Driving to Lake Cumberland, Hiking a Neglected Trail

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[0:02] so

[0:05] I let me try that again hello humans no

[0:09] what hello fellow

[0:12] humans so I got back from hiking a

[0:15] little while ago um after that I went

[0:18] and got some Taco Bell ate it in the

[0:20] parking lot spilled it all over me

[0:22] because I'm a child so I had to change

[0:25] my

[0:26] shirt um but it's still the same day

[0:28] it's Saturday

[0:32] um I decided I just I don't want to be

[0:35] inside today I just don't so I can't go

[0:38] to the Natural Bridge it's too far away

[0:40] a 2 and 1 half hour drive

[0:42] and you know then all the hiking and

[0:45] stuff I mean it's do in the afternoon

[0:47] so you know I I'm going to go there um

[0:52] we will go there like Tuesday I think

[0:54] cuz I I can't do it tomorrow if I if I

[0:57] if my internal state right now is like

[1:00] we're not going to be doing stuff on the

[1:01] RP let's just get the hell out of

[1:03] here uh but however I feel tomorrow I

[1:06] need to do it

[1:08] so um I'm just going to go to Lake

[1:11] Cumberland I want to go see the dam

[1:14] there I really like that spot and you

[1:17] know the state park there's a spot there

[1:18] I like I don't know if there's any

[1:20] Trails or anything um a little bit sore

[1:24] I think I'm getting some blisters on my

[1:26] feet These are nice hiking boots too but

[1:31] uh I'm just going to go hang out I just

[1:33] don't want to be inside today that gu

[1:36] really needs to get into sleep

[1:38] damn so that's what we're

[1:40] doing there are just so many people at

[1:43] that Camp real like I uh-uh no M all

[1:46] these 10 campers with like

[1:49] like flags and lights and just they just

[1:54] turn it into this P party atmosphere

[1:56] like it

[1:57] just you know I I I don't want to be

[2:00] around that like I'm glad they're having

[2:01] fun I guess but I don't want to be

[2:03] around that so I don't know like I don't

[2:07] think campgrounds are for

[2:09] me

[2:10] so I don't know if I realize that or not

[2:14] I think I might have like cuz my main

[2:17] thing was I need to get out of my house

[2:19] I need to get out of the box in this

[2:21] neighborhood and go do some stuff like

[2:24] take myself outside of my comfort zone

[2:26] and go

[2:28] live that doesn't mean I want to be

[2:30] around a bunch of random strangers I

[2:32] don't know or just partying it up around

[2:34] me and um but I also don't want to be in

[2:38] my my RV you know just this little box

[2:41] it's even smaller box you know

[2:45] so we're just going to go and do some

[2:47] [ __ ] up I don't know we're just going to

[2:49] go hang out

[2:51] somewhere yeah okay got some gas and

[2:54] we're on our way it's an hour drive to

[2:57] Lake Cumberland I don't remember what I

[2:58] was talking about so let me just start

[3:00] over

[3:02] sorry

[3:04] so I want to go to the Natural Bridge

[3:07] cuz that's like one of my favorite place

[3:08] in the

[3:09] world um I like that place that I was at

[3:12] but I don't love it like that's a place

[3:14] to just go and enjoy some

[3:16] nature and get some exercise and just

[3:20] you know enjoy some peace and quiet and

[3:23] just have a good time but there are

[3:25] places in the world that are way better

[3:27] than that and the Natural Bridges of

[3:30] them but I can't go today I mean it's

[3:32] like 2 in the afternoon and it's going

[3:35] to be an all day thing for us so I'll

[3:38] have to get up super early it's like a 2

[3:40] and 1/ half hour drive there and then

[3:42] I'll probably be hiking for like 8 to 10

[3:44] hours so um it'll be an all day thing

[3:48] and I just don't there's no time today

[3:51] so we're going to go to Lake Cumberland

[3:52] and that's a an hour from where I am so

[3:55] that's not too bad and I don't know that

[3:57] we'll do any hiking cuz I don't even

[3:59] know where any trails are there but um

[4:01] there's just some sites there that I

[4:03] really like and I just want to be

[4:04] outside

[4:05] and so yeah that's what we're

[4:09] doing I'm here I've been sitting here

[4:12] for a

[4:14] while I

[4:17] realized I've been wanting to get a

[4:19] cabin in the

[4:20] woods I haven't really looked for one I

[4:23] don't have the money but

[4:25] um I was telling myself that I didn't

[4:28] know where it should be but it's here as

[4:31] soon as I discovered this place I fell

[4:33] in love with

[4:35] it and something brought me here

[4:40] today and it's wonderful I just love

[4:43] this place let me show

[4:46] you people are just having a good time

[4:48] out there there's a bunch of people

[4:51] right there if you can see them there

[4:52] was a boat with them I don't know where

[4:54] it

[4:55] went there's a whole bunch of people

[4:56] swimming out

[4:58] there and

[5:00] little house boat looking thing that's

[5:02] awesome I could almost see myself living

[5:04] on something like that that would be

[5:07] such a cool life the water just goes on

[5:11] forever it's so beautiful and so

[5:19] peaceful so I'm just hanging out I don't

[5:21] really have any plans I looked up to see

[5:24] if there was a tourist center I was

[5:25] thinking maybe I could get some

[5:26] information there you know they're close

[5:28] today

[5:32] just you

[5:34] know there's a couple other spots I'll

[5:36] check out there is a an official

[5:41] like

[5:43] um Lookout area but it looks packed I

[5:46] can see it from here there's a lot of

[5:48] cars over there there are probably some

[5:50] Trails too you know

[5:53] and I don't know but we're right next to

[5:55] Wolf Dam which is just the coolest Dam I

[5:58] I just absolutely love this place just

[6:01] they're doing work on it um there's

[6:04] construction going on over

[6:07] there

[6:17] so this is where I want to

[6:20] live this is it

[6:36] those waves are so

[6:42] awesome I think for the next month that

[6:45] I'm here I'm going to go hiking every

[6:48] day at the 47 Bridges and then come

[6:51] here this would be really good for my

[6:55] soul and I can get to know the place

[6:57] better it has a vibe to it the second I

[7:01] entered this area and it was just a

[7:03] fluke on accident that brought me

[7:06] here I just you could feel it like it

[7:10] just there's something really special

[7:12] about this

[7:16] place but I could spend time here in

[7:18] different weather and see what it's like

[7:21] in the rain

[7:23] or I just bet it's so

[7:27] cool figure out where some trails are

[7:30] there's got to be some around this

[7:34] Lake find some cool spots to just hang

[7:38] out without all the road

[7:45] [Music]

[7:56] noise this is my favorite place on Earth

[8:04] I have to figure out a way to make that

[8:11] happen we are on a

[8:13] trail found one that

[8:17] is

[8:19] spider um 3 miles go down to the

[8:23] lake One

[8:25] Way 3 miles back

[8:30] um it's lot of hiking

[8:33] today but I really wanted to be on the

[8:36] lake

[8:37] so I am the first one on this Trail oh

[8:40] my God no doubt about

[8:43] it

[8:46] oh come

[8:51] on

[8:53] but boy am I glad to be

[8:57] here this is all I got

[9:00] hope it's enough cuz we're

[9:02] talking think it'll be around 8 when I

[9:04] get out of

[9:07] here this place has mosquitoes not like

[9:10] the other

[9:11] place

[9:13] which they both have lakes so I don't

[9:15] know what the reason

[9:20] is yeah I'm getting eaten up by these

[9:23] spider webs have to deal with this

[9:30] yep I am definitely the First on this

[9:32] Trail

[9:34] wow God

[9:38] damn there was a family that got here

[9:40] just as I

[9:42] did oh am I making it easy for

[9:46] them God dang it nobody uses this

[9:54] Trail good to

[9:57] know um

[10:05] I don't know if um it's going to see

[10:09] yeah I see

[10:13] you I was going to

[10:17] say maybe I would just come here instead

[10:20] you know I found a trail takes me down

[10:22] to the lake just come

[10:23] here this is a little less Pleasant so

[10:27] far so I don't know

[10:33] wow I'm surprised nobody hikes this

[10:36] thing oh this is awful this is

[10:41] awful oh my

[10:45] God fine I hate doing this stick

[10:49] thing I don't have a

[10:55] choice this

[10:56] is not a

[11:00] um commonly hied tril I'm

[11:04] surprised this is what you got to do I

[11:07] can stick around

[11:11] oh cuz you can't actually see them you

[11:14] know

[11:14] so not all of them not most of

[11:24] them it'll be more pleasant on the way

[11:27] back it'll be pleasant once we get to

[11:29] the

[11:31] lake

[11:33] yeah I have been

[11:36] misled there's no Lake access

[11:40] here that was a strenuous

[11:44] hike holy

[11:48] [ __ ] I moved at a very fast

[11:51] pace leave that stick around for three

[11:54] miles

[12:02] and it's a bunch of switchbacks so it's

[12:06] going to be worse on the way back

[12:08] because it's um it's an elevation thing

[12:11] it's up

[12:15] higher thought I'd be sore after my last

[12:18] py and then I decided to do this but I

[12:21] thought it was a payoff I was going to

[12:23] get in that water I was going to strip

[12:25] down and get in that water I wanted that

[12:27] more than anything

[12:33] oh it's right there but Out Of

[12:37] Reach those WS are cool that is a

[12:40] beautiful view though you can't beat the

[12:44] view very

[12:50] cool so I'm going to just sit here for a

[12:52] while and try

[12:54] to just rest

[12:59] I would be very surprised if that family

[13:01] comes back here that was

[13:09] strenuous I have to go

[13:12] back that's life maybe it seems Reckless

[13:15] but you have to push

[13:17] yourself I always have I am

[13:20] glistening literally glistening right

[13:23] now you just got to push yourself never

[13:27] stop when I was a boy scow in Arizona we

[13:30] went on these long hikes in the

[13:33] desert I'm

[13:35] talking I don't even know the whole

[13:38] Superstition Mountains however long that

[13:40] is days weeks you know and

[13:44] just you get into a mindset where you

[13:47] just everything else goes away except

[13:50] that that hike just putting one foot in

[13:52] front of the other it was like that on

[13:54] the way back here I had music playing

[13:56] though which is nice I was going to the

[13:59] beat I was going pretty fast I had a

[14:01] fast beat

[14:02] so

[14:05] um you just put everything elide of your

[14:07] mind and just

[14:10] go and that's what I'll do on the way

[14:12] back and I'll be very drained from it

[14:16] and I'll feel very rewarded for it

[14:21] because draining your body in that

[14:24] way I don't know how to describe it it's

[14:28] been a while you know

[14:29] so guess I'll tell you

[14:33] tomorrow I really want to be on that

[14:35] water so

[14:38] bad I really wanted to get in that water

[14:41] I was going to just jump in there I I

[14:44] was so I really

[14:48] was oh it would have been so pleasant

[14:56] awesome I'm going to have to do some

[14:58] research for figure out where there are

[14:59] trails that lead to that water that

[15:01] water

[15:04] access I'm curious like what if you

[15:07] wanted to swim like across the lake can

[15:11] you really trust the boats not to hit

[15:12] you how do people do

[15:15] that do they just not even attempted or

[15:18] do they have a boat next to

[15:19] them cuz I'd like to try that I

[15:23] think you'd have to work up to it but

[15:26] that would be fun

[15:29] I'd like that I like swimming I always

[15:32] like swimming I haven't done it a

[15:35] lot

[15:39] um you know as in all of my adult life I

[15:43] don't think I've really swam a whole lot

[15:44] I've you

[15:46] know I don't know what's happening to me

[15:49] I'm

[15:53] just I think once

[15:55] you accept yourself like I have and that

[15:59] wasn't easy you guys watched me struggle

[16:01] with

[16:02] this

[16:05] um do you have the right frame of mind

[16:07] would you truly understand yourself and

[16:10] accept yourself like truly embrace

[16:15] yourself you don't care anymore how you

[16:19] look you don't care what other people

[16:21] think you just

[16:23] don't I notice that when I'm out hiking

[16:27] I feel like a kid and I act like like a

[16:29] kid sometimes

[16:31] and oh I'm almost 50 years

[16:33] old and I can't think of a better

[16:36] blessing than that

[16:39] so remember

[16:41] that cuz we all deserve to be happy and

[16:46] age does not

[16:50] determine what you can and can't do as

[16:53] far as your personality and interests

[16:56] and I mean obviously we get older this

[16:59] was a really strenuous hike for me that

[17:01] would have been a lot easier 10 years

[17:04] ago well I didn't do it for 10 years I'm

[17:07] out of

[17:08] shape we give up on ourselves who can't

[17:11] do

[17:15] that the way I would say it is we all do

[17:19] that we all sit down and forget to get

[17:22] back up but you're being reminded right

[17:25] now get up just get up go do the thing

[17:30] because you

[17:32] can't you don't have to push yourself as

[17:34] hard as I do you could you can push

[17:37] yourself harder than I

[17:42] do don't underestimate yourself don't

[17:45] never do that

[0:02] so

[0:05] I let me try that again hello humans no

[0:09] what hello fellow

[0:12] humans so I got back from hiking a

[0:15] little while ago um after that I went

[0:18] and got some Taco Bell ate it in the

[0:20] parking lot spilled it all over me

[0:22] because I'm a child so I had to change

[0:25] my

[0:26] shirt um but it's still the same day

[0:28] it's Saturday

[0:32] um I decided I just I don't want to be

[0:35] inside today I just don't so I can't go

[0:38] to the Natural Bridge it's too far away

[0:40] a 2 and 1 half hour drive

[0:42] and you know then all the hiking and

[0:45] stuff I mean it's do in the afternoon

[0:47] so you know I I'm going to go there um

[0:52] we will go there like Tuesday I think

[0:54] cuz I I can't do it tomorrow if I if I

[0:57] if my internal state right now is like

[1:00] we're not going to be doing stuff on the

[1:01] RP let's just get the hell out of

[1:03] here uh but however I feel tomorrow I

[1:06] need to do it

[1:08] so um I'm just going to go to Lake

[1:11] Cumberland I want to go see the dam

[1:14] there I really like that spot and you

[1:17] know the state park there's a spot there

[1:18] I like I don't know if there's any

[1:20] Trails or anything um a little bit sore

[1:24] I think I'm getting some blisters on my

[1:26] feet These are nice hiking boots too but

[1:31] uh I'm just going to go hang out I just

[1:33] don't want to be inside today that gu

[1:36] really needs to get into sleep

[1:38] damn so that's what we're

[1:40] doing there are just so many people at

[1:43] that Camp real like I uh-uh no M all

[1:46] these 10 campers with like

[1:49] like flags and lights and just they just

[1:54] turn it into this P party atmosphere

[1:56] like it

[1:57] just you know I I I don't want to be

[2:00] around that like I'm glad they're having

[2:01] fun I guess but I don't want to be

[2:03] around that so I don't know like I don't

[2:07] think campgrounds are for

[2:09] me

[2:10] so I don't know if I realize that or not

[2:14] I think I might have like cuz my main

[2:17] thing was I need to get out of my house

[2:19] I need to get out of the box in this

[2:21] neighborhood and go do some stuff like

[2:24] take myself outside of my comfort zone

[2:26] and go

[2:28] live that doesn't mean I want to be

[2:30] around a bunch of random strangers I

[2:32] don't know or just partying it up around

[2:34] me and um but I also don't want to be in

[2:38] my my RV you know just this little box

[2:41] it's even smaller box you know

[2:45] so we're just going to go and do some

[2:47] [ __ ] up I don't know we're just going to

[2:49] go hang out

[2:51] somewhere yeah okay got some gas and

[2:54] we're on our way it's an hour drive to

[2:57] Lake Cumberland I don't remember what I

[2:58] was talking about so let me just start

[3:00] over

[3:02] sorry

[3:04] so I want to go to the Natural Bridge

[3:07] cuz that's like one of my favorite place

[3:08] in the

[3:09] world um I like that place that I was at

[3:12] but I don't love it like that's a place

[3:14] to just go and enjoy some

[3:16] nature and get some exercise and just

[3:20] you know enjoy some peace and quiet and

[3:23] just have a good time but there are

[3:25] places in the world that are way better

[3:27] than that and the Natural Bridges of

[3:30] them but I can't go today I mean it's

[3:32] like 2 in the afternoon and it's going

[3:35] to be an all day thing for us so I'll

[3:38] have to get up super early it's like a 2

[3:40] and 1/ half hour drive there and then

[3:42] I'll probably be hiking for like 8 to 10

[3:44] hours so um it'll be an all day thing

[3:48] and I just don't there's no time today

[3:51] so we're going to go to Lake Cumberland

[3:52] and that's a an hour from where I am so

[3:55] that's not too bad and I don't know that

[3:57] we'll do any hiking cuz I don't even

[3:59] know where any trails are there but um

[4:01] there's just some sites there that I

[4:03] really like and I just want to be

[4:04] outside

[4:05] and so yeah that's what we're

[4:09] doing I'm here I've been sitting here

[4:12] for a

[4:14] while I

[4:17] realized I've been wanting to get a

[4:19] cabin in the

[4:20] woods I haven't really looked for one I

[4:23] don't have the money but

[4:25] um I was telling myself that I didn't

[4:28] know where it should be but it's here as

[4:31] soon as I discovered this place I fell

[4:33] in love with

[4:35] it and something brought me here

[4:40] today and it's wonderful I just love

[4:43] this place let me show

[4:46] you people are just having a good time

[4:48] out there there's a bunch of people

[4:51] right there if you can see them there

[4:52] was a boat with them I don't know where

[4:54] it

[4:55] went there's a whole bunch of people

[4:56] swimming out

[4:58] there and

[5:00] little house boat looking thing that's

[5:02] awesome I could almost see myself living

[5:04] on something like that that would be

[5:07] such a cool life the water just goes on

[5:11] forever it's so beautiful and so

[5:19] peaceful so I'm just hanging out I don't

[5:21] really have any plans I looked up to see

[5:24] if there was a tourist center I was

[5:25] thinking maybe I could get some

[5:26] information there you know they're close

[5:28] today

[5:32] just you

[5:34] know there's a couple other spots I'll

[5:36] check out there is a an official

[5:41] like

[5:43] um Lookout area but it looks packed I

[5:46] can see it from here there's a lot of

[5:48] cars over there there are probably some

[5:50] Trails too you know

[5:53] and I don't know but we're right next to

[5:55] Wolf Dam which is just the coolest Dam I

[5:58] I just absolutely love this place just

[6:01] they're doing work on it um there's

[6:04] construction going on over

[6:07] there

[6:17] so this is where I want to

[6:20] live this is it

[6:36] those waves are so

[6:42] awesome I think for the next month that

[6:45] I'm here I'm going to go hiking every

[6:48] day at the 47 Bridges and then come

[6:51] here this would be really good for my

[6:55] soul and I can get to know the place

[6:57] better it has a vibe to it the second I

[7:01] entered this area and it was just a

[7:03] fluke on accident that brought me

[7:06] here I just you could feel it like it

[7:10] just there's something really special

[7:12] about this

[7:16] place but I could spend time here in

[7:18] different weather and see what it's like

[7:21] in the rain

[7:23] or I just bet it's so

[7:27] cool figure out where some trails are

[7:30] there's got to be some around this

[7:34] Lake find some cool spots to just hang

[7:38] out without all the road

[7:45] [Music]

[7:56] noise this is my favorite place on Earth

[8:04] I have to figure out a way to make that

[8:11] happen we are on a

[8:13] trail found one that

[8:17] is

[8:19] spider um 3 miles go down to the

[8:23] lake One

[8:25] Way 3 miles back

[8:30] um it's lot of hiking

[8:33] today but I really wanted to be on the

[8:36] lake

[8:37] so I am the first one on this Trail oh

[8:40] my God no doubt about

[8:43] it

[8:46] oh come

[8:51] on

[8:53] but boy am I glad to be

[8:57] here this is all I got

[9:00] hope it's enough cuz we're

[9:02] talking think it'll be around 8 when I

[9:04] get out of

[9:07] here this place has mosquitoes not like

[9:10] the other

[9:11] place

[9:13] which they both have lakes so I don't

[9:15] know what the reason

[9:20] is yeah I'm getting eaten up by these

[9:23] spider webs have to deal with this

[9:30] yep I am definitely the First on this

[9:32] Trail

[9:34] wow God

[9:38] damn there was a family that got here

[9:40] just as I

[9:42] did oh am I making it easy for

[9:46] them God dang it nobody uses this

[9:54] Trail good to

[9:57] know um

[10:05] I don't know if um it's going to see

[10:09] yeah I see

[10:13] you I was going to

[10:17] say maybe I would just come here instead

[10:20] you know I found a trail takes me down

[10:22] to the lake just come

[10:23] here this is a little less Pleasant so

[10:27] far so I don't know

[10:33] wow I'm surprised nobody hikes this

[10:36] thing oh this is awful this is

[10:41] awful oh my

[10:45] God fine I hate doing this stick

[10:49] thing I don't have a

[10:55] choice this

[10:56] is not a

[11:00] um commonly hied tril I'm

[11:04] surprised this is what you got to do I

[11:07] can stick around

[11:11] oh cuz you can't actually see them you

[11:14] know

[11:14] so not all of them not most of

[11:24] them it'll be more pleasant on the way

[11:27] back it'll be pleasant once we get to

[11:29] the

[11:31] lake

[11:33] yeah I have been

[11:36] misled there's no Lake access

[11:40] here that was a strenuous

[11:44] hike holy

[11:48] [ __ ] I moved at a very fast

[11:51] pace leave that stick around for three

[11:54] miles

[12:02] and it's a bunch of switchbacks so it's

[12:06] going to be worse on the way back

[12:08] because it's um it's an elevation thing

[12:11] it's up

[12:15] higher thought I'd be sore after my last

[12:18] py and then I decided to do this but I

[12:21] thought it was a payoff I was going to

[12:23] get in that water I was going to strip

[12:25] down and get in that water I wanted that

[12:27] more than anything

[12:33] oh it's right there but Out Of

[12:37] Reach those WS are cool that is a

[12:40] beautiful view though you can't beat the

[12:44] view very

[12:50] cool so I'm going to just sit here for a

[12:52] while and try

[12:54] to just rest

[12:59] I would be very surprised if that family

[13:01] comes back here that was

[13:09] strenuous I have to go

[13:12] back that's life maybe it seems Reckless

[13:15] but you have to push

[13:17] yourself I always have I am

[13:20] glistening literally glistening right

[13:23] now you just got to push yourself never

[13:27] stop when I was a boy scow in Arizona we

[13:30] went on these long hikes in the

[13:33] desert I'm

[13:35] talking I don't even know the whole

[13:38] Superstition Mountains however long that

[13:40] is days weeks you know and

[13:44] just you get into a mindset where you

[13:47] just everything else goes away except

[13:50] that that hike just putting one foot in

[13:52] front of the other it was like that on

[13:54] the way back here I had music playing

[13:56] though which is nice I was going to the

[13:59] beat I was going pretty fast I had a

[14:01] fast beat

[14:02] so

[14:05] um you just put everything elide of your

[14:07] mind and just

[14:10] go and that's what I'll do on the way

[14:12] back and I'll be very drained from it

[14:16] and I'll feel very rewarded for it

[14:21] because draining your body in that

[14:24] way I don't know how to describe it it's

[14:28] been a while you know

[14:29] so guess I'll tell you

[14:33] tomorrow I really want to be on that

[14:35] water so

[14:38] bad I really wanted to get in that water

[14:41] I was going to just jump in there I I

[14:44] was so I really

[14:48] was oh it would have been so pleasant

[14:56] awesome I'm going to have to do some

[14:58] research for figure out where there are

[14:59] trails that lead to that water that

[15:01] water

[15:04] access I'm curious like what if you

[15:07] wanted to swim like across the lake can

[15:11] you really trust the boats not to hit

[15:12] you how do people do

[15:15] that do they just not even attempted or

[15:18] do they have a boat next to

[15:19] them cuz I'd like to try that I

[15:23] think you'd have to work up to it but

[15:26] that would be fun

[15:29] I'd like that I like swimming I always

[15:32] like swimming I haven't done it a

[15:35] lot

[15:39] um you know as in all of my adult life I

[15:43] don't think I've really swam a whole lot

[15:44] I've you

[15:46] know I don't know what's happening to me

[15:49] I'm

[15:53] just I think once

[15:55] you accept yourself like I have and that

[15:59] wasn't easy you guys watched me struggle

[16:01] with

[16:02] this

[16:05] um do you have the right frame of mind

[16:07] would you truly understand yourself and

[16:10] accept yourself like truly embrace

[16:15] yourself you don't care anymore how you

[16:19] look you don't care what other people

[16:21] think you just

[16:23] don't I notice that when I'm out hiking

[16:27] I feel like a kid and I act like like a

[16:29] kid sometimes

[16:31] and oh I'm almost 50 years

[16:33] old and I can't think of a better

[16:36] blessing than that

[16:39] so remember

[16:41] that cuz we all deserve to be happy and

[16:46] age does not

[16:50] determine what you can and can't do as

[16:53] far as your personality and interests

[16:56] and I mean obviously we get older this

[16:59] was a really strenuous hike for me that

[17:01] would have been a lot easier 10 years

[17:04] ago well I didn't do it for 10 years I'm

[17:07] out of

[17:08] shape we give up on ourselves who can't

[17:11] do

[17:15] that the way I would say it is we all do

[17:19] that we all sit down and forget to get

[17:22] back up but you're being reminded right

[17:25] now get up just get up go do the thing

[17:30] because you

[17:32] can't you don't have to push yourself as

[17:34] hard as I do you could you can push

[17:37] yourself harder than I

[17:42] do don't underestimate yourself don't

[17:45] never do that

3:51

Addressing Parasocial Comments and Van Life Misalignment

Jul 12, 2024

14:01

Assessing RV Living Constraints and Reassessing Everything

Jul 18, 2024

8:29

Naming Hypervigilance and Its Origin

Jul 18, 2024

3:24

Naming a Liminal State on Camera

Jul 18, 2024

10:32

Addressing Channel Intent and Viewer Response Patterns

Jul 24, 2024

14:34

Tire Escalation, Comment Visibility, and RV Adjustments

Jul 24, 2024

4:12

Responding to Comment on Parasocial Connection

Jul 25, 2024

6:16

Learning Dual Tire Systems, Preparing Monday Service

Jul 25, 2024

119:38

Hiking the 47 Bridges Trail in Kentucky

Jul 27, 2024

17:47

Driving to Lake Cumberland, Hiking a Neglected Trail

Jul 27, 2024

9:48

Documenting Neighbor's Lighter Fluid Fire Behavior

Jul 28, 2024

36:46

Hiking Lake Cumberland Trails, Decoding Cognitive Style

Jul 28, 2024

38:07

Documenting Financial Position and Channel Direction

Jul 29, 2024

24:49

Questioning Music, Manipulation, and Channel Continuation

Jul 30, 2024

3:17

Addressing Troll Comments on Fire Hazard Video

Jul 31, 2024

14:54

Naming the Five-Month Identity Shed

Jul 31, 2024

10:00

Cabin Stay Near Natural Bridge, Planning Next Phase

Aug 1, 2024

8:04

Recording at 4 AM on Family Contact Ending

Aug 1, 2024

6:18

Proposing an Autumn Stay Near Natural Bridge

Aug 1, 2024

7:55

Learning Charcoal Grilling for the First Time

Aug 2, 2024

9:00

Preparing Pre-Dawn Hike from Cabin

Aug 2, 2024

24:22

Hiking Natural Bridge Trails at Sunrise

Aug 2, 2024

90:46

Hiking Sand Gap Trail in Red River Gorge

Aug 2, 2024

126:43

Hiking Sand Gap Trail at Natural Bridge

Aug 3, 2024

5:59

Describing the Video-to-AI Growth Process

Aug 3, 2024

12:29

Assessing Cabin Stay and Nomadic Lifestyle Fit

Aug 3, 2024

5:18

Returning Home, Researching Total Solitude Options

Aug 3, 2024

0:16

Declaring an End Point on Camera

Aug 3, 2024

0:33

Eating Alone at Pizza Hut

Aug 3, 2024

8:01

Organizing the Camper Before Moving Day

Aug 4, 2024

13:13

Identifying the Mink, Building New Routines

Aug 5, 2024

4:20

Reframing the RV as a Starship

Aug 6, 2024

26:25

Testing Starship Narrative Framing on Daily Routine

Aug 6, 2024

6:46

Reframing the Channel Around an Alien Format

Aug 7, 2024

2:51

Concluding Personal Channel, Launching Alien Observer

Aug 8, 2024

10:06

Taking In a Stray Kitten at the Campground

Aug 9, 2024

8:30

Integrating Rescued Kitten Into RV Life

Aug 10, 2024

10:14

Bringing a Rescued Kitten Into the RV

Aug 10, 2024

6:39

Following Vet Instructions for Rescued Kitten

Aug 11, 2024

5:13

Monitoring Luna's Recovery Overnight

Aug 11, 2024

8:51

Taking Luna to the Vet Appointment

Aug 12, 2024

PUBLIC

July 27, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

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Density 0.40

Energetic Quality

kinetic clarity

Journey Phase

relocating

Directional Vector

toward chosen ground and away from enclosure

Narrative

The day had already had a hike in it. By early afternoon rswfire was back at the vehicle with Taco Bell, eating it in a parking lot, wearing most of it by the time he was done, changing his shirt in the heat and narrating the whole thing as a fact rather than a complaint. It was still Saturday. The afternoon was still open. What he stated plainly, twice, was that he did not want to be inside — not the house he had left, not the RV that was the smaller version of the same box.

Natural Bridge was the place he wanted. He named it as one of his favorite places in the world and then ruled it out with arithmetic: two and a half hours each way, eight to ten hours of hiking, two in the afternoon already. He assigned it to Tuesday. Sunday was uncertain — he described his internal state as unwilling to do anything at the RV, which meant Sunday would be whatever Sunday turned out to be. The campground he had come from settled itself out of the running on its own terms: tent sites strung with lights and flags, the density of people, the party atmosphere. He said he was glad they were having fun. He said he did not want to be near it. He said he was not sure campgrounds were for him, and that he might have known that already. He got gas and drove the hour south.

At Lake Cumberland he sat for a long while before he said anything about it. Wolf Creek Dam stood across the water with construction work visible on it. People were swimming out past the shoreline; a boat had been there and gone; something that looked like a houseboat drifted in view, and he said he could almost see himself living on one. The tourist center was closed. The official lookout was visibly packed — he counted the cars from where he stood and let it go. What he said, sitting there, was that he had been wanting a cabin in the woods and had been telling himself he didn't know where it should be, and that the answer was here. He had found this place by accident. He named it his favorite place on Earth and said he had to figure out a way to make that happen, and in the same breath that he did not have the money and had not looked. He laid out a month: hike 47 Bridges every day, then come here, learn the place in different weather, in rain, find the trails that must exist somewhere around this lake, find the spots without road noise.

He found one that afternoon. Three miles down to the lake, three miles back. He was the first person on it and he knew it within a few steps, because the spider webs were still intact across the corridor and he was the one taking them down. He picked up a stick and said he hated doing the stick thing and had no choice. The mosquitoes were heavier here than at the other lake and he noted the difference without resolving it. A family arrived at the trailhead just as he entered, and he registered, dryly, that he was making it easy for them. He moved fast. Switchbacks, elevation, descent — he read the terrain forward and knew the return would be worse.

The terminus had no lake access. He said it flat: he had been misled. He had wanted to strip down and get in that water more than anything, had been planning it the whole way down, and the water was right there and out of reach. What was there instead was the view, which he said could not be beaten, and the waves, which he liked. He sat down to rest and said he would be surprised if the family came back this far. Then he said he had to go back, and that this was life.

Resting at the bottom, he talked about method. Boy Scouts in Arizona, long desert hikes, the Superstition Mountains, days or weeks of them — the mindset where everything falls away except the hike itself and the next foot forward. He had done exactly that on the descent with music playing, moving to a fast beat. He said he would do it again on the climb, that he would be drained by it, and that he would feel rewarded for it, and that draining the body that way was something he did not have language for and had not done in a while. He said he'd report back tomorrow. He wondered aloud whether a person could swim across a lake like this one, whether the boats could be trusted, whether people used a support boat or just didn't try it. He said he'd like to work up to it.

The last thing he did was turn it outward. He described accepting himself as something that had been hard and that the viewers had watched him struggle through, and said that on the other side of it he no longer cared how he looked or what anyone thought. He said he feels like a kid when he's out hiking, and acts like one, and is almost fifty, and cannot think of a better blessing. He called the hike strenuous and said it would have been easier ten years ago and that he hadn't done it for ten years and was out of shape. Then the instruction: that everyone sits down and forgets to get back up, that this was the reminder, that you don't have to push as hard as he does — you could push harder. Get up. Go do the thing. Don't underestimate yourself, ever. He still had three miles of switchbacks to climb when he said it.

Summary

rswfire records across a single Saturday afternoon and evening, beginning after a morning hike and a Taco Bell meal eaten in a parking lot that required a shirt change. He states he does not want to be inside and rules out Natural Bridge — a 2.5-hour drive plus 8–10 hours of hiking — deferring it to Tuesday. He selects Lake Cumberland, an hour away, for the dam and a spot he likes.

He describes the campground he had been at as crowded with tent campers, flags, lights, and a party atmosphere, and concludes campgrounds are not for him. He names his original intent: getting out of the house and the neighborhood, not being around strangers.

At the lake he films the water, swimmers, a houseboat, and Wolf Creek Dam under construction. He states this is his favorite place on Earth, connects it to a long-standing want for a cabin in the woods, and plans daily hiking at the 47 bridges followed by lake visits for the coming month.

He then hikes a three-mile spider-webbed trail with switchbacks, expecting lake access, and finds none. He notes the strenuous return, mosquitoes, blisters, boy-scout hikes in the Superstition Mountains, and moving to a music beat.

He closes addressing viewers on self-acceptance, age, and pushing oneself.

Environment

Recorded across a single Saturday afternoon and evening in southern Kentucky, in multiple moving settings: a vehicle parked after a Taco Bell run, then an hour-long drive, then the shoreline and overlook areas of Lake Cumberland near Wolf Creek Dam, where construction work is visible and boats, swimmers, and a houseboat are on the water.

The second half is recorded on foot on an unmaintained three-mile trail descending toward the lake — heavy spider webs, mosquitoes, switchbacks, no water access at the terminus. Ambient references anchor a base camp with RV living, a crowded campground with lit tent sites, and a prior hiking site at 47 Bridges.

Substrate

rswfire is running a live siting operation: testing environments against an internal standard he can state precisely — solitude over crowd, open water over box, terrain over comfort — and registering a match when he finds one. The architecture held is self-authorship of place; the campground, the house, and the RV are all named as containers he is deliberately exiting, while Lake Cumberland is designated as target ground with an explicit unresolved constraint (no money, no known access). Physical exertion functions as verification method: he pushes the body to confirm capacity, then converts the result into a directly transmitted instruction to the viewer.

Actions

Performed

•restarting the recording and greeting viewers
•getting gas and driving an hour
•narrating route decision-making
•filming the lake, swimmers, houseboat, and dam
•sitting still at the shoreline
•locating and entering a three-mile trail
•clearing spider webs with a stick
•hiking switchbacks at fast pace to the terminus
•resting at the overlook
•delivering a direct address on age and pushing yourself

Referenced

•hiked earlier that day
•ate Taco Bell in a parking lot
•spilled food and changed shirt
•left the house and neighborhood to go live outside comfort zone
•assessed the campground crowd and declined it
•hiked in the Superstition Mountains as a Boy Scout in Arizona
•worked through self-acceptance on camera over time
•moved at a fast pace to a music beat on the descent
•went ten years without hiking

Planned

•go to Natural Bridge on Tuesday
•hike 8–10 hours there in a single day
•hike 47 Bridges daily for the next month and come to the lake after
•return in different weather including rain
•research trails with actual lake access
•get in and swim in the lake
•attempt swimming across the lake, working up to it
•figure out a way to live here

Entities

places

Lake Cumberland — Destination reached this signal; designated by rswfire as his favorite place on Earth and where he wants to live

Wolf Creek Dam — Adjacent structure under active construction; named as the site he loves most in the area

Natural Bridge — Stated favorite place in the world, 2.5 hours away, deferred to Tuesday due to time

47 Bridges — Prior-day hiking site, named as the daily hiking anchor for the coming month

Superstition Mountains — Arizona range referenced as the site of multi-day Boy Scout desert hikes

Arizona — Location of childhood scouting hikes referenced as origin of his hiking mindset

campground — Crowded tent-camping site with flags and lights, assessed and rejected as environment

the spider trail — Three-mile unmaintained switchback trail hiked to a viewpoint with no lake access

systems

RV — Current mobile dwelling, named as a smaller box he is also exiting today

Boy Scouts — Youth structure through which long-distance hiking discipline was formed

Taco Bell — Meal eaten in a parking lot before the drive

media

houseboat — Vessel observed on the water; rswfire states he could almost see himself living on one

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

water

dam

box

trail

threshold

web

switchback

cabin

out of reach

one foot in front of the other

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (route, pace, and environment selected entirely against his own standard)

siting (actively testing places for match rather than settling into the available one)

embodied (soreness, blisters, glistening, drainage tracked as data)

declarative (states a place as home before any means of acquiring it exists)

transmitting (turns the exertion outward into direct instruction to viewers)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (blisters, soreness, fast pace, deliberate drainage of the body as verification)

navigational (route triage between Natural Bridge, campground, and Lake Cumberland by time and internal state)

environmental (weather, mosquitoes, spider webs, elevation, road noise read as site conditions)

social-boundary (crowd density at campground and lookout assessed and declined without judgment of others)

economic (cabin and relocation named against explicit absence of money)

broadcast (direct address to viewers, closing instruction on age and capacity)

mnemonic (Arizona scouting hikes retrieved as operating method, not nostalgia)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

I don't want to be inside

box

this is where I want to live

push yourself

water access / out of reach

strenuous

accept yourself

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Driving to Lake Cumberland, Hiking a Neglected Trail

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