Deciding on Park Service Work at Mammoth Cave

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[0:01] hello humans so I don't normally do this

[0:03] but I'm going to introduce myself my

[0:04] name is Sam I live in an RV I've been

[0:07] living in an RV for 6 months I do a lot

[0:09] of hiking and exploring and this video

[0:12] is about my day today it was actually

[0:15] quite profound I encountered a mother

[0:17] deer and two of her her Do's children on

[0:22] a trail we couldn't get around each

[0:24] other so we kind of existed in the same

[0:26] space for over an hour it was one of the

[0:28] most profound things to ever happened to

[0:29] me my life it was truly special then

[0:32] after that I kept hiking and some

[0:35] branches from a tree fell down very

[0:37] close to me but I was observing and knew

[0:40] what was happening so I was paying

[0:42] attention I got all that on camera and I

[0:44] talked about some other things like um I

[0:47] want to work for the Park Service I've

[0:49] decided that's the direction I want to

[0:51] go in my life I'm a programmer all my

[0:53] life but this lifestyle I was a

[0:56] deliberate choice and I'm trying to

[0:58] align my life

[1:00] completely differently than how Society

[1:03] tells me I should live it anyways

[1:06] enjoying good morning

[1:09] humans just walking back from the shower

[1:12] houses took a very long shower today

[1:16] still not awake though need coffee I

[1:19] don't

[1:20] have um the supplies for it in my RV not

[1:25] sure what we're doing today want to go

[1:27] hiking somewhere we could go to the

[1:29] local

[1:30] Trail um that I was talking about one of

[1:33] the cor engineer Trails but I feel more

[1:36] drawn to Mammoth Cave I kind of want to

[1:39] go there again I was thinking maybe we

[1:41] could go and take the other Fork um to

[1:43] the original Trails they have I bet it's

[1:46] pretty cool down there because of the

[1:47] caves and it's going to be 95 today

[1:52] again um for the next 3 days it's going

[1:54] to be in the high

[1:56] 90s

[1:58] and um I need to find a slightly bigger

[2:01] city cuz I need to go to a hardore store

[2:04] we'll talk about that in a

[2:06] minute so I'm just kind of thinking

[2:09] through what I'd like to get done today

[2:11] it's pretty much RV related and Hiking I

[2:14] need to

[2:16] just well so the Heat's really bad well

[2:21] there's a couple of problems and I think

[2:22] I can solve a couple both of these

[2:25] problems with the same

[2:26] solution so it's getting up to8 5 inside

[2:30] the

[2:31] RV and late afternoon that's just too

[2:35] hot um you know this is Kentucky it's

[2:37] not just high heat it's high humidity

[2:39] too it's quite

[2:42] unbearable and last night a whole bunch

[2:44] of gats got into my RV

[2:47] and um that was

[2:50] unfortunate not fun so I was wondering

[2:54] how they got in and I had a feeling I

[2:55] knew if there was a slide

[2:58] mechanism so there were a whole bunch of

[3:01] them out here this morning I noticed

[3:03] they were all over my RV over on this

[3:05] side I had already put this pipe

[3:08] instulation in there cuz I'm used to

[3:10] this spot like having problems um

[3:13] because there's like a hole there but I

[3:15] never put it on this side I did this

[3:17] this morning so I just want to go to the

[3:19] hardware store and get properly cut

[3:22] links for this um cuz there's a spot

[3:25] there that's not done obviously I could

[3:26] cut that and put it there but I just

[3:28] want to I want to be more more efficient

[3:30] so I can put them into that storage pay

[3:32] there I want to keep these on the

[3:33] outside and start using them make this

[3:35] part of my

[3:37] routine so that should help keep out

[3:40] these little gnats or whatever they are

[3:41] one of them landed on me this morning

[3:43] and bit me I don't I didn't think gats

[3:45] bit you so whatever they are they're

[3:47] kind of they're real Annoying and

[3:50] hopefully it will help with the heat a

[3:51] little bit I truly don't

[3:54] know um so another

[3:58] issue my

[4:00] fridge is getting too hot during the day

[4:03] I do monitor The Temper I you know I

[4:05] have to monitor everything in my RV I

[4:07] monitor the temperature of the fridge

[4:09] and

[4:10] it's I'm getting into like 42 you it has

[4:14] to be under 40 or bacteria starts

[4:16] growing not really keeping much in there

[4:19] so it's not a huge problem it's just you

[4:22] know basically soda that I have in there

[4:24] um I had you know condiments the kind of

[4:27] things you always have in a fridge I'm

[4:29] going to have to throw throw them out I

[4:30] feel cuz you just can't I've been having

[4:33] this problem every day all week so don't

[4:35] trust that stuff now and I won't I won't

[4:39] refill it until I feel like I've solved

[4:41] the problem and that one I'm not quite

[4:43] sure how to solve there is a buildup of

[4:46] ice on the mechanism that creates the

[4:48] cool effect in there I don't know what

[4:50] it's called um I'm wondering if that

[4:53] makes it less efficient so I'll try like

[4:55] getting all that ice off of there might

[4:58] not do that today we'll see

[5:01] and um but you know you'll see when I do

[5:04] it I have a feeling it probably does

[5:07] make it less fishing I don't know it's

[5:08] just a a feeling I have maybe that will

[5:11] help I'm not sure what else I could do

[5:13] though because see on this side usually

[5:15] when the fridge gets too hot it's

[5:17] because the sun is beating down on this

[5:19] side of the RV but that doesn't happen

[5:21] because of this tree I don't even need

[5:23] to bring out the awning you can bring

[5:24] out the awning to kind of protect that

[5:26] area there from the Sun but it's not

[5:29] going to help

[5:30] so those are my current issues minus all

[5:33] the other ones that the RV Shop's going

[5:34] to you know fix for me next week

[5:37] so um I think we can do something about

[5:40] that today and that's pretty much my

[5:42] goal along with finding somewhere to go

[5:44] hiking I think we decide we're just

[5:45] going to go to the original Trails there

[5:48] oh let me just address this so usually

[5:50] when I address something I don't ever

[5:51] bring it up again so if I get comments

[5:53] in the future about it and someone sees

[5:55] it you are welcome to reply um You

[5:58] probably noticed I started to use we

[6:00] more often it's cuz I'm taking Along on

[6:03] my journey it's not like I think of you

[6:05] know it's

[6:06] not it's it's just me I guess

[6:09] acknowledging that we're this is a Shar

[6:11] Journey so that's why I've been doing

[6:13] that so we're back at the mammo cave V

[6:16] Visitor Center um when I was hiking here

[6:20] yesterday we went behind the visitor

[6:22] center we hiked a trail and I ended up

[6:23] back in the parking lot which is in

[6:25] front of the visitor center right next

[6:28] to my Jeep I just CED some things that I

[6:30] wanted to show you guys

[6:33] because they have influenced me quite

[6:37] profoundly and have chared me a path for

[6:40] my future so I want to show

[6:43] you you see these buildings

[6:45] here those are for Resident

[6:48] workers and they have inspired me to

[6:52] decide on a new path for my

[6:54] life so we're just going to go for a

[6:56] hike I'm not even bringing my backpack

[6:58] or anything we're just going to

[7:00] talk any I could have brought my Jeep

[7:03] down here you can drive down

[7:06] here this will take us to the trail that

[7:09] I took

[7:10] yesterday and I noticed these over here

[7:13] these little

[7:15] residential buildings you know that's a

[7:19] community community lives

[7:22] there diverse people who all share kind

[7:25] of a common goal you know they're all

[7:28] working for the Park Service

[7:31] I want that I have spent 6 months trying

[7:36] to figure out what I want to do with my

[7:37] life and I know now I want to work for

[7:40] the Park

[7:42] Service don't know if that will

[7:46] be easy or hard to do there's a lot to

[7:49] consider

[7:52] so

[7:55] um with my mobile lifestyle right but I

[7:59] think that they're accommodating to

[8:00] things like that

[8:03] so I did you know do some talking with

[8:06] AI about it last

[8:08] night things are seasonal um some many

[8:12] jobs are

[8:14] temporary you can move within the park

[8:16] system

[8:18] probably there's a lot to figure

[8:22] out that's what I want to do and I would

[8:24] do anything I pick up

[8:27] trash I just want to work for the park

[8:29] Serv

[8:30] Serv that's what I want I love the

[8:33] infrastructure here the buildings are so

[8:38] nice it's just a beautiful place I like

[8:41] the

[8:42] way they've Blended human activity with

[8:46] nature feels very organized there's a

[8:48] whole system

[8:53] here and I love

[8:55] it I want to be a part of it

[9:00] this this is the trail that I came off

[9:01] of

[9:03] yesterday so we're going to hike that

[9:05] and that'll take us behind the visitor

[9:07] center and then we can get to the other

[9:16] trails that building over there says

[9:18] Environmental

[9:21] Education Green River Bluffs Trail 1.3

[9:25] miles very easy Trail

[9:29] um I enjoyed it so we're

[9:34] back it's quite hot

[9:37] today it's well above the

[9:41] 90s I'm thinking once we get to the end

[9:44] of this Trail and we get on the other

[9:47] trails that I didn't take yesterday

[9:49] they're going to take us down

[9:50] further um I felt the very cool

[9:54] breeze it was quite remarkable

[9:57] when I first got on the trails over

[10:00] there so I'm thinking if we go down

[10:03] further we might experience more of that

[10:05] might be quite cool freaking mosquito or

[10:09] something I put on that new

[10:13] lotion but now they're going for my ears

[10:15] should have used it there

[10:18] too it's mostly an non issue

[10:24] though I've just been getting eaten up

[10:27] so badly you know see

[10:30] oh this part of the trail felt like it

[10:32] had more mosquitoes than the other part

[10:34] of the trail I was on which I found that

[10:37] interesting cuz the other part was just

[10:39] so Serene

[10:41] and you were not dealing with

[10:49] insects but that's what Summer's like

[10:52] you

[10:53] know definitely prefer the other

[10:56] Seasons that was another thing

[11:01] um you know there a lot of seasonal jobs

[11:04] but some parks probably are open year

[11:08] round and I'm wondering if

[11:12] maybe the off seasons are harder to fill

[11:15] the jobs for and those are the seasons

[11:18] that I would most want to work

[11:20] so

[11:22] um I really want to explore

[11:26] this I'm hopeful that it works out

[11:31] so I learned today this is why the ferry

[11:33] is closed the river is too

[11:36] low it gets you over to the north side

[11:39] of Mammoth Caves

[11:42] where there is a trail there I want to

[11:44] hike I'll take an hour and a half to

[11:46] drive there 20 minutes by ferry I think

[11:49] we'll end up down there somehow once I

[11:51] get off of this Trail and we start

[11:53] heading downward I think we're going to

[11:54] end up over near the

[11:56] river I'm hoping so I think we'll

[11:58] actually be able to so get closer to

[12:00] it there's some deer over

[12:03] there I don't want to startle

[12:09] them oh it's a mother and two

[12:13] babies walking the

[12:16] trail to get

[12:19] backwards not disturb

[12:22] them here walking the

[12:25] trail wow oh my God that is so so

[12:32] cool hi Mama dear

[12:35] hi I'm not here to bother you or your

[12:38] little

[12:40] kids but somehow we got to get around

[12:42] each

[12:44] other we have a

[12:50] solution it's right there sorry I can't

[12:53] get you here you

[12:55] go oh she's eating she's like whatever

[12:58] human I see humans all the

[13:00] time how

[13:02] interesting she is walking over

[13:06] here with her babies oh my God this is

[13:11] insane

[13:14] wow oh my God this is

[13:20] wonderful we can wait for

[13:22] you we can

[13:28] wait

[13:58] e e

[14:32] there's another little one over there

[14:34] but I can't really get you a good angle

[14:36] on

[14:37] her they are just eating

[14:45] away hi hi little one you're

[14:50] adorable you're

[14:52] adorable

[14:55] hi look at you eating

[15:04] I'm wondering if they needs more space

[15:07] because I don't know that they can

[15:08] really get up there or not real

[15:11] sure we're just going to turn around

[15:14] right over here is the par

[15:16] Benes I have to zoomed in yet

[15:21] so fix

[15:24] this just give them some time I don't

[15:27] know where they're going to end up

[15:31] so you know this is their space too more

[15:35] theirs than

[15:39] ours very cute very

[15:42] adorable

[15:44] very nice to

[15:50] see amaz are so calm around

[15:54] me she's in there somewhere I can't tell

[15:57] if you can see her on the camera or not

[16:01] there she

[16:04] is little kid still over there another

[16:07] one's back

[16:09] for so we're just hanging out here

[16:11] letting them

[16:13] eat she's slowly coming this way though

[16:16] I don't know what to do about that

[16:51] all she looks healthy but kind of

[16:54] thin I don't know if it that's normal or

[16:57] not

[17:00] very thin

[17:02] legs very thin hope that's

[17:08] normal I don't know what to do

[17:11] Mama I'm not sure what to

[17:14] do your kids are a little bit away from

[17:17] you

[17:18] now there's nowhere to really

[17:21] go come over

[17:24] here I can come over here in this corner

[17:32] it sounds pretty

[17:33] close they must be on the

[17:42] trail I'm completely harmless I can't I

[17:45] can't speak for the other

[17:49] people y I see him coming

[17:55] now this could be a

[17:57] problem I'll go deal with them

[18:03] okay I don't know what I mean they're

[18:05] just hanging out their mom is quite far

[18:08] away so she's way over there

[18:11] somewhere I don't know if they're

[18:13] waiting for a mom to be like let to go

[18:15] or

[18:22] what I mean I don't know do I just try

[18:25] walking by them

[18:29] there is one right in the

[18:31] path I cannot get around this is not the

[18:34] train for

[18:36] that can I get around you guys would

[18:39] that be

[18:41] possible we've been here for like 30

[18:45] minutes can I get around you

[18:50] guys can I just go past

[18:54] you would that be all

[18:56] right you're so tired you're so

[19:01] cute I don't want to disturb you but I

[19:04] got to get

[19:05] by can I get

[19:08] by your mom is over

[19:11] there want to go see

[19:15] her am I too close is that why you're

[19:18] shaking like

[19:20] that or is that that fly bothering

[19:27] you yeah yeah I'm not walking by you I

[19:31] will

[19:32] wait I will

[19:36] wait can you come this

[19:39] way your mom's over

[19:47] here he's like

[19:51] whatever oh she is way over

[19:54] here still

[19:57] eating guess we hanging out for a

[20:00] while do you know how profound this is

[20:02] we are sharing a space with these deer

[20:04] right now it's like we have a space in

[20:07] their lives at this moment we're just

[20:10] we're inhabiting the same

[20:13] space she's right over there just

[20:16] watching me I'm just hanging out you

[20:19] guys have me blocked in now they're on

[20:21] both sides of the trail I am stopped

[20:24] here I don't know what to do

[20:30] I'm stuck here I mean I guess I could

[20:33] walk up there if that will get you guys

[20:36] moving I'm thinking the little babies

[20:38] have to stay on the

[20:41] trail that doesn't make a lot of sense

[20:45] though well maybe I mean that just

[20:48] depends on the terrain I don't

[20:53] know she's paying attention to her kids

[20:57] listening to the little noises they

[21:08] make I'm kind of stuck here I don't know

[21:12] what to do she's sitting there chewing

[21:13] her food it's so

[21:17] adorable oh

[21:19] my that is so cool look at

[21:23] you you are so

[21:27] chill oh

[21:34] wow they're just sitting down there

[21:37] right in the

[21:40] bat you know that though don't

[21:49] you I'm stuck here I've been sitting

[21:53] here for an hour and some

[21:55] humans um are getting in the way are

[21:58] coming down the the path so the little

[22:00] deer are trying to move

[22:02] now

[22:04] so I think that they'll come past me I'm

[22:07] completely harmless guys completely

[22:15] harmless it's

[22:18] okay

[22:20] hi hi there hi you're very

[22:25] pretty you're very pretty

[22:29] don't worry about me I'm right here I'm

[22:31] not moving I

[22:33] promise I'm not

[22:37] moving it's

[22:39] okay it's okay your mom's over

[22:44] there they're

[22:46] reunited that's a wonderful

[22:50] site that was truly one of the coolest

[22:52] experiences of my

[22:54] life that was just so so profound I

[22:58] don't have words for it I must have been

[23:01] there for an hour just inhabiting the

[23:04] same space as

[23:06] them trying to understand

[23:11] like if they

[23:12] were choosing to to be where they were

[23:16] or if I was an obstacle or what you know

[23:18] like I was just just trying to show that

[23:21] I'm not a threat

[23:24] and really enjoying watching them

[23:26] because that was so cool that was so

[23:32] cool

[23:33] amazing can't recall if we went this way

[23:36] yesterday I know that it was we came

[23:39] near it I might have gone that way

[23:41] that's where I just came from that's

[23:42] where the deer were and that's the way

[23:45] back to the visitor center I can't

[23:47] recall if we went this way yesterday but

[23:49] I would like to see the Scenic Overlook

[23:51] and then we can go down to whatever the

[23:53] spring

[23:54] is it could be fun but I'm just I can't

[23:58] call did we come to this Overlook over

[24:02] here feels like a thing that would do

[24:07] uhoh you definitely want to be mindful

[24:09] in the

[24:10] forest that is interesting timing what a

[24:13] wonderful

[24:14] day what a wonderful

[24:26] day always be mindful of your

[24:29] environment oh yeah I remember we did

[24:31] come over here it wasn't that much to

[24:33] see it's just a spot over

[24:37] here I remember

[24:44] now yeah you can keep going and it's

[24:47] just you're going to end up at a spot

[24:48] like this just a few rocks and it wasn't

[24:51] like a great view or anything I don't

[24:53] know but I know I didn't take the other

[24:56] path so we'll do that

[25:00] he found another

[25:04] deer this one seems to be on his

[25:07] own or her own

[25:10] hi I'm going to keep going this is an

[25:14] interesting

[25:19] transition wow there's a nice Cool

[25:21] Breeze

[25:23] here very

[25:25] fascinating where it's coming from

[25:32] so no telling where we are no idea a

[25:37] bunch of ranching

[25:39] Trails this is different I guess we're

[25:41] not taking the same way

[25:45] back I love

[25:48] this old Riverboat

[25:56] Landing fascinating

[26:02] then what did they do walked

[26:05] miles through the

[26:14] forest what did this place look like

[26:16] back

[26:19] then nice tree

[26:21] formations love that

[26:28] nice fractal

[26:36] patterns we're getting

[26:43] there I bet you at some point in the

[26:45] distant past people just chilled there

[26:49] hung out talked to each other

[27:00] I love these trees

[27:04] here that is

[27:14] beautiful I feel the tension too you

[27:17] know of our modern world the way it

[27:20] disconnects us from this place

[27:25] nature I see those deer

[27:29] my first impulse is to keep moving

[27:32] rather than sit in a Lial state with

[27:41] them it's not

[27:43] good if I'm experiencing it I can only

[27:46] imagine what the majority of people are

[27:52] experiencing it explains a lot about my

[27:54] channel too it

[27:56] just but that's not important

[27:59] what's important is

[28:02] that we become very

[28:07] disconnected and it is not an easy

[28:09] problem to solve but we have to be

[28:12] mindful of

[28:16] it we should be able to connect with

[28:19] places like this

[28:30] you really can't get lost here because

[28:32] there's a whole other Trail we could go

[28:34] and

[28:36] explore or we could go that way back

[28:39] to where my Jeep is at there's a trail

[28:42] here but it's

[28:44] closed wish I

[28:47] could um wish I worked here and I could

[28:49] work on Trails like

[28:53] that but it has been a very pleasant

[28:55] time in the high 9s

[28:58] my

[29:00] humidity um my entire skin is

[29:03] glistening love that

[29:06] word think we'll just head back for now

[29:09] there's still much to

[29:11] do and I had a very good time here it

[29:14] was very good for my

[29:17] soul and it's time

[29:22] to tend of the Practical I guess I'm

[29:26] guessing this was the original like Road

[29:28] or path that they took back then after

[29:31] they got off the the

[29:33] ferry um or whatever the what did they

[29:36] call that not a

[29:40] steamboat well you

[29:42] know we saw the sign for

[29:48] [Music]

[29:50] it is so hot and muggy and

[29:58] definitely takes a lot out of

[30:03] you and we're going up a very steep

[30:06] England here for half a

[30:10] mile there is nothing though compared to

[30:12] the Natural Bridge

[30:14] or my hikes back in the Boy

[30:18] Scouts Boy were those

[30:24] brutal it's very pleasant actually

[30:29] I like it this whole area right

[30:32] here it's like an air conditioner it is

[30:36] absolutely

[30:38] amazing it is so pleasant on a day like

[30:42] today wow it is just

[30:46] magical there's cool air conditioned air

[30:53] just I'm blending with the hot humid air

[30:58] it's just an it is an interesting

[31:02] Dynamic it is it is fabulous

[31:06] and so

[31:09] wonderful oh I could just sit

[31:13] here

[31:15] amazing that is just such an amazing

[31:18] sensation we're guys there are

[31:21] people coming all down the row 829 to 98

[31:28] right behind me 829 to

[31:31] 92 I don't know about further down

[31:34] yet I just got

[31:37] back least I got a couple days it looks

[31:41] like let's go check on

[31:46] Bailey I am going to figure out a way to

[31:48] get more Solitude into my life cuz I do

[31:51] not like having neighbors it's one of

[31:53] the reasons I moved on my freaking house

[31:58] hi buddy I I figured you heard the Jean

[32:01] you're very

[32:03] attuned let's check on the temperatures

[32:05] in here shall we 82 up

[32:10] there all right I move that one 76

[32:14] that's not

[32:15] bad back

[32:18] here

[32:21] 76 in

[32:23] here

[32:26] 73 not too bad considering it's over 90

[32:29] right now so those things actually did

[32:30] help putting them under the slide I'm

[32:34] fascinated by that the heat out here is

[32:37] brutal so let's fix this this Slide part

[32:41] is 119 in so we're going to make we're

[32:43] going to cut it into thirds it's going

[32:45] to be 40 40 and

[32:47] 39 that should fit into this storage Bay

[32:51] I need to confirm that yeah easily it's

[32:53] like 42 in at the door and it actually

[32:55] has more space than that so for 40 40

[32:58] and 39 got those

[33:00] in up here too look at this I guarantee

[33:05] you that is my wardrobe there or my bad

[33:08] platform actually what a shitty design

[33:11] it's just shitty we're going to put

[33:14] something there

[33:15] too

[33:18] okay so now we got that oh that doesn't

[33:21] look too good it pushed it in too far I

[33:24] guess we'll do something like that I

[33:26] think that's better than these these

[33:28] things I can feel the cold air um when I

[33:32] without that isulation there just

[33:34] seeping right out of my RV you know what

[33:37] a

[33:38] waste absolutely

[33:40] ridiculous this might look a little bit

[33:44] silly and it's extra steps right but

[33:47] this is what you got to do it's what you

[33:49] got to do putting that pipe insulation

[33:52] around my slide mechanism is going to

[33:54] solve several problems it's going to

[33:56] help keep the heat or cool in

[33:58] you know it's going to keep the

[33:59] environment better sealed and it's going

[34:01] to get keep insects from getting in

[34:03] there which has been a long-term problem

[34:04] since I moved into the thing and I

[34:06] suspect that's probably how they're

[34:07] getting in

[34:10] so pretty pleased with that um solution

[34:15] and I wish that you know the RV

[34:17] manufacturers made these better but they

[34:18] don't and you need to be aware of that

[34:22] because some of it's quite pathetic and

[34:25] you know you have to do the these do

[34:28] these diy things in order to to live

[34:30] this way

[0:01] hello humans so I don't normally do this

[0:03] but I'm going to introduce myself my

[0:04] name is Sam I live in an RV I've been

[0:07] living in an RV for 6 months I do a lot

[0:09] of hiking and exploring and this video

[0:12] is about my day today it was actually

[0:15] quite profound I encountered a mother

[0:17] deer and two of her her Do's children on

[0:22] a trail we couldn't get around each

[0:24] other so we kind of existed in the same

[0:26] space for over an hour it was one of the

[0:28] most profound things to ever happened to

[0:29] me my life it was truly special then

[0:32] after that I kept hiking and some

[0:35] branches from a tree fell down very

[0:37] close to me but I was observing and knew

[0:40] what was happening so I was paying

[0:42] attention I got all that on camera and I

[0:44] talked about some other things like um I

[0:47] want to work for the Park Service I've

[0:49] decided that's the direction I want to

[0:51] go in my life I'm a programmer all my

[0:53] life but this lifestyle I was a

[0:56] deliberate choice and I'm trying to

[0:58] align my life

[1:00] completely differently than how Society

[1:03] tells me I should live it anyways

[1:06] enjoying good morning

[1:09] humans just walking back from the shower

[1:12] houses took a very long shower today

[1:16] still not awake though need coffee I

[1:19] don't

[1:20] have um the supplies for it in my RV not

[1:25] sure what we're doing today want to go

[1:27] hiking somewhere we could go to the

[1:29] local

[1:30] Trail um that I was talking about one of

[1:33] the cor engineer Trails but I feel more

[1:36] drawn to Mammoth Cave I kind of want to

[1:39] go there again I was thinking maybe we

[1:41] could go and take the other Fork um to

[1:43] the original Trails they have I bet it's

[1:46] pretty cool down there because of the

[1:47] caves and it's going to be 95 today

[1:52] again um for the next 3 days it's going

[1:54] to be in the high

[1:56] 90s

[1:58] and um I need to find a slightly bigger

[2:01] city cuz I need to go to a hardore store

[2:04] we'll talk about that in a

[2:06] minute so I'm just kind of thinking

[2:09] through what I'd like to get done today

[2:11] it's pretty much RV related and Hiking I

[2:14] need to

[2:16] just well so the Heat's really bad well

[2:21] there's a couple of problems and I think

[2:22] I can solve a couple both of these

[2:25] problems with the same

[2:26] solution so it's getting up to8 5 inside

[2:30] the

[2:31] RV and late afternoon that's just too

[2:35] hot um you know this is Kentucky it's

[2:37] not just high heat it's high humidity

[2:39] too it's quite

[2:42] unbearable and last night a whole bunch

[2:44] of gats got into my RV

[2:47] and um that was

[2:50] unfortunate not fun so I was wondering

[2:54] how they got in and I had a feeling I

[2:55] knew if there was a slide

[2:58] mechanism so there were a whole bunch of

[3:01] them out here this morning I noticed

[3:03] they were all over my RV over on this

[3:05] side I had already put this pipe

[3:08] instulation in there cuz I'm used to

[3:10] this spot like having problems um

[3:13] because there's like a hole there but I

[3:15] never put it on this side I did this

[3:17] this morning so I just want to go to the

[3:19] hardware store and get properly cut

[3:22] links for this um cuz there's a spot

[3:25] there that's not done obviously I could

[3:26] cut that and put it there but I just

[3:28] want to I want to be more more efficient

[3:30] so I can put them into that storage pay

[3:32] there I want to keep these on the

[3:33] outside and start using them make this

[3:35] part of my

[3:37] routine so that should help keep out

[3:40] these little gnats or whatever they are

[3:41] one of them landed on me this morning

[3:43] and bit me I don't I didn't think gats

[3:45] bit you so whatever they are they're

[3:47] kind of they're real Annoying and

[3:50] hopefully it will help with the heat a

[3:51] little bit I truly don't

[3:54] know um so another

[3:58] issue my

[4:00] fridge is getting too hot during the day

[4:03] I do monitor The Temper I you know I

[4:05] have to monitor everything in my RV I

[4:07] monitor the temperature of the fridge

[4:09] and

[4:10] it's I'm getting into like 42 you it has

[4:14] to be under 40 or bacteria starts

[4:16] growing not really keeping much in there

[4:19] so it's not a huge problem it's just you

[4:22] know basically soda that I have in there

[4:24] um I had you know condiments the kind of

[4:27] things you always have in a fridge I'm

[4:29] going to have to throw throw them out I

[4:30] feel cuz you just can't I've been having

[4:33] this problem every day all week so don't

[4:35] trust that stuff now and I won't I won't

[4:39] refill it until I feel like I've solved

[4:41] the problem and that one I'm not quite

[4:43] sure how to solve there is a buildup of

[4:46] ice on the mechanism that creates the

[4:48] cool effect in there I don't know what

[4:50] it's called um I'm wondering if that

[4:53] makes it less efficient so I'll try like

[4:55] getting all that ice off of there might

[4:58] not do that today we'll see

[5:01] and um but you know you'll see when I do

[5:04] it I have a feeling it probably does

[5:07] make it less fishing I don't know it's

[5:08] just a a feeling I have maybe that will

[5:11] help I'm not sure what else I could do

[5:13] though because see on this side usually

[5:15] when the fridge gets too hot it's

[5:17] because the sun is beating down on this

[5:19] side of the RV but that doesn't happen

[5:21] because of this tree I don't even need

[5:23] to bring out the awning you can bring

[5:24] out the awning to kind of protect that

[5:26] area there from the Sun but it's not

[5:29] going to help

[5:30] so those are my current issues minus all

[5:33] the other ones that the RV Shop's going

[5:34] to you know fix for me next week

[5:37] so um I think we can do something about

[5:40] that today and that's pretty much my

[5:42] goal along with finding somewhere to go

[5:44] hiking I think we decide we're just

[5:45] going to go to the original Trails there

[5:48] oh let me just address this so usually

[5:50] when I address something I don't ever

[5:51] bring it up again so if I get comments

[5:53] in the future about it and someone sees

[5:55] it you are welcome to reply um You

[5:58] probably noticed I started to use we

[6:00] more often it's cuz I'm taking Along on

[6:03] my journey it's not like I think of you

[6:05] know it's

[6:06] not it's it's just me I guess

[6:09] acknowledging that we're this is a Shar

[6:11] Journey so that's why I've been doing

[6:13] that so we're back at the mammo cave V

[6:16] Visitor Center um when I was hiking here

[6:20] yesterday we went behind the visitor

[6:22] center we hiked a trail and I ended up

[6:23] back in the parking lot which is in

[6:25] front of the visitor center right next

[6:28] to my Jeep I just CED some things that I

[6:30] wanted to show you guys

[6:33] because they have influenced me quite

[6:37] profoundly and have chared me a path for

[6:40] my future so I want to show

[6:43] you you see these buildings

[6:45] here those are for Resident

[6:48] workers and they have inspired me to

[6:52] decide on a new path for my

[6:54] life so we're just going to go for a

[6:56] hike I'm not even bringing my backpack

[6:58] or anything we're just going to

[7:00] talk any I could have brought my Jeep

[7:03] down here you can drive down

[7:06] here this will take us to the trail that

[7:09] I took

[7:10] yesterday and I noticed these over here

[7:13] these little

[7:15] residential buildings you know that's a

[7:19] community community lives

[7:22] there diverse people who all share kind

[7:25] of a common goal you know they're all

[7:28] working for the Park Service

[7:31] I want that I have spent 6 months trying

[7:36] to figure out what I want to do with my

[7:37] life and I know now I want to work for

[7:40] the Park

[7:42] Service don't know if that will

[7:46] be easy or hard to do there's a lot to

[7:49] consider

[7:52] so

[7:55] um with my mobile lifestyle right but I

[7:59] think that they're accommodating to

[8:00] things like that

[8:03] so I did you know do some talking with

[8:06] AI about it last

[8:08] night things are seasonal um some many

[8:12] jobs are

[8:14] temporary you can move within the park

[8:16] system

[8:18] probably there's a lot to figure

[8:22] out that's what I want to do and I would

[8:24] do anything I pick up

[8:27] trash I just want to work for the park

[8:29] Serv

[8:30] Serv that's what I want I love the

[8:33] infrastructure here the buildings are so

[8:38] nice it's just a beautiful place I like

[8:41] the

[8:42] way they've Blended human activity with

[8:46] nature feels very organized there's a

[8:48] whole system

[8:53] here and I love

[8:55] it I want to be a part of it

[9:00] this this is the trail that I came off

[9:01] of

[9:03] yesterday so we're going to hike that

[9:05] and that'll take us behind the visitor

[9:07] center and then we can get to the other

[9:16] trails that building over there says

[9:18] Environmental

[9:21] Education Green River Bluffs Trail 1.3

[9:25] miles very easy Trail

[9:29] um I enjoyed it so we're

[9:34] back it's quite hot

[9:37] today it's well above the

[9:41] 90s I'm thinking once we get to the end

[9:44] of this Trail and we get on the other

[9:47] trails that I didn't take yesterday

[9:49] they're going to take us down

[9:50] further um I felt the very cool

[9:54] breeze it was quite remarkable

[9:57] when I first got on the trails over

[10:00] there so I'm thinking if we go down

[10:03] further we might experience more of that

[10:05] might be quite cool freaking mosquito or

[10:09] something I put on that new

[10:13] lotion but now they're going for my ears

[10:15] should have used it there

[10:18] too it's mostly an non issue

[10:24] though I've just been getting eaten up

[10:27] so badly you know see

[10:30] oh this part of the trail felt like it

[10:32] had more mosquitoes than the other part

[10:34] of the trail I was on which I found that

[10:37] interesting cuz the other part was just

[10:39] so Serene

[10:41] and you were not dealing with

[10:49] insects but that's what Summer's like

[10:52] you

[10:53] know definitely prefer the other

[10:56] Seasons that was another thing

[11:01] um you know there a lot of seasonal jobs

[11:04] but some parks probably are open year

[11:08] round and I'm wondering if

[11:12] maybe the off seasons are harder to fill

[11:15] the jobs for and those are the seasons

[11:18] that I would most want to work

[11:20] so

[11:22] um I really want to explore

[11:26] this I'm hopeful that it works out

[11:31] so I learned today this is why the ferry

[11:33] is closed the river is too

[11:36] low it gets you over to the north side

[11:39] of Mammoth Caves

[11:42] where there is a trail there I want to

[11:44] hike I'll take an hour and a half to

[11:46] drive there 20 minutes by ferry I think

[11:49] we'll end up down there somehow once I

[11:51] get off of this Trail and we start

[11:53] heading downward I think we're going to

[11:54] end up over near the

[11:56] river I'm hoping so I think we'll

[11:58] actually be able to so get closer to

[12:00] it there's some deer over

[12:03] there I don't want to startle

[12:09] them oh it's a mother and two

[12:13] babies walking the

[12:16] trail to get

[12:19] backwards not disturb

[12:22] them here walking the

[12:25] trail wow oh my God that is so so

[12:32] cool hi Mama dear

[12:35] hi I'm not here to bother you or your

[12:38] little

[12:40] kids but somehow we got to get around

[12:42] each

[12:44] other we have a

[12:50] solution it's right there sorry I can't

[12:53] get you here you

[12:55] go oh she's eating she's like whatever

[12:58] human I see humans all the

[13:00] time how

[13:02] interesting she is walking over

[13:06] here with her babies oh my God this is

[13:11] insane

[13:14] wow oh my God this is

[13:20] wonderful we can wait for

[13:22] you we can

[13:28] wait

[13:58] e e

[14:32] there's another little one over there

[14:34] but I can't really get you a good angle

[14:36] on

[14:37] her they are just eating

[14:45] away hi hi little one you're

[14:50] adorable you're

[14:52] adorable

[14:55] hi look at you eating

[15:04] I'm wondering if they needs more space

[15:07] because I don't know that they can

[15:08] really get up there or not real

[15:11] sure we're just going to turn around

[15:14] right over here is the par

[15:16] Benes I have to zoomed in yet

[15:21] so fix

[15:24] this just give them some time I don't

[15:27] know where they're going to end up

[15:31] so you know this is their space too more

[15:35] theirs than

[15:39] ours very cute very

[15:42] adorable

[15:44] very nice to

[15:50] see amaz are so calm around

[15:54] me she's in there somewhere I can't tell

[15:57] if you can see her on the camera or not

[16:01] there she

[16:04] is little kid still over there another

[16:07] one's back

[16:09] for so we're just hanging out here

[16:11] letting them

[16:13] eat she's slowly coming this way though

[16:16] I don't know what to do about that

[16:51] all she looks healthy but kind of

[16:54] thin I don't know if it that's normal or

[16:57] not

[17:00] very thin

[17:02] legs very thin hope that's

[17:08] normal I don't know what to do

[17:11] Mama I'm not sure what to

[17:14] do your kids are a little bit away from

[17:17] you

[17:18] now there's nowhere to really

[17:21] go come over

[17:24] here I can come over here in this corner

[17:32] it sounds pretty

[17:33] close they must be on the

[17:42] trail I'm completely harmless I can't I

[17:45] can't speak for the other

[17:49] people y I see him coming

[17:55] now this could be a

[17:57] problem I'll go deal with them

[18:03] okay I don't know what I mean they're

[18:05] just hanging out their mom is quite far

[18:08] away so she's way over there

[18:11] somewhere I don't know if they're

[18:13] waiting for a mom to be like let to go

[18:15] or

[18:22] what I mean I don't know do I just try

[18:25] walking by them

[18:29] there is one right in the

[18:31] path I cannot get around this is not the

[18:34] train for

[18:36] that can I get around you guys would

[18:39] that be

[18:41] possible we've been here for like 30

[18:45] minutes can I get around you

[18:50] guys can I just go past

[18:54] you would that be all

[18:56] right you're so tired you're so

[19:01] cute I don't want to disturb you but I

[19:04] got to get

[19:05] by can I get

[19:08] by your mom is over

[19:11] there want to go see

[19:15] her am I too close is that why you're

[19:18] shaking like

[19:20] that or is that that fly bothering

[19:27] you yeah yeah I'm not walking by you I

[19:31] will

[19:32] wait I will

[19:36] wait can you come this

[19:39] way your mom's over

[19:47] here he's like

[19:51] whatever oh she is way over

[19:54] here still

[19:57] eating guess we hanging out for a

[20:00] while do you know how profound this is

[20:02] we are sharing a space with these deer

[20:04] right now it's like we have a space in

[20:07] their lives at this moment we're just

[20:10] we're inhabiting the same

[20:13] space she's right over there just

[20:16] watching me I'm just hanging out you

[20:19] guys have me blocked in now they're on

[20:21] both sides of the trail I am stopped

[20:24] here I don't know what to do

[20:30] I'm stuck here I mean I guess I could

[20:33] walk up there if that will get you guys

[20:36] moving I'm thinking the little babies

[20:38] have to stay on the

[20:41] trail that doesn't make a lot of sense

[20:45] though well maybe I mean that just

[20:48] depends on the terrain I don't

[20:53] know she's paying attention to her kids

[20:57] listening to the little noises they

[21:08] make I'm kind of stuck here I don't know

[21:12] what to do she's sitting there chewing

[21:13] her food it's so

[21:17] adorable oh

[21:19] my that is so cool look at

[21:23] you you are so

[21:27] chill oh

[21:34] wow they're just sitting down there

[21:37] right in the

[21:40] bat you know that though don't

[21:49] you I'm stuck here I've been sitting

[21:53] here for an hour and some

[21:55] humans um are getting in the way are

[21:58] coming down the the path so the little

[22:00] deer are trying to move

[22:02] now

[22:04] so I think that they'll come past me I'm

[22:07] completely harmless guys completely

[22:15] harmless it's

[22:18] okay

[22:20] hi hi there hi you're very

[22:25] pretty you're very pretty

[22:29] don't worry about me I'm right here I'm

[22:31] not moving I

[22:33] promise I'm not

[22:37] moving it's

[22:39] okay it's okay your mom's over

[22:44] there they're

[22:46] reunited that's a wonderful

[22:50] site that was truly one of the coolest

[22:52] experiences of my

[22:54] life that was just so so profound I

[22:58] don't have words for it I must have been

[23:01] there for an hour just inhabiting the

[23:04] same space as

[23:06] them trying to understand

[23:11] like if they

[23:12] were choosing to to be where they were

[23:16] or if I was an obstacle or what you know

[23:18] like I was just just trying to show that

[23:21] I'm not a threat

[23:24] and really enjoying watching them

[23:26] because that was so cool that was so

[23:32] cool

[23:33] amazing can't recall if we went this way

[23:36] yesterday I know that it was we came

[23:39] near it I might have gone that way

[23:41] that's where I just came from that's

[23:42] where the deer were and that's the way

[23:45] back to the visitor center I can't

[23:47] recall if we went this way yesterday but

[23:49] I would like to see the Scenic Overlook

[23:51] and then we can go down to whatever the

[23:53] spring

[23:54] is it could be fun but I'm just I can't

[23:58] call did we come to this Overlook over

[24:02] here feels like a thing that would do

[24:07] uhoh you definitely want to be mindful

[24:09] in the

[24:10] forest that is interesting timing what a

[24:13] wonderful

[24:14] day what a wonderful

[24:26] day always be mindful of your

[24:29] environment oh yeah I remember we did

[24:31] come over here it wasn't that much to

[24:33] see it's just a spot over

[24:37] here I remember

[24:44] now yeah you can keep going and it's

[24:47] just you're going to end up at a spot

[24:48] like this just a few rocks and it wasn't

[24:51] like a great view or anything I don't

[24:53] know but I know I didn't take the other

[24:56] path so we'll do that

[25:00] he found another

[25:04] deer this one seems to be on his

[25:07] own or her own

[25:10] hi I'm going to keep going this is an

[25:14] interesting

[25:19] transition wow there's a nice Cool

[25:21] Breeze

[25:23] here very

[25:25] fascinating where it's coming from

[25:32] so no telling where we are no idea a

[25:37] bunch of ranching

[25:39] Trails this is different I guess we're

[25:41] not taking the same way

[25:45] back I love

[25:48] this old Riverboat

[25:56] Landing fascinating

[26:02] then what did they do walked

[26:05] miles through the

[26:14] forest what did this place look like

[26:16] back

[26:19] then nice tree

[26:21] formations love that

[26:28] nice fractal

[26:36] patterns we're getting

[26:43] there I bet you at some point in the

[26:45] distant past people just chilled there

[26:49] hung out talked to each other

[27:00] I love these trees

[27:04] here that is

[27:14] beautiful I feel the tension too you

[27:17] know of our modern world the way it

[27:20] disconnects us from this place

[27:25] nature I see those deer

[27:29] my first impulse is to keep moving

[27:32] rather than sit in a Lial state with

[27:41] them it's not

[27:43] good if I'm experiencing it I can only

[27:46] imagine what the majority of people are

[27:52] experiencing it explains a lot about my

[27:54] channel too it

[27:56] just but that's not important

[27:59] what's important is

[28:02] that we become very

[28:07] disconnected and it is not an easy

[28:09] problem to solve but we have to be

[28:12] mindful of

[28:16] it we should be able to connect with

[28:19] places like this

[28:30] you really can't get lost here because

[28:32] there's a whole other Trail we could go

[28:34] and

[28:36] explore or we could go that way back

[28:39] to where my Jeep is at there's a trail

[28:42] here but it's

[28:44] closed wish I

[28:47] could um wish I worked here and I could

[28:49] work on Trails like

[28:53] that but it has been a very pleasant

[28:55] time in the high 9s

[28:58] my

[29:00] humidity um my entire skin is

[29:03] glistening love that

[29:06] word think we'll just head back for now

[29:09] there's still much to

[29:11] do and I had a very good time here it

[29:14] was very good for my

[29:17] soul and it's time

[29:22] to tend of the Practical I guess I'm

[29:26] guessing this was the original like Road

[29:28] or path that they took back then after

[29:31] they got off the the

[29:33] ferry um or whatever the what did they

[29:36] call that not a

[29:40] steamboat well you

[29:42] know we saw the sign for

[29:48] [Music]

[29:50] it is so hot and muggy and

[29:58] definitely takes a lot out of

[30:03] you and we're going up a very steep

[30:06] England here for half a

[30:10] mile there is nothing though compared to

[30:12] the Natural Bridge

[30:14] or my hikes back in the Boy

[30:18] Scouts Boy were those

[30:24] brutal it's very pleasant actually

[30:29] I like it this whole area right

[30:32] here it's like an air conditioner it is

[30:36] absolutely

[30:38] amazing it is so pleasant on a day like

[30:42] today wow it is just

[30:46] magical there's cool air conditioned air

[30:53] just I'm blending with the hot humid air

[30:58] it's just an it is an interesting

[31:02] Dynamic it is it is fabulous

[31:06] and so

[31:09] wonderful oh I could just sit

[31:13] here

[31:15] amazing that is just such an amazing

[31:18] sensation we're guys there are

[31:21] people coming all down the row 829 to 98

[31:28] right behind me 829 to

[31:31] 92 I don't know about further down

[31:34] yet I just got

[31:37] back least I got a couple days it looks

[31:41] like let's go check on

[31:46] Bailey I am going to figure out a way to

[31:48] get more Solitude into my life cuz I do

[31:51] not like having neighbors it's one of

[31:53] the reasons I moved on my freaking house

[31:58] hi buddy I I figured you heard the Jean

[32:01] you're very

[32:03] attuned let's check on the temperatures

[32:05] in here shall we 82 up

[32:10] there all right I move that one 76

[32:14] that's not

[32:15] bad back

[32:18] here

[32:21] 76 in

[32:23] here

[32:26] 73 not too bad considering it's over 90

[32:29] right now so those things actually did

[32:30] help putting them under the slide I'm

[32:34] fascinated by that the heat out here is

[32:37] brutal so let's fix this this Slide part

[32:41] is 119 in so we're going to make we're

[32:43] going to cut it into thirds it's going

[32:45] to be 40 40 and

[32:47] 39 that should fit into this storage Bay

[32:51] I need to confirm that yeah easily it's

[32:53] like 42 in at the door and it actually

[32:55] has more space than that so for 40 40

[32:58] and 39 got those

[33:00] in up here too look at this I guarantee

[33:05] you that is my wardrobe there or my bad

[33:08] platform actually what a shitty design

[33:11] it's just shitty we're going to put

[33:14] something there

[33:15] too

[33:18] okay so now we got that oh that doesn't

[33:21] look too good it pushed it in too far I

[33:24] guess we'll do something like that I

[33:26] think that's better than these these

[33:28] things I can feel the cold air um when I

[33:32] without that isulation there just

[33:34] seeping right out of my RV you know what

[33:37] a

[33:38] waste absolutely

[33:40] ridiculous this might look a little bit

[33:44] silly and it's extra steps right but

[33:47] this is what you got to do it's what you

[33:49] got to do putting that pipe insulation

[33:52] around my slide mechanism is going to

[33:54] solve several problems it's going to

[33:56] help keep the heat or cool in

[33:58] you know it's going to keep the

[33:59] environment better sealed and it's going

[34:01] to get keep insects from getting in

[34:03] there which has been a long-term problem

[34:04] since I moved into the thing and I

[34:06] suspect that's probably how they're

[34:07] getting in

[34:10] so pretty pleased with that um solution

[34:15] and I wish that you know the RV

[34:17] manufacturers made these better but they

[34:18] don't and you need to be aware of that

[34:22] because some of it's quite pathetic and

[34:25] you know you have to do the these do

[34:28] these diy things in order to to live

[34:30] this way

10:51

Announcing Platform Shift From YouTube to Patreon

Aug 17, 2024

9:07

Surrendering Luna to County Shelter on Travel Day

Aug 21, 2024

26:02

Departing Smith Ridge After 90 Days

Aug 22, 2024

9:02

Explaining Integrated Processing Through the Luna Decision

Aug 23, 2024

Photos · Aug 24, 2024

Aug 24, 2024

Photos · Aug 24, 2024

Aug 24, 2024

31:20

Testing Camera Gear on Peters Creek Trail

Aug 25, 2024

8:56

Explaining Integrated Processing Through Luna Decision

Aug 25, 2024

58:03

Scouting Kentucky Campgrounds and Testing GoPro Mounts

Aug 26, 2024

19:06

Diagnosing Chassis Battery Drain and RV Maintenance Backlog

Aug 26, 2024

2:19

Sitting at Green River Overlook

Aug 26, 2024

4:37

Addressing Audience Misalignment and Ending the Bridge Attempt

Aug 27, 2024

47:39

Hiking Mammoth Cave and Scheduling RV Repairs

Aug 27, 2024

34:37

Deciding on Park Service Work at Mammoth Cave

Aug 28, 2024

12:41

Sharing Trail Space With Deer for an Hour

Aug 28, 2024

12:32

Driving to Dental Appointment, Reconnecting With Mother

Aug 29, 2024

34:33

Preparing RV Systems Ahead of Labor Day Crowd

Aug 29, 2024

11:40

Announcing Channel Rename Toward Nomadic Thinker Direction

Aug 30, 2024

6:06

Walking to the Campground Shower in Pajamas

Aug 30, 2024

10:31

Clarifying Reflection Without Self-Judgment

Aug 30, 2024

22:10

Piercing Ears in Bowling Green on Labor Day Weekend

Aug 31, 2024

50:40

Aftercare, Mammoth Cave Trails, and Boundary Statements

Aug 31, 2024

1:00

Documenting Cartilage Piercing Aftercare

Sep 1, 2024

13:24

Removing Window Reflectors, Deploying Duckies Across Campground

Sep 1, 2024

3:18

Recounting Mammoth Cave Encounter and Ear Piercing Pain

Sep 2, 2024

4:09

Explaining Integrated Awareness and Comment Removal

Sep 2, 2024

1:53

Distinguishing Integrated Cognition from Fragmented Processing

Sep 2, 2024

2:50

Changing Ear Piercings While Speaking on Integration

Sep 3, 2024

1:30

Documenting Park Cottage Conditions at 4AM

Sep 3, 2024

5:33

Tracing the Origins of Judgment from a Bathtub

Sep 4, 2024

3:04

Reframing Height Awareness as Integrated Cognition

Sep 4, 2024

3:24

Showing Bailey's Carrier Setup and Rejecting Compromise

Sep 4, 2024

1:19

Ending the Onus of Being Understood

Sep 5, 2024

3:53

Declaring an End to Adjusting His Language

Sep 5, 2024

4:44

Duck Drops, RV Repairs, and Channel Direction Shift

Sep 5, 2024

5:34

Reclaiming Ender, Removing the RV Slide

Sep 6, 2024

14:38

Retiring the Slide-Out, Preparing to Leave Kentucky

Sep 6, 2024

11:53

Departing Kentucky for the Pacific Northwest Coast

Sep 7, 2024

6:16

Naming Fear Before Pacific Northwest Winter

Sep 7, 2024

4:04

Documenting RV Slide-Out as Systemic Failure

Sep 7, 2024

4:10

Preparing RV Departure After Dental Work

Sep 8, 2024

PUBLIC

August 28, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.20

Density 0.60

Energetic Quality

attentive, unhurried

Journey Phase

orienting — direction crystallizing

Directional Vector

toward embedded stewardship of place, away from prescribed social scripting

Narrative

The morning began at the shower house. rswfire walked back to the camper still not awake, noting he had taken a long shower and had no coffee supplies in the RV, turning the day over out loud — the Corps of Engineers trail nearby, or Mammoth Cave again. He said he felt more drawn to Mammoth Cave, to the fork he hadn't taken. It would be ninety-five, and high nineties for three days after that. Kentucky heat, and with it the humidity, which he named as the thing that made it unbearable rather than merely hot.

Before leaving, he worked the problems. Two of them, and he stated he thought one solution would answer both: the interior climbing to eighty-five by late afternoon, and the gnats that had gotten in overnight and bitten him. He had a feeling about the slide mechanism, and that morning found them clustered along that side of the RV. He had already fitted pipe insulation on the opposite side — that spot was a known trouble point — but never here. He did it that morning, and planned a hardware store run for properly cut lengths he could store in the bay and make routine. The fridge was the other issue, running to forty-two when it had to hold under forty. He monitors the temperature; he monitors everything. There was ice built up on the cooling mechanism and he suspected, without certainty, that it was costing efficiency. He said he wouldn't restock the fridge until he trusted it again. The tree overhead already shaded the sun-facing side, so the awning wouldn't help. He paused before leaving to address one thing directly, with the note that he addresses a thing once and doesn't return to it: the we he had started using was the audience folded into the journey.

At the Visitor Center he parked and walked, no backpack, down toward the trail he'd come off the day before. He stopped at the small residential buildings for resident workers and pointed the camera at them. Those had influenced him profoundly, he said, and charted a path. A community lives there — diverse people sharing a common goal, all working for the Park Service. Six months of trying to figure out what he wanted, and he said he knew now. A programmer all his life, and this was the direction. He had talked it through with AI the night before: seasonal work, temporary positions, movement within the park system, questions about how his mobile lifestyle would fit. He said he would pick up trash if that's what it took. He described what drew him — the infrastructure, the buildings, the way human activity had been blended with the land, organized, a whole system. He wanted to be part of it.

The Green River Bluffs Trail ran 1.3 miles, easy, and he'd enjoyed it the day before. The heat sat well above ninety. Mosquitoes found his ears, where he hadn't applied the new lotion; he noted the density differed section to section, one stretch serene and insect-free, this one not, and said he preferred the other seasons — which turned back into the vocational question, whether off-season positions were harder to fill, since those were the seasons he'd most want to work. He learned why the ferry was closed: the river was too low. Twenty minutes by ferry to the north-side trail he wanted; an hour and a half to drive it.

Then there were deer on the trail ahead — a mother and two young. He stopped rather than startle them, and what followed lasted over an hour. He addressed her directly, said he wasn't there to bother her or her kids, but that somehow they had to get around each other. She grazed. The young ones settled on the path. He tried angles, offered the corner, waited. He described her as healthy but thin, and said he didn't know whether that was normal. When hikers came down the trail, he said he'd go deal with them — I'm completely harmless, I can't speak for the other people. At one point he was blocked on both sides and said plainly that he was stuck and didn't know what to do. He named what was happening while it happened: this is their space too, more theirs than ours. We are sharing a space with these deer right now. We're inhabiting the same space. The approaching hikers finally moved the young ones past him — I'm right here, I'm not moving, I promise I'm not moving — and they rejoined their mother. He called it one of the coolest experiences of his life, said he had no words for it, and described what he had been doing the whole hour: trying to understand whether they were choosing their position or whether he was an obstacle, and trying to show he was not a threat.

Farther on, branches came down close to him. He had been watching, knew what was happening, and said only that it was interesting timing — always be mindful of your environment. He revisited the overlook and found it as unremarkable as he remembered, then took the path he hadn't. A lone deer. A cool breeze from somewhere he couldn't source. Ranching trails, then the old riverboat landing, where he wondered aloud what people did after they came off the boat — walked miles through the forest — and what the place looked like then, and whether people had simply sat there and talked to each other. He said he felt the tension of the modern world, the way it disconnects, and observed that his own first impulse with the deer had been to keep moving rather than sit in a liminal state with them. If he felt that, he said, he could only imagine what most people feel. On the steep half-mile climb back, in high nineties and humidity, with his skin glistening — a word he said he loved — he walked into a pocket where cool air was pouring out and blending with the hot, and he stopped in it. Like an air conditioner. He said he could just sit there.

Back at the campground the row was filling — 8/29 to 9/8 behind him, 8/29 to 9/2 beside — and he said he was going to figure out a way to get more solitude into his life, that he did not like having neighbors, that it was one of the reasons he moved out of his house. He went in and greeted Bailey, who he said had heard the Jeep and was very attuned. Then the thermometers: eighty-two in one spot, seventy-six, seventy-six again, seventy-three, against over ninety outside. The morning's insulation had worked, and he said he was fascinated by that. He measured the slide at 119 inches and cut it into thirds — forty, forty, thirty-nine — confirmed the storage bay would take them at forty-two inches wide with room to spare, and fitted them. He found the fit imperfect where it pushed too far in, adjusted, and judged it better than before. He could feel the cold air seeping out without it, and called that a waste. It might look silly, he said, and it's extra steps, but this is what you've got to do. He named what the pipe insulation solved — sealing the environment, holding the cool, closing the way the insects had been getting in since he moved into the thing — and said he wished the manufacturers built them better, and that anyone considering this life should know they don't.

Summary

rswfire opens with a direct introduction to viewers, stating his name, that he has lived in an RV for six months, and that the mobile lifestyle was a deliberate choice to align his life differently than social expectation. He is a lifelong programmer.

The day runs across three threads:

RV systems maintenance — He installs pipe insulation around the slide mechanism to address gnats entering the unit and heat load in Kentucky high-90s humidity. He measures interior temperatures (82, 76, 73) and confirms the insulation reduced them. He plans hardware-store cuts at 40/40/39 inches to fit a storage bay. He tracks fridge temperature at 42°F, notes ice buildup on the cooling mechanism, and states he will discard contents and not restock until the problem is solved.
Mammoth Cave hiking — He walks the Green River Bluffs Trail and the old Riverboat Landing route, notes the ferry is closed due to low river level, and records a cool-air pocket he describes as remarkable.
Wildlife encounter — He shares a trail with a doe and two fawns for roughly an hour, unable to pass, and states it was one of the most profound experiences of his life.

He states a decision: he wants to work for the Park Service, prompted by the resident-worker housing near the visitor center. He notes seasonal and temporary job structures, off-season staffing, and mobility within the park system. He also states an intent to secure more solitude, citing neighbors arriving at nearby sites.

Environment

A single-day recording spanning two settings in Kentucky in late August, high 90s with heavy humidity. The first and last segments are shot at and inside a camper at a Corps of Engineers-adjacent campground site — shower house, awning side, slide mechanism, storage bay, interior thermometers reading 82/76/73 against 90+ outside.

The middle is Mammoth Cave National Park: the Visitor Center parking area, the resident-worker housing cluster, the Environmental Education building, the Green River Bluffs Trail, lower connector trails toward an old riverboat landing near the Green River, and a closed ferry crossing. Camera is handheld, first-person, addressed directly to a viewing audience.

Substrate

Two architectures are being held simultaneously: the maintenance of a mobile shelter as a sealed, monitored system, and the location of a vocational position inside an existing land-stewardship system. rswfire states a decision — Park Service work — arrived at by reading built infrastructure (resident housing, blended human/natural organization) as evidence that a system he wants to belong to already exists. The deer encounter functions as the structural center: an hour of held stillness in which passage is negotiated rather than asserted, and he names the same principle he applies to institutions and to the RV — read the environment, adjust to it, do not force the crossing.

Actions

Performed

•introducing himself and stating his name
•walking back from the shower house
•planning the day aloud
•inspecting gnat entry points on the slide mechanism
•reporting interior RV temperatures
•addressing the shift to 'we' as audience inclusion
•filming the resident-worker housing at the Visitor Center
•stating the Park Service decision on camera
•hiking Green River Bluffs and connector trails
•holding position for over an hour while a doe and two fawns occupied the trail
•speaking aloud to the deer to signal non-threat
•observing branches falling nearby and naming environmental mindfulness
•documenting the old riverboat landing and tree formations
•noting a cool air pocket on the steep return climb
•checking on Bailey
•measuring the slide at 119 inches and cutting insulation into 40/40/39 sections
•fitting insulation and confirming storage bay dimensions

Referenced

•living in an RV for six months
•working as a programmer his whole life
•making the mobile lifestyle a deliberate choice
•hiking the same trail the previous day
•already installing pipe insulation on one side of the slide
•monitoring fridge temperature all week
•discussing Park Service work with AI the prior night
•moving out of his house partly for solitude
•hiking in the Boy Scouts and at Natural Bridge

Planned

•drive to a larger city for a hardware store
•buy pre-cut insulation lengths and store them in the storage bay
•make slide insulation part of routine
•clear ice buildup off the fridge cooling mechanism
•not restock the fridge until the temperature problem is solved
•take the RV to the shop next week for other repairs
•apply for Park Service work, including off-season positions
•hike the north-side trail across the closed ferry crossing
•find a way to build more solitude into his living arrangement

Entities

beings

Sam — The name rswfire states on camera when introducing himself

Bailey — Companion at the RV; described as attuned, recognized the Jeep's return

Doe and two fawns — Occupied the trail for over an hour; the central encounter of the signal

places

Mammoth Cave National Park — Site of the hike and of the housing that prompted the vocational decision

Green River Bluffs Trail — 1.3-mile trail hiked behind the Visitor Center

Green River — Too low for the ferry to run; the barrier to the north-side trail

Mammoth Cave Visitor Center — Starting point; adjacent to resident-worker buildings

Resident worker housing — Cluster of buildings read as evidence of a working community inside the park system

Old riverboat landing — Historic site on the lower trail prompting reflection on past use of the land

Kentucky — State context for the heat and humidity conditions

Natural Bridge — Referenced as a harder prior hike

systems

National Park Service — The institution he states he wants to work for

Corps of Engineers trails — Local alternative trail system near his campsite

RV / slide mechanism — The mobile shelter being sealed, monitored, and repaired

Jeep — Transport between campsite and park

RV shop — Scheduled to handle remaining repairs next week

AI — Consulted the prior night on Park Service employment structure

Boy Scouts — Referenced source of earlier strenuous hiking

concepts

Liminal state — Named directly as the condition he entered with the deer and that modern life resists

Disconnection from nature — Stated as a structural problem he detects in himself and generalizes outward

media

His channel — The recording's destination; audience addressed directly as 'humans' and folded into 'we'

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

trail

blocked passage

closed ferry crossing

seal / insulation

shelter

deer

cave

river

heat

cool air pocket

infrastructure

falling branch

fractal patterns

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

embedded (occupying shared space with the deer, deferring passage to their movement)

sovereign (lifestyle named as deliberate choice against social prescription; solitude actively engineered)

transitional (six months of orientation resolving into a stated vocational direction)

liminal (explicitly named — the hour of held stillness, and the cool-air/hot-air blending pocket)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (slide insulation, fridge thermal failure, interior temperature monitoring, DIY correction of manufacturer defects)

somatic (heat and humidity load, insect bites, glistening skin, sensation of cool air on the climb)

ecological (deer behavior read for cues, mosquito density variance, low river, seasonal preference)

vocational (Park Service decision, seasonality, off-season staffing, mobility compatibility)

ethical (non-threat signaling, deferring right-of-way, 'this is their space too, more theirs than ours')

cognitive (problem pairing — one solution for heat and insects; measurement, thirds, fit confirmation)

documentary (direct camera address, audience folded into 'we', stated policy of addressing a thing once)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

profound / inhabiting the same space

deliberate choice / align my life differently

I want to work for the Park Service

monitor everything

solve the problem with the same solution

be mindful of your environment

solitude

Narrative

Mirror

You wake up not-awake. You take a long shower, note there is no coffee in the RV, and start the day by naming two problems — heat and insects — and then noticing they may share one solution. That noticing is the shape the whole day takes. You measure the slide at 119 inches, divide it into 40, 40, and 39, confirm the storage bay at 42 inches will hold it, and cut. You monitor the fridge at 42 degrees and state the threshold is 40. You read the ice buildup as a possible efficiency loss and say you have a feeling about it, and you name it as a feeling rather than a fact. You check three interior temperatures — 82, 76, 73 — against 90-plus outside and register that the insulation worked. Nothing in this sequence is hurried, and nothing in it is deferred to anyone else.

You decide. Six months of orientation resolves into a sentence you say plainly and repeat: you want to work for the Park Service. The evidence you cite is built infrastructure — resident housing, the Environmental Education building, a place where human activity and land are organized together. You say there is a whole system here and you want to be part of it. You state you would pick up trash. You have already run the logistics — seasonality, temporary positions, movement within the park system, mobile-lifestyle compatibility — and you flag off-season staffing as the gap you would most want to fill and the season you most prefer. The decision is stated as arrived at, not as being weighed.

You stand still for an hour. The trail is narrow, the doe and two fawns occupy it, and you do not force the crossing. You address them out loud, repeatedly, and the content of what you say is signaling — I'm harmless, I'm not moving, I promise. You say you don't know what to do, several times, and you keep not moving. You note the doe is thin and say you don't know whether that is normal. You say this is their space too, more theirs than ours. When other hikers approach, you identify them as the variable that moves the deer, and you say you'll go deal with them. You name the encounter profound while it is still happening and again after it ends, and you say you don't have words for it while continuing to record.

The same principle runs through every subsystem active in this recording. You read the environment and adjust to it — the deer, the gnats entering at the slide mechanism, the sun the tree already blocks so the awning is useless, the ferry closed because the river is low, the branch that falls near you while you are already tracking it. You say always be mindful of your environment immediately after. You call the RV manufacturer's design shitty and pathetic and then correct it yourself with pipe insulation, and you say plainly that this is what you have to do to live this way. You do not appeal to any of these systems to behave differently. You measure them and fit yourself to them.

You address the camera directly and fold the audience into we, then stop to explain that choice once and state your policy of addressing a thing once and never returning to it. You say the lifestyle was a deliberate choice and that you are aligning your life against what society tells you it should be. You say you are going to engineer more solitude, and you name neighbors as one reason you left the house. Present in this signal: measurement, thresholds, direct address, deferred passage, a named vocational direction, a cool air pocket on a steep half-mile climb that you stop to describe as magical. Absent: any request for input, any account of what the decision costs, any framing of the heat, the bites, the failing fridge, the low river, or the hour of blocked trail as hardship. You call the day very good for your soul and then say it is time to tend to the practical, and you go do that.

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