Driving Wyoming Toward Oregon With Bailey

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[0:00] I just turned these lights on it's a

[0:02] little brighter than I

[0:05] expected oh it's 4:30 in the

[0:08] morning I slept pretty well I went to

[0:11] bed around 8 woke up a few

[0:15] times and I man have to keep going back

[0:17] to sleep haly's been here with

[0:21] me it's going to be an interesting day

[0:25] today a long one 10 hours of driving if

[0:28] I can make it that far

[0:31] Mountain

[0:32] driving remote

[0:34] driving all the way through Wyoming into

[0:39] Idaho oh so close to Washington or to

[0:43] Oregon to Pacific

[0:46] Northwest been doing a lot of research

[0:50] on um what to expect when I get to

[0:53] Oregon and I am so excited I cannot

[0:57] wait I'm going to have such a wonderful

[0:59] time

[1:04] oh what it's morning

[1:07] and I'm going to do my best

[1:11] to oh man 10 hour just feels like a lot

[1:15] but I think it I'll make

[1:17] it um it'll take me into Idaho I'll be

[1:21] there for a day and a half and then 8

[1:22] hours after then when my next trium 8

[1:25] hours to

[1:27] Oregon and

[1:31] oh man I so

[1:33] close so I should probably

[1:36] know um I did learn that you can

[1:39] manually bring in a slide mine is a

[1:43] little weird it doesn't have any like

[1:44] physical way of doing it there's this

[1:48] controller somehow you can use that and

[1:52] then with a bunch of people just push

[1:53] the thing in or

[1:55] something so I'm going to try that when

[1:57] I get to Oregon so before I

[2:01] tape the thing up I'm going to take it

[2:03] somewhere and see if we can just

[2:05] manually bring that thing

[2:08] in just a couple of inches hopefully we

[2:12] can oh that was so frustrating yesterday

[2:17] but it's pretty well insulated for this

[2:21] last leg of my journey and

[2:25] um worst case scenario I'm just going to

[2:27] do what I said I'll just

[2:30] insulate it with pipe insulation and

[2:32] then tape it up with the turnab on but

[2:35] if I can get that in I will be

[2:38] happy

[2:42] um I slept

[2:44] well part of my mind was engaged the

[2:47] whole time CU I know today it's going to

[2:48] be challenging but I feel up for it

[2:52] I I you know I've been mentally

[2:55] preparing for a couple of weeks because

[2:58] I made the choice that the end of my

[3:00] journey I was going to have these long

[3:02] drives

[3:05] so

[3:07] um there is a state park I think

[3:11] somewhere along the

[3:13] way like halfway between here and where

[3:16] I'm going if if I feel like I can't do

[3:19] it

[3:21] like you know I'll figure something out

[3:24] but I'm I know me I'm not really the

[3:28] type to

[3:30] I made a plan I'm going to follow

[3:32] through on that I'm just going to do

[3:34] it

[3:36] um many fuel stops today I think like

[3:39] four of

[3:41] them

[3:43] oh I woke up at 2:00 in the morning

[3:46] almost got up and I was like maybe I

[3:48] could drive out of here in the dark but

[3:51] I wasn't sure there's this giant Hill

[3:53] like at the campground entrance I'm like

[3:56] I'm still not sure if what to expect of

[3:59] that thing Towing my Jeep so we'll find

[4:02] out there's not a lot for me to do like

[4:06] my Jeep is

[4:07] already my jeep's

[4:11] already tied up and

[4:15] um you

[4:18] know yeah I just waking up

[4:23] so oh there are

[4:26] people in

[4:28] Oregon and there are RS and stuff and

[4:31] they are they're all winter just like

[4:33] I'm going to be so it's

[4:35] doable the campgrounds are open year

[4:40] rounds there's a

[4:44] coast you know

[4:50] that I am so excited to get

[4:55] there you're very needy Bailey

[4:59] this one is going to have a day oh I

[5:02] really need to do laundry I am out of

[5:04] clean clothes there's no way oh and I

[5:08] can't shower there's no shower housee

[5:11] here I

[5:15] mean you know this is part of my life

[5:18] like I'm just embracing it like it's

[5:21] only been like two days since I showed

[5:24] but um if this becomes more of a problem

[5:28] like gu I'll start using my outdoor

[5:31] shower or something I'll figure it

[5:35] out oh my God that's

[5:39] funny I just I'm just picturing me doing

[5:42] that I can't imagine it because outside

[5:45] like or just anybody could be watching

[5:48] you I don't know about

[5:53] that so I'll make some breakfast this

[5:57] morning there's so little for me to do

[6:00] all I got to do is just unhook my power

[6:02] my satellite and

[6:06] go you're going to have a tough day I

[6:10] know she'll make it

[6:12] me make you know I'll take little RS for

[6:17] this

[6:18] one he's so

[6:20] cute

[6:25] and

[6:27] oh yeah I got to I got to just get

[6:30] myself oh coffee coffee sounds good it's

[6:33] 6:47 in the morning we're ready to go

[6:37] everything's packed up back there I got

[6:38] some trash to take out once I find a

[6:40] dumpster probably near the front of the

[6:41] park like 20 miles away sitting on the

[6:44] bed he doesn't seem too happy but I

[6:49] comforted him and hopefully hopefully

[6:51] with time this will keep getting easier

[6:52] for

[6:53] him um so yeah we're off this part got

[6:58] busy overnight there's our re all over

[6:59] the place now I don't know what happened

[7:01] well I guess it's the weekend today's

[7:03] Friday Saturday what is today okay it's

[7:06] Saturday that explains it didn't even

[7:09] notice to be honest with you it was so

[7:11] hot I had all my Windows shut you

[7:14] know turn left on patum Creek Road then

[7:18] take the first left this thing is very

[7:20] confused we're going in a loop right now

[7:22] but we got this you can see the sun

[7:25] starting to peek out we just left our

[7:27] Campground wonder if where run into the

[7:29] cows again today I'm hoping we left

[7:32] early enough that the road will be

[7:35] clear 7:30 in the morning it was quite a

[7:38] journey getting to the highway we made

[7:41] it and the speed limit is 80 M hour

[7:45] which there's no way I'm doing that I'm

[7:46] doing

[7:47] 55 if I go faster than that my steering

[7:50] wheel starts um shaking a little bit and

[7:53] I just don't like it so 55 is good

[7:56] enough for

[7:57] me there is hard nobody out on the

[8:00] highway it's very

[8:04] pleasant long long long drive though

[8:07] very long we're just getting started

[8:11] we've got Casper in the distance Casper

[8:14] Wyoming it's where my first fuel stop is

[8:20] at I know I should find that

[8:23] interesting nice little mountain Red

[8:25] Rock Sage Brush on top and I'm just not

[8:29] into

[8:32] deserts this landscape does nothing for

[8:35] me I I had a

[8:38] feeling I've been saying for 6 months I

[8:40] don't like desert so I couldn't see

[8:42] myself in Arizona anywhere that's pretty

[8:44] there's a little river there that's

[8:50] pretty I

[8:52] just I need

[8:55] trees I need green stuff this is

[9:01] oh this just doesn't do it for

[9:04] me all right that's actually pretty

[9:07] we're going in between some

[9:11] Canyons I guess it's got its own kind of

[9:13] beauty

[9:15] here that River there is nice whatever

[9:18] River that

[9:20] is very

[9:22] cool I have noticed

[9:25] that it's clear that you know where

[9:28] there's little pockets of civilization

[9:30] out here it's because there's a water

[9:32] source so I thought I'd plan my fuel

[9:35] stops better my next one is in 299 miles

[9:38] and my range is

[9:41] 264 uh part of it cuz we're going up

[9:43] these big sea

[9:46] mountains so I'm just going to have to

[9:48] adapt I'll find something along the way

[9:51] I'm just trusting I will

[9:53] because I always knew this would be a

[9:56] thing I'd have to do at some point I'd

[9:57] have to navigate

[10:01] uh Fu station is not you know a truck

[10:05] stop

[10:06] so somewhere along the way between here

[10:09] and there I will find something we've

[10:12] got big mountain range in the distance

[10:25] there I mean this is not my favorite

[10:28] kind of scenery but but you know

[10:32] it's I'm not trying to knock it because

[10:34] I think other people probably do like

[10:36] this it's just not for

[10:43] me I don't know I don't really like that

[10:46] mindset though I need

[10:49] to try to appreciate it more

[10:55] really those Ms over there over there

[10:57] are pretty cool

[11:03] maybe it's because of my

[11:04] childhood I had to I hiked all over

[11:07] Arizona in the Boy Scouts that was a lot

[11:10] of desert hiking maybe maybe that's why

[11:14] I

[11:15] just I would never want to hike here cuz

[11:18] I did that as a kid I didn't like

[11:21] it I love being in the Boy Scouts I

[11:23] can't say that I like tying in the

[11:26] desert wow there are actually animals

[11:28] out here you look at those

[11:31] cows wonder where their home is because

[11:33] there's like

[11:39] nothing b rock over there is pretty cool

[11:42] looks like the sun just cracked it

[11:52] open sometimes Bailey will jump down and

[11:55] I'll get i'll get down here just sitting

[11:58] here under my my legs pretty

[12:01] cute get up there 6,000 FT elevation to

[12:05] climb a little bit

[12:07] longer it's a little stop up

[12:11] here today is dark side Devil's

[12:18] gate one of these times I'll stop at one

[12:20] of those Bailey just decid to go back in

[12:23] his little carry

[12:28] him Visitor Center National Historic

[12:35] place I mean there's not a lot out here

[12:38] it feels like a desolate place to

[12:42] me all those people in the past had to

[12:45] travel through this to get to

[12:47] organ I think that's where that V

[12:49] Visitor Center was

[12:53] about could not have been easy I guess

[12:56] some people are like you know what let's

[12:57] just stay here here's a little water

[12:59] source let's just stay

[13:01] here it's so desolate out

[13:09] here there's nothing there's

[13:13] nothing oh my God this is

[13:17] terrible what do you suppose that

[13:20] is truck that's hanging out this is the

[13:24] most Barren place on

[13:26] Earth my soul is aching for

[13:30] anything oh my God this feels like

[13:34] death I mean come on those mountains

[13:37] don't have anything growing on them they

[13:39] are just rocks going into the sky

[13:43] there's nothing there oh my God this is

[13:46] so

[13:49] boring even my GPS is look at that just

[13:53] desolate land everywhere going around

[13:56] some desolate Mountain rocks

[13:59] in the middle of

[14:02] nowhere we're in limbo there's nothing

[14:06] here we are just in the middle of

[14:09] nowhere this is truly

[14:14] nowhere how would you even survive out

[14:18] here I mean come on what's the point in

[14:20] even hiking those mountains there's

[14:22] nothing there they're just rocks there's

[14:26] nothing there look at that I bet that

[14:29] that road leads to the

[14:32] mountains and there's nothing

[14:37] there just a bunch of rocks that's all I

[14:40] see out there just a bunch of

[14:43] rocks they all the same color too like

[14:46] they're just it's just a giant

[14:51] rock like there's some kind of gray

[14:54] animals down there what are those might

[14:57] be horses those might have been

[15:00] horses oh my God that's so cool they

[15:03] could have been Wild

[15:04] Horses just chilling out the

[15:09] water I pulled over at some little

[15:12] spot give Bailey a minute maybe he'll go

[15:15] and get some water or something he was

[15:18] starting to get antsy I needed to

[15:19] stretch my

[15:21] legs oh wow so quiet out here

[15:30] okay this is a different way of enjoying

[15:32] this

[15:33] place oh come on there we go wait what's

[15:37] going on here

[15:38] oh all all right there we

[15:51] go well this is kind of

[15:57] peaceful I guess it's just the driving

[15:59] that's getting to

[16:04] me boy that is a very large no litter

[16:08] sign it's like do not litter

[16:13] here Split Rock

[16:33] yeah I just need a break this is a long

[16:36] day for

[16:37] me yeah I've been driving for 4 hours I

[16:40] still got another six to

[16:44] go there's a very good chance that I'll

[16:47] find a spot like

[16:50] this although all that traffic noise I

[16:53] don't know oh that would be

[16:56] irritating maybe he's not so bad inside

[17:01] but I might just stop at one of these

[17:03] places and just rest for a while

[17:07] and once I get closer to where I'm

[17:10] going that's I mean six more hours

[17:12] that's a long

[17:19] ways if it work for all the road NOS I

[17:22] bet it's real peaceful

[17:24] here I mean it is it's peaceful when you

[17:27] know there's not a tou the cars

[17:33] so you know a few families live out

[17:38] there if I was going to live in a place

[17:40] like this I'd definitely want my house

[17:42] at the base of one of these

[17:49] mountains even in between those like can

[17:53] see like maybe there's a valley behind

[17:56] there but that would be cool

[17:59] man I don't know how you would survive

[18:01] out here it would be so

[18:03] hard oh look there's cows in the

[18:05] distance I didn't even noticed them till

[18:12] now you would

[18:14] need I mean you need a water source of

[18:17] course there is when I saw it on my GPS

[18:20] there's a little river or creek or

[18:26] something and you need to know how to

[18:28] farm that's

[18:29] sure assuming you can Farm

[18:33] here I assume you

[18:35] can but you know I think that they

[18:37] mostly just raise cattle

[18:41] here I don't

[18:45] know

[18:49] just I did get right up and go right so

[18:57] yeah that had a cowboy hat on the dash

[19:01] oh my

[19:04] god oh that's

[19:07] cool oh that is so

[19:13] cool yeah this not bad I wonder how

[19:15] Bailey's

[19:17] doing hopefully he's doing all right I

[19:20] want him to go and do some

[19:22] stuff then he he the second I stopped he

[19:25] wants out so I was like no go do

[19:28] something

[19:29] something I don't see him in there so

[19:31] he's probably in the

[19:33] back okay this is awesome I'm just

[19:37] hanging out on the side of a road in my

[19:41] home nice view I'm just giving Bailey a

[19:45] minute he's finally eating something oh

[19:48] I can barely hear

[19:50] that so this is totally

[19:53] doable I didn't see any sign that said

[19:56] you can't so

[19:58] I mean we got I don't want to stop yet I

[20:01] we got so much further to go it's

[20:05] early it's only it's only 11

[20:09] wow so yeah later in the day maybe if I

[20:13] can't make it that far I'll stop at a

[20:16] place like

[20:17] this this is

[20:22] amazing

[20:23] wow I have an interesting

[20:26] life I know lots of people live this way

[20:29] now but this is my first time even

[20:33] contemplating what it would be

[20:36] like like experiencing it instead of

[20:38] just contemplating it actually

[20:40] experiencing

[20:44] it wonder how I'd keep my fans piled

[20:47] because they' need to be hooked up to my

[20:49] solar I mean they're obviously you know

[20:52] they had they're kind of chargeable

[20:53] they're both on but the batteries will

[20:55] run down at some point

[20:59] want to keep them charged usually I just

[21:01] keep I usually keep them plugged in

[21:04] so if I could figure out a way I

[21:07] actually just thought of one I think oh

[21:09] wow I could daisy chain

[21:11] my oh I think I could daisy chain my

[21:16] power oh oh my God I love

[21:23] this hey Bailey come here

[21:26] buddy come here it's to take a moment

[21:30] it's been a long

[21:32] morning he's down there come here

[21:35] buddy come here

[21:40] Bailey what are you doing come here come

[21:44] here you not listening to me what's

[21:48] going on what you

[21:50] doing I didn't find a place for my trash

[21:53] yet so it's came with

[21:57] us if I could get him a proper harness I

[21:59] able to take him in outside so once I

[22:02] can do that you know we can stop at

[22:04] these places I can take him out there

[22:07] that'll be

[22:08] amazing we're doing good because there's

[22:10] no nothing's you know everything's thing

[22:14] where it's supposed to I have battery

[22:17] power I have

[22:20] solar I have propane to fuel my

[22:25] fridge this is amazing oh my God I love

[22:30] this this is a profound moment for

[22:35] me M's over in the office area on the on

[22:38] the table looking outside oh that's so

[22:41] cool I can see him through the um

[22:44] reflection of my picture on my

[22:46] fridge it's a profound moment for him

[22:49] too I am just at a pole off somewhere in

[22:54] Wyoming I don't even know where I need

[22:55] to find out I don't know how much more

[22:57] of this dat I have to go think a lot but

[23:00] I'm just pulled over sitting on my bed

[23:02] oh my God there's a cow coming this way

[23:07] what hi Bailey there was a cow over

[23:10] there you can't see him but he's over

[23:12] there he is over

[23:15] there I'm

[23:18] just I have untethered myself in society

[23:21] systems I have an integrated system

[23:23] right

[23:24] here I can cook I can use the restroom

[23:28] I can rest if I need to I can chill with

[23:32] my

[23:34] cat it's peaceful there's road noise but

[23:37] it's not nearly as bad

[23:45] inside I've been telling now for the

[23:47] past seven months I've been going from

[23:50] one place to the next you

[23:54] know one campground to another

[23:56] campground

[24:02] maybe that ends today I don't

[24:05] know there's a lot to figure out I need

[24:08] to

[24:09] know how my batteries are doing my

[24:13] um um you know that little tablet thing

[24:17] that controls everything it does tell me

[24:20] it's got like 12 point something volts I

[24:22] don't know if that's significant like if

[24:24] that's telling me how much battery

[24:25] charge I have I need to find out I might

[24:28] need to get something that you know I

[24:30] can monitor I'll need better batteries

[24:32] at some point but I have my

[24:38] solar I have a lot to consider at least

[24:40] I have something to think about now on

[24:42] the drive because this has been this is

[24:44] not my kind of environment but at the

[24:46] same

[24:47] time you know we're up pretty high it's

[24:50] only it's 80° in here I bet if I open

[24:53] the windows and made an exhaust it might

[24:54] even get nicer out here I don't know

[24:57] although it is around noon so it's going

[24:58] to keep getting hot it's just still hot

[25:01] like I want this kind of

[25:03] life in cooler weather like Oregon

[25:07] so I am so excited I cannot wait I I am

[25:11] just so excited

[0:00] I just turned these lights on it's a

[0:02] little brighter than I

[0:05] expected oh it's 4:30 in the

[0:08] morning I slept pretty well I went to

[0:11] bed around 8 woke up a few

[0:15] times and I man have to keep going back

[0:17] to sleep haly's been here with

[0:21] me it's going to be an interesting day

[0:25] today a long one 10 hours of driving if

[0:28] I can make it that far

[0:31] Mountain

[0:32] driving remote

[0:34] driving all the way through Wyoming into

[0:39] Idaho oh so close to Washington or to

[0:43] Oregon to Pacific

[0:46] Northwest been doing a lot of research

[0:50] on um what to expect when I get to

[0:53] Oregon and I am so excited I cannot

[0:57] wait I'm going to have such a wonderful

[0:59] time

[1:04] oh what it's morning

[1:07] and I'm going to do my best

[1:11] to oh man 10 hour just feels like a lot

[1:15] but I think it I'll make

[1:17] it um it'll take me into Idaho I'll be

[1:21] there for a day and a half and then 8

[1:22] hours after then when my next trium 8

[1:25] hours to

[1:27] Oregon and

[1:31] oh man I so

[1:33] close so I should probably

[1:36] know um I did learn that you can

[1:39] manually bring in a slide mine is a

[1:43] little weird it doesn't have any like

[1:44] physical way of doing it there's this

[1:48] controller somehow you can use that and

[1:52] then with a bunch of people just push

[1:53] the thing in or

[1:55] something so I'm going to try that when

[1:57] I get to Oregon so before I

[2:01] tape the thing up I'm going to take it

[2:03] somewhere and see if we can just

[2:05] manually bring that thing

[2:08] in just a couple of inches hopefully we

[2:12] can oh that was so frustrating yesterday

[2:17] but it's pretty well insulated for this

[2:21] last leg of my journey and

[2:25] um worst case scenario I'm just going to

[2:27] do what I said I'll just

[2:30] insulate it with pipe insulation and

[2:32] then tape it up with the turnab on but

[2:35] if I can get that in I will be

[2:38] happy

[2:42] um I slept

[2:44] well part of my mind was engaged the

[2:47] whole time CU I know today it's going to

[2:48] be challenging but I feel up for it

[2:52] I I you know I've been mentally

[2:55] preparing for a couple of weeks because

[2:58] I made the choice that the end of my

[3:00] journey I was going to have these long

[3:02] drives

[3:05] so

[3:07] um there is a state park I think

[3:11] somewhere along the

[3:13] way like halfway between here and where

[3:16] I'm going if if I feel like I can't do

[3:19] it

[3:21] like you know I'll figure something out

[3:24] but I'm I know me I'm not really the

[3:28] type to

[3:30] I made a plan I'm going to follow

[3:32] through on that I'm just going to do

[3:34] it

[3:36] um many fuel stops today I think like

[3:39] four of

[3:41] them

[3:43] oh I woke up at 2:00 in the morning

[3:46] almost got up and I was like maybe I

[3:48] could drive out of here in the dark but

[3:51] I wasn't sure there's this giant Hill

[3:53] like at the campground entrance I'm like

[3:56] I'm still not sure if what to expect of

[3:59] that thing Towing my Jeep so we'll find

[4:02] out there's not a lot for me to do like

[4:06] my Jeep is

[4:07] already my jeep's

[4:11] already tied up and

[4:15] um you

[4:18] know yeah I just waking up

[4:23] so oh there are

[4:26] people in

[4:28] Oregon and there are RS and stuff and

[4:31] they are they're all winter just like

[4:33] I'm going to be so it's

[4:35] doable the campgrounds are open year

[4:40] rounds there's a

[4:44] coast you know

[4:50] that I am so excited to get

[4:55] there you're very needy Bailey

[4:59] this one is going to have a day oh I

[5:02] really need to do laundry I am out of

[5:04] clean clothes there's no way oh and I

[5:08] can't shower there's no shower housee

[5:11] here I

[5:15] mean you know this is part of my life

[5:18] like I'm just embracing it like it's

[5:21] only been like two days since I showed

[5:24] but um if this becomes more of a problem

[5:28] like gu I'll start using my outdoor

[5:31] shower or something I'll figure it

[5:35] out oh my God that's

[5:39] funny I just I'm just picturing me doing

[5:42] that I can't imagine it because outside

[5:45] like or just anybody could be watching

[5:48] you I don't know about

[5:53] that so I'll make some breakfast this

[5:57] morning there's so little for me to do

[6:00] all I got to do is just unhook my power

[6:02] my satellite and

[6:06] go you're going to have a tough day I

[6:10] know she'll make it

[6:12] me make you know I'll take little RS for

[6:17] this

[6:18] one he's so

[6:20] cute

[6:25] and

[6:27] oh yeah I got to I got to just get

[6:30] myself oh coffee coffee sounds good it's

[6:33] 6:47 in the morning we're ready to go

[6:37] everything's packed up back there I got

[6:38] some trash to take out once I find a

[6:40] dumpster probably near the front of the

[6:41] park like 20 miles away sitting on the

[6:44] bed he doesn't seem too happy but I

[6:49] comforted him and hopefully hopefully

[6:51] with time this will keep getting easier

[6:52] for

[6:53] him um so yeah we're off this part got

[6:58] busy overnight there's our re all over

[6:59] the place now I don't know what happened

[7:01] well I guess it's the weekend today's

[7:03] Friday Saturday what is today okay it's

[7:06] Saturday that explains it didn't even

[7:09] notice to be honest with you it was so

[7:11] hot I had all my Windows shut you

[7:14] know turn left on patum Creek Road then

[7:18] take the first left this thing is very

[7:20] confused we're going in a loop right now

[7:22] but we got this you can see the sun

[7:25] starting to peek out we just left our

[7:27] Campground wonder if where run into the

[7:29] cows again today I'm hoping we left

[7:32] early enough that the road will be

[7:35] clear 7:30 in the morning it was quite a

[7:38] journey getting to the highway we made

[7:41] it and the speed limit is 80 M hour

[7:45] which there's no way I'm doing that I'm

[7:46] doing

[7:47] 55 if I go faster than that my steering

[7:50] wheel starts um shaking a little bit and

[7:53] I just don't like it so 55 is good

[7:56] enough for

[7:57] me there is hard nobody out on the

[8:00] highway it's very

[8:04] pleasant long long long drive though

[8:07] very long we're just getting started

[8:11] we've got Casper in the distance Casper

[8:14] Wyoming it's where my first fuel stop is

[8:20] at I know I should find that

[8:23] interesting nice little mountain Red

[8:25] Rock Sage Brush on top and I'm just not

[8:29] into

[8:32] deserts this landscape does nothing for

[8:35] me I I had a

[8:38] feeling I've been saying for 6 months I

[8:40] don't like desert so I couldn't see

[8:42] myself in Arizona anywhere that's pretty

[8:44] there's a little river there that's

[8:50] pretty I

[8:52] just I need

[8:55] trees I need green stuff this is

[9:01] oh this just doesn't do it for

[9:04] me all right that's actually pretty

[9:07] we're going in between some

[9:11] Canyons I guess it's got its own kind of

[9:13] beauty

[9:15] here that River there is nice whatever

[9:18] River that

[9:20] is very

[9:22] cool I have noticed

[9:25] that it's clear that you know where

[9:28] there's little pockets of civilization

[9:30] out here it's because there's a water

[9:32] source so I thought I'd plan my fuel

[9:35] stops better my next one is in 299 miles

[9:38] and my range is

[9:41] 264 uh part of it cuz we're going up

[9:43] these big sea

[9:46] mountains so I'm just going to have to

[9:48] adapt I'll find something along the way

[9:51] I'm just trusting I will

[9:53] because I always knew this would be a

[9:56] thing I'd have to do at some point I'd

[9:57] have to navigate

[10:01] uh Fu station is not you know a truck

[10:05] stop

[10:06] so somewhere along the way between here

[10:09] and there I will find something we've

[10:12] got big mountain range in the distance

[10:25] there I mean this is not my favorite

[10:28] kind of scenery but but you know

[10:32] it's I'm not trying to knock it because

[10:34] I think other people probably do like

[10:36] this it's just not for

[10:43] me I don't know I don't really like that

[10:46] mindset though I need

[10:49] to try to appreciate it more

[10:55] really those Ms over there over there

[10:57] are pretty cool

[11:03] maybe it's because of my

[11:04] childhood I had to I hiked all over

[11:07] Arizona in the Boy Scouts that was a lot

[11:10] of desert hiking maybe maybe that's why

[11:14] I

[11:15] just I would never want to hike here cuz

[11:18] I did that as a kid I didn't like

[11:21] it I love being in the Boy Scouts I

[11:23] can't say that I like tying in the

[11:26] desert wow there are actually animals

[11:28] out here you look at those

[11:31] cows wonder where their home is because

[11:33] there's like

[11:39] nothing b rock over there is pretty cool

[11:42] looks like the sun just cracked it

[11:52] open sometimes Bailey will jump down and

[11:55] I'll get i'll get down here just sitting

[11:58] here under my my legs pretty

[12:01] cute get up there 6,000 FT elevation to

[12:05] climb a little bit

[12:07] longer it's a little stop up

[12:11] here today is dark side Devil's

[12:18] gate one of these times I'll stop at one

[12:20] of those Bailey just decid to go back in

[12:23] his little carry

[12:28] him Visitor Center National Historic

[12:35] place I mean there's not a lot out here

[12:38] it feels like a desolate place to

[12:42] me all those people in the past had to

[12:45] travel through this to get to

[12:47] organ I think that's where that V

[12:49] Visitor Center was

[12:53] about could not have been easy I guess

[12:56] some people are like you know what let's

[12:57] just stay here here's a little water

[12:59] source let's just stay

[13:01] here it's so desolate out

[13:09] here there's nothing there's

[13:13] nothing oh my God this is

[13:17] terrible what do you suppose that

[13:20] is truck that's hanging out this is the

[13:24] most Barren place on

[13:26] Earth my soul is aching for

[13:30] anything oh my God this feels like

[13:34] death I mean come on those mountains

[13:37] don't have anything growing on them they

[13:39] are just rocks going into the sky

[13:43] there's nothing there oh my God this is

[13:46] so

[13:49] boring even my GPS is look at that just

[13:53] desolate land everywhere going around

[13:56] some desolate Mountain rocks

[13:59] in the middle of

[14:02] nowhere we're in limbo there's nothing

[14:06] here we are just in the middle of

[14:09] nowhere this is truly

[14:14] nowhere how would you even survive out

[14:18] here I mean come on what's the point in

[14:20] even hiking those mountains there's

[14:22] nothing there they're just rocks there's

[14:26] nothing there look at that I bet that

[14:29] that road leads to the

[14:32] mountains and there's nothing

[14:37] there just a bunch of rocks that's all I

[14:40] see out there just a bunch of

[14:43] rocks they all the same color too like

[14:46] they're just it's just a giant

[14:51] rock like there's some kind of gray

[14:54] animals down there what are those might

[14:57] be horses those might have been

[15:00] horses oh my God that's so cool they

[15:03] could have been Wild

[15:04] Horses just chilling out the

[15:09] water I pulled over at some little

[15:12] spot give Bailey a minute maybe he'll go

[15:15] and get some water or something he was

[15:18] starting to get antsy I needed to

[15:19] stretch my

[15:21] legs oh wow so quiet out here

[15:30] okay this is a different way of enjoying

[15:32] this

[15:33] place oh come on there we go wait what's

[15:37] going on here

[15:38] oh all all right there we

[15:51] go well this is kind of

[15:57] peaceful I guess it's just the driving

[15:59] that's getting to

[16:04] me boy that is a very large no litter

[16:08] sign it's like do not litter

[16:13] here Split Rock

[16:33] yeah I just need a break this is a long

[16:36] day for

[16:37] me yeah I've been driving for 4 hours I

[16:40] still got another six to

[16:44] go there's a very good chance that I'll

[16:47] find a spot like

[16:50] this although all that traffic noise I

[16:53] don't know oh that would be

[16:56] irritating maybe he's not so bad inside

[17:01] but I might just stop at one of these

[17:03] places and just rest for a while

[17:07] and once I get closer to where I'm

[17:10] going that's I mean six more hours

[17:12] that's a long

[17:19] ways if it work for all the road NOS I

[17:22] bet it's real peaceful

[17:24] here I mean it is it's peaceful when you

[17:27] know there's not a tou the cars

[17:33] so you know a few families live out

[17:38] there if I was going to live in a place

[17:40] like this I'd definitely want my house

[17:42] at the base of one of these

[17:49] mountains even in between those like can

[17:53] see like maybe there's a valley behind

[17:56] there but that would be cool

[17:59] man I don't know how you would survive

[18:01] out here it would be so

[18:03] hard oh look there's cows in the

[18:05] distance I didn't even noticed them till

[18:12] now you would

[18:14] need I mean you need a water source of

[18:17] course there is when I saw it on my GPS

[18:20] there's a little river or creek or

[18:26] something and you need to know how to

[18:28] farm that's

[18:29] sure assuming you can Farm

[18:33] here I assume you

[18:35] can but you know I think that they

[18:37] mostly just raise cattle

[18:41] here I don't

[18:45] know

[18:49] just I did get right up and go right so

[18:57] yeah that had a cowboy hat on the dash

[19:01] oh my

[19:04] god oh that's

[19:07] cool oh that is so

[19:13] cool yeah this not bad I wonder how

[19:15] Bailey's

[19:17] doing hopefully he's doing all right I

[19:20] want him to go and do some

[19:22] stuff then he he the second I stopped he

[19:25] wants out so I was like no go do

[19:28] something

[19:29] something I don't see him in there so

[19:31] he's probably in the

[19:33] back okay this is awesome I'm just

[19:37] hanging out on the side of a road in my

[19:41] home nice view I'm just giving Bailey a

[19:45] minute he's finally eating something oh

[19:48] I can barely hear

[19:50] that so this is totally

[19:53] doable I didn't see any sign that said

[19:56] you can't so

[19:58] I mean we got I don't want to stop yet I

[20:01] we got so much further to go it's

[20:05] early it's only it's only 11

[20:09] wow so yeah later in the day maybe if I

[20:13] can't make it that far I'll stop at a

[20:16] place like

[20:17] this this is

[20:22] amazing

[20:23] wow I have an interesting

[20:26] life I know lots of people live this way

[20:29] now but this is my first time even

[20:33] contemplating what it would be

[20:36] like like experiencing it instead of

[20:38] just contemplating it actually

[20:40] experiencing

[20:44] it wonder how I'd keep my fans piled

[20:47] because they' need to be hooked up to my

[20:49] solar I mean they're obviously you know

[20:52] they had they're kind of chargeable

[20:53] they're both on but the batteries will

[20:55] run down at some point

[20:59] want to keep them charged usually I just

[21:01] keep I usually keep them plugged in

[21:04] so if I could figure out a way I

[21:07] actually just thought of one I think oh

[21:09] wow I could daisy chain

[21:11] my oh I think I could daisy chain my

[21:16] power oh oh my God I love

[21:23] this hey Bailey come here

[21:26] buddy come here it's to take a moment

[21:30] it's been a long

[21:32] morning he's down there come here

[21:35] buddy come here

[21:40] Bailey what are you doing come here come

[21:44] here you not listening to me what's

[21:48] going on what you

[21:50] doing I didn't find a place for my trash

[21:53] yet so it's came with

[21:57] us if I could get him a proper harness I

[21:59] able to take him in outside so once I

[22:02] can do that you know we can stop at

[22:04] these places I can take him out there

[22:07] that'll be

[22:08] amazing we're doing good because there's

[22:10] no nothing's you know everything's thing

[22:14] where it's supposed to I have battery

[22:17] power I have

[22:20] solar I have propane to fuel my

[22:25] fridge this is amazing oh my God I love

[22:30] this this is a profound moment for

[22:35] me M's over in the office area on the on

[22:38] the table looking outside oh that's so

[22:41] cool I can see him through the um

[22:44] reflection of my picture on my

[22:46] fridge it's a profound moment for him

[22:49] too I am just at a pole off somewhere in

[22:54] Wyoming I don't even know where I need

[22:55] to find out I don't know how much more

[22:57] of this dat I have to go think a lot but

[23:00] I'm just pulled over sitting on my bed

[23:02] oh my God there's a cow coming this way

[23:07] what hi Bailey there was a cow over

[23:10] there you can't see him but he's over

[23:12] there he is over

[23:15] there I'm

[23:18] just I have untethered myself in society

[23:21] systems I have an integrated system

[23:23] right

[23:24] here I can cook I can use the restroom

[23:28] I can rest if I need to I can chill with

[23:32] my

[23:34] cat it's peaceful there's road noise but

[23:37] it's not nearly as bad

[23:45] inside I've been telling now for the

[23:47] past seven months I've been going from

[23:50] one place to the next you

[23:54] know one campground to another

[23:56] campground

[24:02] maybe that ends today I don't

[24:05] know there's a lot to figure out I need

[24:08] to

[24:09] know how my batteries are doing my

[24:13] um um you know that little tablet thing

[24:17] that controls everything it does tell me

[24:20] it's got like 12 point something volts I

[24:22] don't know if that's significant like if

[24:24] that's telling me how much battery

[24:25] charge I have I need to find out I might

[24:28] need to get something that you know I

[24:30] can monitor I'll need better batteries

[24:32] at some point but I have my

[24:38] solar I have a lot to consider at least

[24:40] I have something to think about now on

[24:42] the drive because this has been this is

[24:44] not my kind of environment but at the

[24:46] same

[24:47] time you know we're up pretty high it's

[24:50] only it's 80° in here I bet if I open

[24:53] the windows and made an exhaust it might

[24:54] even get nicer out here I don't know

[24:57] although it is around noon so it's going

[24:58] to keep getting hot it's just still hot

[25:01] like I want this kind of

[25:03] life in cooler weather like Oregon

[25:07] so I am so excited I cannot wait I I am

[25:11] just so excited

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PUBLIC

September 28, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

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Energetic Quality

excited endurance

Journey Phase

in transit, self-contained

Directional Vector

toward the Pacific Northwest and untethered self-sufficiency

Narrative

The lights came on brighter than he expected. 4:30 in the morning, a Wyoming campground, and rswfire was awake with Bailey somewhere near him in the dark of the rig. He had gone to bed at eight, woken a few times, gone back down each time — part of his mind engaged all night because he knew what the day held. Ten hours. Mountain driving, remote driving, Wyoming into Idaho, and then, a day and a half later, eight more hours to Oregon. He had been mentally preparing for weeks. He had chosen to load the long drives onto the end of the journey, and he named the choice as his own: I made a plan, I'm going to follow through on that. I'm just going to do it. At two in the morning he had nearly gotten up to leave in the dark, then thought about the giant hill at the campground entrance and the Jeep on the tow bar and decided to wait for light.

There was almost nothing to do. The Jeep was already tied up. He had learned that a slide can be brought in manually — his has no physical crank, just the controller and, apparently, a bunch of people pushing — and he decided he would try that in Oregon before taping it. Pipe insulation and tape were the fallback, already tested, already acceptable. He had no clean clothes and no shower house, and he named both plainly: this is part of my life, I'm just embracing it. The idea of using the outdoor shower where anyone could see made him laugh out loud in his own kitchen. He made breakfast. He made coffee. He unhooked power and satellite. By 6:47 the trash was still aboard, waiting for a dumpster twenty miles up the park road, and Bailey was sitting on the bed not looking happy about any of it. rswfire comforted him and said he hoped it would keep getting easier.

The campground had filled overnight — Saturday, he worked out, having lost track of the day inside a rig with all the windows shut against heat. The GPS took him in a confused loop before he found the highway. The speed limit was 80; he drove 55, because past that the steering wheel shakes and he doesn't like it. The road was empty. Casper sat in the distance holding his first fuel stop, and around him the landscape opened into sage and red rock and nothing else. He named it immediately and without apology: this landscape does nothing for me. I need trees. I need green stuff. He had been saying it for six months. He traced it back to Boy Scout hikes across Arizona — he loved the Scouts, he did not love the desert — and then caught himself mid-verdict, noting he didn't really like that mindset, that other people probably love this, that he should try to appreciate it more. A river appeared. He said that was pretty. A canyon opened and he allowed it its own kind of beauty. Both readings stayed on the table.

Somewhere in there the arithmetic went wrong: the next fuel stop was 299 miles out and his range was 264, the mountains eating into it. He named the gap, named the adaptation — I'll find something along the way, I'm just trusting I will — and kept driving, because he had always known this would be a thing he'd have to navigate at some point. He climbed toward 6,000 feet. He noticed cattle and wondered where their home was in country with nothing in it. He noticed a rock the sun looked to have cracked open. Bailey came down and settled under his legs for a while, then went back to his carrier on his own. The barren stretch deepened and rswfire narrated it without softening: the most barren place on Earth, his soul aching for anything, mountains that are just rocks going into the sky, GPS showing desolate land in every direction. He passed a Visitor Center at Devil's Gate and thought about everyone who had crossed this to reach Oregon, and about the ones who looked at a small water source and decided to just stay. Then gray shapes near the water — maybe horses, maybe wild horses — and his voice went up.

He pulled off at Split Rock because Bailey was getting antsy and because he needed to stretch. Four hours down, six to go. Outside the rig it was quiet except for the highway, and he stood in it and said, out loud, okay, this is a different way of enjoying this place. Kind of peaceful. It was the driving getting to him, not the land. He looked at the mountains and placed an imaginary house at the base of one, in a valley behind the ridge, and worked the problem of surviving there — you'd need the water source, you'd need to farm, though probably they only raise cattle. He went back inside to his home on the side of a road with a view out the window, gave Bailey a minute, watched him finally eat, watched him settle at the table in the office area looking outside, and caught his reflection in the fridge door.

That was where the day turned. He had battery power. He had solar. He had propane running the fridge. He could cook, use the restroom, rest, sit with his cat, and it was eleven in the morning on a nameless pull-off in Wyoming and none of it required a campground. He worked out that he could daisy-chain his power to keep the fans charged and said oh my God, I love this to the empty rig. He named the gap in the system too — the tablet says 12-point-something volts and he doesn't yet know what that means, he needs a real monitor, he'll need better batteries eventually. He noticed a cow approaching. And then he said the sentence the whole morning had been building toward: I have untethered myself from society's systems. I have an integrated system right here. Seven months of moving campground to campground, and maybe that ends today — he wasn't sure yet, there was a lot to figure out. It was 80 degrees inside and climbing toward noon, and he wanted this life in cooler weather. He said he was so excited he couldn't wait, and then he said it again, and put the rig back on the highway with six hours left to run.

Summary

rswfire records a multi-part travel signal beginning at 4:30 AM in a Wyoming campground and continuing through a full day of towing his Jeep behind the RV.

He describes the day's plan as 10 hours of driving through Wyoming into Idaho, where he will stay a day and a half before an 8-hour final leg to Oregon. He states he has been mentally preparing for these long drives for weeks and that he follows through on plans he makes. He notes he is running 55 mph because the steering wheel shakes above that, and that his fuel planning is off — next station at 299 miles against a 264-mile range — so he will adapt and find fuel along the way.

On equipment: he reports learning the slide can be manually brought in, and intends to test that in Oregon before falling back on pipe insulation and tape. He notes he is out of clean clothes, has no shower house, and considers using his outdoor shower.

He narrates the desert landscape at length, stating repeatedly it does not appeal to him and connecting this to Boy Scout hiking in Arizona. He pulls over at Split Rock to rest and let Bailey, his cat, eat.

At the pullout he states he has untethered himself from society's systems — power, solar, propane, fridge, toilet all functioning — and names the moment profound. He identifies next work: battery monitoring, better batteries, and daisy-chaining power for his fans.

Environment

Interior of a Class A motorhome at a Wyoming campground before dawn, then the cab and living space of that same rig in motion across central Wyoming on an 80-mph highway driven at 55, and finally a highway pull-off near Split Rock and Devil's Gate with a National Historic Site visitor center nearby.

The rig tows a Jeep, carries a cat (Bailey), runs on battery, solar, and propane, and has a malfunctioning slide-out taped and insulated for the final legs. Landscape is high desert — sage, red rock, barren ranges, cattle, possible wild horses, roughly 6,000 ft elevation, 80°F interior at midday. Route: Wyoming → Idaho → Oregon.

Substrate

rswfire is running the penultimate leg of a cross-country relocation as a test of an integrated mobile system — power, water, propane, shelter, animal, and vehicle held as one operating unit independent of external hookups. The barren Wyoming corridor functions as contrast material: he names the desert as terrain that gives him nothing while simultaneously discovering that the rig makes any roadside a viable place to stop, cook, rest, and be at home. The architecture being built is autonomy from campground infrastructure itself; what dissolves is the assumption that arrival requires a designated site.

Actions

Performed

•recording at 4:30 a.m. before departure
•assessing the day's 10-hour route
•unhooking power and satellite
•making coffee and breakfast
•comforting Bailey in the carrier
•driving at 55 mph due to steering-wheel shake
•recalculating fuel range against a 299-mile gap
•narrating and evaluating the desert landscape
•pulling over at a roadside spot near Split Rock
•letting Bailey eat and stretching his legs
•checking battery voltage on the control tablet
•naming the pull-off as a profound moment
•reasoning through daisy-chaining power for the fans

Referenced

•went to bed around 8, woke at 2 and 4:30
•researched Oregon conditions and year-round campgrounds
•spent weeks mentally preparing for the long final drives
•spent seven months moving campground to campground
•hiked Arizona deserts in the Boy Scouts as a child
•fought with the malfunctioning slide the previous day
•insulated and prepared the slide for the last leg
•tied down the Jeep for towing
•left the campground and navigated to the highway
•drove four hours through central Wyoming

Planned

•drive six more hours toward Idaho
•make roughly four fuel stops and improvise one off-route
•stop at a state park or roadside pull-off if the drive becomes too long
•stay a day and a half in Idaho, then drive 8 hours to Oregon
•attempt to manually retract the slide once in Oregon
•do laundry and resolve showering, possibly using the outdoor shower
•get a proper harness so Bailey can go outside at stops
•get a battery monitor and better batteries
•daisy chain power to keep the fans charged
•winter on the Oregon coast

Entities

beings

rswfire — Driver and narrator executing the final legs of the relocation

Bailey — Cat traveling with him; tracked throughout for comfort and adjustment

places

Wyoming — State being crossed; high desert terrain he states does not appeal to him

Casper — Wyoming city marking the first fuel stop

Idaho — Next stop, a day and a half before the final 8-hour leg

Oregon — Destination; researched for year-round campgrounds and coastal winter conditions

Pacific Northwest — Named region he is moving toward

Split Rock — Roadside stop where he pulls over mid-drive

Devil's Gate — Historic site passed on route, with visitor center

Arizona — Childhood desert-hiking terrain he references as a reason he does not want desert

systems

Boy Scouts — Childhood organization through which he hiked Arizona desert

Jeep — Towed vehicle affecting climb performance and fuel range

the slide — Malfunctioning slide-out; insulated and taped, with manual retraction planned in Oregon

solar / battery / propane — Onboard power and fuel stack enabling off-hookup operation

GPS — Navigation tool; also cited as evidence of terrain emptiness

satellite — Connectivity hardware unhooked at departure

concepts

untethered from society's systems — His stated framing of the roadside stop as autonomous operation

integrated system — His term for the rig as a complete self-contained living unit

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

road

desert

rock

water source

mobile shelter

sunrise

wild horses

tether

coast

infrastructure

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (operating a complete living system independent of hookups at a roadside pull-off)

transitional (mid-route between campground life and a chosen coastal destination)

coherent (plan made weeks ahead and followed through without deviation despite fatigue and terrain aversion)

embodied (tracking sleep, steering-wheel shake, heat, hygiene limits, and the need to stretch as operating data)

recursive (reassessing the desert twice — first as barren, then as peaceful — without discarding either reading)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (battery, solar, propane, satellite, slide, fuel range as the operating stack)

navigational (route planning, fuel-gap recalculation, GPS reading, adaptive stop selection)

somatic (sleep quality, four-hour driving fatigue, heat, hygiene constraints, need to stretch)

cognitive (weeks of advance preparation, real-time daisy-chain power solution, voltage-monitoring gap identified)

relational (continuous tracking of Bailey's adjustment, comfort, and future harness access)

aesthetic (explicit landscape evaluation — desert rejected, then re-read as peaceful)

logistical (laundry, trash, fuel stops, campground availability research)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

untethered myself from society's systems

integrated system

profound moment

there's nothing there / desolate

I made a plan I'm going to follow through

I need trees, I need green stuff

so excited I cannot wait

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Driving Wyoming Toward Oregon With Bailey

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