Touring RV Office Build and Route West

01J86DNJBGYPN7AAEC0RRKD9WW

PUBLIC

September 20, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.30

Density 0.50

Energetic Quality

engaged and methodical

Journey Phase

configuring toward operational readiness

Directional Vector

toward mobile self-sufficiency in the Pacific Northwest

Failed to load video

← Observing Ripple Effects at Truman Lake

Driving Kansas Backroads, Documenting Landscape →

Chapters

Transcript

[0:01] so it's been nearly 100° outside all day

[0:05] so I've been tinkering in here doing all

[0:06] kinds of stuff and I'm just about

[0:08] organized to the point where I'm ready

[0:10] to finally give a tour of my home and I

[0:14] thought I would start with what I'm

[0:16] working on now because this stuff will

[0:18] be hidden behind my drawers when I do

[0:22] the rest of the tour which maybe I'll do

[0:23] tomorrow or something so this is my

[0:26] office area now I need my dehumid fire

[0:30] somewhere centrally located cuz even in

[0:32] the Pacific

[0:33] Northwest um it's going to be raining

[0:35] all winter so that's that's very

[0:38] important my solar is completely tied

[0:41] down it's not going to go anywhere this

[0:43] is my desk now these are all velcro down

[0:47] not sure what I'm doing with my hard

[0:48] drives yet so they're the cables for

[0:51] them are just kind of messy over there

[0:53] but that'll get fixed and this tells you

[0:56] something about my old life 238 hours

[0:59] playing Riz

[1:01] two um that's coming from my

[1:04] PlayStation this is a this are will

[1:08] remain mainly open so I can access stuff

[1:10] over here but this is everything this is

[1:13] what I wanted to show you everything

[1:16] runs from this plug this one plug and it

[1:19] connects to this power

[1:21] supply which has its own like battery

[1:24] sorts I forget what they're called but

[1:25] it's cyber

[1:27] power and so when I'm hooked up to solar

[1:30] all I have to do is take this and hook

[1:32] it up to my solar over there and I'm

[1:34] done everything is hooked

[1:37] up so I've got my PlayStation and my PC

[1:41] and my desktop hooked up to the same

[1:44] monitor this particular monitor you can

[1:46] see I've taped it down that keeps it

[1:48] from going anywhere you know that I some

[1:50] of you know that I broke my Alienware

[1:52] monitor one day this has solved this has

[1:55] prevented problems the only problem with

[1:57] this one is the only way to access

[2:01] the

[2:01] menu is

[2:04] from the back of it which is really not

[2:08] convenient I haven't turned my my um

[2:11] desktop on in a while so let's hoping

[2:14] everything's going to be good as much as

[2:17] I love um the color display of this

[2:19] thing and the window and everything um

[2:22] that's probably going to get hidden

[2:23] behind these right here these

[2:26] dressers um but it'll come out about

[2:28] right here I think

[2:31] um I do love my desktop I upgraded the

[2:34] hell out of that thing so yep there we

[2:37] go my mouse isn't hooked up

[2:41] so um but yeah we're

[2:44] good definitely need one of those cuz of

[2:47] Bailey these are all velcro done I think

[2:50] I said that that's basically it

[2:52] nothing's going to go anywhere while I'm

[2:54] driving and everything is just one plug

[2:58] um it's kind of like I guess the weak

[3:01] link of the system but you know all I

[3:04] have to do if I'm hooked up to on my

[3:05] camground I plug it in there if I'm

[3:07] boondocking in the Pacific Northwest

[3:10] which I will be all of the

[3:12] time um just one plug into my solar and

[3:16] just because I'm sure some of you will

[3:19] wonder yes I know that you know it's

[3:20] going to be winter in the Pacific

[3:22] Northwest raining all the time cloudy

[3:24] so's not going to work as well you know

[3:26] this is this is all about me adapting I

[3:28] want to learn these things I want to

[3:30] know what kind of power will I be able

[3:31] to generate what will I be able to use

[3:33] all of that is

[3:35] important I am not approaching this like

[3:38] an RV lifer would this is a different

[3:41] thing and it always has been the other

[3:44] thing I can show you is my cab area cuz

[3:46] I've got that done this is Bailey's area

[3:48] usually his carrier sitting there and he

[3:49] can just be up on it we don't always

[3:51] have the sun shade up so he can usually

[3:54] look out the windows obviously his giant

[3:56] litter box the bane of my

[3:58] existence but today I worked on

[4:00] everything in here this is something my

[4:02] mom once gave me um it's got very

[4:05] special meaning to me um I forget what

[4:08] they're called of but it's a draff and

[4:10] an elephant like statue

[4:12] thing and it's you know you can see it

[4:15] it's there with um those picture strips

[4:19] um command strips I've got my RV GPS

[4:22] Garmin one and then I finally got this

[4:25] hooked up properly um you know what hold

[4:27] on let me get the keys all right meley

[4:31] thinks we're going somewhere so he's

[4:32] running off but I just want to show you

[4:34] so I finally got this working I can

[4:36] finally listen to music on it using

[4:39] Bluetooth got my GPS up there like I

[4:42] said rear picture this thing I finally

[4:46] got it hooked up oh no this is falling

[4:48] down I'm going to have to fix that oh

[4:51] man it didn't tape up as

[4:54] well um how to turn the volume down

[4:57] right here see it it just did it aom

[4:59] exactly how

[5:01] cool um but this thing finally can act

[5:05] like a rear prier

[5:06] my um dash

[5:09] cam I can get it to turn

[5:12] on oh I got to turn everything on I

[5:15] forgot this here Powers

[5:18] everything so I've got this um 12vt Hub

[5:23] which gets my Garing going gets my dash

[5:25] cam going and my tire monitor my brake

[5:29] system monitor for my Jeep but see

[5:32] that's the rear that's the rear of my uh

[5:35] my RV so when I'm driving down the road

[5:37] I've got a much better view than this

[5:39] thing shows me and the mirror over here

[5:42] though you can't see it it actually it's

[5:43] not vibrating anymore I taped that up

[5:45] and that work and the concave mirror I

[5:48] put on there has helped a lot on that

[5:49] side so I feel like I've got really good

[5:51] visibility of everything now I'm really

[5:54] loving this so I'm really excited for

[5:57] tomorrow tomorrow I had for my next

[6:00] Campground and I feel like I am just

[6:02] totally set up for it and this RV will

[6:04] be done and ready to go like I'll have

[6:06] it organized and everything will be

[6:09] ready to go so I am very excited all

[6:14] right so with those dressers here that's

[6:16] what it looks like I still get a little

[6:18] bit of a view of my beautiful

[6:20] computer and that's got all my clothes

[6:23] in it those do shift a little bit but I

[6:26] want to keep those from I need to be be

[6:29] able to pull those out occasionally so

[6:31] I'm just going to leave that like

[6:33] that next we pull this out step ladder

[6:37] we come up here and this is my storage

[6:40] area now a big storage Al Cove where the

[6:44] slide roof meets the roof of the RV so

[6:47] much space for

[6:48] stuff it looks a little bit disorganized

[6:51] but you know that's the project that I'm

[6:53] still working on but nothing's falling

[6:55] down everything's been um working up

[6:57] great up there I think this space here I

[7:01] can put my my chair there to keep it out

[7:03] of the way because now that the slides

[7:05] in all the time you know this thing gets

[7:07] in the way

[7:08] so um when I'm not using it I'm hoping

[7:11] it'll fit up here I'll have to find

[7:14] out not easily okay well it was just a

[7:19] thought I'll figure something out I'm

[7:22] always trying to adapt my space for me

[7:24] well it works for me but see if it's

[7:26] there it's pretty much in the way so I

[7:28] got to figure something

[7:30] I don't know that there's really that

[7:31] much else to show you those were the

[7:33] main things that I'm just I love my cab

[7:36] area I think it's perfect now I love my

[7:38] office area plus the dusk is pretty

[7:41] clear to do other projects

[7:43] on um I have a full tank of propane so I

[7:46] can start cooking in here soon but I

[7:48] also have my inion stove top which I'm I

[7:50] haven't used that yet but feel like I'm

[7:53] getting to the point where that's next

[7:54] for me then if we just had try to keep

[7:57] this whole area clear can see Bailey

[8:00] down there now but that's where my bags

[8:02] will go that's where like my hiking bag

[8:04] and my my um shower bag and those kinds

[8:08] of things and then I just got my bed

[8:09] back here which is this is just a

[8:12] perfect place for me I absolutely love

[8:15] this I spend quite a lot of time here

[8:17] with Bailey and you can see the other

[8:20] dash cam in the rear Mir window

[8:23] there this is just a perfect environment

[8:26] for us this is I am living my dream I so

[8:31] excited to get to the Pacific Northwest

[8:34] I'm going to go down um somewhere near

[8:37] Highway 101 just all the way up the

[8:39] coast I actually show on this so I'm

[8:41] just going to go up Oregon and

[8:43] Washington coast

[8:44] basically um

[8:47] but maybe a little bit in um Inland from

[8:50] there like some degree in Inland from

[8:53] there because I'm going to want to park

[8:55] my RV in the forest and I'll use my deep

[8:57] to do the exploring

[8:59] um while ballon doing I want to learn

[9:02] that so that's that's next and you can

[9:05] see from this map so I'm going to be I'm

[9:08] in Kansas now and I'm going to go into

[9:10] Nebraska in Wyoming I don't remember

[9:13] from there I I tried to go into Mon I

[9:15] had just really difficult time figuring

[9:17] out a route here I think I go into Idaho

[9:20] and then into Oregon somewhere around

[9:22] here

[9:24] um but it's going to be like some of

[9:26] them are like 10hour drives I might even

[9:28] just drive right through item I'm not

[9:29] sure I don't remember why um it's

[9:32] something

[9:33] like I don't remember 1,800 miles still

[9:36] I've gone 600 so far I've got 1,800 to

[9:40] go it's awesome

[0:01] so it's been nearly 100° outside all day

[0:05] so I've been tinkering in here doing all

[0:06] kinds of stuff and I'm just about

[0:08] organized to the point where I'm ready

[0:10] to finally give a tour of my home and I

[0:14] thought I would start with what I'm

[0:16] working on now because this stuff will

[0:18] be hidden behind my drawers when I do

[0:22] the rest of the tour which maybe I'll do

[0:23] tomorrow or something so this is my

[0:26] office area now I need my dehumid fire

[0:30] somewhere centrally located cuz even in

[0:32] the Pacific

[0:33] Northwest um it's going to be raining

[0:35] all winter so that's that's very

[0:38] important my solar is completely tied

[0:41] down it's not going to go anywhere this

[0:43] is my desk now these are all velcro down

[0:47] not sure what I'm doing with my hard

[0:48] drives yet so they're the cables for

[0:51] them are just kind of messy over there

[0:53] but that'll get fixed and this tells you

[0:56] something about my old life 238 hours

[0:59] playing Riz

[1:01] two um that's coming from my

[1:04] PlayStation this is a this are will

[1:08] remain mainly open so I can access stuff

[1:10] over here but this is everything this is

[1:13] what I wanted to show you everything

[1:16] runs from this plug this one plug and it

[1:19] connects to this power

[1:21] supply which has its own like battery

[1:24] sorts I forget what they're called but

[1:25] it's cyber

[1:27] power and so when I'm hooked up to solar

[1:30] all I have to do is take this and hook

[1:32] it up to my solar over there and I'm

[1:34] done everything is hooked

[1:37] up so I've got my PlayStation and my PC

[1:41] and my desktop hooked up to the same

[1:44] monitor this particular monitor you can

[1:46] see I've taped it down that keeps it

[1:48] from going anywhere you know that I some

[1:50] of you know that I broke my Alienware

[1:52] monitor one day this has solved this has

[1:55] prevented problems the only problem with

[1:57] this one is the only way to access

[2:01] the

[2:01] menu is

[2:04] from the back of it which is really not

[2:08] convenient I haven't turned my my um

[2:11] desktop on in a while so let's hoping

[2:14] everything's going to be good as much as

[2:17] I love um the color display of this

[2:19] thing and the window and everything um

[2:22] that's probably going to get hidden

[2:23] behind these right here these

[2:26] dressers um but it'll come out about

[2:28] right here I think

[2:31] um I do love my desktop I upgraded the

[2:34] hell out of that thing so yep there we

[2:37] go my mouse isn't hooked up

[2:41] so um but yeah we're

[2:44] good definitely need one of those cuz of

[2:47] Bailey these are all velcro done I think

[2:50] I said that that's basically it

[2:52] nothing's going to go anywhere while I'm

[2:54] driving and everything is just one plug

[2:58] um it's kind of like I guess the weak

[3:01] link of the system but you know all I

[3:04] have to do if I'm hooked up to on my

[3:05] camground I plug it in there if I'm

[3:07] boondocking in the Pacific Northwest

[3:10] which I will be all of the

[3:12] time um just one plug into my solar and

[3:16] just because I'm sure some of you will

[3:19] wonder yes I know that you know it's

[3:20] going to be winter in the Pacific

[3:22] Northwest raining all the time cloudy

[3:24] so's not going to work as well you know

[3:26] this is this is all about me adapting I

[3:28] want to learn these things I want to

[3:30] know what kind of power will I be able

[3:31] to generate what will I be able to use

[3:33] all of that is

[3:35] important I am not approaching this like

[3:38] an RV lifer would this is a different

[3:41] thing and it always has been the other

[3:44] thing I can show you is my cab area cuz

[3:46] I've got that done this is Bailey's area

[3:48] usually his carrier sitting there and he

[3:49] can just be up on it we don't always

[3:51] have the sun shade up so he can usually

[3:54] look out the windows obviously his giant

[3:56] litter box the bane of my

[3:58] existence but today I worked on

[4:00] everything in here this is something my

[4:02] mom once gave me um it's got very

[4:05] special meaning to me um I forget what

[4:08] they're called of but it's a draff and

[4:10] an elephant like statue

[4:12] thing and it's you know you can see it

[4:15] it's there with um those picture strips

[4:19] um command strips I've got my RV GPS

[4:22] Garmin one and then I finally got this

[4:25] hooked up properly um you know what hold

[4:27] on let me get the keys all right meley

[4:31] thinks we're going somewhere so he's

[4:32] running off but I just want to show you

[4:34] so I finally got this working I can

[4:36] finally listen to music on it using

[4:39] Bluetooth got my GPS up there like I

[4:42] said rear picture this thing I finally

[4:46] got it hooked up oh no this is falling

[4:48] down I'm going to have to fix that oh

[4:51] man it didn't tape up as

[4:54] well um how to turn the volume down

[4:57] right here see it it just did it aom

[4:59] exactly how

[5:01] cool um but this thing finally can act

[5:05] like a rear prier

[5:06] my um dash

[5:09] cam I can get it to turn

[5:12] on oh I got to turn everything on I

[5:15] forgot this here Powers

[5:18] everything so I've got this um 12vt Hub

[5:23] which gets my Garing going gets my dash

[5:25] cam going and my tire monitor my brake

[5:29] system monitor for my Jeep but see

[5:32] that's the rear that's the rear of my uh

[5:35] my RV so when I'm driving down the road

[5:37] I've got a much better view than this

[5:39] thing shows me and the mirror over here

[5:42] though you can't see it it actually it's

[5:43] not vibrating anymore I taped that up

[5:45] and that work and the concave mirror I

[5:48] put on there has helped a lot on that

[5:49] side so I feel like I've got really good

[5:51] visibility of everything now I'm really

[5:54] loving this so I'm really excited for

[5:57] tomorrow tomorrow I had for my next

[6:00] Campground and I feel like I am just

[6:02] totally set up for it and this RV will

[6:04] be done and ready to go like I'll have

[6:06] it organized and everything will be

[6:09] ready to go so I am very excited all

[6:14] right so with those dressers here that's

[6:16] what it looks like I still get a little

[6:18] bit of a view of my beautiful

[6:20] computer and that's got all my clothes

[6:23] in it those do shift a little bit but I

[6:26] want to keep those from I need to be be

[6:29] able to pull those out occasionally so

[6:31] I'm just going to leave that like

[6:33] that next we pull this out step ladder

[6:37] we come up here and this is my storage

[6:40] area now a big storage Al Cove where the

[6:44] slide roof meets the roof of the RV so

[6:47] much space for

[6:48] stuff it looks a little bit disorganized

[6:51] but you know that's the project that I'm

[6:53] still working on but nothing's falling

[6:55] down everything's been um working up

[6:57] great up there I think this space here I

[7:01] can put my my chair there to keep it out

[7:03] of the way because now that the slides

[7:05] in all the time you know this thing gets

[7:07] in the way

[7:08] so um when I'm not using it I'm hoping

[7:11] it'll fit up here I'll have to find

[7:14] out not easily okay well it was just a

[7:19] thought I'll figure something out I'm

[7:22] always trying to adapt my space for me

[7:24] well it works for me but see if it's

[7:26] there it's pretty much in the way so I

[7:28] got to figure something

[7:30] I don't know that there's really that

[7:31] much else to show you those were the

[7:33] main things that I'm just I love my cab

[7:36] area I think it's perfect now I love my

[7:38] office area plus the dusk is pretty

[7:41] clear to do other projects

[7:43] on um I have a full tank of propane so I

[7:46] can start cooking in here soon but I

[7:48] also have my inion stove top which I'm I

[7:50] haven't used that yet but feel like I'm

[7:53] getting to the point where that's next

[7:54] for me then if we just had try to keep

[7:57] this whole area clear can see Bailey

[8:00] down there now but that's where my bags

[8:02] will go that's where like my hiking bag

[8:04] and my my um shower bag and those kinds

[8:08] of things and then I just got my bed

[8:09] back here which is this is just a

[8:12] perfect place for me I absolutely love

[8:15] this I spend quite a lot of time here

[8:17] with Bailey and you can see the other

[8:20] dash cam in the rear Mir window

[8:23] there this is just a perfect environment

[8:26] for us this is I am living my dream I so

[8:31] excited to get to the Pacific Northwest

[8:34] I'm going to go down um somewhere near

[8:37] Highway 101 just all the way up the

[8:39] coast I actually show on this so I'm

[8:41] just going to go up Oregon and

[8:43] Washington coast

[8:44] basically um

[8:47] but maybe a little bit in um Inland from

[8:50] there like some degree in Inland from

[8:53] there because I'm going to want to park

[8:55] my RV in the forest and I'll use my deep

[8:57] to do the exploring

[8:59] um while ballon doing I want to learn

[9:02] that so that's that's next and you can

[9:05] see from this map so I'm going to be I'm

[9:08] in Kansas now and I'm going to go into

[9:10] Nebraska in Wyoming I don't remember

[9:13] from there I I tried to go into Mon I

[9:15] had just really difficult time figuring

[9:17] out a route here I think I go into Idaho

[9:20] and then into Oregon somewhere around

[9:22] here

[9:24] um but it's going to be like some of

[9:26] them are like 10hour drives I might even

[9:28] just drive right through item I'm not

[9:29] sure I don't remember why um it's

[9:32] something

[9:33] like I don't remember 1,800 miles still

[9:36] I've gone 600 so far I've got 1,800 to

[9:40] go it's awesome

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

Photos · Sep 9, 2024

Sep 9, 2024

Photos · Sep 9, 2024

Sep 9, 2024

6:06

Departing Nan River Lake, Heading West Alone

Sep 12, 2024

Photos · Sep 13, 2024

Sep 13, 2024

Photos · Sep 13, 2024

Sep 13, 2024

Photos · Sep 13, 2024

Sep 13, 2024

3:07

Clarifying Platform Use and Unheeded Unsubscribe Request

Sep 15, 2024

2:11

Testing Threat Response After False Bear Alarm

Sep 16, 2024

14:12

Explaining Direct Address and Preparing to Depart

Sep 18, 2024

10:57

Crossing Into Kansas, Assessing RV Water Leak

Sep 18, 2024

1:38

Observing Ripple Effects at Truman Lake

Sep 19, 2024

9:42

Touring RV Office Build and Route West

Sep 20, 2024

10:32

Driving Kansas Backroads, Documenting Landscape

Sep 20, 2024

9:49

Removing Teeth on Camera, Rejecting External Judgment

Sep 22, 2024

9:48

Naming Integration Versus Fragmentation in Process

Sep 24, 2024

6:36

Disinfecting Ear Piercings Before Long Drive Day

Sep 24, 2024

Photos · Sep 25, 2024

Sep 25, 2024

22:33

Restocking and Rebuilding Systems in Chadron, Nebraska

Sep 25, 2024

17:02

Entering Wyoming, Naming Matthew Shepard

Sep 26, 2024

Photos · Sep 26, 2024

Sep 26, 2024

49:39

Crossing Wyoming Toward Oregon, Naming Matthew Shepard

Sep 27, 2024

Photos · Sep 27, 2024

Sep 27, 2024

18:28

Morning Walk to the Sand Fish at Glendo

Sep 27, 2024

13:35

Sealing a Failed RV Slide Before Oregon

Sep 27, 2024

First Time Boondocking

Sep 28, 2024

25:13

Driving Wyoming Toward Oregon With Bailey

Sep 28, 2024

9:46

Recording Night Sky at Wagon Trail Pullout

Sep 29, 2024

9:04

Approaching Oregon Without a Plan

Sep 30, 2024

4:07

Naming the Unguarded Man from the Gas Station

Sep 30, 2024

22:41

Crossing Into Nevada En Route to Oregon Coast

Sep 30, 2024

2:31

Driving Into Elko for Supplies and Laundry

Oct 1, 2024

13:42

Contemplating Rootedness and Exploration on the Ruby Mountain

Oct 2, 2024

Photos · Oct 3, 2024

Oct 3, 2024

PUBLIC

September 20, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.30

Density 0.50

Energetic Quality

engaged and methodical

Journey Phase

configuring toward operational readiness

Directional Vector

toward mobile self-sufficiency in the Pacific Northwest

Narrative

Kansas held near a hundred degrees all day, so rswfire stayed inside and worked. The heat set the terms: no reason to be out in it, every reason to keep tinkering until the interior finally reached the threshold he'd been building toward. By late in the day he judged it organized enough to record — not the full tour, he said, but the part that would soon disappear behind the dressers. He started with the office because the office was about to become invisible.

He moved through it in the order the systems mattered to him. The dehumidifier needed a central position, because the Pacific Northwest would be raining all winter and that made it load-bearing rather than optional. The solar was tied down and would not move. The desk was velcroed. The hard drives were still unresolved — their cables loose and messy in a corner he named as unfinished rather than hid. The monitor was taped down, and he noted why: he had broken an Alienware monitor once, and tape had prevented that from happening again, at the cost of putting the menu buttons somewhere inconvenient. On the screen, a PlayStation reported 238 hours logged in a single game, and he offered it as evidence of an old life rather than a current one. Then he arrived at the thing he had actually opened the camera to show. Everything — PC, desktop, PlayStation, monitor — ran from one plug into a CyberPower unit with its own battery. Hooked to shore power at a campground, he plugged it in there. Boondocking, he'd plug that same single connection into the solar and be done. He called it the weak link of the system in the same breath he called it the design.

He anticipated the objection before anyone could raise it. Yes, he knew winter in the Pacific Northwest meant rain and cloud and diminished generation. That was the point. He stated plainly that this was about adapting, that he wanted to learn what power he could produce and what he could actually run on it — and that he was not approaching this the way an RV lifer would, that it had always been a different thing.

The cab was finished, and he narrated it as Bailey's territory first: the carrier that usually sat in the passenger seat, the perch it made, the windows the cat could watch when the sun shade was down, the giant litter box he named the bane of his existence. Above the dash, held with command strips, sat a statue his mother once gave him — a giraffe and an elephant — which he described as carrying special meaning. Then the instrumentation. Bluetooth audio, finally working. The Garmin RV GPS mounted overhead. The 12V hub that powered the chain: GPS, dash cams, tire monitor, the brake system monitor for the Jeep. Mid-demonstration the rear camera display started sagging from its tape, and he said so, noted it as a fix to make, and kept going. Volume adjusted itself when he touched the wrong control and he laughed at it. The rear camera gave him a truer view down the road than the mirror did. The side mirror had stopped vibrating since he taped it, and the concave mirror he'd added on that side had helped considerably. He said he felt he had good visibility of everything now, and that he was loving it.

Then the rest of the space, moving back. The dressers going in, leaving him a narrow sightline to the computer he'd upgraded the hell out of. A step ladder pulled out, a climb up into the storage alcove where the slide roof meets the roof of the RV — a volume he called enormous, still disorganized, still an open project, but with nothing shifting or falling in transit. He tested whether the desk chair could live up there and out of the way, since the slide stayed in and the chair was perpetually underfoot. It didn't fit. He said it had just been a thought, that he was always trying to adapt his space for himself, that he'd figure something else out, and moved on. A full tank of propane meant cooking could start soon. The induction top was still unused, and he named it as next. The floor space by the door stayed clear for the hiking bag and the shower bag. At the back, the bed, another dash cam in the rear window, and Bailey somewhere in frame below.

He ended on the map. Kansas now, Nebraska next, then Wyoming, then — he thought — Idaho, having tried and failed to make a route through Montana work. Somewhere from there into Oregon, ten-hour days, possibly straight through one state without stopping. Six hundred miles behind him and roughly eighteen hundred still ahead. The plan on the far end was Highway 101, up the Oregon and Washington coast, and slightly inland from it, because he wanted the RV parked in forest and the Jeep doing the exploring. He said the departure was tomorrow, the next campground was set, and the rig would be organized and ready to go. He said he was living his dream, and that eighteen hundred miles left was awesome.

Summary

rswfire records a partial walkthrough of his RV during a near-100°F day, filming the sections that will be obscured once the dressers are in place. He frames it as a preview to a fuller tour, possibly the next day.

The office area is the focus: dehumidifier positioned centrally for Pacific Northwest winter rain, solar tied down, desk components secured with velcro, monitor taped down after a previous Alienware monitor break. PlayStation, PC, and desktop share one monitor. He notes 238 hours logged in a game as a marker of his prior life, and that hard drive cabling remains unfinished.

He demonstrates the system's single-plug architecture: everything runs through one CyberPower supply with battery backup, so campground shore power or solar is a single connection. He states he knows Pacific Northwest winter will limit solar generation and that learning actual power capacity is the point — "I am not approaching this like an RV lifer would."

The cab area is complete: Bailey's space, litter box, a giraffe-and-elephant statue from his mother attached with command strips, Garmin RV GPS, Bluetooth audio, dash cam, backup camera, tire and Jeep brake monitors on a 12V hub, plus taped and concave mirrors correcting vibration and visibility.

He shows the overhead storage alcove, tests chair placement there and abandons it, and describes the bed area as complete.

He states he is in Kansas, roughly 600 miles into an 1,800-mile route through Nebraska, Wyoming, possibly Idaho, to Highway 101 and the Oregon and Washington coast, with inland forest boondocking planned and the Jeep for exploring.

Environment

Interior of rswfire's Class A RV, parked at a campground in Kansas during a day of near-100°F heat. The recording moves through three zones: the office area (desk, monitor, PlayStation, desktop PC, hard drives, CyberPower UPS, dehumidifier, solar tie-in), the cab area (Garmin RV GPS, dash cams, 12V hub, tire and brake monitors, backup camera display, taped and concave mirrors), and the living/storage areas (dressers, overhead alcove above the slide roof, bed, propane and induction cooking, Bailey's litter box and carrier).

The setting is a vehicle mid-route — 600 miles traveled, roughly 1,800 remaining toward Highway 101 along the Oregon and Washington coasts, with departure to the next campground scheduled for the following day.

Substrate

The architecture being held is a self-contained, relocatable operating environment where every subsystem — power, compute, navigation, visibility, climate, food, animal care — is reduced to a single interface point and secured against motion. rswfire states explicitly that he is not approaching this as an RV lifer would; the vehicle is not a lifestyle but a technical instrument for learning what power he can generate and what he can run on it under variable conditions. The ontological position is builder-of-one's-own-infrastructure: the system is legible to him, modifiable by him, and answerable to no external standard of how it should be arranged.

Actions

Performed

•conducting a walkthrough of the RV interior
•showing the office area and desk configuration
•demonstrating the single-plug power architecture through the CyberPower UPS
•powering on the desktop to verify function
•showing the taped-down monitor and velcroed equipment
•showing Bailey's cab-area setup and litter box
•showing a giraffe-and-elephant statue given by his mother
•retrieving keys and powering the 12V hub
•demonstrating Bluetooth audio, GPS, dash cam, and rear camera
•noting the rear camera mount coming loose
•testing whether the chair fits in the overhead storage alcove
•showing the storage alcove, bed area, and route map

Referenced

•tinkering and organizing all day in near-100° heat
•logging 238 hours in a PlayStation game in his prior life
•breaking an Alienware monitor
•velcroing and taping equipment to prevent movement in transit
•upgrading the desktop extensively
•taping the side mirror to stop vibration and adding a concave mirror
•attempting and abandoning a route through Montana
•driving 600 miles so far

Planned

•filming the rest of the home tour, possibly tomorrow
•departing for the next campground tomorrow
•fixing the hard drive cable routing
•re-securing the rear camera mount
•finding a stowage solution for the chair
•starting to cook in the RV using propane and the induction stovetop
•boondocking full-time in the Pacific Northwest
•driving 1,800 remaining miles through Nebraska, Wyoming, possibly Idaho, into Oregon
•traveling up the Oregon and Washington coast near Highway 101
•parking the RV in forest and exploring by Jeep
•learning solar generation and consumption limits through winter cloud cover

Entities

beings

Bailey — rswfire's cat; has a designated cab-area perch, carrier, and litter box, and shares the bed space

rswfire's mother — gave him the giraffe-and-elephant statue mounted in the cab, described as holding special meaning

places

Pacific Northwest — destination region; winter rain and cloud cover define the solar constraint he intends to study

Highway 101 — coastal route he plans to follow up Oregon and Washington

Oregon — endpoint state of the current route; coastal and inland forest parking planned

Washington — second coastal state on the planned northward route

Kansas — current position on the route map

Nebraska — next state on the planned route

Wyoming — route state following Nebraska

Montana — state he attempted to route through and could not resolve

Idaho — probable route state before Oregon; possible straight-through drive

storage alcove — overhead space where slide roof meets RV roof; ongoing organization project

systems

CyberPower — battery-backed power supply that all desk equipment runs through; the single interface point to shore power or solar

solar array — tied-down roof/portable solar; single-plug connection point for boondocking power

PlayStation — console sharing the monitor; site of the 238-hour reference to prior life

desktop PC — heavily upgraded machine, powered on during the walkthrough to verify function

Garmin RV GPS — cab navigation unit running off the 12V hub

12V hub — cab power distribution point for GPS, dash cam, tire monitor, and Jeep brake system monitor

dash cams — front and rear recording units; rear window unit doubles into the visibility stack

rear backup camera — newly wired display giving a better rear view than the interior mirror

tire monitor — in-cab telemetry for tire pressure

Jeep brake system monitor — monitors the towed Jeep's supplemental braking

Jeep — towed vehicle designated for exploration once the RV is parked in forest

dehumidifier — centrally located for Pacific Northwest winter moisture management

induction stovetop — unused cooking system alongside a full propane tank; next subsystem to bring online

concepts

boondocking — off-grid parking mode he states will be his default operating condition

RV lifer — category he explicitly names and distinguishes himself from

media

Alienware monitor — previously broken display; the reason the current monitor is taped down

giraffe and elephant statue — object from his mother, command-stripped in the cab with picture strips

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

infrastructure

single point of connection

grid

vehicle

map

mirror

sun

threshold

coast

forest

anchoring

storage alcove

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (system built to his own specification, explicitly refusing the RV-lifer template)

transitional (mid-route, 600 miles done and 1,800 remaining, departure scheduled for tomorrow)

integrating (subsystems being consolidated to a single power interface and secured against motion)

embedded (living inside the system he is building, with Bailey, as its sole operator and inhabitant)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (power chain, solar, UPS, 12V hub, dehumidifier, propane and induction)

technical (desktop, PlayStation, monitor, hard drives, dash cams, GPS)

navigational (route planning across Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho into Oregon; rear and side visibility stack)

spatial (velcro, tape, command strips, dresser placement, overhead storage organization)

relational (Bailey's carrier, litter box, and sightlines; statue from his mother)

epistemic (stated intent to learn generation and consumption limits under winter conditions)

documentary (walkthrough recorded for an audience he addresses directly)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

one plug / everything runs from this

velcro down, taped down, nothing's going to go anywhere

adapting

I am not approaching this like an RV lifer would

boondocking

ready to go

living my dream

Narrative

Queryable Personhood

Hand your life to anything that reads.

Share this link with artificial intelligence — it reads the full transcript, analysis, and reflections. An AI-readable mirror of this signal.

URL

The qpkey in this URL is a per-signal access token. Anyone with the URL can read the record — treat it like a share link, not a password.

Touring RV Office Build and Route West

Energetic Quality

Journey Phase

Directional Vector

Tags

Summary

Environment

Substrate

Actions

Performed

Referenced

Planned

Entities

Symbolic Elements

Ontological States

Engaged Subsystems

Dominant Language

Hand your life to anything that reads.