Preparing RV Systems Ahead of Labor Day Crowd

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[0:00] good morning humans I just woke up I

[0:03] don't have anything to drink so I'm

[0:04] going to the store I just came

[0:07] outside I guess the Labor Day crowd has

[0:09] already started it's Thursday and we've

[0:11] got two neighbor two neighbors

[0:14] already I'm thinking this might be the

[0:17] busiest I've ever seen the park or any

[0:20] park like literally every camp site is

[0:24] is booked so it's going to be a full

[0:27] house

[0:28] here yeah and I can't do anything about

[0:31] it so I might as well embrace it you

[0:33] know maybe we will go and just look

[0:37] around at all the different campsites

[0:39] and just get a feel for the vibe that's

[0:43] going on this

[0:45] weekend on Monday Labor Day I'll be at a

[0:50] cottage here

[0:52] because my RV has to go into the shop so

[0:55] I booked a cottage for 3 Days starting

[0:58] Monday

[1:00] uh it goes in Tuesday morning so I'll

[1:02] get everything ready on Labor

[1:04] Day and then Tuesday morning we'll drive

[1:06] it down

[1:08] there and hopefully I'll get it back

[1:13] Wednesday I guess it might be Thursday

[1:16] but that's you know I'll check out on

[1:17] Thursday that at the cottage so

[1:19] hopefully everything's fixed by

[1:21] that so we have a lot going on today I'm

[1:25] going to first I'm going to head down to

[1:28] the showers

[1:30] uh yesterday threw off my whole day

[1:32] right so um I'm going to get down there

[1:34] and then I'm going to work on the some

[1:38] stuff at the RV I um I want to do

[1:41] something to the storage base they're

[1:43] not organized I feel like I'm less

[1:45] likely to do those things when there's a

[1:48] big crowd

[1:49] here cuz I don't you know I don't like

[1:52] crowds I don't

[1:54] like um cuz they take out mental space

[1:57] in my brain like I have to be aware of

[2:00] of every I'm aware of everything so if

[2:02] there are people all around me then I'm

[2:05] taking in that input and there's nothing

[2:08] I can do about that not a thing I can

[2:10] block out put my headphones in and you

[2:13] know kind of create my own mental space

[2:15] that's why that works so well for

[2:18] me um but you know I still know they're

[2:22] out there and they're observing me and I

[2:25] just it's not a a state that I like

[2:29] experiencing

[2:31] um I know that lots of people don't seem

[2:33] to have as much of a problem with that

[2:35] but I definitely do like I have

[2:38] neighbors now who are near my picnic

[2:40] bench I don't want to sit out there KN

[2:43] they could be watching me from inside

[2:45] their RV like that's not an enjoyable

[2:48] experience for me at all so we're going

[2:51] to try to adapt this weekend though

[2:54] because you know after this things

[2:58] should really quiet down and and

[3:00] hopefully

[3:02] being very pleasant I'm looking forward

[3:04] to that let's take a walk around my Loop

[3:08] and see what we're contending with this

[3:09] weekend shall we might be fun so here I

[3:15] am this is me I actually want to get

[3:18] some shots here because I have some

[3:20] ideas

[3:21] for um some changes to my

[3:25] channel been working on you'll see some

[3:28] of them today I think

[3:30] which are pretty

[3:33] fun so let's just start with

[3:36] some camera angles on my Jeep and RV

[3:40] letics everywhere

[3:42] because we have to live in a cave in

[3:45] this

[3:46] heat it's also part of RV

[3:49] life my beautiful red

[3:53] Jeep M's in there

[3:58] somewhere so we're

[4:02] here on this side of um the loop those

[4:06] are all pretty much I mean they're not

[4:08] it's tent camping that's where I started

[4:10] out my first day from my

[4:13] RV um so we'll probably see some RVs

[4:16] there but you know it's generally best

[4:17] for tent

[4:18] camping and then you've got some RVs on

[4:22] this side and that's my Loop okay so

[4:24] it's not a very difficult it's not a

[4:27] complicated Loop

[4:30] so behind me 8:29 to

[4:38] 992

[4:40] um just curious when people are showing

[4:45] up

[4:48] 8:30 it's some across next to me is 8:29

[4:52] so that's must to be today I have to

[4:54] check the DAT I don't know the thing

[5:00] these people are hooked up they even

[5:02] have one of those portable tank

[5:08] things I think they're here till 92 I

[5:16] start so this is the last one this is

[5:19] when I was trying to

[5:21] get but you know they're booked up every

[5:25] day they're here till 98 they come on

[5:28] the 30th so tomorrow let me check the

[5:32] date yep today's the 29th okay so

[5:36] they're coming

[5:39] tomorrow actually we won't learn

[5:41] anything from this side cuz all the all

[5:44] the signs are this way so let's just

[5:46] walk down the

[5:51] loop that's where

[5:53] the I just love that little meeting area

[5:56] over there it's so cool to me

[6:03] it's Pleasant so far this

[6:06] morning but it's going to be hot it's

[6:08] going to be way in the high 90s again

[6:12] so it starts cooling down after that but

[6:16] slowly it won't be next week before we

[6:18] get back into the

[6:20] 80s so I'm looking forward to

[6:23] that this is some serious

[6:26] heat when um you know I'm getting better

[6:29] at this so next year we won't be here

[6:32] this time of year it's just too

[6:34] hot we'll be somewhere else I'm trying

[6:38] to um adjust my appointment with the

[6:40] dentist so I don't have to stay here

[6:42] another 6 weeks I'm ready to go I called

[6:44] them this morning and told them waiting

[6:46] to hear from

[6:48] them I don't think it's very nice of

[6:50] them they make me wait 6 weeks when I

[6:52] only should have to wait

[6:54] two you know not being very

[6:57] accommodating so next to me tomorrow

[7:00] 8:30 to

[7:02] 9:30 and over

[7:05] here 8:30 to

[7:10] 92 I mean they're all going to be pretty

[7:12] much the same

[7:14] but just curious 8:30 to 9:2 definitely

[7:19] everybody's coming for Labor Day right

[7:22] 8:30 to

[7:23] 9:2 it's kind of it's kind of

[7:25] fascinating really it's kind of

[7:27] interesting to me 8:30 92

[7:31] again um

[7:33] everybody's you know coming to enjoy

[7:35] Labor Day here which that's pretty

[7:38] cool I actually think that's

[7:41] awesome um same deal for both of these

[7:44] well someone's coming today for this one

[7:46] for 87 that's a nice spot actually never

[7:50] really noticed how nice that one

[7:52] is

[7:55] so let's see here there's a couple more

[7:58] and then there's a tent camper she's

[7:59] been down there for a while 392 so we're

[8:02] just going to turn around before we get

[8:03] to her give her her privacy

[8:05] and go on about our

[8:08] day so yeah we got people

[8:11] everywhere it's going to be

[8:14] busy this is kind of a nice sight too

[8:18] really they never really notice these

[8:21] ones they're coming on 8:31 so until

[8:25] 9:3 couple days from now that's a nice

[8:28] sight though

[8:29] that is actually pretty decent

[8:32] site there's a spot for your Jeep and

[8:36] you know my little camper could fit

[8:37] there

[8:39] easily

[8:41] so

[8:47] yeah I think I would want to embrace

[8:50] this even more if I didn't have so much

[8:52] I needed to do I just I have so much

[8:55] work to do on this RV

[8:59] um that's going to be my focus this

[9:02] weekend

[9:04] so this to me is we are approaching the

[9:07] end of my

[9:09] time in Kentucky

[9:12] and where do I want to say

[9:24] this I'm ready to finally

[9:29] do the things I set out to do when I

[9:32] made the choice to get this Arvy that

[9:35] means truly embracing this life going

[9:38] you know traveling different states

[9:40] seeing different things I'm ready to

[9:44] go um but you know I got some practical

[9:47] things I have to do first

[9:49] and I'm going to have to do them this

[9:51] weekend I don't think we'll do a whole

[9:52] lot of hiking because I really need to

[9:55] make myself focus on this so that we're

[9:57] ready so that we can do this

[10:01] I am super excited to I finally feel

[10:04] like I just feel ready to to go you know

[10:08] my tires are

[10:09] fixed I do feel I feel a lot better

[10:12] about those tires

[10:14] now um we're going to get a bunch of

[10:16] problems fixed this um next

[10:20] week we'll spend a couple days in um

[10:22] myage that'll be fun it'll just be a fun

[10:26] experience um but H you know I'm ready

[10:30] to go I'm sitting over here because just

[10:33] don't want other people in my mental

[10:34] space I won't be out here when they're

[10:36] all out here it's just not fun for

[10:39] me um for me having to I

[10:46] like selective

[10:48] engagement I like to decide when I

[10:51] interact with people and if I'm out here

[10:54] you know lots of people just take that

[10:57] as an invitation to just start talking

[10:59] to you and disrupting whatever it is

[11:01] you're

[11:02] doing and I

[11:06] just really don't want that

[11:10] so it's going to be a struggle this this

[11:13] is going to be a struggle this weekend

[11:15] but I'm going to do my best to just make

[11:18] the absolute best of it everybody's

[11:20] going to be out here having a good

[11:22] time you know and I'm not here to ruin

[11:24] that I

[11:26] just um prefer Solitude I prefer to be

[11:29] on my

[11:31] own but we'll do what we you know we'll

[11:34] do our best we

[11:38] will be social I guess I might as well

[11:42] show you just how bad it's gotten I've

[11:45] been eaten up again by mosquitoes the

[11:47] day that I saw those deer I had put on

[11:50] lotion an insect repellent lotion before

[11:53] going out and I still got eaten so bad

[11:56] they're all over my legs

[12:00] so you know not very comfortable theyve

[12:03] gotten up here there are my arms

[12:07] like it's just that's the most

[12:10] unbearable aspect I need to get down to

[12:12] the showers and put on something like an

[12:16] anti-itch cream or something

[12:18] and

[12:20] um we're going to keep working on that

[12:23] in fact I did get some hiking clothes I

[12:25] need to spray those with I think it's

[12:27] called perine or something like that

[12:30] um which is supposed to help but you

[12:31] know the exposed areas of your skin you

[12:34] need a lotion or a spray

[12:37] and um it was very hot though so I was

[12:39] sweating a lot I might have just sweat

[12:41] out the whatever IID put on like almost

[12:44] almost instantly there cuz it was almost

[12:46] 100° so we're going to work on that

[12:50] because I don't want to keep getting

[12:52] eaten up like this not

[12:57] fun I am really looking forward to

[12:59] Autumn but we have we have good six

[13:02] weeks to go I think before we start to

[13:05] see a decrease in those populations

[13:08] and we need some strategies some new

[13:12] some new systems because I want to be

[13:14] out there

[13:16] hiking without dealing with this so so

[13:20] let's figure out what we're wearing

[13:22] today let just go for my white socks

[13:25] first I don't know why but it is a

[13:26] pattern I have hi Bailey

[13:30] um blue

[13:33] underwear so we want a blue

[13:37] [Music]

[13:39] shorts and a blue

[13:42] shirt pretty dark I should get some more

[13:45] lights on in here guess we'll just wear

[13:48] this one though I do wear basic colors

[13:50] and stuff like that no I want to wear my

[13:53] Natural Bridge shirt those two go

[13:56] together so we'll put these in my shower

[14:00] bag

[14:03] um yeah I'm going to have to get more

[14:05] lights I mean we got that's the only

[14:07] window that doesn't have reflecti on it

[14:09] this morning like I just took that off

[14:10] this

[14:11] morning um they've all they're all I

[14:15] mean it's a it's a prison in here so

[14:18] it's just us in here so I can show you

[14:20] what we're dealing

[14:22] with yeah I got the doors right here I

[14:25] don't use this side of course but

[14:29] kind of wonder if I've been thinking

[14:31] like doing some task in front of a big

[14:34] mirror like that might be there might be

[14:37] some advantage to that so but the

[14:40] showers are over here all the doors are

[14:43] broken and you don't have great um hot

[14:47] water you got to let run for a minute

[14:48] you have to turn it on all the way so

[14:51] you don't really get a choice to set the

[14:53] hot

[14:54] water where you

[14:56] want you just got to accept whatever it

[14:58] is

[15:00] is

[15:02] um

[15:05] honestly there's a lot I love about this

[15:07] park a lot this is the one thing that I

[15:10] feel like they're failing on like truly

[15:12] failing

[15:14] because it's better everywhere else that

[15:17] I've been so but you know you make it do

[15:20] and that's part of this lifestyle you

[15:22] just um I guess you have to tolerate

[15:24] some things adapt and accept

[15:31] see my RV over there my

[15:34] home that was very

[15:37] pleasant sometimes want to shower twice

[15:39] a day but it's complicated you know to

[15:43] there's a lot involved than me taking a

[15:45] shower so getting better at it

[15:49] though I probably will start doing that

[15:52] soon like I can see myself coming down

[15:54] here at night and bringing my

[15:57] pajamas you know wearing those to bed

[16:01] and um I'd really like that so that's

[16:04] where I'm heading that's the direction

[16:06] I'm heading in these mosquito bites are

[16:10] brutal so that's the first thing we're

[16:12] going to do is just get some kind of

[16:14] cream on my on all of these these

[16:18] bites um and I was thinking while I was

[16:21] taking a shower I could take a tarp and

[16:24] put it out on my picnic bench um the

[16:26] tarps a little dirty so I'm going to

[16:28] rinse that off and then we'll dry it

[16:30] then I can bring out my hiking clothes

[16:31] put them on

[16:32] that and we'll spray them down with this

[16:35] stuff I got this mosquito

[16:37] repellent I think we'll start with that

[16:40] this

[16:41] morning um I want to just get as much

[16:43] done as I can today

[16:47] we've we've been doing a lot of

[16:50] exploring and hiking and we've gotten

[16:53] some of the Practical taken care of but

[16:57] we need to focus it's time to really get

[16:59] this stuff out of the

[17:00] way um so it's less of a

[17:04] thing um you know that's stressing on my

[17:06] mind I

[17:08] guess um I would kind of want to go

[17:10] hiking I'm not going to lie I want to go

[17:12] hiking right now I'm thinking about um

[17:15] that local Trail by the core of

[17:17] engineers really like to see

[17:19] it and today might be the day to do that

[17:23] because you know this weekend's just

[17:25] going to be incredibly busy and so

[17:28] probably that even that trail will be if

[17:31] we want to see it today's probably the

[17:33] best day for that so I am

[17:38] contemplating um if that's a good idea

[17:40] or not I don't

[17:42] know um so many so many competing

[17:46] interests in my head right now I'm

[17:49] always curious how those windows look

[17:50] from the outside they're tinted but you

[17:52] know lights

[17:54] inside kind of illuminate it I don't

[17:56] know if you can see it on the video but

[17:57] you can see my my um RGB lights a little

[18:01] bit I mean it'd be a lot more prominent

[18:03] at night but you know who could see I

[18:06] have lights up there it's pretty cool

[18:09] actually um that's the only window

[18:11] that's

[18:13] open because of this

[18:16] seat pretty

[18:18] neat I have one more set of those lights

[18:21] to put up I just don't know where I was

[18:23] thinking I could do it in the bathroom

[18:25] because there's nothing in there I don't

[18:27] spend a lot of time in there

[18:30] I don't want to waste my lights I want

[18:32] them to be something that I get to

[18:35] experience hello B he always gets right

[18:38] in the way he never just lets me come

[18:40] inside come on Bailey make room come

[18:45] on I think this one was in my Jeep so

[18:48] it's actually not too bad it's only a

[18:50] little bit a little bit of dirt

[19:04] [Music]

[19:08] okay we have a nice clean space

[19:10] here it's dry we just need to read up on

[19:13] this stuff to figure out how to use it

[19:16] and then we are going to spray down my

[19:17] hiking

[19:18] clothes m is being a total pain today

[19:21] and I have to keep coming in and out so

[19:23] we're just going to let him chill in

[19:25] there for a while under the

[19:27] shade get him some water it's too hot to

[19:30] really be out here for

[19:32] long um so I talked to my mother

[19:36] yesterday right so um she I got a few

[19:40] things from her that she brought with

[19:41] her so some of my stuff that was there

[19:43] and um she's got some more of my things

[19:47] that we could use one of them being um

[19:50] that stuff that I had originally that b

[19:53] was able to be in outside so we're going

[19:56] to try to get that at some point

[19:59] I'm going to get one of my Alienware

[20:01] monitors and my gaming books that's

[20:02] pretty much all I care about

[20:05] so um Bailey looks

[20:08] happy he just wanted to be out here it's

[20:11] very hot but

[20:13] okay that's what he

[20:16] wanted so this stuff is pretty

[20:18] complicated it's saying that you shake

[20:20] it before you use it you spray it six um

[20:24] in

[20:26] away you lightly dampen it and then you

[20:29] let it sit for 2 hours for

[20:34] in environments that are have high

[20:38] humidity like here so this is going to

[20:41] be a bit of a

[20:42] challenge to do everything at once

[20:46] so um you got to be very careful not to

[20:49] get it on your skin or anything like

[20:50] that you this is literally just get it

[20:53] on your clothes do not get it on

[20:55] yourself it says that it binds to fabric

[20:59] being treated which gives residual prot

[21:02] protection lasting a minimum of 42 days

[21:05] and holds up through several machine

[21:09] Washings clothing should be retreated

[21:12] after 42 days or after the six

[21:14] laundering to maintain adequate

[21:17] protection do not Retreat gear more than

[21:20] every more than once every 42 days so

[21:25] we're going to have to integrate this

[21:26] into our life I guess every month and a

[21:27] half we do this

[21:29] this um this is our first time so it's

[21:32] going to take the longest but you know

[21:35] the more times we do it the more

[21:36] efficient we get at it and that's how

[21:39] this process works for me with

[21:41] everything that I do from programming to

[21:43] RV life to simple tasks like cooking or

[21:48] spraying clothes with some kind of stuff

[21:51] what is

[21:55] this perine

[21:59] I'm very hopeful that this stuff works I

[22:01] hope it helps I basically got four pairs

[22:04] of hiking clothes um two which are for

[22:08] Colder Weather and two which are for

[22:10] warm

[22:10] weather I actually I think that we

[22:14] can um get everything sprayed at once

[22:18] because I was thinking about it you know

[22:19] you got to spray both sides of it which

[22:21] means one side is going to be um exposed

[22:25] to you know the outside air and then the

[22:27] other side's going to be we flipped over

[22:29] and maybe we just stack our clothes on

[22:30] top of it I'm going to wear some gloves

[22:32] while I do this not a big fan of

[22:35] chemicals I'll start by spraying these

[22:38] down you want to be

[22:41] thorough

[22:43] okay 6 in it

[22:46] said lightly

[22:52] misted I said he use a sweeping motion

[22:55] but feels a little difficult

[22:59] these are very nice I look forward to

[23:01] wearing

[23:04] these should bring my tripod out for

[23:06] stuff like this if I'm going to document

[23:09] my life this

[23:11] closely got my shirts now we're going to

[23:13] do the shorts all done with some

[23:16] practice I was able to see it spray

[23:18] pattern it's actually very effective I

[23:20] use the whole bottle it's supposed to

[23:21] treat up to five outfits and I have

[23:24] six um so I figured you know use the

[23:26] whole bottom

[23:28] so every 45 days we need to get more of

[23:30] that that was I got that at a outdoor

[23:32] store I can't remember which one um I

[23:35] think I was in Elizabeth Town at the

[23:37] time but we'll figure that

[23:39] out cuz that stuff's great I really

[23:41] liked that I think this will be very

[23:43] effective I Mo Bailey over here keeping

[23:46] him in the shade and away from the

[23:48] spray he's enjoying this so I'm just

[23:51] going to let him be get him some water

[23:52] in a

[23:53] minute look at my

[23:56] shirt I'm already wet

[23:58] like I'm already getting it's already

[24:00] soaking through from sweat I've only

[24:02] been out here 30 minutes or so Bailey's

[24:04] over here I'm thinking I should bring

[24:06] him in but he seemed he seemed happy so

[24:08] I started talking do you want to go in

[24:10] now cuz it is

[24:12] hot yeah so we'll check out my clothes

[24:16] in a couple hours and if they're dry we

[24:17] can bring them in but we need to find a

[24:19] place for them they're treated with a

[24:22] chemical and they just need to be

[24:24] somewhere thinking either in the

[24:26] bathroom I could Tex we maybe put them

[24:29] in here but well this is a complicated

[24:32] area for

[24:34] me so probably in the just hang them up

[24:38] up here with everything else I was

[24:40] thinking I might put my coats in my

[24:43] Jeep I'm trying to expand the definition

[24:46] of

[24:47] home how did the sock up there oh man

[24:51] right in the toilet it's wet too that's

[24:56] great um

[24:59] I'm expanding the definition of

[25:02] home something I've talked about with AI

[25:05] you know it's a thing for me home is my

[25:08] Jeep it's my RV it's it's a transient

[25:12] space here I like the idea though of I

[25:16] don't like putting things in my Jeep

[25:18] because I just it's a small space I like

[25:20] being able to have that thing adaptable

[25:23] to my needs I got to go and you know get

[25:27] groceries or whatever ever the situation

[25:29] is I don't really like having the stuff

[25:30] in there so I'm I got to figure that out

[25:34] in here somehow I just

[25:36] do gotten quite a lot done in here I

[25:39] need a cognitive reset let's go take a

[25:41] hike at the local Campground

[25:46] Trail 94 out

[25:49] here but we're just going to do

[25:51] something

[25:53] local think I know where it

[25:56] is really doing

[26:00] good

[26:02] um that Park's real close that's a very

[26:06] close I'm not very good at that sort of

[26:08] thing I try to be

[26:10] careful you better go around I need to

[26:12] get my mosquito spray at the very

[26:17] least spray down my legs or something

[26:20] cuz this is

[26:22] ridiculous um let's try this stuff I

[26:24] haven't used this yet so

[26:29] all right hopefully we'll be okay I

[26:32] don't like spraying myself down with

[26:33] stuff like that cuz I just have a thing

[26:35] about chemicals and doesn't mean I'm

[26:38] going to have to shower again

[26:40] now so anyways let's go explore the

[26:42] campground and go to the local Trail oh

[26:46] this is upside down of course it is let

[26:48] me fix

[26:50] that why is this upside down let me weed

[26:52] do this it's better this way for

[26:56] me turn my music on on you guys won't

[26:59] hear it but I

[27:03] will and I'll take these out once we get

[27:05] to the

[27:06] trail this place is going to be packed

[27:10] today tomorrow this

[27:13] weekend Oh camper moved on

[27:18] okay we might have today

[27:31] oh somebody else is moving into that

[27:32] spot today interesting just for one

[27:37] night okay

[27:40] so trying to remember if it was to the

[27:43] left or the right I think it's to the

[27:45] left yeah we went past those other that

[27:48] other shower

[27:49] house good I

[27:52] remember I'm going to try to enjoy it

[27:58] maybe a to walk around

[28:00] and who knows what will happen just be

[28:03] open to the

[28:05] experience embrace

[28:09] it and that too would be on my

[28:14] own

[28:17] um selective engagement because I'm

[28:20] choosing to be out

[28:24] here so maybe we'll do that you know I I

[28:28] knew those were there and I could have

[28:29] come down here to do laundry that day

[28:32] I'm just very

[28:57] weird for

[30:27] for

[31:07] quite a few little trees over here being

[31:09] protected by this big

[31:12] one oh I love the way that one's living

[31:14] its

[31:17] life that is awesome

[31:47] check that out that Little Flower found

[31:49] a

[31:50] way it found

[31:53] away little Tad PS

[32:05] we're going to head

[32:07] back very simple walk in the woods I'm

[32:10] not sure i' even really call that a

[32:14] hike very

[32:16] pleasant we walked it downhill so now we

[32:20] have to walk back up nature always finds

[32:25] balance history seems to be

[32:28] prioritizing its leaves at the very

[32:31] top yeah that is definitely the same

[32:36] tree it's it's

[32:39] prioritizing it's

[32:43] interesting waer

[32:55] web they keep you on your toes go

[33:43] is

[34:26] enjoy the rest of your day

[0:00] good morning humans I just woke up I

[0:03] don't have anything to drink so I'm

[0:04] going to the store I just came

[0:07] outside I guess the Labor Day crowd has

[0:09] already started it's Thursday and we've

[0:11] got two neighbor two neighbors

[0:14] already I'm thinking this might be the

[0:17] busiest I've ever seen the park or any

[0:20] park like literally every camp site is

[0:24] is booked so it's going to be a full

[0:27] house

[0:28] here yeah and I can't do anything about

[0:31] it so I might as well embrace it you

[0:33] know maybe we will go and just look

[0:37] around at all the different campsites

[0:39] and just get a feel for the vibe that's

[0:43] going on this

[0:45] weekend on Monday Labor Day I'll be at a

[0:50] cottage here

[0:52] because my RV has to go into the shop so

[0:55] I booked a cottage for 3 Days starting

[0:58] Monday

[1:00] uh it goes in Tuesday morning so I'll

[1:02] get everything ready on Labor

[1:04] Day and then Tuesday morning we'll drive

[1:06] it down

[1:08] there and hopefully I'll get it back

[1:13] Wednesday I guess it might be Thursday

[1:16] but that's you know I'll check out on

[1:17] Thursday that at the cottage so

[1:19] hopefully everything's fixed by

[1:21] that so we have a lot going on today I'm

[1:25] going to first I'm going to head down to

[1:28] the showers

[1:30] uh yesterday threw off my whole day

[1:32] right so um I'm going to get down there

[1:34] and then I'm going to work on the some

[1:38] stuff at the RV I um I want to do

[1:41] something to the storage base they're

[1:43] not organized I feel like I'm less

[1:45] likely to do those things when there's a

[1:48] big crowd

[1:49] here cuz I don't you know I don't like

[1:52] crowds I don't

[1:54] like um cuz they take out mental space

[1:57] in my brain like I have to be aware of

[2:00] of every I'm aware of everything so if

[2:02] there are people all around me then I'm

[2:05] taking in that input and there's nothing

[2:08] I can do about that not a thing I can

[2:10] block out put my headphones in and you

[2:13] know kind of create my own mental space

[2:15] that's why that works so well for

[2:18] me um but you know I still know they're

[2:22] out there and they're observing me and I

[2:25] just it's not a a state that I like

[2:29] experiencing

[2:31] um I know that lots of people don't seem

[2:33] to have as much of a problem with that

[2:35] but I definitely do like I have

[2:38] neighbors now who are near my picnic

[2:40] bench I don't want to sit out there KN

[2:43] they could be watching me from inside

[2:45] their RV like that's not an enjoyable

[2:48] experience for me at all so we're going

[2:51] to try to adapt this weekend though

[2:54] because you know after this things

[2:58] should really quiet down and and

[3:00] hopefully

[3:02] being very pleasant I'm looking forward

[3:04] to that let's take a walk around my Loop

[3:08] and see what we're contending with this

[3:09] weekend shall we might be fun so here I

[3:15] am this is me I actually want to get

[3:18] some shots here because I have some

[3:20] ideas

[3:21] for um some changes to my

[3:25] channel been working on you'll see some

[3:28] of them today I think

[3:30] which are pretty

[3:33] fun so let's just start with

[3:36] some camera angles on my Jeep and RV

[3:40] letics everywhere

[3:42] because we have to live in a cave in

[3:45] this

[3:46] heat it's also part of RV

[3:49] life my beautiful red

[3:53] Jeep M's in there

[3:58] somewhere so we're

[4:02] here on this side of um the loop those

[4:06] are all pretty much I mean they're not

[4:08] it's tent camping that's where I started

[4:10] out my first day from my

[4:13] RV um so we'll probably see some RVs

[4:16] there but you know it's generally best

[4:17] for tent

[4:18] camping and then you've got some RVs on

[4:22] this side and that's my Loop okay so

[4:24] it's not a very difficult it's not a

[4:27] complicated Loop

[4:30] so behind me 8:29 to

[4:38] 992

[4:40] um just curious when people are showing

[4:45] up

[4:48] 8:30 it's some across next to me is 8:29

[4:52] so that's must to be today I have to

[4:54] check the DAT I don't know the thing

[5:00] these people are hooked up they even

[5:02] have one of those portable tank

[5:08] things I think they're here till 92 I

[5:16] start so this is the last one this is

[5:19] when I was trying to

[5:21] get but you know they're booked up every

[5:25] day they're here till 98 they come on

[5:28] the 30th so tomorrow let me check the

[5:32] date yep today's the 29th okay so

[5:36] they're coming

[5:39] tomorrow actually we won't learn

[5:41] anything from this side cuz all the all

[5:44] the signs are this way so let's just

[5:46] walk down the

[5:51] loop that's where

[5:53] the I just love that little meeting area

[5:56] over there it's so cool to me

[6:03] it's Pleasant so far this

[6:06] morning but it's going to be hot it's

[6:08] going to be way in the high 90s again

[6:12] so it starts cooling down after that but

[6:16] slowly it won't be next week before we

[6:18] get back into the

[6:20] 80s so I'm looking forward to

[6:23] that this is some serious

[6:26] heat when um you know I'm getting better

[6:29] at this so next year we won't be here

[6:32] this time of year it's just too

[6:34] hot we'll be somewhere else I'm trying

[6:38] to um adjust my appointment with the

[6:40] dentist so I don't have to stay here

[6:42] another 6 weeks I'm ready to go I called

[6:44] them this morning and told them waiting

[6:46] to hear from

[6:48] them I don't think it's very nice of

[6:50] them they make me wait 6 weeks when I

[6:52] only should have to wait

[6:54] two you know not being very

[6:57] accommodating so next to me tomorrow

[7:00] 8:30 to

[7:02] 9:30 and over

[7:05] here 8:30 to

[7:10] 92 I mean they're all going to be pretty

[7:12] much the same

[7:14] but just curious 8:30 to 9:2 definitely

[7:19] everybody's coming for Labor Day right

[7:22] 8:30 to

[7:23] 9:2 it's kind of it's kind of

[7:25] fascinating really it's kind of

[7:27] interesting to me 8:30 92

[7:31] again um

[7:33] everybody's you know coming to enjoy

[7:35] Labor Day here which that's pretty

[7:38] cool I actually think that's

[7:41] awesome um same deal for both of these

[7:44] well someone's coming today for this one

[7:46] for 87 that's a nice spot actually never

[7:50] really noticed how nice that one

[7:52] is

[7:55] so let's see here there's a couple more

[7:58] and then there's a tent camper she's

[7:59] been down there for a while 392 so we're

[8:02] just going to turn around before we get

[8:03] to her give her her privacy

[8:05] and go on about our

[8:08] day so yeah we got people

[8:11] everywhere it's going to be

[8:14] busy this is kind of a nice sight too

[8:18] really they never really notice these

[8:21] ones they're coming on 8:31 so until

[8:25] 9:3 couple days from now that's a nice

[8:28] sight though

[8:29] that is actually pretty decent

[8:32] site there's a spot for your Jeep and

[8:36] you know my little camper could fit

[8:37] there

[8:39] easily

[8:41] so

[8:47] yeah I think I would want to embrace

[8:50] this even more if I didn't have so much

[8:52] I needed to do I just I have so much

[8:55] work to do on this RV

[8:59] um that's going to be my focus this

[9:02] weekend

[9:04] so this to me is we are approaching the

[9:07] end of my

[9:09] time in Kentucky

[9:12] and where do I want to say

[9:24] this I'm ready to finally

[9:29] do the things I set out to do when I

[9:32] made the choice to get this Arvy that

[9:35] means truly embracing this life going

[9:38] you know traveling different states

[9:40] seeing different things I'm ready to

[9:44] go um but you know I got some practical

[9:47] things I have to do first

[9:49] and I'm going to have to do them this

[9:51] weekend I don't think we'll do a whole

[9:52] lot of hiking because I really need to

[9:55] make myself focus on this so that we're

[9:57] ready so that we can do this

[10:01] I am super excited to I finally feel

[10:04] like I just feel ready to to go you know

[10:08] my tires are

[10:09] fixed I do feel I feel a lot better

[10:12] about those tires

[10:14] now um we're going to get a bunch of

[10:16] problems fixed this um next

[10:20] week we'll spend a couple days in um

[10:22] myage that'll be fun it'll just be a fun

[10:26] experience um but H you know I'm ready

[10:30] to go I'm sitting over here because just

[10:33] don't want other people in my mental

[10:34] space I won't be out here when they're

[10:36] all out here it's just not fun for

[10:39] me um for me having to I

[10:46] like selective

[10:48] engagement I like to decide when I

[10:51] interact with people and if I'm out here

[10:54] you know lots of people just take that

[10:57] as an invitation to just start talking

[10:59] to you and disrupting whatever it is

[11:01] you're

[11:02] doing and I

[11:06] just really don't want that

[11:10] so it's going to be a struggle this this

[11:13] is going to be a struggle this weekend

[11:15] but I'm going to do my best to just make

[11:18] the absolute best of it everybody's

[11:20] going to be out here having a good

[11:22] time you know and I'm not here to ruin

[11:24] that I

[11:26] just um prefer Solitude I prefer to be

[11:29] on my

[11:31] own but we'll do what we you know we'll

[11:34] do our best we

[11:38] will be social I guess I might as well

[11:42] show you just how bad it's gotten I've

[11:45] been eaten up again by mosquitoes the

[11:47] day that I saw those deer I had put on

[11:50] lotion an insect repellent lotion before

[11:53] going out and I still got eaten so bad

[11:56] they're all over my legs

[12:00] so you know not very comfortable theyve

[12:03] gotten up here there are my arms

[12:07] like it's just that's the most

[12:10] unbearable aspect I need to get down to

[12:12] the showers and put on something like an

[12:16] anti-itch cream or something

[12:18] and

[12:20] um we're going to keep working on that

[12:23] in fact I did get some hiking clothes I

[12:25] need to spray those with I think it's

[12:27] called perine or something like that

[12:30] um which is supposed to help but you

[12:31] know the exposed areas of your skin you

[12:34] need a lotion or a spray

[12:37] and um it was very hot though so I was

[12:39] sweating a lot I might have just sweat

[12:41] out the whatever IID put on like almost

[12:44] almost instantly there cuz it was almost

[12:46] 100° so we're going to work on that

[12:50] because I don't want to keep getting

[12:52] eaten up like this not

[12:57] fun I am really looking forward to

[12:59] Autumn but we have we have good six

[13:02] weeks to go I think before we start to

[13:05] see a decrease in those populations

[13:08] and we need some strategies some new

[13:12] some new systems because I want to be

[13:14] out there

[13:16] hiking without dealing with this so so

[13:20] let's figure out what we're wearing

[13:22] today let just go for my white socks

[13:25] first I don't know why but it is a

[13:26] pattern I have hi Bailey

[13:30] um blue

[13:33] underwear so we want a blue

[13:37] [Music]

[13:39] shorts and a blue

[13:42] shirt pretty dark I should get some more

[13:45] lights on in here guess we'll just wear

[13:48] this one though I do wear basic colors

[13:50] and stuff like that no I want to wear my

[13:53] Natural Bridge shirt those two go

[13:56] together so we'll put these in my shower

[14:00] bag

[14:03] um yeah I'm going to have to get more

[14:05] lights I mean we got that's the only

[14:07] window that doesn't have reflecti on it

[14:09] this morning like I just took that off

[14:10] this

[14:11] morning um they've all they're all I

[14:15] mean it's a it's a prison in here so

[14:18] it's just us in here so I can show you

[14:20] what we're dealing

[14:22] with yeah I got the doors right here I

[14:25] don't use this side of course but

[14:29] kind of wonder if I've been thinking

[14:31] like doing some task in front of a big

[14:34] mirror like that might be there might be

[14:37] some advantage to that so but the

[14:40] showers are over here all the doors are

[14:43] broken and you don't have great um hot

[14:47] water you got to let run for a minute

[14:48] you have to turn it on all the way so

[14:51] you don't really get a choice to set the

[14:53] hot

[14:54] water where you

[14:56] want you just got to accept whatever it

[14:58] is

[15:00] is

[15:02] um

[15:05] honestly there's a lot I love about this

[15:07] park a lot this is the one thing that I

[15:10] feel like they're failing on like truly

[15:12] failing

[15:14] because it's better everywhere else that

[15:17] I've been so but you know you make it do

[15:20] and that's part of this lifestyle you

[15:22] just um I guess you have to tolerate

[15:24] some things adapt and accept

[15:31] see my RV over there my

[15:34] home that was very

[15:37] pleasant sometimes want to shower twice

[15:39] a day but it's complicated you know to

[15:43] there's a lot involved than me taking a

[15:45] shower so getting better at it

[15:49] though I probably will start doing that

[15:52] soon like I can see myself coming down

[15:54] here at night and bringing my

[15:57] pajamas you know wearing those to bed

[16:01] and um I'd really like that so that's

[16:04] where I'm heading that's the direction

[16:06] I'm heading in these mosquito bites are

[16:10] brutal so that's the first thing we're

[16:12] going to do is just get some kind of

[16:14] cream on my on all of these these

[16:18] bites um and I was thinking while I was

[16:21] taking a shower I could take a tarp and

[16:24] put it out on my picnic bench um the

[16:26] tarps a little dirty so I'm going to

[16:28] rinse that off and then we'll dry it

[16:30] then I can bring out my hiking clothes

[16:31] put them on

[16:32] that and we'll spray them down with this

[16:35] stuff I got this mosquito

[16:37] repellent I think we'll start with that

[16:40] this

[16:41] morning um I want to just get as much

[16:43] done as I can today

[16:47] we've we've been doing a lot of

[16:50] exploring and hiking and we've gotten

[16:53] some of the Practical taken care of but

[16:57] we need to focus it's time to really get

[16:59] this stuff out of the

[17:00] way um so it's less of a

[17:04] thing um you know that's stressing on my

[17:06] mind I

[17:08] guess um I would kind of want to go

[17:10] hiking I'm not going to lie I want to go

[17:12] hiking right now I'm thinking about um

[17:15] that local Trail by the core of

[17:17] engineers really like to see

[17:19] it and today might be the day to do that

[17:23] because you know this weekend's just

[17:25] going to be incredibly busy and so

[17:28] probably that even that trail will be if

[17:31] we want to see it today's probably the

[17:33] best day for that so I am

[17:38] contemplating um if that's a good idea

[17:40] or not I don't

[17:42] know um so many so many competing

[17:46] interests in my head right now I'm

[17:49] always curious how those windows look

[17:50] from the outside they're tinted but you

[17:52] know lights

[17:54] inside kind of illuminate it I don't

[17:56] know if you can see it on the video but

[17:57] you can see my my um RGB lights a little

[18:01] bit I mean it'd be a lot more prominent

[18:03] at night but you know who could see I

[18:06] have lights up there it's pretty cool

[18:09] actually um that's the only window

[18:11] that's

[18:13] open because of this

[18:16] seat pretty

[18:18] neat I have one more set of those lights

[18:21] to put up I just don't know where I was

[18:23] thinking I could do it in the bathroom

[18:25] because there's nothing in there I don't

[18:27] spend a lot of time in there

[18:30] I don't want to waste my lights I want

[18:32] them to be something that I get to

[18:35] experience hello B he always gets right

[18:38] in the way he never just lets me come

[18:40] inside come on Bailey make room come

[18:45] on I think this one was in my Jeep so

[18:48] it's actually not too bad it's only a

[18:50] little bit a little bit of dirt

[19:04] [Music]

[19:08] okay we have a nice clean space

[19:10] here it's dry we just need to read up on

[19:13] this stuff to figure out how to use it

[19:16] and then we are going to spray down my

[19:17] hiking

[19:18] clothes m is being a total pain today

[19:21] and I have to keep coming in and out so

[19:23] we're just going to let him chill in

[19:25] there for a while under the

[19:27] shade get him some water it's too hot to

[19:30] really be out here for

[19:32] long um so I talked to my mother

[19:36] yesterday right so um she I got a few

[19:40] things from her that she brought with

[19:41] her so some of my stuff that was there

[19:43] and um she's got some more of my things

[19:47] that we could use one of them being um

[19:50] that stuff that I had originally that b

[19:53] was able to be in outside so we're going

[19:56] to try to get that at some point

[19:59] I'm going to get one of my Alienware

[20:01] monitors and my gaming books that's

[20:02] pretty much all I care about

[20:05] so um Bailey looks

[20:08] happy he just wanted to be out here it's

[20:11] very hot but

[20:13] okay that's what he

[20:16] wanted so this stuff is pretty

[20:18] complicated it's saying that you shake

[20:20] it before you use it you spray it six um

[20:24] in

[20:26] away you lightly dampen it and then you

[20:29] let it sit for 2 hours for

[20:34] in environments that are have high

[20:38] humidity like here so this is going to

[20:41] be a bit of a

[20:42] challenge to do everything at once

[20:46] so um you got to be very careful not to

[20:49] get it on your skin or anything like

[20:50] that you this is literally just get it

[20:53] on your clothes do not get it on

[20:55] yourself it says that it binds to fabric

[20:59] being treated which gives residual prot

[21:02] protection lasting a minimum of 42 days

[21:05] and holds up through several machine

[21:09] Washings clothing should be retreated

[21:12] after 42 days or after the six

[21:14] laundering to maintain adequate

[21:17] protection do not Retreat gear more than

[21:20] every more than once every 42 days so

[21:25] we're going to have to integrate this

[21:26] into our life I guess every month and a

[21:27] half we do this

[21:29] this um this is our first time so it's

[21:32] going to take the longest but you know

[21:35] the more times we do it the more

[21:36] efficient we get at it and that's how

[21:39] this process works for me with

[21:41] everything that I do from programming to

[21:43] RV life to simple tasks like cooking or

[21:48] spraying clothes with some kind of stuff

[21:51] what is

[21:55] this perine

[21:59] I'm very hopeful that this stuff works I

[22:01] hope it helps I basically got four pairs

[22:04] of hiking clothes um two which are for

[22:08] Colder Weather and two which are for

[22:10] warm

[22:10] weather I actually I think that we

[22:14] can um get everything sprayed at once

[22:18] because I was thinking about it you know

[22:19] you got to spray both sides of it which

[22:21] means one side is going to be um exposed

[22:25] to you know the outside air and then the

[22:27] other side's going to be we flipped over

[22:29] and maybe we just stack our clothes on

[22:30] top of it I'm going to wear some gloves

[22:32] while I do this not a big fan of

[22:35] chemicals I'll start by spraying these

[22:38] down you want to be

[22:41] thorough

[22:43] okay 6 in it

[22:46] said lightly

[22:52] misted I said he use a sweeping motion

[22:55] but feels a little difficult

[22:59] these are very nice I look forward to

[23:01] wearing

[23:04] these should bring my tripod out for

[23:06] stuff like this if I'm going to document

[23:09] my life this

[23:11] closely got my shirts now we're going to

[23:13] do the shorts all done with some

[23:16] practice I was able to see it spray

[23:18] pattern it's actually very effective I

[23:20] use the whole bottle it's supposed to

[23:21] treat up to five outfits and I have

[23:24] six um so I figured you know use the

[23:26] whole bottom

[23:28] so every 45 days we need to get more of

[23:30] that that was I got that at a outdoor

[23:32] store I can't remember which one um I

[23:35] think I was in Elizabeth Town at the

[23:37] time but we'll figure that

[23:39] out cuz that stuff's great I really

[23:41] liked that I think this will be very

[23:43] effective I Mo Bailey over here keeping

[23:46] him in the shade and away from the

[23:48] spray he's enjoying this so I'm just

[23:51] going to let him be get him some water

[23:52] in a

[23:53] minute look at my

[23:56] shirt I'm already wet

[23:58] like I'm already getting it's already

[24:00] soaking through from sweat I've only

[24:02] been out here 30 minutes or so Bailey's

[24:04] over here I'm thinking I should bring

[24:06] him in but he seemed he seemed happy so

[24:08] I started talking do you want to go in

[24:10] now cuz it is

[24:12] hot yeah so we'll check out my clothes

[24:16] in a couple hours and if they're dry we

[24:17] can bring them in but we need to find a

[24:19] place for them they're treated with a

[24:22] chemical and they just need to be

[24:24] somewhere thinking either in the

[24:26] bathroom I could Tex we maybe put them

[24:29] in here but well this is a complicated

[24:32] area for

[24:34] me so probably in the just hang them up

[24:38] up here with everything else I was

[24:40] thinking I might put my coats in my

[24:43] Jeep I'm trying to expand the definition

[24:46] of

[24:47] home how did the sock up there oh man

[24:51] right in the toilet it's wet too that's

[24:56] great um

[24:59] I'm expanding the definition of

[25:02] home something I've talked about with AI

[25:05] you know it's a thing for me home is my

[25:08] Jeep it's my RV it's it's a transient

[25:12] space here I like the idea though of I

[25:16] don't like putting things in my Jeep

[25:18] because I just it's a small space I like

[25:20] being able to have that thing adaptable

[25:23] to my needs I got to go and you know get

[25:27] groceries or whatever ever the situation

[25:29] is I don't really like having the stuff

[25:30] in there so I'm I got to figure that out

[25:34] in here somehow I just

[25:36] do gotten quite a lot done in here I

[25:39] need a cognitive reset let's go take a

[25:41] hike at the local Campground

[25:46] Trail 94 out

[25:49] here but we're just going to do

[25:51] something

[25:53] local think I know where it

[25:56] is really doing

[26:00] good

[26:02] um that Park's real close that's a very

[26:06] close I'm not very good at that sort of

[26:08] thing I try to be

[26:10] careful you better go around I need to

[26:12] get my mosquito spray at the very

[26:17] least spray down my legs or something

[26:20] cuz this is

[26:22] ridiculous um let's try this stuff I

[26:24] haven't used this yet so

[26:29] all right hopefully we'll be okay I

[26:32] don't like spraying myself down with

[26:33] stuff like that cuz I just have a thing

[26:35] about chemicals and doesn't mean I'm

[26:38] going to have to shower again

[26:40] now so anyways let's go explore the

[26:42] campground and go to the local Trail oh

[26:46] this is upside down of course it is let

[26:48] me fix

[26:50] that why is this upside down let me weed

[26:52] do this it's better this way for

[26:56] me turn my music on on you guys won't

[26:59] hear it but I

[27:03] will and I'll take these out once we get

[27:05] to the

[27:06] trail this place is going to be packed

[27:10] today tomorrow this

[27:13] weekend Oh camper moved on

[27:18] okay we might have today

[27:31] oh somebody else is moving into that

[27:32] spot today interesting just for one

[27:37] night okay

[27:40] so trying to remember if it was to the

[27:43] left or the right I think it's to the

[27:45] left yeah we went past those other that

[27:48] other shower

[27:49] house good I

[27:52] remember I'm going to try to enjoy it

[27:58] maybe a to walk around

[28:00] and who knows what will happen just be

[28:03] open to the

[28:05] experience embrace

[28:09] it and that too would be on my

[28:14] own

[28:17] um selective engagement because I'm

[28:20] choosing to be out

[28:24] here so maybe we'll do that you know I I

[28:28] knew those were there and I could have

[28:29] come down here to do laundry that day

[28:32] I'm just very

[28:57] weird for

[30:27] for

[31:07] quite a few little trees over here being

[31:09] protected by this big

[31:12] one oh I love the way that one's living

[31:14] its

[31:17] life that is awesome

[31:47] check that out that Little Flower found

[31:49] a

[31:50] way it found

[31:53] away little Tad PS

[32:05] we're going to head

[32:07] back very simple walk in the woods I'm

[32:10] not sure i' even really call that a

[32:14] hike very

[32:16] pleasant we walked it downhill so now we

[32:20] have to walk back up nature always finds

[32:25] balance history seems to be

[32:28] prioritizing its leaves at the very

[32:31] top yeah that is definitely the same

[32:36] tree it's it's

[32:39] prioritizing it's

[32:43] interesting waer

[32:55] web they keep you on your toes go

[33:43] is

[34:26] enjoy the rest of your day

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

Photos · Sep 9, 2024

Sep 9, 2024

PUBLIC

August 29, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.20

Density 0.70

Energetic Quality

steady operational drive under environmental load

Journey Phase

pre-departure consolidation

Directional Vector

toward mobile life and departure from Kentucky

Narrative

He woke on Thursday morning with nothing to drink, and the first thing he registered when he stepped outside was that the Labor Day crowd had already begun. Two neighbors, three days early. rswfire named it plainly — this might be the busiest he had ever seen the park, or any park, every site booked — and then named what he intended to do about it, which was nothing, because there was nothing to do about it. He would embrace it instead. The day already had its shape: showers first, because the day before had gotten away from him, and then work on the RV. The storage bays were disorganized. Monday he moves into a cottage; Tuesday morning the trailer goes into the shop; with luck he gets it back Wednesday, Thursday at the outside. Everything between now and then is preparation.

He walked his loop before the heat arrived, camera in hand, reading reservation tags site by site like a man taking inventory of a weather system. 8/29 to 9/2. 8/30 to 9/3. 8/30 to 9/2, again and again, the same window repeating around the circle. He checked the date against his own phone to be sure — the 29th, yes — and noted which arrivals were today and which were tomorrow. He found himself appreciating sites he had walked past for weeks without noticing, one with room for the Jeep, one his camper could fit easily. Near the end of the loop a tent camper had been settled for a while, and he turned back before reaching her, leaving her privacy intact. He described the whole exercise as fascinating, the collective arrival of people coming to enjoy a holiday, and said he thought that was awesome, and said also that he prefers solitude, that he likes selective engagement, that he likes deciding when he interacts — and that being outside at his own picnic bench, with neighbors near enough to watch him from inside their RV, is not something he enjoys. He takes in everything around him. Headphones create his own mental space, and they work, and he still knows the others are out there.

The mosquitoes had been thorough. He showed the bites on his legs and arms and stated that this was the most unbearable part of it — that he had applied repellent lotion the day he saw the deer and had been eaten anyway, that at nearly a hundred degrees he may have sweated it off almost instantly. Down at the shower house the doors were all broken and the hot water offered no adjustment; you turn it on all the way, you let it run, you accept whatever it gives you. He said there is a great deal he loves about this park and that this is the one thing they are truly failing on, and then he said you make do, you tolerate some things, you adapt and accept. Walking back he could see the RV across the way and called it his home, and the shower had been very pleasant, and he described where he was heading — showering at night, bringing pajamas down, wearing them back.

Inside, the trailer was dark. Every window covered but one, reflectix over the glass against the heat, the RGB lights doing what little illumination there was; he called it living in a cave, and then called it a prison, and then laid out white socks, blue underwear, blue shorts, and swapped shirts to wear the Natural Bridge one instead. Bailey moved in and out of the doorway, always in the way. Outside, rswfire rinsed the tarp — a little dirt, probably from the Jeep — let it dry on the picnic bench, and read the permethrin label carefully: shake before use, spray six inches away, lightly dampen, two hours to dry in humidity like this, do not get it on skin. Bound to fabric, a minimum of forty-two days, retreat after forty-two days or six launderings, never more often than that. He said it out loud as something to integrate: every month and a half, this. First time takes longest. The more times you do it, the more efficient you get, and he said that is how the process works for him with everything, from programming to RV life to cooking.

He put on gloves, disliking chemicals, and worked through six outfits — four pairs of hiking clothes, two for cold and two for warm — spraying both sides, stacking them across the tarp, finding the spray pattern by the third or fourth garment and calling it effective. The bottle was rated for five outfits and he had six, so he used the whole thing. Thirty minutes in the sun and his shirt was already soaked through. He moved Bailey into the shade, watched him, asked him whether he wanted to go in, and let him stay because he seemed happy. He mentioned the conversation with his mother the day before, the things she had brought and the things still waiting — an Alienware monitor, his gaming books, the only ones he cares about. Then the question of where the treated clothes go once dry: not the Jeep, which he keeps adaptable for groceries and errands; maybe the bathroom; maybe hung up here with everything else. He said he is trying to expand the definition of home — that home is the Jeep, the RV, this transient space — and then found a sock in the toilet, wet.

By afternoon he had gotten quite a lot done inside and said he needed a cognitive reset. Ninety-four degrees, and he chose something local: the campground trail near the Corps of Engineers area, the one he had been thinking about, on the reasoning that today was the best day for it because the weekend would be impossible. He sprayed his legs with the mosquito repellent he hadn't tried yet, noting it meant another shower. The camera came up upside down and he righted it. He turned his music on, said the viewers wouldn't hear it but he would, and said he would take the headphones out once he reached the trail. On the way through the loop he watched one camper pull out and someone else move into the same spot for a single night. He said he would try to enjoy it, be open to the experience, embrace it — and that this too would be on his own terms, selective engagement, because he was choosing to be out here.

The trail was short. He noticed the several small trees sheltered under one large one and said he loved the way that one was living its life. He found a flower that had come up through the ground and said it found a way. Tadpoles. A tree prioritizing its leaves at the very top, and then a second one doing the same, which he confirmed to himself was the same tree. A spider web across the path, which he said keeps you on your toes. He declined to call it a hike — a very simple walk in the woods, very pleasant, walked downhill first, which meant climbing back. Nature always finds balance, he said, and went back up the hill toward the loop, toward the crowd arriving all weekend, toward a cottage on Monday and a shop on Tuesday and, past that, the road out of Kentucky he stated he is finally ready to take.

Summary

rswfire documents a full day at a Kentucky campground as the Labor Day weekend fills every site in his loop. He walks the loop reading reservation tags, noting arrival and departure dates, and confirms the park is booked out — the busiest he has seen.

He states he prefers solitude and selective engagement, describing crowds as occupying mental space he cannot block out, and notes he will not use his picnic area while neighbors are present. He plans to adapt rather than avoid.

Logistics covered:

RV goes into the shop Tuesday; he has booked a cottage for three days starting Labor Day, checking out Thursday.
He is pushing his dentist to move an appointment forward so he is not held six extra weeks.
Storage bays and interior organization are the weekend's work focus.

He showers at the bathhouse, notes broken doors and unregulated hot water as the park's clear failure point, and applies cream to extensive mosquito bites. He then rinses a tarp, lays out six hiking outfits, and treats them with permethrin — reading the label aloud, using gloves, and integrating a 42-day retreatment cycle into his systems.

Bailey is moved between shade and interior through the near-100° heat. rswfire mentions retrieving an Alienware monitor and gaming equipment from his mother, and states he is expanding the definition of home across Jeep, RV, and transient space.

He closes with a short local campground trail walk, calling it a cognitive reset, and states he is ready to leave Kentucky and travel.

Environment

A Kentucky state park campground in late August, filling for Labor Day weekend. rswfire records from his travel trailer and Jeep at his campsite on a camping loop, walking site-by-site past reservation tags, in the park's shower house (broken doors, no hot-water control), at his picnic bench, and on a short wooded campground trail near a Corps of Engineers area.

Conditions: near-100°F heat, high humidity, heavy mosquito pressure. Interior shots show a dark, window-covered RV with RGB lighting, hanging storage, and his dog Bailey moving in and out of shade.

Substrate

The signal holds an architecture of preparation: converting an anticipated high-density social weekend into a window for infrastructural work on the RV so that departure becomes possible. rswfire states his terms of engagement explicitly — selective engagement, solitude as preference, awareness of ambient input as a fixed perceptual condition — and builds practical systems (permethrin treatment cycles, storage reorganization, expanded definition of home across Jeep and RV) rather than negotiating those terms away. What is being built is a repeatable operating system for mobile living; what is being dissolved is the stationary phase and its accumulated unfinished tasks.

Actions

Performed

•walked the camping loop reading reservation date tags
•filmed camera angles on the Jeep and RV for channel changes
•selected clothing for the shower
•showered at the park shower house
•documented mosquito bites on legs and arms
•rinsed and dried a tarp on the picnic bench
•read permethrin label instructions aloud
•sprayed six sets of hiking clothes with permethrin while wearing gloves
•moved Bailey into shade and brought him inside
•applied mosquito spray to legs
•corrected upside-down camera orientation
•walked the local campground trail
•noted a small tree cluster sheltered by a large tree, a flower growing through, tadpoles, and a spider web
•narrated leaf prioritization at the tree canopy

Referenced

•woke without anything to drink
•booked a cottage for three days starting Labor Day
•got tires fixed
•called dentist to move appointment forward
•received belongings from his mother the prior day
•applied repellent lotion before the deer-sighting hike and still got bitten
•purchased permethrin at an outdoor store, possibly in Elizabethtown
•acquired four sets of hiking clothes
•started out tent camping on his first day with the RV
•discussed expanding the definition of home with AI
•installed RGB lights in the RV

Planned

•go to the store for a drink
•organize the RV storage bays
•focus the weekend on RV work rather than hiking
•move into the cottage Monday, take the RV to the shop Tuesday, check out Thursday
•spend a couple of days in a nearby town during the repair
•retreat clothing with permethrin every ~42–45 days
•find a storage place for treated clothing; possibly move coats to the Jeep
•install the remaining set of RGB lights
•retrieve an Alienware monitor and gaming items from his mother
•shift to evening showers with pajamas
•not be in this location at this time of year next year
•travel to different states once practical work is complete

Entities

beings

Bailey — His dog; moves between shade and RV interior, kept away from the chemical spray.

rswfire's mother — Delivered some of his belongings the previous day and holds more, including an Alienware monitor and gaming items.

places

Kentucky — The state he states he is approaching the end of his time in.

Elizabethtown — Possible location where he bought the permethrin at an outdoor store.

the cottage — Booked lodging for three days while the RV is in the shop.

the shower house — Park facility with broken doors and uncontrollable hot water; identified as the park's failure point.

campground trail / Corps of Engineers area — Local wooded walk taken as a cognitive reset.

systems

the RV — His home and primary infrastructure; scheduled for repairs and storage reorganization.

the red Jeep — Tow and utility vehicle he keeps deliberately uncluttered and adaptable.

Permethrin — Fabric treatment with a 42-day protection cycle being integrated as a recurring maintenance system.

AI — Interlocutor he states he has discussed expanding the definition of home with.

concepts

Labor Day — The occasion driving full campground occupancy for the weekend.

selective engagement — His stated protocol for choosing when and whether to interact with people.

media

Natural Bridge shirt — Clothing item selected for the day, paired with blue shorts.

his channel — The documentation platform he is filming for and redesigning.

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

loop

shelter

boundary membrane

mirror

light in enclosure

canopy

root and flower through ground

heat

web

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (states terms of interaction — selective engagement, preference for solitude — as fixed conditions rather than negotiable ones)

transitional (naming the end of the Kentucky phase and readiness to travel, with practical prerequisites still outstanding)

embedded (fully inside campground conditions — heat, occupancy, insect pressure, shared facilities — and adapting within them)

systematizing (converting one-off tasks into repeatable cycles: 42-day fabric treatment, shower routines, storage architecture)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (RV repair scheduling, storage bay reorganization, lighting installation, cottage booking)

somatic (mosquito bites, sweat, heat load, showering, itch management)

perceptual (continuous ambient input from surrounding occupancy; headphones as input control)

logistical (date tracking, reservation reading, dentist rescheduling, repair timeline sequencing)

ecological (heat and insect population cycles, tree canopy behavior, trail observation)

documentary (filming, camera angles, channel redesign, tripod consideration)

relational (dog care, family retrieval of belongings, boundary-setting with neighbors)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

selective engagement

mental space

embrace it / adapt and accept

ready to go

expanding the definition of home

systems and integration ('we need some new systems')

focus / practical things

Narrative

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