

Apr 6, 2024

36:14

Installing Solar Power in the Camper

Apr 7, 2024

10:44

Testing Solar Setup Before Camper Inspection

Apr 7, 2024

7:33

Passing Scamper Inspection Before Departure

Apr 8, 2024

17:57

Tinkering in the Camper Two Days Before Departure

Apr 10, 2024

19:57

Final Day Before Departure to Campground

Apr 11, 2024

9:15

Retracting the Slide for the First Time

Apr 11, 2024

6:45

Marking 47th Birthday Before Departure

Apr 11, 2024

6:40

First Night at Campsite, New Life Begins

Apr 12, 2024

39:34

Day One in the Camper on His 47th Birthday

Apr 13, 2024

2:03

Closing the YouTube Channel Before Heading West

Apr 13, 2024

1:55

Clarifying the Project Is About Following Dreams

Apr 14, 2024

5:47

Reversing Channel Shutdown, Mapping Westward Route

Apr 15, 2024

3:44

Reviewing a Missed Encounter at the Park

Apr 15, 2024

5:37

First Morning Settling Into Camper Life

Apr 16, 2024

PUBLIC

March 31, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.10

Density 0.60

Energetic Quality

warm, conversational, low-grade physical fatigue running under steady analytical output

Journey Phase

preparatory — systems audit in progress

Directional Vector

toward departure readiness; converting unknowns into mitigable variables

Narrative

The storm arrived in the night and woke him inside the camper. rswfire had chosen to sleep out there — the fifth-wheel parked on his parents' property, two cats with him, the first real weather to test the shell. Thunder came in loud over the roof. Both cats went alert in the dark, and he reached for the camera and filmed anyway, low light, rain audible over everything, his own voice steady and repetitive in the frame: it's just rain, guys, it's just water, it's just rain. He said it to the cats the way you say a thing to make it true in the room. He noted the logic out loud — if he didn't panic, they wouldn't panic — and kept saying it until the sound became ordinary. Later he would say the footage wasn't very good. He shared it regardless.

By ten on Sunday morning he had been up a couple of hours and the day's first fact was his body. Sore everywhere. Legs, arms, whole body. He named it plainly, without complaint attached, the way a person logs a reading. Bailey kept climbing into frame, head-butting the camera, wanting attention. rswfire greeted the cats to the audience, told the viewers he was honored that a few of them had begun commenting and asking his advice, and then told them the thing he seemed to consider structurally necessary before any advice could follow: that he is winging everything. He decided to live in an RV before he knew there was an RV community. He didn't come to YouTube for an audience. He came searching for one specific thing and found nothing, and the nothing is why the channel exists.

The thing he searched for was the fear of driving — specifically the fear of sideswiping someone, of hurting someone with the size of the vehicle he now owned. Nothing came up. He reasoned it through on camera: either no one else has this fear, which doesn't seem likely, or no one has talked about it, probably because the channels start filming years after they've already been on the road and the pre-departure interval simply falls out of the record. He marked his own uncertainty — I could be wrong, I always want to say that I could be wrong — and then stated the purpose anyway: to leave something behind for anyone who comes after him, so they'd know the fears are normal. He noted he isn't over them yet. He said probably rather than certainly, and left it there.

Then he laid out the architecture. Some fears cannot be pushed through — he described a decade-long fear of choking to death, and states there was only one solution, which was to get medicated, and that it worked, and that he is grateful. Other fears are fear of the unknown, and those decompose. Those you mitigate. More cameras, better sightlines down the flanks, and the sideswipe fear loses its grounds. Diesel means trucker stops, which means fueling gets easier, though it requires planning he says he isn't good at yet and knows he's getting better at. Dump stations, propane, all of it the same category, all of it researchable. There is an entire industry out there, he reasoned, and industries generate support services, and support services are findable — so the fear is probably larger than the terrain. He hadn't gotten on the roof. He named that as the outstanding challenge and his responsibility. Then he corrected himself mid-sentence: he had mitigated it. He'd bought a collapsing ladder he can carry, so he can reach everything from the side without standing on top. Still a little scary. But a thing he can do. A great compromise. He offered the method to the viewers as a method.

The day turned domestic and then structural. The cats performed famine a few hours after eating; he told them they would live. Outside near the deck he revisited his own suspicion about the tanks and the cut cables and landed, deadpan, on the birds — they hate him, he can hear them out there right now, one of them hit him on the head on the way to a job interview once, and what they do to his deck is evidence enough. Then he went to the bed area with the camera and began the audit. The void under the bed where the slide comes in, with the black object he can't identify, and the clearance above it that could have been insulated if anyone had wanted to do a high-quality job. The seals along the slide that he doesn't think are perfect. The gap up top where he can feel air move — not much, but he'd bet it contributes. The area over there with nothing under it that he doesn't think he can reach. He kept marking the line: he isn't comfortable pulling that panel, he wishes he had the skills, the risk is that he opens it and can't get it back together. He worked up to the line and stopped at it.

What he could reach, he treated. Foam sleeve — he doesn't know the name for it, thinks it's called PVC pipe but knows it isn't a pipe, it goes over a pipe — pressed into the gap where cold air comes right through. Gaffer tape run along the side and all the way across under the bed. Nobody wants their home to look like that, he said, but no one wants to be cold either. He thought it would help. He also thought through the consequence: it has to come out before he pulls the slides in and go back in at the next camping spot, and that becomes part of his process. Then the discovery, carried over from the kitchen — pull the drawers out and look underneath. He announced he was insulating it right now. Then, seconds later, maybe not; there's another object he doesn't recognize, the blue board would have to be cut to fit, it could be done in pieces, it's worth considering, maybe reflective wrap around the thing and pink insulation everywhere and rigid board on the sides. Maybe a project for later. He asked the viewers what they thought.

The smaller findings landed in between: nowhere to put two pairs of sandals and one pair of shoes, so they live on the stairs; the mattress that can't be sheeted without ten years of yoga; the thought — new to him, noted as new — that he could drill two holes and run a rope through to secure a spot for a cat, and the wry line about becoming a real man today. The cat fur, already everywhere, a constant battle. The signal ends in the last environment of the day, the editing bay, eighteen minutes cut and one more segment about to be appended to the end of it. He asked whether the videos were too long. He asked what he could do better, what he wasn't doing, anything at all. He said he was new to this and they were the ones watching. Then the like, comment, subscribe — the small formal close on a transmission built for people who haven't arrived yet.

Summary

rswfire records a Sunday morning transmission from the camper, where he and the cats slept through the first thunderstorm in the RV. He states he is sore everywhere and did not sleep well.

He addresses viewers who have begun commenting and asking for advice, and states he will always give the best advice he can. He describes himself as an introvert and highly sensitive person, referencing INFJ / Myers-Briggs as an approximate frame he does not fully subscribe to. He states plainly that he is winging everything — he decided to live in an RV before knowing an RV community or YouTube community existed, and started his channel because searching for content about fear of driving an RV returned nothing.

He distinguishes two categories of fear: those requiring medication (he cites a decade-long fear of choking, resolved by getting medicated) and fear of the unknown, which he treats as mitigable — more cameras to eliminate sideswiping, truck stops for diesel, research on dump stations and propane, and a collapsible ladder so roof access can be done from the side rather than climbing on top.

The remainder documents insulation work: mapping void spaces under the bed and around the slide, locating air gaps, applying pipe insulation and gaffer tape, and pulling drawers to access an uninsulated cavity. He notes the insulation panel will have to come out before slides retract, becoming part of his travel process.

He closes by asking viewers for feedback on video length.

Environment

Recorded inside a fifth-wheel RV parked at his parents' property, in the pre-departure preparation window before full-time road living. rswfire films from the camper's interior — the bed area with its slide-out void spaces, drawer cavities, and uninsulated gaps — after having slept overnight in the camper with two cats during a thunderstorm.

Secondary footage is captured overnight in the dark bed area during the storm, and outdoors near the deck and holding tanks. The signal terminates in a digital environment: YouTube, addressed to a nascent subscriber base whose comments have begun arriving. Audio includes rain, thunder, and cats moving through frame.

Substrate

rswfire holds a taxonomy of fear as the load-bearing architecture: fears that cannot be pushed through and require an external intervention, versus fears of the unknown that decompose into researchable, equipment-solvable, procedure-solvable parts. He applies this taxonomy live — cameras for sideswipe risk, a collapsible ladder as roof-access compromise, trucker stops for fueling — and simultaneously applies the same decomposition to the RV's thermal envelope, mapping void spaces and air gaps he can reach against ones his stated skill set cannot. The transmission is built on a stated purpose of documenting the pre-departure phase itself, the interval other channels skip, so the record exists for anyone entering it after him.

Actions

Performed

•recording morning address from camper interior
•stating body soreness across legs, arms, whole body
•acknowledging incoming comments and advice requests
•naming introversion, high sensitivity, INFJ as approximate self-description
•filming cats during feeding
•filming thunderstorm from bed area at night
•verbally settling cats through storm
•inspecting underside of bed and slide-out void space
•identifying air gaps at slide seams
•fitting foam pipe insulation into gap
•applying gaffer tape along bed perimeter
•pulling drawers to access cavity behind
•assessing cavity for insulation feasibility
•soliciting viewer feedback on video length
•appending closing segment to edited video

Referenced

•sleeping in camper overnight with cats
•deciding to live in an RV before knowing an RV community existed
•searching YouTube for driving-fear content and finding none
•starting the channel in response to that absence
•driving the RV home with his father following behind
•holding a fear of choking for over a decade
•resolving that fear through medication
•purchasing a collapsible ladder
•not climbing onto the roof
•suspecting birds of damaging tank cables
•learning drawer-removal access technique from kitchen work
•editing an 18-minute video

Planned

•installing more cameras for side visibility
•getting better at route and stop planning
•using trucker stops for diesel
•using ladder for roof access rather than climbing on top
•removing insulation before retracting slides and reinstalling at next site
•possibly adding reflectix, pink insulation, and rigid board to drawer cavity as a later project
•drilling holes and rigging rope to secure cat's spot
•continuing to give viewers the best advice he can

Entities

beings

Bailey — Cat, present in frame, head-butting for attention during the opening address

cats — Two cats sharing the camper; slept with him overnight, reacted to thunder, filmed during feeding

his dad — Followed behind the RV on the drive home; described as a security presence not available on the road

birds — Named as the agent behind cut tank cables; running comedic antagonist thread

places

trucker stops — Fueling strategy available to him because the rig is diesel

systems

YouTube — Platform searched for driving-fear content, found empty; the absence became the reason for the channel

RV Community — Community and industry he did not know existed when deciding to live in an RV; cited as evidence support services will be available

the slide — Slide-out mechanism creating the void space and imperfect seals that admit cold air

concepts

Myers Briggs / INFJ — Offered as an approximate frame for understanding him, with explicit partial subscription

media

collapsible ladder — Equipment purchased as a mitigation for roof-access fear

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

void space

seal

gap

ladder

storm

roof

shelter

insulation

birds

road

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

preparatory (operating in the interval between decision and departure, cataloguing what is not yet known)

self-authorizing (states plainly that he is winging everything and offers advice anyway, with the uncertainty declared rather than hidden)

embodied (soreness across legs, arms, whole body named as the opening fact of the day)

transmitting (channel started to fill a documented absence; addresses the ones who come after him)

bounded-competence (marks precisely where his stated skill set stops and works up to that line without crossing it)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (body soreness and disrupted sleep named as the day's baseline condition)

cognitive (fear taxonomy constructed and applied as a working method)

infrastructural (thermal envelope audit — voids, seams, gaps, cavities mapped and treated)

relational (cats regulated through the storm; viewers addressed as a two-way exchange)

documentary (recording the pre-departure phase specifically because other channels omit it)

mechanical (slide operation, drawer removal, ladder, camera systems, diesel fueling logistics)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

fear / mitigate

fear of the unknown

winging everything

I could be wrong

void space / cold air coming in

anyone who comes after me

it's just rain

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