Dumping Tanks and Repositioning to New Site

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[0:00] I am so tired guys it's going to be nice

[0:02] to just be able to relax for like a week

[0:05] except for the one thing I have to do

[0:06] you know the walk throughout my house on

[0:08] Friday the rest of the time just

[0:12] chill

[0:14] relax so I'm getting ready to go dump my

[0:17] tanks not a whole lot left over here you

[0:20] know I'm going to have to move that

[0:21] stuff over to my new site over

[0:23] there got a bunch of my stuff over there

[0:26] already let's

[0:28] see hope it's for

[0:32] and took the Box

[0:35] off well you

[0:38] know Parts you're not supposed to drive

[0:40] over which I've done a couple of times

[0:43] now and then me reset

[0:47] this we're pretty much ready I got my

[0:50] Awning in and the slide in and we're

[0:51] ready to go going to drive off just

[0:55] going to drive up empty the tanks drive

[0:57] back around and reverse into that spot

[1:00] over there I hate to aanda but this does

[1:02] feel easier without my cats here it just

[1:06] does wish that wasn't true I've really

[1:08] LED those cats you know I raised them

[1:11] for a long

[1:14] time yeah is what it is though let's go

[1:18] into these

[1:19] TS guys just listen to this all right

[1:22] cuz this thing bangs around I probably

[1:24] did the worst of it

[1:26] already wow

[1:35] that's not sound good my tanks need to

[1:38] be

[1:40] drained I am going real slow like wow

[1:44] it's hard to go 10 miles an

[1:49] hour I think I'm going to be all right I

[1:51] can do

[1:53] this just need to get better at it I

[1:55] don't want to be doing this while my

[1:57] tanks are full you know

[2:00] up in my sinks and everything that's

[2:02] just

[2:05] crazy this isn't that hard to drive driv

[2:08] is real easy TOS my deep like there's

[2:11] nothing back there it's crazy

[2:15] me I need better visibility I haven't

[2:17] told you guys this yet but I did get the

[2:19] cord I need for my rear camera on my

[2:21] dash cam they sent it to me all the way

[2:24] from

[2:24] China so I'm going to work on getting

[2:27] that set up this week see if it helps

[2:30] that would be

[2:31] great if it doesn't then I'm going to

[2:36] need um I'm going to need to hire

[2:39] somebody to put some cameras out there

[2:42] for me I just feel a lot better with

[2:43] them being

[2:46] there more times you do

[2:51] this so these are are guts right more

[2:55] comfortable I know a lot to people say

[2:58] fears

[3:01] part of it you need to be afraid I don't

[3:04] you know maybe a little bit but not the

[3:06] kind of fear I'm having

[3:08] guys you know you don't get into your

[3:11] vehicle every day like oh my

[3:16] God you know that's what this is like so

[3:19] I don't think it's supposed to feel like

[3:22] that there is nobody here there are so

[3:24] many nice pretty sites too I've been

[3:27] thinking you're probably supposed to

[3:29] like you know when you come somewhere

[3:31] scout out the cool site and make a log

[3:34] of them case you ever want to come back

[3:36] I'm going to sneeze let's withdraw guys

[3:39] I know what it's

[3:41] coming maybe

[3:43] not it

[3:45] is I will be so glad when that's

[3:50] over it was just the one

[3:55] really yeah at least I'm doing it at

[3:58] least I'm doing it there is nothing like

[4:00] when I was getting out of my site lots

[4:02] of clinking

[4:04] and don't know that my I gotta get I

[4:07] gotta do a better job of securing my

[4:09] computer and my

[4:11] monitor like those are too valuable to

[4:13] me to ever let something happen to them

[4:15] I need

[4:18] to um put you know put Styrofoam around

[4:21] them Bubble Boy type

[4:25] stuff oh it is so hot today guys I would

[4:28] to use my air conditioner I don't know

[4:30] how to use anything in here really need

[4:32] to spend time up here without driving

[4:36] just you know cuz it's got to all I do

[4:39] is look at the back camera cuz what else

[4:41] am I going to

[4:47] do is making me very uncomfortable see

[4:50] what I mean like

[4:52] wow how can that be

[4:54] normal how can that be

[4:57] normal oh my God

[5:00] just sways back and

[5:03] forth It's not solid you know maybe that

[5:07] fluidity is helpful I don't know I think

[5:10] we're here Yep this is

[5:14] that oh we made

[5:16] it not for the hard part God help

[5:21] me oh my God I'm doing it you're I

[5:25] going oh God help me oh this is funny

[5:30] so where are my they're on this side yes

[5:33] yes makes sense is that true of all of

[5:36] them cuz it does seem like they're set

[5:37] up for that doesn't it here we are guys

[5:41] we have made it to the dump station and

[5:43] nobody is here so I'm not going to be

[5:46] disrupting

[5:48] anybody here we go you guys want to

[5:51] watch my PE go down the drain don't

[5:54] worry I was wearing GL um for all this

[5:56] part I had to get more couldn't find the

[5:59] good ones I had to use these food grade

[6:00] ones I put like two of them on but

[6:02] whatever so I know look at this this is

[6:05] not bad like I got a good setup

[6:08] right um start with the black

[6:11] one my p d

[6:14] the just don't go anywhere oh my God I

[6:16] would

[6:19] die e that is so

[6:22] gross and that's why I don't poop in

[6:25] it you know it's been like a month since

[6:28] black tank has been getting my P so I am

[6:31] not surprised at this site somebody put

[6:34] a rock there I met they're very common

[6:36] at these

[6:38] sites wow this has been needing to

[6:42] happen for a long

[6:46] time this ain't so bad I can do

[6:50] this this is not so

[6:54] bad yeah every new experience feels

[6:58] feels scary by the way guys this smells

[7:00] over here that was before my piece

[7:03] started coming

[7:04] out I don't like that

[7:07] part should I wait or what I don't know

[7:10] if you should wait

[7:13] like you guys are going to have to tell

[7:15] me how long do you wait for like you can

[7:17] see like it's barely draining out

[7:20] right so how long do you wait

[7:23] for before doing the other

[7:25] one keep them both open do you one at a

[7:28] time I just have no idea

[7:30] yeah truly don't

[7:33] know I am not good at this well I

[7:37] shouldn't say that I am new at

[7:43] this okay I would say it's probably time

[7:45] for the great

[7:47] tank it' be nice to have clean tanks

[7:50] well so I'm guessing I shot that you

[7:52] know I

[7:57] guess these things were broken and

[8:01] um you know I don't know how much I

[8:03] trust to be honest with

[8:08] you here we

[8:13] go kitchen sink water

[8:17] basically a lot of it probably take a

[8:22] while can't believe I'm recording

[8:25] this but I'm not the first though

[8:30] wow I do not like the way it smells over

[8:35] here there's a faucet over there where I

[8:37] can wash my hands and trust me I'll be

[8:39] doing that for about 5

[8:43] minutes she Beed with they me

[8:48] alone no get off

[8:57] me wow

[9:05] this holds a lot of water huh surely can

[9:08] get better at

[9:09] this um this is why you use paper cups

[9:13] and even for your coffee like all of

[9:16] that I

[9:19] think it's one hard task done

[9:23] right now backing into my

[9:25] sight I feel dirty

[9:30] that wasn't so

[9:31] bad oh that's so

[9:34] funny oh my

[9:37] God now for the really hard

[9:41] part you guys have to come along I

[9:44] wouldn't I would not do this by the way

[9:45] if I was not going like if I'm I'm going

[9:48] less than 10 m an hour right so I'm in a

[9:50] campground I'm

[9:52] not not you know I would never do this

[9:54] on anywhere else that's what I got to go

[9:56] pro

[9:58] for but there's a turn around

[10:01] here this really seems like terrible

[10:04] give me a

[10:05] second I'm going to let this guy

[10:13] go I don't need anybody behind

[10:16] me cuz I'm going to be a while I think I

[10:19] don't even

[10:22] know we're just going to

[10:26] wait all right people are showing up

[10:30] wonder what time it

[10:32] is I did it guys I did it I'm proud of

[10:40] myself

[10:43] Dam it's not fun but it's not terrible

[10:46] guys you know you probably do it what 52

[10:49] weeks a year or 52 times a year at the

[10:52] most you know that's how I look at

[10:56] it my back camera is always on

[11:02] so hot please give me air conditioning I

[11:04] don't know how to make it

[11:07] work it is so hot like I am just

[11:12] dying

[11:13] please just give me air or

[11:17] [Music]

[11:25] something you want to see what we're

[11:27] doing

[11:29] [Music]

[11:32] you know what it's really easy to go 10

[11:33] in an

[11:34] RV kind of hard to doing my

[11:49] KN oh sorry guys can give you a better

[11:52] view than that

[12:00] I will be so glad to be at my new site

[12:03] of course I'm going to have to get

[12:04] myself LEL

[12:05] too and there are so much stuff back

[12:08] there like I'm not organized things

[12:09] aren't clean but I got a week now to get

[12:13] my life

[12:17] together just going to chill and make

[12:20] the best of it so I think this

[12:21] withdrawal is almost over I

[12:26] do okay it's this way

[12:30] I do that every time you think I'd

[12:36] remember you really would think I'd

[12:41] remember oh I got a question for you

[12:44] guys now my understanding is you can't

[12:47] be here for longer than 2 weeks anywhere

[12:49] so why does everybody always put Flags

[12:51] out and these lights that like are on

[12:55] the

[12:56] ground there seems like so much work

[13:00] like I don't why did they're they are

[13:03] really not here longer than two weeks

[13:04] right they're not like living here it

[13:07] just seems like a lot of work and there

[13:08] are an awful lot of

[13:11] flags um at least they're just American

[13:15] flags

[13:20] truly somebody waved that me I should

[13:23] way back but I was I wasn't paying atten

[13:25] to that's bad I me

[13:29] [Music]

[13:33] you know what I'd love to have a

[13:35] campfire one of these

[13:38] nights it's been a while this is not air

[13:42] conditioning but I'll take

[13:45] it oh man this is such a b

[13:50] [Music]

[13:52] life I hope my campera holds up that's

[13:55] all I'm saying it just sounds so bad

[13:59] I turn

[14:04] left

[14:05] yes every

[14:08] time here we go oh my God that sounds

[14:18] horrible I really need you guys to tell

[14:20] me that's

[14:21] normal it doesn't sound

[14:24] good my monitor's up on the table that

[14:27] was d mean

[14:30] you

[14:32] know how can I take this kind of

[14:37] abuse oh God we're almost there I'm

[14:39] going to have to back up into this thing

[14:42] that's the hard part I won't be able to

[14:43] do that with you to get out look at what

[14:47] I'm doing like a bunch of times all

[14:50] that safy

[14:55] [Music]

[14:57] first oh my neighbors are back so now

[15:00] they get to watch me do weight that

[15:03] sucks man was hoping I'd be able to look

[15:07] stupid on my

[15:09] [Music]

[15:12] own oh God help me this my sight up

[15:17] here how do we do

[15:22] this I said this was a easy one we're

[15:25] just going to have to believe

[15:27] her hey that's this is where we part

[15:29] went it's like I was over there we are

[15:33] moved I think I left my enough s enough

[15:36] clearance and got myself a fun box a

[15:39] little

[15:40] bit um shows that we're off bouns but we

[15:44] should be that's the point bring the

[15:47] slide out let I get about to

[15:50] Center get hooked up we should be good

[15:52] we're not as level as we should

[15:55] be I don't want to do this again so

[16:00] tired guess I'll get better at measuring

[16:02] this thing right see we're not level I

[16:05] need to be up one more block I

[16:07] think just one more

[16:10] block and then over

[16:14] here just got a little bit more to go on

[16:17] this side like my front tire probably

[16:19] could have put that up about one block

[16:21] and it would have been good maybe I do

[16:24] that but not now like I will do that

[16:29] after I get this place cleaned up

[16:30] there's stuff everywhere

[16:32] now hey it's not bad I'm happy to be in

[16:35] this

[16:36] spot it's not a bad spot it's not the

[16:39] one I thought it was that's the one I

[16:40] was thinking

[16:42] but right there's the showers you

[16:45] know um I like that I like being close

[16:48] to

[16:49] them it's just surprising I didn't think

[16:51] that I would like that but I do kind of

[16:54] lets me know

[16:55] if you know there's no one there and I

[16:58] can go shower and PE

[17:01] so yeah going to do what I said I was

[17:03] going to do

[17:05] and get this place cleaned up cuz that's

[17:09] what I need to

[17:11] do we are getting there this is progress

[0:00] I am so tired guys it's going to be nice

[0:02] to just be able to relax for like a week

[0:05] except for the one thing I have to do

[0:06] you know the walk throughout my house on

[0:08] Friday the rest of the time just

[0:12] chill

[0:14] relax so I'm getting ready to go dump my

[0:17] tanks not a whole lot left over here you

[0:20] know I'm going to have to move that

[0:21] stuff over to my new site over

[0:23] there got a bunch of my stuff over there

[0:26] already let's

[0:28] see hope it's for

[0:32] and took the Box

[0:35] off well you

[0:38] know Parts you're not supposed to drive

[0:40] over which I've done a couple of times

[0:43] now and then me reset

[0:47] this we're pretty much ready I got my

[0:50] Awning in and the slide in and we're

[0:51] ready to go going to drive off just

[0:55] going to drive up empty the tanks drive

[0:57] back around and reverse into that spot

[1:00] over there I hate to aanda but this does

[1:02] feel easier without my cats here it just

[1:06] does wish that wasn't true I've really

[1:08] LED those cats you know I raised them

[1:11] for a long

[1:14] time yeah is what it is though let's go

[1:18] into these

[1:19] TS guys just listen to this all right

[1:22] cuz this thing bangs around I probably

[1:24] did the worst of it

[1:26] already wow

[1:35] that's not sound good my tanks need to

[1:38] be

[1:40] drained I am going real slow like wow

[1:44] it's hard to go 10 miles an

[1:49] hour I think I'm going to be all right I

[1:51] can do

[1:53] this just need to get better at it I

[1:55] don't want to be doing this while my

[1:57] tanks are full you know

[2:00] up in my sinks and everything that's

[2:02] just

[2:05] crazy this isn't that hard to drive driv

[2:08] is real easy TOS my deep like there's

[2:11] nothing back there it's crazy

[2:15] me I need better visibility I haven't

[2:17] told you guys this yet but I did get the

[2:19] cord I need for my rear camera on my

[2:21] dash cam they sent it to me all the way

[2:24] from

[2:24] China so I'm going to work on getting

[2:27] that set up this week see if it helps

[2:30] that would be

[2:31] great if it doesn't then I'm going to

[2:36] need um I'm going to need to hire

[2:39] somebody to put some cameras out there

[2:42] for me I just feel a lot better with

[2:43] them being

[2:46] there more times you do

[2:51] this so these are are guts right more

[2:55] comfortable I know a lot to people say

[2:58] fears

[3:01] part of it you need to be afraid I don't

[3:04] you know maybe a little bit but not the

[3:06] kind of fear I'm having

[3:08] guys you know you don't get into your

[3:11] vehicle every day like oh my

[3:16] God you know that's what this is like so

[3:19] I don't think it's supposed to feel like

[3:22] that there is nobody here there are so

[3:24] many nice pretty sites too I've been

[3:27] thinking you're probably supposed to

[3:29] like you know when you come somewhere

[3:31] scout out the cool site and make a log

[3:34] of them case you ever want to come back

[3:36] I'm going to sneeze let's withdraw guys

[3:39] I know what it's

[3:41] coming maybe

[3:43] not it

[3:45] is I will be so glad when that's

[3:50] over it was just the one

[3:55] really yeah at least I'm doing it at

[3:58] least I'm doing it there is nothing like

[4:00] when I was getting out of my site lots

[4:02] of clinking

[4:04] and don't know that my I gotta get I

[4:07] gotta do a better job of securing my

[4:09] computer and my

[4:11] monitor like those are too valuable to

[4:13] me to ever let something happen to them

[4:15] I need

[4:18] to um put you know put Styrofoam around

[4:21] them Bubble Boy type

[4:25] stuff oh it is so hot today guys I would

[4:28] to use my air conditioner I don't know

[4:30] how to use anything in here really need

[4:32] to spend time up here without driving

[4:36] just you know cuz it's got to all I do

[4:39] is look at the back camera cuz what else

[4:41] am I going to

[4:47] do is making me very uncomfortable see

[4:50] what I mean like

[4:52] wow how can that be

[4:54] normal how can that be

[4:57] normal oh my God

[5:00] just sways back and

[5:03] forth It's not solid you know maybe that

[5:07] fluidity is helpful I don't know I think

[5:10] we're here Yep this is

[5:14] that oh we made

[5:16] it not for the hard part God help

[5:21] me oh my God I'm doing it you're I

[5:25] going oh God help me oh this is funny

[5:30] so where are my they're on this side yes

[5:33] yes makes sense is that true of all of

[5:36] them cuz it does seem like they're set

[5:37] up for that doesn't it here we are guys

[5:41] we have made it to the dump station and

[5:43] nobody is here so I'm not going to be

[5:46] disrupting

[5:48] anybody here we go you guys want to

[5:51] watch my PE go down the drain don't

[5:54] worry I was wearing GL um for all this

[5:56] part I had to get more couldn't find the

[5:59] good ones I had to use these food grade

[6:00] ones I put like two of them on but

[6:02] whatever so I know look at this this is

[6:05] not bad like I got a good setup

[6:08] right um start with the black

[6:11] one my p d

[6:14] the just don't go anywhere oh my God I

[6:16] would

[6:19] die e that is so

[6:22] gross and that's why I don't poop in

[6:25] it you know it's been like a month since

[6:28] black tank has been getting my P so I am

[6:31] not surprised at this site somebody put

[6:34] a rock there I met they're very common

[6:36] at these

[6:38] sites wow this has been needing to

[6:42] happen for a long

[6:46] time this ain't so bad I can do

[6:50] this this is not so

[6:54] bad yeah every new experience feels

[6:58] feels scary by the way guys this smells

[7:00] over here that was before my piece

[7:03] started coming

[7:04] out I don't like that

[7:07] part should I wait or what I don't know

[7:10] if you should wait

[7:13] like you guys are going to have to tell

[7:15] me how long do you wait for like you can

[7:17] see like it's barely draining out

[7:20] right so how long do you wait

[7:23] for before doing the other

[7:25] one keep them both open do you one at a

[7:28] time I just have no idea

[7:30] yeah truly don't

[7:33] know I am not good at this well I

[7:37] shouldn't say that I am new at

[7:43] this okay I would say it's probably time

[7:45] for the great

[7:47] tank it' be nice to have clean tanks

[7:50] well so I'm guessing I shot that you

[7:52] know I

[7:57] guess these things were broken and

[8:01] um you know I don't know how much I

[8:03] trust to be honest with

[8:08] you here we

[8:13] go kitchen sink water

[8:17] basically a lot of it probably take a

[8:22] while can't believe I'm recording

[8:25] this but I'm not the first though

[8:30] wow I do not like the way it smells over

[8:35] here there's a faucet over there where I

[8:37] can wash my hands and trust me I'll be

[8:39] doing that for about 5

[8:43] minutes she Beed with they me

[8:48] alone no get off

[8:57] me wow

[9:05] this holds a lot of water huh surely can

[9:08] get better at

[9:09] this um this is why you use paper cups

[9:13] and even for your coffee like all of

[9:16] that I

[9:19] think it's one hard task done

[9:23] right now backing into my

[9:25] sight I feel dirty

[9:30] that wasn't so

[9:31] bad oh that's so

[9:34] funny oh my

[9:37] God now for the really hard

[9:41] part you guys have to come along I

[9:44] wouldn't I would not do this by the way

[9:45] if I was not going like if I'm I'm going

[9:48] less than 10 m an hour right so I'm in a

[9:50] campground I'm

[9:52] not not you know I would never do this

[9:54] on anywhere else that's what I got to go

[9:56] pro

[9:58] for but there's a turn around

[10:01] here this really seems like terrible

[10:04] give me a

[10:05] second I'm going to let this guy

[10:13] go I don't need anybody behind

[10:16] me cuz I'm going to be a while I think I

[10:19] don't even

[10:22] know we're just going to

[10:26] wait all right people are showing up

[10:30] wonder what time it

[10:32] is I did it guys I did it I'm proud of

[10:40] myself

[10:43] Dam it's not fun but it's not terrible

[10:46] guys you know you probably do it what 52

[10:49] weeks a year or 52 times a year at the

[10:52] most you know that's how I look at

[10:56] it my back camera is always on

[11:02] so hot please give me air conditioning I

[11:04] don't know how to make it

[11:07] work it is so hot like I am just

[11:12] dying

[11:13] please just give me air or

[11:17] [Music]

[11:25] something you want to see what we're

[11:27] doing

[11:29] [Music]

[11:32] you know what it's really easy to go 10

[11:33] in an

[11:34] RV kind of hard to doing my

[11:49] KN oh sorry guys can give you a better

[11:52] view than that

[12:00] I will be so glad to be at my new site

[12:03] of course I'm going to have to get

[12:04] myself LEL

[12:05] too and there are so much stuff back

[12:08] there like I'm not organized things

[12:09] aren't clean but I got a week now to get

[12:13] my life

[12:17] together just going to chill and make

[12:20] the best of it so I think this

[12:21] withdrawal is almost over I

[12:26] do okay it's this way

[12:30] I do that every time you think I'd

[12:36] remember you really would think I'd

[12:41] remember oh I got a question for you

[12:44] guys now my understanding is you can't

[12:47] be here for longer than 2 weeks anywhere

[12:49] so why does everybody always put Flags

[12:51] out and these lights that like are on

[12:55] the

[12:56] ground there seems like so much work

[13:00] like I don't why did they're they are

[13:03] really not here longer than two weeks

[13:04] right they're not like living here it

[13:07] just seems like a lot of work and there

[13:08] are an awful lot of

[13:11] flags um at least they're just American

[13:15] flags

[13:20] truly somebody waved that me I should

[13:23] way back but I was I wasn't paying atten

[13:25] to that's bad I me

[13:29] [Music]

[13:33] you know what I'd love to have a

[13:35] campfire one of these

[13:38] nights it's been a while this is not air

[13:42] conditioning but I'll take

[13:45] it oh man this is such a b

[13:50] [Music]

[13:52] life I hope my campera holds up that's

[13:55] all I'm saying it just sounds so bad

[13:59] I turn

[14:04] left

[14:05] yes every

[14:08] time here we go oh my God that sounds

[14:18] horrible I really need you guys to tell

[14:20] me that's

[14:21] normal it doesn't sound

[14:24] good my monitor's up on the table that

[14:27] was d mean

[14:30] you

[14:32] know how can I take this kind of

[14:37] abuse oh God we're almost there I'm

[14:39] going to have to back up into this thing

[14:42] that's the hard part I won't be able to

[14:43] do that with you to get out look at what

[14:47] I'm doing like a bunch of times all

[14:50] that safy

[14:55] [Music]

[14:57] first oh my neighbors are back so now

[15:00] they get to watch me do weight that

[15:03] sucks man was hoping I'd be able to look

[15:07] stupid on my

[15:09] [Music]

[15:12] own oh God help me this my sight up

[15:17] here how do we do

[15:22] this I said this was a easy one we're

[15:25] just going to have to believe

[15:27] her hey that's this is where we part

[15:29] went it's like I was over there we are

[15:33] moved I think I left my enough s enough

[15:36] clearance and got myself a fun box a

[15:39] little

[15:40] bit um shows that we're off bouns but we

[15:44] should be that's the point bring the

[15:47] slide out let I get about to

[15:50] Center get hooked up we should be good

[15:52] we're not as level as we should

[15:55] be I don't want to do this again so

[16:00] tired guess I'll get better at measuring

[16:02] this thing right see we're not level I

[16:05] need to be up one more block I

[16:07] think just one more

[16:10] block and then over

[16:14] here just got a little bit more to go on

[16:17] this side like my front tire probably

[16:19] could have put that up about one block

[16:21] and it would have been good maybe I do

[16:24] that but not now like I will do that

[16:29] after I get this place cleaned up

[16:30] there's stuff everywhere

[16:32] now hey it's not bad I'm happy to be in

[16:35] this

[16:36] spot it's not a bad spot it's not the

[16:39] one I thought it was that's the one I

[16:40] was thinking

[16:42] but right there's the showers you

[16:45] know um I like that I like being close

[16:48] to

[16:49] them it's just surprising I didn't think

[16:51] that I would like that but I do kind of

[16:54] lets me know

[16:55] if you know there's no one there and I

[16:58] can go shower and PE

[17:01] so yeah going to do what I said I was

[17:03] going to do

[17:05] and get this place cleaned up cuz that's

[17:09] what I need to

[17:11] do we are getting there this is progress

36:41

Rain, Power Loss, and First Weeks in the Camper

Apr 26, 2024

9:26

Recovering Journals, Driving to Carthage Walmart

Apr 26, 2024

21:31

Cooking First Chili in the Camper on a Windy Day

Apr 27, 2024

5:43

Explaining Why Tapering Is Not Available

Apr 27, 2024

3:23

Clearing the House, Recovering the Journals

Apr 27, 2024

21:34

Assessing Camper Level While Tapering Off Opioids

Apr 28, 2024

3:14

Waking to an Emptied Campground, Recalibrating the Day

Apr 28, 2024

2:11

Leveling the RV, Weighing Travel Pace

Apr 28, 2024

2:53

Day One of Withdrawal at the Campground

Apr 29, 2024

4:23

Documenting First Night Off Opioids

Apr 29, 2024

20:41

Walking the Campground on Site 77

Apr 29, 2024

3:19

Setting Up Twitch Stream Without Sleep

Apr 29, 2024

6:08

Addressing Trolls, Gray Tank, and Cat Housing Decision

Apr 30, 2024

2:55

Relocating Cats to Parents Early in Camper Life

Apr 30, 2024

6:58

Handing Off Cats and Leaving the House

Apr 30, 2024

5:29

Recalibrating Route Plan Mid-Drive Through Tennessee

May 1, 2024

12:08

Day 21 Systems Check and Final Walkthrough

May 1, 2024

13:46

Moving Sites, Restocking, Renaming the Channel

May 1, 2024

17:15

Dumping Tanks and Repositioning to New Site

May 2, 2024

2:07

Acknowledging Loneliness as Structural Recalibration

May 2, 2024

12:20

Recording Post-Withdrawal Day at New Campground Site

May 2, 2024

8:07

Recounting the Land Deal and Choosing the Camper

May 2, 2024

0:50

Rerouting Travel Plans at Lake Cumberland

May 3, 2024

6:33

Addressing Tramadol Withdrawal Timeline and Channel Direction

May 4, 2024

3:28

Morning Camper Routine and Tramadol Withdrawal Notes

May 4, 2024

1:34

Reassigning Freed Storage Space Under the Bed

May 4, 2024

1:28

Sharing Wooden Book-Folding Hobby on Camera

May 4, 2024

11:00

Organizing Camper, Naming Land and Cabin Goal

May 4, 2024

37:19

Preparing Travel Day With Cats and Withdrawal Plan

May 5, 2024

8:16

Documenting Withdrawal Recurrence and Severing Medical Trust

May 5, 2024

13:28

Morning Camper Check-In on Cooking, Creativity, Change

May 5, 2024

2:21

Planning a Store Run and Learning to Cook

May 5, 2024

13:07

Trying Tea for the First Time After Showers

May 5, 2024

1:08

Recording Birdsong at Siltcoos

May 6, 2024

6:06

Building a Fire and Stating Motivations

May 6, 2024

2:55

Recording Empty Campground at Siltcoos

May 6, 2024

7:27

Recording a 6 AM Walk at the Campsite

May 6, 2024

7:53

Revisiting Spirituality and Agnosticism at Camp

May 6, 2024

40:00

Scouting Lake Cumberland, Visiting Family and Cats

May 7, 2024

11:01

Morning Fog Walk, BetterHelp Exit, Substitution Plans

May 7, 2024

1:26

Recording Road Incident After Braking for Squirrel

May 7, 2024

PUBLIC

May 2, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.30

Density 0.40

Energetic Quality

steady exertion under heat load

Journey Phase

transitional — mid-relocation

Directional Vector

toward operational competence in a new mobile system

Narrative

The heat was already sitting inside the rig when rswfire started the camera. He was tired — he said so first, before anything else — and he narrated the week ahead the way a man inventories relief: one obligation left, the walkthrough at the house on Friday, and after that, nothing but a week to sit still. The tanks needed dumping. His gear was scattered between two sites, some of it already carried across to the new spot. He had the awning in and the slide in. He checked what he wasn't supposed to drive over, noted he'd driven over it a couple of times anyway, reset it, and declared the rig ready to go.

He mentioned the cats then, plainly and without dwelling — that the move felt easier without them here, that he wished it weren't true, that he'd raised them a long time. Then he shifted the camera toward the noise. The rig banged as it rolled, tanks sloshing, and he told the audience to listen. Ten miles an hour turned out to be harder to hold than he expected. He talked himself through it in the same breath he used to assess it: he could do this, he just needed to get better at it, and he did not want to be doing it with full tanks sloshing up toward his sinks. He said the driving itself was easy. The visibility was the problem. He told them about the cord for his rear camera, shipped from China, arrived, waiting for him to install it this week — and if that didn't work, he'd hire someone to mount real cameras. He named the fear directly and declined the usual framing for it: people said fear was part of it, that you needed to be afraid, and he didn't accept that you should feel like this every time you got into your vehicle.

The loop was empty. He passed nice sites, pretty ones, and floated the idea that a person should scout and log the good ones for a return trip. He sneezed. He noted the withdrawal moving through him and said he'd be glad when it was over, then set it down and went back to the road. He logged what the drive had cost him: the clinking from the back, the computer and the monitor too valuable to keep letting shift, styrofoam and bubble wrap on the list. He wanted air conditioning and didn't know how to run it, and said what he actually needed was time up here not driving, just learning the systems. The rig swayed. He watched the back camera because there was nothing else to watch, said it made him uncomfortable, asked how that could be normal, and then allowed that maybe the fluidity was helpful. He didn't know.

At the dump station nobody was there, which meant he wouldn't be in anyone's way. He'd put on food-grade gloves, doubled, because he couldn't find the good ones. He looked at his hookup and judged it: not bad, a good setup. He opened the black tank first — a month of it, since he doesn't use it for solids — and narrated the drain as it went, disgusted and unbothered at once, repeating that this wasn't so bad, that he could do this, that every new experience feels scary. Then he hit the edge of what he knew and said so out loud, routing the question to whoever was watching: how long do you wait before opening the gray, do you keep them both open, do you go one at a time. He truly didn't know. And when the phrase came out of him — I am not good at this — he stopped himself mid-sentence and corrected it on the record: well I shouldn't say that, I am new at this.

The gray tank followed, kitchen sink water, a lot of it, slow. He didn't like the smell and located the faucet where he'd wash his hands for five minutes. He said he couldn't believe he was recording this, and then that he wasn't the first. One hard task done. He felt dirty. It hadn't been so bad.

Backing in was the part he called the really hard part, and he brought the audience along for it. He noted his own conditions for doing this at all — under ten miles an hour, inside a campground, nowhere else. At the turnaround he stopped and waved another driver past rather than have anyone waiting behind him. People were showing up. He didn't know what time it was. He asked the camera repeatedly whether the sounds were normal — the monitor on the table taking the abuse, the rig groaning through the left turn he makes every time and never remembers. Somewhere in the loop a neighbor waved and he didn't wave back, having not been paying attention, and he flagged it as bad. He asked about the flags and the ground lights at other sites: two-week limits, so why the installation, why that much work. He said he'd love a campfire one of these nights. He said this was a beautiful life.

His neighbors were back at the site next to his, which meant an audience for the backing-in — he'd been hoping to look stupid on his own. He talked himself into the maneuver, got out to look several times, and put it in place with enough clearance. Then the assessment, unsentimental: not level, one more block under the front, a little more on the other side, and he wasn't doing it again today. He would fix it after cleaning. The slide came out. He got hooked up. Stuff was everywhere and nothing was organized and he had a week to get his life together. The site wasn't the one he'd been picturing, but the showers were right there, close enough to see whether anyone was in them before he walked over — a thing he was surprised to find he liked. He named the plan he'd already named, to clean the place up, because that was what he needed to do. We are getting there. This is progress.

Summary

rswfire records a full RV relocation cycle at his campground: breaking down the site, driving to the dump station, emptying tanks, and reversing into a new site.

He describes prepping the rig — awning in, slide in, box off the parts he's not supposed to drive over — and notes gear still staged at the new site. Driving at under 10 mph, he tracks the sound of the coach banging around and flags securing his computer and monitor as an unresolved task. He states he has received the rear camera cord for his dash cam, shipped from China, and plans to set it up this week; if it doesn't work, he will hire someone to install cameras.

At the dump station he narrates the black tank then grey tank procedure, notes he doesn't use the black tank for solids and that roughly a month has passed since the last dump, and asks viewers directly how long to wait between tanks and whether to open them together. He states he is new at this rather than bad at it.

He mentions his cats are no longer with him and that the move is mechanically easier without them, that he is in withdrawal and near its end, that the heat is high and he doesn't yet know how to run the air conditioner, and that a Friday walkthrough of his house is the week's only obligation.

He backs into the new site, notes he is one block short of level, and sets cleanup as the next task.

Environment

A campground in an RV, recorded while driving and operating the rig solo. rswfire moves the vehicle from one site to the dump station and then reverses into a new site within the same loop. Conditions are hot with no functioning air conditioning; the interior holds unsecured gear — a computer, a monitor on the table — that shifts audibly over the road.

The outer environment includes empty sites, arriving neighbors, another driver let past at a turnaround, flags and ground lights at neighboring sites, and a shower building adjacent to the new spot. A house walkthrough is scheduled for Friday; the cats are no longer present. Camera capture is continuous, addressed to a viewing audience.

Substrate

The architecture being held is a self-taught operating protocol for a mobile dwelling: rswfire narrates each unfamiliar mechanical procedure as it happens, marking what he does not yet know and separating capability from novelty ("I am not good at this well I shouldn't say that I am new at this"). The signal builds a working knowledge base in public — asking the audience procedural questions about tank sequencing, logging equipment gaps, specifying next-step fixes — rather than presenting a finished competence. Underneath: sovereignty is not asserted as a stance but assembled task by task, with the vehicle as the load-bearing infrastructure of a life in transition from a fixed house to a moving one.

Actions

Performed

•brought in awning and slide
•removed the box
•drove the RV under 10 mph through the campground
•monitored the rear camera during travel
•narrated interior noise from unsecured gear
•arrived at the dump station
•emptied the black tank
•emptied the gray tank
•asked viewers about tank draining sequence and timing
•let a following vehicle pass at the turnaround
•backed into the new site with neighbors watching
•extended the slide
•hooked up
•assessed leveling and identified a needed extra block
•noted proximity to the shower building

Referenced

•drove over parts not meant to be driven over, a couple of times
•moved gear to the new site in advance
•ordered and received a rear camera cord shipped from China
•raised cats for a long time
•bought food-grade gloves after failing to find the good ones
•left the black tank a month without emptying
•doubled gloves for the dump procedure
•passed a waving neighbor without waving back

Planned

•complete a house walkthrough on Friday
•relax for a week
•install the rear camera using the newly arrived cord
•hire someone to mount cameras if the dash cam setup fails
•secure the computer and monitor with padding for travel
•learn the air conditioner and other in-rig systems
•add one more leveling block under the front tire
•clean and organize the interior
•wash hands at the dump station faucet
•log good campsites for future return
•have a campfire one of these nights

Entities

beings

rswfire — Operator and narrator; drives, dumps tanks, and repositions the RV solo.

the cats — No longer traveling with him; he states the move feels easier without them and that he wishes that weren't true.

the audience — Addressed directly and asked procedural questions about tank operation.

places

the house — Prior fixed dwelling; a walkthrough is scheduled for Friday.

dump station — Campground facility where black and gray tanks are emptied.

new site — Destination spot in the same campground, adjacent to the showers; gear already staged there.

China — Origin of the shipped camera cord.

systems

the RV — Mobile dwelling and vehicle; tanks, slide, awning, leveling, and air conditioning all under active learning.

black tank — Urine-only holding tank, unemptied for roughly a month.

gray tank — Kitchen sink water tank, drained second.

dash cam rear camera — Visibility hardware pending installation; cord shipped from China.

concepts

two-week stay limit — Campground rule he questions against neighbors' flags and ground lighting.

American flags — Recurring site decoration he notes across neighboring sites.

media

computer and monitor — High-value equipment shifting unsecured during travel; padding planned.

GoPro — Named as the camera he still needs for exterior capture while driving.

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

vehicle

water

drainage

heat

leveling

mirror/rear camera

flag

fire

empty seat

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

transitional (moving between sites, and between a fixed house and a mobile one)

learning-position (explicitly reframes 'not good at this' as 'new at this')

self-reliant (operating every mechanical step solo, hiring out named only as fallback)

publicly instrumented (procedure narrated to camera and questions routed to viewers)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (tanks, slide, awning, hookups, leveling blocks)

mechanical/vehicular (low-speed driving, reversing, turnaround negotiation)

somatic (heat load, fatigue, physical caution, hand washing)

cognitive (procedural sequencing, self-assessment, distinguishing skill from novelty)

social (audience address, neighbors observing, yielding to another driver)

technical (camera install, equipment securing, hardware sourcing)

domestic (cleaning, organizing, shower access)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

I can do this / I'm doing it

new at this, not bad at this

tanks — black, gray, draining

10 miles an hour / going slow

visibility, back camera

level / blocks / hooked up

progress

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