Walking to Camper's Cove at Barren River Lake

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[0:01] you know if you think about it change is

[0:04] inevitable you've been just doing

[0:06] nothing like I did for many years just

[0:09] result in stagnation and that's

[0:11] change it's not a good change but it's

[0:18] change me the architect over

[0:21] change it's super nice out here I tried

[0:24] to take us for a walk but that trail

[0:27] that I went down just IED out a highway

[0:30] so that can't be right there's supposed

[0:32] to be one around here that takes you to

[0:34] the water called Camper's Cove and I'm

[0:36] looking for that this

[0:38] morning guess you could call it a quest

[0:40] we need to go find an NPC to tell us

[0:42] where it is I'm just saying let's make

[0:45] life adventurous

[0:46] today I thought it was over

[0:50] there there is an old

[0:53] sermon station over there I don't know

[0:55] what you call that but boy did it night

[0:58] my um curiosity and my imagination

[1:02] like who talked at that pedestal who was

[1:05] listening what were they talking

[1:07] about I mean you just got to see it let

[1:10] me go show

[1:11] you I mean it's like an outdoor

[1:14] church I don't know Community spot how

[1:18] ancient is this if it is

[1:24] ancient I mean look how close you are to

[1:27] the people you're talking to

[1:36] how can that not ignite your imagination

[1:38] like it's

[1:40] just who's sad in those

[1:45] benches I would love to

[1:48] know if you're wondering where we are

[1:50] it's Baron River Lake State Resort Park

[1:52] in

[1:53] Kentucky yeah this place is Big there's

[1:56] all kinds of stuff to do here there's

[1:58] like multiple shower hous is pretty big

[2:01] Campground they have cottages and Villas

[2:04] a lodge a

[2:05] restaurant a golf course horse stables

[2:09] horse riding trails Trails

[2:11] everywhere uh

[2:14] Marina just's so much and you know I

[2:17] spent two weeks here and did none of it

[2:19] we're changing that

[2:21] today like any good playing character I

[2:25] just took a

[2:26] shortcut it's beautiful here you guys

[2:30] are ever wondering what that black line

[2:31] is at the bottom um I have a cover on my

[2:35] phone sometimes want to take it off cuz

[2:37] I do record so

[2:38] much but my phone would quickly get

[2:43] damaged we are walking up to the front

[2:45] of the park to see if somebody can tell

[2:47] us where this Camper's Cove is

[2:50] at not in the best shape these

[2:53] days 10 years of not hiking how did that

[2:56] happen we are changing that

[2:59] this squ just ran across the

[3:02] road wonder who put that in the

[3:05] simulation unfortunately I know my phone

[3:08] can't do it justice but that is an

[3:09] amazing

[3:11] tree totally

[3:14] beautiful hello

[3:17] tree I love

[3:22] you we still have a ways to go so today

[3:26] is actually supposed to be quite a um

[3:29] nice day by my standards it's going to

[3:31] be in the

[3:32] 60s um I don't like too hot or too cold

[3:35] I do like I like the'

[3:38] 60s I didn't know that

[3:41] um till I moved into this camper I

[3:44] guess definitely kept it warmer in my

[3:47] house often way warmer for my

[3:49] mom but I got used to being in the 60s

[3:54] just from living in that

[3:56] camper I really like it it's almost 8 in

[4:00] the morning so hopefully there's someone

[4:01] up here not sure I got up at 600 um

[4:07] naturally I've been telling people I'm

[4:08] nocturnal my whole life I wasn't I was

[4:12] out of alignment with the

[4:13] world and I knew I had to get back to

[4:17] Nature it really is a healing force that

[4:20] will change your life believe me it

[4:24] will bit of a steep climb I see a Jeep

[4:27] up there though I know who that is I met

[4:29] him last M

[4:30] here so somebody's

[4:34] here okay guys the coolest NPC ever just

[4:37] told me where to go I was so off it's

[4:40] nowhere near

[4:41] me I was misreading the map but we will

[4:44] figure that out later we're going to go

[4:46] find this

[4:49] place yeah it's pretty far from where I

[4:52] am so from where I am there

[4:55] are well there's nothing which is good

[4:57] it's private right

[5:00] um we just have to go all the way to the

[5:02] end of the park to get to this little

[5:05] Trail it's a very small so but it takes

[5:08] you to water let's go see some

[5:12] water out broth that was a very Steep

[5:15] Hill really showed me how out of shape

[5:17] I've gotten so we're changing that I'm

[5:21] not proud of

[5:22] that um I always called myself a hiker

[5:27] always that is a defining characteristic

[5:31] so no this will not

[5:38] work thank God we're going downhill but

[5:41] yeah I'm going to get myself in shape

[5:42] cuz that is just not acceptable a little

[5:45] Hill I mean it's deep but

[5:48] still I'm not that old I'm

[5:52] not

[5:54] so we're also going to go find um there

[5:58] are several different ch shower

[6:02] facilities I don't like that aspect of

[6:04] this but I just can't shower in my

[6:07] camper because it will just tanks will

[6:10] get filled so

[6:12] fast and I like hot water like a lot of

[6:15] it you know what I mean like like just

[6:18] sit under hot

[6:20] water

[6:22] so although another that I'm saying that

[6:24] I've always had an interest in trying

[6:26] cold water you know some people say

[6:28] that's the way to

[6:31] go question everything I didn't bring

[6:34] any cigarettes with me just my vape

[6:37] pen um I'm still smoking but I do want

[6:41] to switch to vaping and

[6:43] then um to

[6:46] Patches I want to quit you know people

[6:49] often say change is hard and it is but

[6:51] not once you get started you need to

[6:53] know

[6:55] that um there are times in your

[6:57] life where if you do make a

[7:01] change you can change everything about

[7:03] yourself okay time for a little bit of a

[7:05] side

[7:07] quest I would love to know how you guys

[7:09] like your eggs

[7:11] seriously so that's the easiest thing

[7:13] for me to make in the

[7:15] mornings

[7:17] and I don't really know I tried putting

[7:20] hot sauce on it yesterday I think I had

[7:22] the wrong kind I was Louisiana hot sauce

[7:24] so out of breath

[7:26] guys um I didn't like it but never

[7:31] really tried hot sauces so maybe I'm

[7:34] using the wrong kind would love to know

[7:36] your thoughts I never really put ketchup

[7:38] in my eggs but I tried that and that was

[7:40] pretty good I just I need some variety

[7:43] help me out Camper's right over there

[7:46] guys you can see it now there's my

[7:49] pretty Jeep I love my Jeep hi

[7:53] Brian

[7:57] Caroline looks like it's just be back

[7:59] there now

[8:00] because the people just drove by us

[8:03] we're the ones that in that site over

[8:05] there that's the weekend there will be

[8:07] more people every

[8:10] weekend I didn't eat this morning but

[8:13] figured what I do with after this I'm

[8:15] going to go find the

[8:17] restaurant um I spent a lot of time at

[8:19] the natural bread State Resort park over

[8:22] the years and always ate there and I

[8:25] love their food

[8:31] so you know I'm hoping they have a good

[8:33] restaurant here

[8:34] too I think they probably will I just I

[8:37] believe in I believe in my state I can't

[8:39] believe I'm saying that I am a

[8:41] transplant but I love Kentucky I do I'm

[8:45] just looking at the map you know I got

[8:47] really lost here it's in one of my

[8:49] videos it took me like forever to find

[8:52] my way back to my site I was right at

[8:53] the

[8:54] entrance

[8:56] um I'm not going to say I was always

[8:58] good at reading m Maps loved hiking

[9:01] loved exploring I loved getting

[9:03] lost um reading maps not so

[9:06] much I'm not good with scale I'm not

[9:09] good with measurements and distances and

[9:13] that's why it's hard for me to drive an

[9:14] RV by the way just

[9:17] doesn't fit how I see the world

[9:21] and oh let's see

[9:24] here

[9:27] um really don't know give me a minute so

[9:30] that's a dump station and probably for

[9:32] shower

[9:34] facilities I haven't figured out where

[9:37] the dumpster is yet I'm going to need

[9:39] that think we can cut through

[9:43] here

[9:46] um that's weird I had to use it it must

[9:48] be back there cuz I'm sure I've used

[9:50] them before it's a

[9:53] dumpster what kind of showers do they

[9:55] have

[9:56] here oh does that say laundry oh than

[9:59] thank you I couldn't find that on the

[10:02] map it does say

[10:05] laundry I have a lot of that to

[10:09] do okay so not shower facilities but we

[10:13] have a laundry

[10:14] M oh thank

[10:19] you let's that add let's add that to our

[10:22] Quest map we're going to need to know

[10:23] about that 100% sure but I think I know

[10:26] where I'm

[10:26] going we head this way

[10:30] I'll show you guys hold on say 24 to 53

[10:34] do not enter enter that's what I was

[10:36] talking about the last time do not enter

[10:39] like I need arrows okay like that's too

[10:44] much enter here don't enter

[10:48] there so there's no shower facilities

[10:51] there then there's none near

[10:52] me

[10:55] damn hold on

[11:00] is this bath

[11:02] house maybe they're behind it we'll

[11:04] check on the way

[11:06] back all right we got another person

[11:09] back

[11:10] up it's pretty empty kind of yeah it's

[11:13] empty better to call it

[11:17] empty we have a long way to go found the

[11:20] second one laundry facil is

[11:22] outside it's

[11:25] interesting two washers one dryer how's

[11:28] that supposed to work

[11:30] this is where the pros go I'm just a

[11:33] newbie in this

[11:35] simulation I ain't knowwhere to go down

[11:38] here real we go that way

[11:43] definitely there's some nice sites back

[11:49] here I love this place yeah there's some

[11:52] nice sites back here I'm going to pick

[11:55] out the good ones and remember

[11:57] them did buy those books if you guys

[12:00] have been following me for long enough

[12:01] you'll know about my my hiking journals

[12:03] and haven't used them yet or haven't

[12:06] even been documenting where I've been I

[12:07] want to do that um I found the trail but

[12:10] first we're going to go over to

[12:11] something that I said I would look at

[12:13] and never did that's this road ends in

[12:16] water let's go see

[12:18] that just because I could tell I my

[12:22] drive here that you know there had been

[12:23] flooding here too you can see it down

[12:27] there um

[12:31] Kentucky rivers are interesting they're

[12:32] almost always Brown and that's because

[12:34] of the clay every once in a while they

[12:37] turn blue especially in Winter and it's

[12:40] very

[12:41] beautiful not all of them like

[12:43] Cumberland obviously is different from

[12:45] what I've seen

[12:47] and um I did say Rivers right I mean I

[12:51] don't know Lakes this is a lake

[12:56] though it's very peaceful

[13:00] why did I ever stop doing this what's

[13:02] wrong with me I really want you to hear

[13:05] this if it scares you run towards it I

[13:08] mean

[13:10] that if there's something that centers

[13:12] you and you stopped doing it pick it

[13:15] back up the longer you stop doing that

[13:17] thing the harder it is to return to and

[13:19] you're just hurting

[13:21] yourself so I know I said that I don't

[13:23] like birds but there are certain kinds

[13:25] of birds and that would be you know the

[13:27] Hawks and the Falcons that I have always

[13:29] loved always hell I'd forgotten

[13:34] that how because technically it is my

[13:37] birth

[13:39] totem

[13:42] um

[13:45] yeah this is very

[13:57] nice Le still land your boat

[14:01] from if I get better at this stuff and I

[14:04] can start Towing things maybe I get a

[14:07] boat someday I don't know what I don't

[14:10] know why I'm so fascinated with this

[14:12] never cared before I want to be on the

[14:16] water I

[14:20] do but there's got to be better than

[14:23] this let's go find it I might have

[14:25] waited too long guys I could be dying

[14:30] don't want you to make that mistake

[14:32] please be kind to

[14:35] yourself take care of

[14:39] yourself you deserve

[14:42] that I promise you

[14:44] do we're

[14:47] here love the canopy

[14:50] transition those pine trees smell

[14:52] Wonderful by the

[14:57] way he has a smoker I can smell them

[15:04] so for most of my life I pushed

[15:07] myself and everything I

[15:10] did

[15:12] programming

[15:14] hiking um

[15:17] self-improvement

[15:23] everything that's sure why I

[15:26] stopped I just got tired guys

[15:33] um

[15:35] but the answer to that in my opinion and

[15:38] I know many people disagree with me and

[15:40] that's okay rest is not the

[15:46] answer you need to rest

[15:50] sometimes you know obviously in

[15:55] F don't let rest turn into stagnation

[16:00] longer you sit

[16:04] there the longer you'll sit

[16:15] there I try to walk

[16:18] silently I don't know there's a Grace in

[16:27] it I think I sign up fjs are

[16:30] clumsy I've never experienced that and I

[16:32] think maybe and I'm just now thinking

[16:34] about this this is just you know that's

[16:35] how I

[16:36] work um maybe it's CU I've always been a

[16:43] hiker I mean you can see some water over

[16:46] there maybe over

[16:55] here just enjoy the silence guys

[16:59] you don't need

[17:02] music you don't need to click away

[17:08] either you're over

[17:11] stimulated you don't even know

[17:21] it I got my trusty boots

[17:59] very short

[18:02] traal to a nice

[18:07] place this is a good spot to do some

[18:11] journaling experiment with

[18:17] paints I want a new

[18:27] life I hope you can see that bird I

[18:30] can't really tell if you can you think's

[18:32] happening over

[18:37] there

[18:40] wow what are

[18:48] you oh this is

[18:51] amazing are you kidding me

[19:05] look at that it looks like a bridge over

[19:13] there difficult but not impossible to

[19:15] navigate this area to find another more

[19:18] private

[19:20] spot just spend a few

[19:24] hours contemplating writing painting

[19:28] whatever brings your soul

[19:33] Harmony and that's what I'm about to do

[19:36] didn't bring anything with me

[19:38] so guess today it

[19:41] is a form of meditation I've never

[19:44] meditated I don't think I'm very good at

[19:45] it

[19:47] but nature is how I meditate I really

[19:50] hope you guys have a wonderful day and

[19:52] weekend thanks for listening

[0:01] you know if you think about it change is

[0:04] inevitable you've been just doing

[0:06] nothing like I did for many years just

[0:09] result in stagnation and that's

[0:11] change it's not a good change but it's

[0:18] change me the architect over

[0:21] change it's super nice out here I tried

[0:24] to take us for a walk but that trail

[0:27] that I went down just IED out a highway

[0:30] so that can't be right there's supposed

[0:32] to be one around here that takes you to

[0:34] the water called Camper's Cove and I'm

[0:36] looking for that this

[0:38] morning guess you could call it a quest

[0:40] we need to go find an NPC to tell us

[0:42] where it is I'm just saying let's make

[0:45] life adventurous

[0:46] today I thought it was over

[0:50] there there is an old

[0:53] sermon station over there I don't know

[0:55] what you call that but boy did it night

[0:58] my um curiosity and my imagination

[1:02] like who talked at that pedestal who was

[1:05] listening what were they talking

[1:07] about I mean you just got to see it let

[1:10] me go show

[1:11] you I mean it's like an outdoor

[1:14] church I don't know Community spot how

[1:18] ancient is this if it is

[1:24] ancient I mean look how close you are to

[1:27] the people you're talking to

[1:36] how can that not ignite your imagination

[1:38] like it's

[1:40] just who's sad in those

[1:45] benches I would love to

[1:48] know if you're wondering where we are

[1:50] it's Baron River Lake State Resort Park

[1:52] in

[1:53] Kentucky yeah this place is Big there's

[1:56] all kinds of stuff to do here there's

[1:58] like multiple shower hous is pretty big

[2:01] Campground they have cottages and Villas

[2:04] a lodge a

[2:05] restaurant a golf course horse stables

[2:09] horse riding trails Trails

[2:11] everywhere uh

[2:14] Marina just's so much and you know I

[2:17] spent two weeks here and did none of it

[2:19] we're changing that

[2:21] today like any good playing character I

[2:25] just took a

[2:26] shortcut it's beautiful here you guys

[2:30] are ever wondering what that black line

[2:31] is at the bottom um I have a cover on my

[2:35] phone sometimes want to take it off cuz

[2:37] I do record so

[2:38] much but my phone would quickly get

[2:43] damaged we are walking up to the front

[2:45] of the park to see if somebody can tell

[2:47] us where this Camper's Cove is

[2:50] at not in the best shape these

[2:53] days 10 years of not hiking how did that

[2:56] happen we are changing that

[2:59] this squ just ran across the

[3:02] road wonder who put that in the

[3:05] simulation unfortunately I know my phone

[3:08] can't do it justice but that is an

[3:09] amazing

[3:11] tree totally

[3:14] beautiful hello

[3:17] tree I love

[3:22] you we still have a ways to go so today

[3:26] is actually supposed to be quite a um

[3:29] nice day by my standards it's going to

[3:31] be in the

[3:32] 60s um I don't like too hot or too cold

[3:35] I do like I like the'

[3:38] 60s I didn't know that

[3:41] um till I moved into this camper I

[3:44] guess definitely kept it warmer in my

[3:47] house often way warmer for my

[3:49] mom but I got used to being in the 60s

[3:54] just from living in that

[3:56] camper I really like it it's almost 8 in

[4:00] the morning so hopefully there's someone

[4:01] up here not sure I got up at 600 um

[4:07] naturally I've been telling people I'm

[4:08] nocturnal my whole life I wasn't I was

[4:12] out of alignment with the

[4:13] world and I knew I had to get back to

[4:17] Nature it really is a healing force that

[4:20] will change your life believe me it

[4:24] will bit of a steep climb I see a Jeep

[4:27] up there though I know who that is I met

[4:29] him last M

[4:30] here so somebody's

[4:34] here okay guys the coolest NPC ever just

[4:37] told me where to go I was so off it's

[4:40] nowhere near

[4:41] me I was misreading the map but we will

[4:44] figure that out later we're going to go

[4:46] find this

[4:49] place yeah it's pretty far from where I

[4:52] am so from where I am there

[4:55] are well there's nothing which is good

[4:57] it's private right

[5:00] um we just have to go all the way to the

[5:02] end of the park to get to this little

[5:05] Trail it's a very small so but it takes

[5:08] you to water let's go see some

[5:12] water out broth that was a very Steep

[5:15] Hill really showed me how out of shape

[5:17] I've gotten so we're changing that I'm

[5:21] not proud of

[5:22] that um I always called myself a hiker

[5:27] always that is a defining characteristic

[5:31] so no this will not

[5:38] work thank God we're going downhill but

[5:41] yeah I'm going to get myself in shape

[5:42] cuz that is just not acceptable a little

[5:45] Hill I mean it's deep but

[5:48] still I'm not that old I'm

[5:52] not

[5:54] so we're also going to go find um there

[5:58] are several different ch shower

[6:02] facilities I don't like that aspect of

[6:04] this but I just can't shower in my

[6:07] camper because it will just tanks will

[6:10] get filled so

[6:12] fast and I like hot water like a lot of

[6:15] it you know what I mean like like just

[6:18] sit under hot

[6:20] water

[6:22] so although another that I'm saying that

[6:24] I've always had an interest in trying

[6:26] cold water you know some people say

[6:28] that's the way to

[6:31] go question everything I didn't bring

[6:34] any cigarettes with me just my vape

[6:37] pen um I'm still smoking but I do want

[6:41] to switch to vaping and

[6:43] then um to

[6:46] Patches I want to quit you know people

[6:49] often say change is hard and it is but

[6:51] not once you get started you need to

[6:53] know

[6:55] that um there are times in your

[6:57] life where if you do make a

[7:01] change you can change everything about

[7:03] yourself okay time for a little bit of a

[7:05] side

[7:07] quest I would love to know how you guys

[7:09] like your eggs

[7:11] seriously so that's the easiest thing

[7:13] for me to make in the

[7:15] mornings

[7:17] and I don't really know I tried putting

[7:20] hot sauce on it yesterday I think I had

[7:22] the wrong kind I was Louisiana hot sauce

[7:24] so out of breath

[7:26] guys um I didn't like it but never

[7:31] really tried hot sauces so maybe I'm

[7:34] using the wrong kind would love to know

[7:36] your thoughts I never really put ketchup

[7:38] in my eggs but I tried that and that was

[7:40] pretty good I just I need some variety

[7:43] help me out Camper's right over there

[7:46] guys you can see it now there's my

[7:49] pretty Jeep I love my Jeep hi

[7:53] Brian

[7:57] Caroline looks like it's just be back

[7:59] there now

[8:00] because the people just drove by us

[8:03] we're the ones that in that site over

[8:05] there that's the weekend there will be

[8:07] more people every

[8:10] weekend I didn't eat this morning but

[8:13] figured what I do with after this I'm

[8:15] going to go find the

[8:17] restaurant um I spent a lot of time at

[8:19] the natural bread State Resort park over

[8:22] the years and always ate there and I

[8:25] love their food

[8:31] so you know I'm hoping they have a good

[8:33] restaurant here

[8:34] too I think they probably will I just I

[8:37] believe in I believe in my state I can't

[8:39] believe I'm saying that I am a

[8:41] transplant but I love Kentucky I do I'm

[8:45] just looking at the map you know I got

[8:47] really lost here it's in one of my

[8:49] videos it took me like forever to find

[8:52] my way back to my site I was right at

[8:53] the

[8:54] entrance

[8:56] um I'm not going to say I was always

[8:58] good at reading m Maps loved hiking

[9:01] loved exploring I loved getting

[9:03] lost um reading maps not so

[9:06] much I'm not good with scale I'm not

[9:09] good with measurements and distances and

[9:13] that's why it's hard for me to drive an

[9:14] RV by the way just

[9:17] doesn't fit how I see the world

[9:21] and oh let's see

[9:24] here

[9:27] um really don't know give me a minute so

[9:30] that's a dump station and probably for

[9:32] shower

[9:34] facilities I haven't figured out where

[9:37] the dumpster is yet I'm going to need

[9:39] that think we can cut through

[9:43] here

[9:46] um that's weird I had to use it it must

[9:48] be back there cuz I'm sure I've used

[9:50] them before it's a

[9:53] dumpster what kind of showers do they

[9:55] have

[9:56] here oh does that say laundry oh than

[9:59] thank you I couldn't find that on the

[10:02] map it does say

[10:05] laundry I have a lot of that to

[10:09] do okay so not shower facilities but we

[10:13] have a laundry

[10:14] M oh thank

[10:19] you let's that add let's add that to our

[10:22] Quest map we're going to need to know

[10:23] about that 100% sure but I think I know

[10:26] where I'm

[10:26] going we head this way

[10:30] I'll show you guys hold on say 24 to 53

[10:34] do not enter enter that's what I was

[10:36] talking about the last time do not enter

[10:39] like I need arrows okay like that's too

[10:44] much enter here don't enter

[10:48] there so there's no shower facilities

[10:51] there then there's none near

[10:52] me

[10:55] damn hold on

[11:00] is this bath

[11:02] house maybe they're behind it we'll

[11:04] check on the way

[11:06] back all right we got another person

[11:09] back

[11:10] up it's pretty empty kind of yeah it's

[11:13] empty better to call it

[11:17] empty we have a long way to go found the

[11:20] second one laundry facil is

[11:22] outside it's

[11:25] interesting two washers one dryer how's

[11:28] that supposed to work

[11:30] this is where the pros go I'm just a

[11:33] newbie in this

[11:35] simulation I ain't knowwhere to go down

[11:38] here real we go that way

[11:43] definitely there's some nice sites back

[11:49] here I love this place yeah there's some

[11:52] nice sites back here I'm going to pick

[11:55] out the good ones and remember

[11:57] them did buy those books if you guys

[12:00] have been following me for long enough

[12:01] you'll know about my my hiking journals

[12:03] and haven't used them yet or haven't

[12:06] even been documenting where I've been I

[12:07] want to do that um I found the trail but

[12:10] first we're going to go over to

[12:11] something that I said I would look at

[12:13] and never did that's this road ends in

[12:16] water let's go see

[12:18] that just because I could tell I my

[12:22] drive here that you know there had been

[12:23] flooding here too you can see it down

[12:27] there um

[12:31] Kentucky rivers are interesting they're

[12:32] almost always Brown and that's because

[12:34] of the clay every once in a while they

[12:37] turn blue especially in Winter and it's

[12:40] very

[12:41] beautiful not all of them like

[12:43] Cumberland obviously is different from

[12:45] what I've seen

[12:47] and um I did say Rivers right I mean I

[12:51] don't know Lakes this is a lake

[12:56] though it's very peaceful

[13:00] why did I ever stop doing this what's

[13:02] wrong with me I really want you to hear

[13:05] this if it scares you run towards it I

[13:08] mean

[13:10] that if there's something that centers

[13:12] you and you stopped doing it pick it

[13:15] back up the longer you stop doing that

[13:17] thing the harder it is to return to and

[13:19] you're just hurting

[13:21] yourself so I know I said that I don't

[13:23] like birds but there are certain kinds

[13:25] of birds and that would be you know the

[13:27] Hawks and the Falcons that I have always

[13:29] loved always hell I'd forgotten

[13:34] that how because technically it is my

[13:37] birth

[13:39] totem

[13:42] um

[13:45] yeah this is very

[13:57] nice Le still land your boat

[14:01] from if I get better at this stuff and I

[14:04] can start Towing things maybe I get a

[14:07] boat someday I don't know what I don't

[14:10] know why I'm so fascinated with this

[14:12] never cared before I want to be on the

[14:16] water I

[14:20] do but there's got to be better than

[14:23] this let's go find it I might have

[14:25] waited too long guys I could be dying

[14:30] don't want you to make that mistake

[14:32] please be kind to

[14:35] yourself take care of

[14:39] yourself you deserve

[14:42] that I promise you

[14:44] do we're

[14:47] here love the canopy

[14:50] transition those pine trees smell

[14:52] Wonderful by the

[14:57] way he has a smoker I can smell them

[15:04] so for most of my life I pushed

[15:07] myself and everything I

[15:10] did

[15:12] programming

[15:14] hiking um

[15:17] self-improvement

[15:23] everything that's sure why I

[15:26] stopped I just got tired guys

[15:33] um

[15:35] but the answer to that in my opinion and

[15:38] I know many people disagree with me and

[15:40] that's okay rest is not the

[15:46] answer you need to rest

[15:50] sometimes you know obviously in

[15:55] F don't let rest turn into stagnation

[16:00] longer you sit

[16:04] there the longer you'll sit

[16:15] there I try to walk

[16:18] silently I don't know there's a Grace in

[16:27] it I think I sign up fjs are

[16:30] clumsy I've never experienced that and I

[16:32] think maybe and I'm just now thinking

[16:34] about this this is just you know that's

[16:35] how I

[16:36] work um maybe it's CU I've always been a

[16:43] hiker I mean you can see some water over

[16:46] there maybe over

[16:55] here just enjoy the silence guys

[16:59] you don't need

[17:02] music you don't need to click away

[17:08] either you're over

[17:11] stimulated you don't even know

[17:21] it I got my trusty boots

[17:59] very short

[18:02] traal to a nice

[18:07] place this is a good spot to do some

[18:11] journaling experiment with

[18:17] paints I want a new

[18:27] life I hope you can see that bird I

[18:30] can't really tell if you can you think's

[18:32] happening over

[18:37] there

[18:40] wow what are

[18:48] you oh this is

[18:51] amazing are you kidding me

[19:05] look at that it looks like a bridge over

[19:13] there difficult but not impossible to

[19:15] navigate this area to find another more

[19:18] private

[19:20] spot just spend a few

[19:24] hours contemplating writing painting

[19:28] whatever brings your soul

[19:33] Harmony and that's what I'm about to do

[19:36] didn't bring anything with me

[19:38] so guess today it

[19:41] is a form of meditation I've never

[19:44] meditated I don't think I'm very good at

[19:45] it

[19:47] but nature is how I meditate I really

[19:50] hope you guys have a wonderful day and

[19:52] weekend thanks for listening

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3:28

Morning Camper Routine and Tramadol Withdrawal Notes

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1:34

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1:28

Sharing Wooden Book-Folding Hobby on Camera

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11:00

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37:19

Preparing Travel Day With Cats and Withdrawal Plan

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8:16

Documenting Withdrawal Recurrence and Severing Medical Trust

May 5, 2024

13:28

Morning Camper Check-In on Cooking, Creativity, Change

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2:21

Planning a Store Run and Learning to Cook

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13:07

Trying Tea for the First Time After Showers

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1:08

Recording Birdsong at Siltcoos

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6:06

Building a Fire and Stating Motivations

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2:55

Recording Empty Campground at Siltcoos

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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

10:57

Organizing Camper Storage and Returning to Nature

May 7, 2024

3:35

Assessing the Camper Transition and Divested Possessions

May 8, 2024

1:40

Reassessing Channel Purpose and Communication Fit

May 8, 2024

4:55

Weighing Camp Move Against Severe Weather and Channel Reception

May 9, 2024

3:45

Addressing Visibility and Feedback Mechanics on YouTube

May 9, 2024

5:13

Breaking Camp After Flooding, Moving Day Prep

May 9, 2024

1:14

Breaking Camp and Downsizing Gear

May 9, 2024

2:31

Breaking Camp at Flooded Lake Site

May 9, 2024

5:37

Setting Up Camp and Practicing Toward Nevada

May 9, 2024

0:59

Leveling the RV on First Try

May 9, 2024

19:57

Walking to Camper's Cove at Barren River Lake

May 10, 2024

11:15

Building a Miniature Bookshop Model at Camp

May 11, 2024

6:47

Planning Trail Hiking and Oven Cooking in Kentucky

May 11, 2024

4:59

Retrieving the Cat, Documenting a Complicated Day

May 13, 2024

9:54

Replacing RV Mattress, Bailey Arrives at Camp

May 13, 2024

3:32

Naming Grief from the Old Life

May 13, 2024

3:51

Recounting Dream of RV Reversal and Boy

May 14, 2024

11:30

Saying Goodbye to Oliver Before Heading West

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22:59

Securing Shelves and Settling Bailey Into the RV

May 15, 2024

9:55

Assessing Bed Level, Bailey, and RV Build Quality

May 15, 2024

37:07

Organizing the Camper Across Six Hours

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6:14

Organizing RV Storage and Launching Gaming Channel

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3:07

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PUBLIC

May 10, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.20

Density 0.50

Energetic Quality

activated and directive

Journey Phase

re-entry into a dormant capacity

Directional Vector

toward embodied motion and away from stagnation

Narrative

The morning was already open when rswfire stepped out of the camper — just before eight, the air in the sixties, the temperature he had learned to prefer only after moving into the camper and letting the walls stop mediating the weather for him. He had two weeks at Barren River Lake State Resort Park behind him and almost nothing to show for them. A lodge, a restaurant, a golf course, horse stables, a marina, trails everywhere — and he had done none of it. He named that plainly as he started walking. Doing nothing is not the absence of change. It is stagnation, which is a direction, and he stated his position on it in the first minute: he was the architect over change, not its subject.

The first attempt had already failed. A trail he'd taken dumped him out onto a highway, which meant the one he wanted — Camper's Cove, the one that reached the water — was somewhere else entirely. He framed the correction as a quest and himself as a player character who needed to find an NPC to give him coordinates. On the way toward the front of the park he passed an outdoor pedestal ringed by benches, something between a sermon station and a community gathering spot, and stopped to show it. The proximity struck him — how close the speaker stood to the people listening. He wanted to know who had sat there and what had been said. He kept moving. A squirrel crossed in front of him and he wondered aloud who had put it in the simulation. A tree stopped him long enough to say hello to it.

Then came the hill. The grade took his breath and the recording took the breath with it, audible under his voice. Ten years of not hiking, he said, and he did not know how that had happened. He had always called himself a hiker — a defining characteristic, stated as structure rather than hobby — and the climb was returning the receipt on a decade of nonuse. He said it was not acceptable. He said it twice. At the top he found a Jeep he recognized, someone he'd met the month before, which meant someone was awake, and shortly after that the coolest NPC he'd ever met told him he had been reading the map entirely wrong. The cove was nowhere near where he thought. It was at the far end of the park, down a very small trail, and it went to water. That was enough.

The long walk out became its own inventory. He located the dump station, hunted for a dumpster he was sure he'd used before, found a laundry facility the map hadn't shown him — two washers, one dryer — and added it to the quest map out loud. He read a sign that said do not enter and said again what he'd said the last time: he needed arrows. He noted which sites were good and told the camera he would remember them. He talked about showers, about not being able to use his own because the tanks fill too fast, about liking hot water in quantity and being curious anyway about cold. He said he was still smoking but had brought only the vape pen, and laid out the step-down — cigarettes to vape to patches — as a plan rather than a wish. He asked viewers how they liked their eggs. He'd tried Louisiana hot sauce the day before and it hadn't worked; ketchup had. He wanted variety and asked for help getting it. Between these, still out of breath, he said that change is hard but only before you start, and that there are moments where making one change changes everything.

He detoured to a road that ended in water — something he'd said he would look at during his first stay and never had. The lake was brown with river clay, the way Kentucky water usually runs, and he mentioned that in winter some of it turns blue. It was peaceful there. He asked why he had ever stopped doing this, and then he turned to the camera and said the thing he most wanted heard: if it scares you, run toward it. If something centers you and you stopped, pick it back up, because the gap only widens and the cost of the gap is paid by you. He watched for hawks, remembered they were his birth totem, and registered that he had forgotten that. He looked at a boat landing and found himself wanting to be on the water, which had never interested him before. He said he might have waited too long. He said he could be dying. He said it directly to whoever was listening: don't make that mistake, be kind to yourself, take care of yourself, you deserve that.

The last stretch was short. A canopy transition into pine, the smell of the trees, woodsmoke drifting from someone's smoker, his trusty boots under him. He walked quietly — he said there's a grace in it, and that he'd never been clumsy the way people say Sagittarians are, and wondered on camera whether the hiking was why. Somewhere along the way he named the thing underneath the ten years: for most of his life he pushed himself in everything — programming, hiking, self-improvement — and he got tired. But rest, in his stated position, is not the answer. Rest when you need it, and don't let rest become stagnation, because the longer you sit there the longer you'll sit there.

The trail ended at the shoreline. A bird he couldn't quite capture on camera, something across the water that looked like a bridge, and beyond the immediate spot the visible possibility of a more private one — difficult to reach but not impossible. He said it was a good place for journaling, for experimenting with paints, and mentioned the hiking journals he'd bought and hadn't opened, the documentation he'd meant to keep and hadn't. He hadn't brought any of it with him. So the morning became a form of meditation instead — not the kind he'd ever been good at, he said, but nature is how he meditates. He told the people listening to enjoy the silence, that they didn't need music and didn't need to click away, that they were overstimulated and didn't know it. Then he wished them a good day and a good weekend, and stopped recording, standing at the water he had spent two weeks not walking to.

Summary

rswfire records a morning walk through Barren River Lake State Resort Park in Kentucky, searching for a trail to Camper's Cove. An earlier attempt led him toward a highway; he walks to the front of the park, finds a staff member he'd met previously, and gets corrected directions after misreading the map.

Along the route he documents an outdoor amphitheater-style structure with benches and a pedestal, and states his interest in who used it. He maps park infrastructure as he goes — shower houses, dump station, dumpster, and a laundry facility with two washers and one dryer — and notes the absence of showers near his site. He comments on confusing signage and on not being good with scale, measurement, or distance, which he links to difficulty driving an RV.

He states he spent two weeks at the park previously and did none of its offerings, and that he is changing that today. He notes being out of shape after ten years without hiking and identifies hiking as a defining characteristic. He states he is still smoking and intends to move to vaping, then patches, then quit.

He reaches the lake trail, notes canopy transition and pine, and describes plans for journaling, painting, and contemplation, having bought hiking journals he hasn't used. He asks viewers how they prepare eggs. He addresses viewers directly on change, rest versus stagnation, and returning to what centers them.

Environment

Recorded on foot at Barren River Lake State Resort Park in Kentucky, early morning (approximately 8:00 AM) in mid-spring conditions in the 60s. rswfire is walking the campground and its road network by phone camera, moving from his campsite through developed park infrastructure — an outdoor amphitheater/sermon pedestal with benches, the park entrance area, dump station, laundry facilities, signage, and campsites.

The latter portion moves out of the developed zone: a steep road climb, a canopy transition into pine forest, and a short trail terminating at the Camper's Cove shoreline of the lake. Recording is handheld with a visible phone-case edge in frame; audio includes breath load from grade changes. He is living full-time in the camper at this point, with the Jeep parked at his site.

Substrate

The architecture held is that change is not optional but directional — stillness is itself a form of change, and the only question is which vector it runs on. rswfire positions himself as "the architect over change," taking an authorial rather than reactive stance toward his own physical condition, environment, and habits, and reframing the park as a navigable quest-system with NPCs, side quests, and a quest map. What is being rebuilt is a load-bearing self-definition — hiker, explorer, one who pushes — that went unused for ten years; what is being dissolved is the frame that rest and recovery are equivalent.

Actions

Performed

•walking the campground at ~8 AM
•filming the outdoor sermon station and benches
•climbing a steep grade toward the park entrance
•asking a park worker for directions to Camper's Cove
•locating two laundry facilities
•checking for shower facilities and finding none nearby
•reading and critiquing park signage
•scouting and noting good campsites
•walking to the road that ends in water
•identifying a hawk/bird over the lake
•walking silently through the pine canopy
•reaching Camper's Cove shoreline
•vaping instead of smoking cigarettes
•asking viewers how they prepare eggs
•greeting a tree on camera
•narrating naturalist observations on Kentucky river clay coloration

Referenced

•spent two weeks at the park and used none of its amenities
•walked a trail that dead-ended at a highway
•got lost in the park near the entrance, documented in a prior video
•misread the park map
•stopped hiking for ten years
•described himself as nocturnal for most of his life
•moved into the camper and adjusted to 60-degree temperatures
•kept the house warmer for his mom
•tried Louisiana hot sauce and ketchup on eggs
•bought hiking journals and left them unused
•met the man with the Jeep the previous month
•ate regularly at Natural Bridge State Resort Park restaurant
•pushed himself in programming, hiking, and self-improvement
•stopped pushing due to fatigue

Planned

•get back in physical shape
•resume hiking as a defining practice
•switch from cigarettes to vaping, then to patches, then quit
•find the park restaurant and eat
•do laundry at the park facility
•return to check behind the bath house for showers
•use the hiking journals to document locations
•return to Camper's Cove to journal, write, and experiment with paints
•find a more private spot along the shoreline
•learn to tow and possibly acquire a boat
•explore the park's amenities he has not used

Entities

beings

hawks and falcons — Birds he states he has always loved; identified as his birth totem

places

Barren River Lake State Resort Park — Kentucky state park where the signal is recorded; his campsite and the full walk route

Camper's Cove — Shoreline trail destination; the stated objective of the walk

Kentucky — State he lives in as a transplant and states affinity for

Natural Bridge State Resort Park — Prior park he spent years visiting; reference standard for park restaurant quality

Cumberland — River cited as a color exception to Kentucky's clay-brown waterways

sermon station — Outdoor pedestal and bench arrangement that triggers extended speculation about who spoke and who listened

systems

the Jeep — His vehicle at the campsite; also identifies the returning camper he met the prior month

the camper — Full-time dwelling; its tank capacity dictates his use of park shower facilities

concepts

NPC — Game-frame term applied to the park worker who gives directions

the simulation — Framing device applied to the squirrel crossing and to his own novice status in the campground

quest map — Structure he adds laundry and facility locations to; organizes park navigation

the architect over change — Self-positioning stated in the opening seconds; authorial stance toward change

media

hiking journals — Purchased books, still unused; intended documentation instrument

Louisiana hot sauce — Egg condiment experiment he reports as unsuccessful

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

quest

map

threshold

water

trail

canopy transition

pedestal

hawk

boots

steep grade

tree

shoreline

silence

simulation

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

authorial (states himself as "the architect over change" rather than subject to it)

re-entering (resuming hiking and physical exertion after a ten-year gap)

sovereign (chooses direction, pace, habits, and interpretive frame without external reference)

transitional (mid-shift in dwelling, geography, sleep cycle, nicotine use, and physical conditioning)

embedded (walking inside the environment rather than describing it from outside)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (breath load, grade resistance, and out-of-shape state tracked in real time as data)

navigational (map reading, signage critique, facility location, direction-seeking)

cognitive (recursive framing of change, stagnation, and rest as distinct structures)

infrastructural (laundry, showers, dump station, tank capacity, campsite quality)

ecological (river clay, pine canopy, bird identification, weather range)

temporal (sleep-cycle realignment, ten-year gap, morning start time)

transmissive (direct address to viewers, solicited responses, instructional statements)

habitual (nicotine step-down plan, food variety, journaling practice)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

change / stagnation

we're changing that

architect over change

quest / NPC / simulation

rest is not the answer

hiker as defining characteristic

if it scares you run towards it

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Walking to Camper's Cove at Barren River Lake

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