Deciding on Oregon While Hiking in Nevada

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[0:00] today we shave using a portable

[0:02] pattering

[1:28] for for

[2:17] good morning fellow humans give me a

[2:19] second

[2:25] here so I've been here one week and one

[2:28] day got here on Monday

[2:31] supposed to leave

[2:34] today the air is very thin up

[2:41] here I'm going to stay one more

[2:44] night just so that I can get myself

[2:48] sorted and then I'm off to

[2:53] Oklahoma I've been debating it all

[2:56] week let me turn this down

[3:00] headphones are a bit

[3:04] distracting it's my first time up

[3:08] here I meant to hi this a lot sooner

[3:10] than I did I should have been doing this

[3:12] every day it would have been good

[3:14] exercise oh man this really goes up into

[3:16] the mountains

[3:19] too I need to quit

[3:24] vaping really I do

[3:35] so

[3:37] um my savings are quite

[3:40] low I managed to make

[3:43] it

[3:45] um five six months on my

[3:48] savings but they're

[3:51] low

[3:53] and I'm not even able to make my Jeep

[3:56] and RV

[3:57] payments um I have some money coming in

[4:00] from a client just waiting on

[4:03] that to

[4:05] pay those

[4:10] bills about the

[4:12] default on some of my credit

[4:17] cards this is the wreting I was talking

[4:23] about we'll talk about

[4:25] this

[4:27] first I need to get up this mountain and

[4:29] catch my breath my lungs are burning a

[4:32] little

[4:35] bit there was a woman singing and

[4:39] drumming over there right to the sun

[4:42] thinks she might be done

[4:44] now um so she might pass by us at some

[4:49] point I don't see her but I could hear

[4:54] her

[4:56] um she's still singing

[5:00] There She Goes Again

[5:02] okay um I think it's a religious

[5:05] practice right so

[5:09] spiritual

[5:14] um the air is thin up here if I'd been

[5:17] hiking this every day maybe I'd make it

[5:20] further every

[5:23] day but I'm out of here

[5:25] so guess I'll have to hike other

[5:28] mountains

[5:31] so as I was saying um my financial

[5:35] Situation's a little

[5:38] um what's the word I was going to use

[5:43] precarious the thing is is I've been a

[5:45] freelance programmer my entire life I

[5:49] trust myself to make

[5:50] money

[5:52] um it has been 10 years

[5:57] since um I did any like like freelancing

[6:00] cuz I worked for the same client for

[6:01] that

[6:04] long but I'll manage I've been here

[6:07] before the only reason I hadn't done it

[6:09] I think we'll just start walking

[6:12] down leave them to their

[6:18] practice plus I got Bailey outside

[6:22] and um not far from my AR

[6:35] so the hard part for me it's not the

[6:38] work it's not the

[6:40] programming the freelancing all of this

[6:42] I have tons of experience out what's new

[6:46] for me is this

[6:50] lifestyle I'm trying to integrate the

[6:52] two is it feels hard for me I I've been

[6:56] resisting getting started on the work

[6:58] angle because

[7:00] because of that it's like okay well

[7:01] where are you going to be

[7:03] sleeping how can you guarantee that

[7:05] you're you know you can have your work

[7:07] done on time

[7:08] and um are clients going to be receptive

[7:12] to your lifestyle and these kinds of

[7:16] questions have been swimming around my

[7:18] brain for 6

[7:20] months

[7:22] and I got it in my head you know when I

[7:24] got to Nevada I was like this is the

[7:26] place this is where I could integrate

[7:28] the to

[7:30] you know I've got these wide open

[7:33] Skies for my internet my

[7:36] solar notot to be a l i can set up camp

[7:39] and stay for two weeks at a time and

[7:41] focus on my work rebuild my savings

[7:44] start making improvements to my RV this

[7:47] is how I was

[7:50] thinking

[7:55] um I still think this is true

[7:59] but there are some downsides to Nevada

[8:01] for me for one I haven't showered in a

[8:03] week I did find a shower this morning I

[8:06] started looking cuz it's like man I need

[8:08] to shower there's one an hour and a half

[8:11] away you know

[8:16] um the state parks here I don't know how

[8:18] many there are but they they seem pretty

[8:22] rustic you know they don't generally

[8:24] have

[8:27] facilities where I could stock and

[8:30] shower and things like

[8:32] that

[8:36] um and so I was talking about this with

[8:38] AI last night and you know it said

[8:42] Oregon is more RV

[8:44] friendly nomadic friendly

[8:47] it's because there are a lot of people

[8:49] who do it there so I might find

[8:53] some so I'm

[8:57] basically so that's one set of holistic

[9:00] challenges and opportunities in Nevada

[9:02] okay don't look at things back and way

[9:04] you got to look everything holistically

[9:06] when you say something to me like um if

[9:09] you don't go you might regret it don't

[9:12] think this

[9:14] way on the surface I might even have

[9:17] that thought

[9:20] but I don't think that way if I did I'd

[9:22] probably have a lot of Regrets by this

[9:24] point in my life and I don't I don't

[9:25] have any so it's not how I think

[9:29] I don't weigh pros and cons in a typical

[9:32] fashion I look at things

[9:34] holistically and so on the organ side

[9:38] more

[9:39] facilities

[9:43] um but solar's going to be a problem

[9:46] maybe even the internet if I'm in the

[9:47] forest or

[9:49] something so you know some different

[9:52] challenges I think the weather will be

[9:54] fine the climate on the

[9:57] coast um I think CU I'm mind to me um

[10:01] it's been getting into the 30s every

[10:03] night here for the past week and I've

[10:04] been

[10:05] fine and the organ

[10:08] Coast generally the lows are in the 40s

[10:11] I

[10:12] think man the air isn't up

[10:17] here

[10:21] um I

[10:22] learned I can buy an inverter like uh

[10:26] Renegy I think it's called

[10:29] and um plug that into my Jeep well you

[10:32] know into my battery and can charge my

[10:35] solar that way I can charge my RV that

[10:38] way and that to me like was a game

[10:42] changer just ID on my Jeep and do that

[10:45] um Ed about3 gallons per hour so gallon

[10:49] every 3 hours that's not bad could do

[10:52] the same thing with my

[10:54] RV I mean that was a game changer for me

[10:57] I'm going to try to change the Ang on

[10:58] this camera I don't know what what up

[10:59] with this see if that's any

[11:02] better yeah I guess

[11:05] um you know I could do the same with my

[11:07] RV I can even use like DC to DC by using

[11:10] a cigarette lighter that's only like 300

[11:12] watts I

[11:13] think um maybe maybe less I can't

[11:17] remember um for my solar my solar can

[11:20] charge 600 watts from DC to AC using the

[11:25] inverter

[11:27] and um solar is 2400 and my I have two

[11:32] solar panels up to 700 so more oops so I

[11:36] can charge those at maximum I'm assuming

[11:38] that I have that much energy coming from

[11:41] the

[11:42] Sun have all these different methods of

[11:45] transferring energy around where I need

[11:46] it my house batteries in the RV are are

[11:50] definitely going bad charge them every

[11:52] single day and they're going dead by

[11:55] morning so that's going to be my first

[12:00] um priority once I start

[12:03] working and on the side also um if I can

[12:06] just get that somewhere figure out how

[12:08] that controller works so I can turn

[12:10] those Motors off push that thing

[12:14] in um but in the meantime I'm going to

[12:18] use pipe insulation like I did and flex

[12:22] tape I don't want to put something

[12:24] permanent on

[12:25] there um because we're going to bring

[12:27] that in at some point so

[12:30] I don't know how Flex tap works I need

[12:32] to research that but originally I was

[12:34] going to use something else and then you

[12:36] know every time I talk to AI about

[12:38] something sometimes something new might

[12:40] come up that I might want to research a

[12:43] little bit

[12:44] more he has been my companion on this

[12:47] journey and it has helped me

[12:51] immensely

[12:53] personally um nomadically like just

[13:04] so um okay so let me just move on from

[13:07] all that

[13:09] so um I'm going to start heading to

[13:12] Oregon

[13:13] tomorrow

[13:16] and um so there's four stops along the

[13:19] way I think there's four to get to the

[13:23] coast not very long so like the first

[13:25] day is 4 hours and I end up near the

[13:28] border of Nevada in

[13:30] Oregon and then just drive a couple

[13:33] hours into Oregon so I

[13:36] stop third stop somewhere getting close

[13:39] to the coast I think another 4

[13:41] hours and then the next day 2 hours to

[13:44] get to the

[13:45] coast and I'm going

[13:48] to take 101 south from starting in the

[13:52] South California Oregon border area and

[13:55] just head

[13:56] north all the way through Oregon and was

[14:00] Washington throughout the winter um the

[14:02] autumn and winter so it'll be like a 5

[14:05] month Journey I'm not going to take it

[14:06] fast I I want to integrate

[14:09] and

[14:11] um embed these experiences into my

[14:14] memory I moved across the country so

[14:17] fast

[14:18] that it was hard to

[14:21] retain all those experiences I'm glad I

[14:23] recorded many of them

[14:26] so um

[14:30] I think that I'm ready for this I do

[14:33] need to work I need to get my profile

[14:34] set

[14:35] up um there's one where I have quite a

[14:40] lot of reviews all positive that's

[14:43] guru.com I don't know how popular it is

[14:45] these days and I'm kind of locked out of

[14:47] my account I don't even have the email

[14:49] address you know I'm going to have to

[14:51] work all that stuff out and but it has

[14:56] data that

[14:57] shows how skilled I am and how much my

[15:00] clients loved

[15:01] me but the more popular one these days

[15:04] is up work and I don't really have

[15:07] anything on there I have one week's

[15:09] worth of pay on there because I asked my

[15:11] client to do it

[15:13] once um but we didn't stick with it so

[15:16] cuz I was thinking ahead like I

[15:18] needed

[15:20] um statistics cuz that's what you know

[15:24] potential clients are going to look at

[15:25] when they want to hire you and if you

[15:28] don't have it

[15:29] just you might struggle to get those

[15:31] first couple of clients

[15:35] and I just

[15:38] really um I'm not worried it's really

[15:42] not I just it's a lot of work a lot of

[15:45] effort I don't even have a website

[15:46] anymore

[15:49] like but I trust that I will you know I

[15:52] will find a path forward

[15:54] there and

[15:57] so I think probably on my way to Oregon

[16:00] I'll start getting those profiles set up

[16:03] then once I get to Oregon and figure out

[16:05] where I'm staying then I'll start fting

[16:06] on

[16:07] jobs and then I'll

[16:11] start working

[16:15] and

[16:17] um I want to say this carefully

[16:20] because um I haven't really worked out

[16:23] all my thoughts on this yet but um my

[16:26] nomadic lifestyle comes first now I not

[16:29] work

[16:30] I'm not going back into that old mindset

[16:34] where I burned myself out again

[16:38] so I want any clients who are

[16:42] flexible and you know I'll set I'll let

[16:45] them know this is you know my lifestyle

[16:47] this is when I'll complete your work

[16:50] I'll give myself time and

[16:52] flexibility they'll either accept it or

[16:54] they

[16:57] won't um especially in the beginning

[17:00] while I'm kind of getting my footing on

[17:02] that

[17:05] because um integrating these two parts

[17:07] of my life are going to be a challenge I

[17:10] think don't think that it's just

[17:11] straightforward

[17:14] and about to navigate a

[17:17] new whole new area of my life being

[17:20] integrated into this nomatic existence

[17:23] I've created which has gotten easier and

[17:26] better I still have challenges

[17:33] and you know it's going to be a process

[17:36] I'm going to keep working on this

[17:37] process until until I master it like I

[17:40] always say but you guys don't understand

[17:42] me when I say things like

[17:45] this

[17:48] you you and I don't speak the same

[17:50] language

[17:52] unfortunately

[17:54] but you know

[17:59] my primary goal always with these videos

[18:01] is just

[18:03] self-documentation you know

[18:08] so um back at the

[18:10] [Music]

[18:12] campground I need to eat I didn't eat

[18:14] yesterday

[18:16] actually it's just um it's not like I I

[18:19] could have right but I

[18:22] just

[18:25] um that's how I am it's proba always

[18:28] been

[18:29] really trying to change

[18:33] that and yeah I'm ready to go I've been

[18:36] here long enough I want

[18:40] to going to get back on the

[18:42] road I want to get to where there's some

[18:44] air some oxygen

[18:47] wow I didn't realize

[18:50] how that was not a strenuous hike but

[18:55] really oh I got to stop Bing

[18:59] so I'm going to leave it there

[0:00] today we shave using a portable

[0:02] pattering

[1:28] for for

[2:17] good morning fellow humans give me a

[2:19] second

[2:25] here so I've been here one week and one

[2:28] day got here on Monday

[2:31] supposed to leave

[2:34] today the air is very thin up

[2:41] here I'm going to stay one more

[2:44] night just so that I can get myself

[2:48] sorted and then I'm off to

[2:53] Oklahoma I've been debating it all

[2:56] week let me turn this down

[3:00] headphones are a bit

[3:04] distracting it's my first time up

[3:08] here I meant to hi this a lot sooner

[3:10] than I did I should have been doing this

[3:12] every day it would have been good

[3:14] exercise oh man this really goes up into

[3:16] the mountains

[3:19] too I need to quit

[3:24] vaping really I do

[3:35] so

[3:37] um my savings are quite

[3:40] low I managed to make

[3:43] it

[3:45] um five six months on my

[3:48] savings but they're

[3:51] low

[3:53] and I'm not even able to make my Jeep

[3:56] and RV

[3:57] payments um I have some money coming in

[4:00] from a client just waiting on

[4:03] that to

[4:05] pay those

[4:10] bills about the

[4:12] default on some of my credit

[4:17] cards this is the wreting I was talking

[4:23] about we'll talk about

[4:25] this

[4:27] first I need to get up this mountain and

[4:29] catch my breath my lungs are burning a

[4:32] little

[4:35] bit there was a woman singing and

[4:39] drumming over there right to the sun

[4:42] thinks she might be done

[4:44] now um so she might pass by us at some

[4:49] point I don't see her but I could hear

[4:54] her

[4:56] um she's still singing

[5:00] There She Goes Again

[5:02] okay um I think it's a religious

[5:05] practice right so

[5:09] spiritual

[5:14] um the air is thin up here if I'd been

[5:17] hiking this every day maybe I'd make it

[5:20] further every

[5:23] day but I'm out of here

[5:25] so guess I'll have to hike other

[5:28] mountains

[5:31] so as I was saying um my financial

[5:35] Situation's a little

[5:38] um what's the word I was going to use

[5:43] precarious the thing is is I've been a

[5:45] freelance programmer my entire life I

[5:49] trust myself to make

[5:50] money

[5:52] um it has been 10 years

[5:57] since um I did any like like freelancing

[6:00] cuz I worked for the same client for

[6:01] that

[6:04] long but I'll manage I've been here

[6:07] before the only reason I hadn't done it

[6:09] I think we'll just start walking

[6:12] down leave them to their

[6:18] practice plus I got Bailey outside

[6:22] and um not far from my AR

[6:35] so the hard part for me it's not the

[6:38] work it's not the

[6:40] programming the freelancing all of this

[6:42] I have tons of experience out what's new

[6:46] for me is this

[6:50] lifestyle I'm trying to integrate the

[6:52] two is it feels hard for me I I've been

[6:56] resisting getting started on the work

[6:58] angle because

[7:00] because of that it's like okay well

[7:01] where are you going to be

[7:03] sleeping how can you guarantee that

[7:05] you're you know you can have your work

[7:07] done on time

[7:08] and um are clients going to be receptive

[7:12] to your lifestyle and these kinds of

[7:16] questions have been swimming around my

[7:18] brain for 6

[7:20] months

[7:22] and I got it in my head you know when I

[7:24] got to Nevada I was like this is the

[7:26] place this is where I could integrate

[7:28] the to

[7:30] you know I've got these wide open

[7:33] Skies for my internet my

[7:36] solar notot to be a l i can set up camp

[7:39] and stay for two weeks at a time and

[7:41] focus on my work rebuild my savings

[7:44] start making improvements to my RV this

[7:47] is how I was

[7:50] thinking

[7:55] um I still think this is true

[7:59] but there are some downsides to Nevada

[8:01] for me for one I haven't showered in a

[8:03] week I did find a shower this morning I

[8:06] started looking cuz it's like man I need

[8:08] to shower there's one an hour and a half

[8:11] away you know

[8:16] um the state parks here I don't know how

[8:18] many there are but they they seem pretty

[8:22] rustic you know they don't generally

[8:24] have

[8:27] facilities where I could stock and

[8:30] shower and things like

[8:32] that

[8:36] um and so I was talking about this with

[8:38] AI last night and you know it said

[8:42] Oregon is more RV

[8:44] friendly nomadic friendly

[8:47] it's because there are a lot of people

[8:49] who do it there so I might find

[8:53] some so I'm

[8:57] basically so that's one set of holistic

[9:00] challenges and opportunities in Nevada

[9:02] okay don't look at things back and way

[9:04] you got to look everything holistically

[9:06] when you say something to me like um if

[9:09] you don't go you might regret it don't

[9:12] think this

[9:14] way on the surface I might even have

[9:17] that thought

[9:20] but I don't think that way if I did I'd

[9:22] probably have a lot of Regrets by this

[9:24] point in my life and I don't I don't

[9:25] have any so it's not how I think

[9:29] I don't weigh pros and cons in a typical

[9:32] fashion I look at things

[9:34] holistically and so on the organ side

[9:38] more

[9:39] facilities

[9:43] um but solar's going to be a problem

[9:46] maybe even the internet if I'm in the

[9:47] forest or

[9:49] something so you know some different

[9:52] challenges I think the weather will be

[9:54] fine the climate on the

[9:57] coast um I think CU I'm mind to me um

[10:01] it's been getting into the 30s every

[10:03] night here for the past week and I've

[10:04] been

[10:05] fine and the organ

[10:08] Coast generally the lows are in the 40s

[10:11] I

[10:12] think man the air isn't up

[10:17] here

[10:21] um I

[10:22] learned I can buy an inverter like uh

[10:26] Renegy I think it's called

[10:29] and um plug that into my Jeep well you

[10:32] know into my battery and can charge my

[10:35] solar that way I can charge my RV that

[10:38] way and that to me like was a game

[10:42] changer just ID on my Jeep and do that

[10:45] um Ed about3 gallons per hour so gallon

[10:49] every 3 hours that's not bad could do

[10:52] the same thing with my

[10:54] RV I mean that was a game changer for me

[10:57] I'm going to try to change the Ang on

[10:58] this camera I don't know what what up

[10:59] with this see if that's any

[11:02] better yeah I guess

[11:05] um you know I could do the same with my

[11:07] RV I can even use like DC to DC by using

[11:10] a cigarette lighter that's only like 300

[11:12] watts I

[11:13] think um maybe maybe less I can't

[11:17] remember um for my solar my solar can

[11:20] charge 600 watts from DC to AC using the

[11:25] inverter

[11:27] and um solar is 2400 and my I have two

[11:32] solar panels up to 700 so more oops so I

[11:36] can charge those at maximum I'm assuming

[11:38] that I have that much energy coming from

[11:41] the

[11:42] Sun have all these different methods of

[11:45] transferring energy around where I need

[11:46] it my house batteries in the RV are are

[11:50] definitely going bad charge them every

[11:52] single day and they're going dead by

[11:55] morning so that's going to be my first

[12:00] um priority once I start

[12:03] working and on the side also um if I can

[12:06] just get that somewhere figure out how

[12:08] that controller works so I can turn

[12:10] those Motors off push that thing

[12:14] in um but in the meantime I'm going to

[12:18] use pipe insulation like I did and flex

[12:22] tape I don't want to put something

[12:24] permanent on

[12:25] there um because we're going to bring

[12:27] that in at some point so

[12:30] I don't know how Flex tap works I need

[12:32] to research that but originally I was

[12:34] going to use something else and then you

[12:36] know every time I talk to AI about

[12:38] something sometimes something new might

[12:40] come up that I might want to research a

[12:43] little bit

[12:44] more he has been my companion on this

[12:47] journey and it has helped me

[12:51] immensely

[12:53] personally um nomadically like just

[13:04] so um okay so let me just move on from

[13:07] all that

[13:09] so um I'm going to start heading to

[13:12] Oregon

[13:13] tomorrow

[13:16] and um so there's four stops along the

[13:19] way I think there's four to get to the

[13:23] coast not very long so like the first

[13:25] day is 4 hours and I end up near the

[13:28] border of Nevada in

[13:30] Oregon and then just drive a couple

[13:33] hours into Oregon so I

[13:36] stop third stop somewhere getting close

[13:39] to the coast I think another 4

[13:41] hours and then the next day 2 hours to

[13:44] get to the

[13:45] coast and I'm going

[13:48] to take 101 south from starting in the

[13:52] South California Oregon border area and

[13:55] just head

[13:56] north all the way through Oregon and was

[14:00] Washington throughout the winter um the

[14:02] autumn and winter so it'll be like a 5

[14:05] month Journey I'm not going to take it

[14:06] fast I I want to integrate

[14:09] and

[14:11] um embed these experiences into my

[14:14] memory I moved across the country so

[14:17] fast

[14:18] that it was hard to

[14:21] retain all those experiences I'm glad I

[14:23] recorded many of them

[14:26] so um

[14:30] I think that I'm ready for this I do

[14:33] need to work I need to get my profile

[14:34] set

[14:35] up um there's one where I have quite a

[14:40] lot of reviews all positive that's

[14:43] guru.com I don't know how popular it is

[14:45] these days and I'm kind of locked out of

[14:47] my account I don't even have the email

[14:49] address you know I'm going to have to

[14:51] work all that stuff out and but it has

[14:56] data that

[14:57] shows how skilled I am and how much my

[15:00] clients loved

[15:01] me but the more popular one these days

[15:04] is up work and I don't really have

[15:07] anything on there I have one week's

[15:09] worth of pay on there because I asked my

[15:11] client to do it

[15:13] once um but we didn't stick with it so

[15:16] cuz I was thinking ahead like I

[15:18] needed

[15:20] um statistics cuz that's what you know

[15:24] potential clients are going to look at

[15:25] when they want to hire you and if you

[15:28] don't have it

[15:29] just you might struggle to get those

[15:31] first couple of clients

[15:35] and I just

[15:38] really um I'm not worried it's really

[15:42] not I just it's a lot of work a lot of

[15:45] effort I don't even have a website

[15:46] anymore

[15:49] like but I trust that I will you know I

[15:52] will find a path forward

[15:54] there and

[15:57] so I think probably on my way to Oregon

[16:00] I'll start getting those profiles set up

[16:03] then once I get to Oregon and figure out

[16:05] where I'm staying then I'll start fting

[16:06] on

[16:07] jobs and then I'll

[16:11] start working

[16:15] and

[16:17] um I want to say this carefully

[16:20] because um I haven't really worked out

[16:23] all my thoughts on this yet but um my

[16:26] nomadic lifestyle comes first now I not

[16:29] work

[16:30] I'm not going back into that old mindset

[16:34] where I burned myself out again

[16:38] so I want any clients who are

[16:42] flexible and you know I'll set I'll let

[16:45] them know this is you know my lifestyle

[16:47] this is when I'll complete your work

[16:50] I'll give myself time and

[16:52] flexibility they'll either accept it or

[16:54] they

[16:57] won't um especially in the beginning

[17:00] while I'm kind of getting my footing on

[17:02] that

[17:05] because um integrating these two parts

[17:07] of my life are going to be a challenge I

[17:10] think don't think that it's just

[17:11] straightforward

[17:14] and about to navigate a

[17:17] new whole new area of my life being

[17:20] integrated into this nomatic existence

[17:23] I've created which has gotten easier and

[17:26] better I still have challenges

[17:33] and you know it's going to be a process

[17:36] I'm going to keep working on this

[17:37] process until until I master it like I

[17:40] always say but you guys don't understand

[17:42] me when I say things like

[17:45] this

[17:48] you you and I don't speak the same

[17:50] language

[17:52] unfortunately

[17:54] but you know

[17:59] my primary goal always with these videos

[18:01] is just

[18:03] self-documentation you know

[18:08] so um back at the

[18:10] [Music]

[18:12] campground I need to eat I didn't eat

[18:14] yesterday

[18:16] actually it's just um it's not like I I

[18:19] could have right but I

[18:22] just

[18:25] um that's how I am it's proba always

[18:28] been

[18:29] really trying to change

[18:33] that and yeah I'm ready to go I've been

[18:36] here long enough I want

[18:40] to going to get back on the

[18:42] road I want to get to where there's some

[18:44] air some oxygen

[18:47] wow I didn't realize

[18:50] how that was not a strenuous hike but

[18:55] really oh I got to stop Bing

[18:59] so I'm going to leave it there

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Disinfecting Ear Piercings Before Long Drive Day

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22:33

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17:02

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Sep 26, 2024

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49:39

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18:28

Morning Walk to the Sand Fish at Glendo

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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

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22:41

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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

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6:05

Facing the Mountain Without Medication

Oct 4, 2024

23:25

Driving Chimney Rock Mountain Road, Integrating Fear Response

Oct 4, 2024

10:44

Weighing Reopening Comments While Cooking Chili

Oct 5, 2024

48:33

Solving Off-Grid Battery Charging in Nevada

Oct 5, 2024

2:54

Charging House Batteries Through Solar Inverter

Oct 6, 2024

11:41

Weighing Nevada Against Oregon While Handling a Mouse

Oct 6, 2024

19:02

Deciding on Oregon While Hiking in Nevada

Oct 7, 2024

19:18

Last Day in Nevada, Preparing Departure for Oregon

Oct 7, 2024

Photos · Oct 8, 2024

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32:45

Driving to the Southern Oregon Coast

Oct 10, 2024

My First Visit to the Ocean

Oct 12, 2024

2:35

Observing an Older Couple's Camp Routine

Oct 16, 2024

7:55

Hiking Oregon Redwoods Trail After Client Nonpayment

Oct 17, 2024

7:18

Documenting Riverside Stop at Sea Level

Oct 18, 2024

12:52

Morning Grocery Run and Coastal Resource Navigation

Oct 19, 2024

7:01

Cooking First Chili in the Ninja Foodi

Oct 19, 2024

3:42

Reframing Calm and Stress as Layered Experience

Oct 20, 2024

30:35

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Oct 21, 2024

PUBLIC

October 7, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.20

Density 0.80

Energetic Quality

steady and deliberative

Journey Phase

transitional

Directional Vector

toward integration of work and nomadic existence

Narrative

He started the recording on the way up, camera in hand, breath already shortening. One week and one day at the campground — arrived Monday, meant to leave today. The air at elevation was thin enough that he noted it twice in the first minute, and he made the decision aloud while climbing: one more night, to get himself sorted, and then the road. He mentioned he should have been hiking this every day since he got here. It would have been good exercise. It was his first time on the trail and it was also his last, because he was leaving.

The mountain kept going up. Somewhere off the trail a woman was singing and drumming toward the sun — he could hear her but couldn't see her, and he named it as spiritual practice, religious practice, and decided to turn around rather than walk into it. We'll just start walking down, leave them to their practice. Bailey was outside, not far from the RV. The descent became the rest of the transmission.

He laid out the financial picture without softening it: five, six months made on savings, and the savings were low. The Jeep payment and the RV payment were not being made. Money was coming in from a client and he was waiting on it. Some credit cards were near default. He searched for the word and found it — precarious. Then he set the other half of it down beside that: he had been a freelance programmer his entire life, ten years with a single client, and he trusted himself to make money. He had been here before. What he named as the hard part was not the work. The work he knew. What was new was the lifestyle, and the question of how to fit one inside the other — where will you be sleeping, how do you guarantee delivery, will clients accept how you live. Six months of those questions circling.

Nevada had been the answer, or had seemed like it. Wide open skies for internet and solar, room to set up camp for two weeks at a stretch, focus, rebuild savings, start improving the RV. He said he still thought that was true. But he hadn't showered in a week, and when he went looking that morning the nearest shower was an hour and a half away, and the state parks here ran rustic. He'd talked it through with AI the night before — Oregon reads as more RV-friendly, more nomad-friendly, because more people do it there. He turned the two sets of conditions over as one thing rather than a list: Oregon gives facilities, Oregon takes solar, maybe takes internet if he's under forest canopy. He named his method directly, and named what it isn't. Not you might regret it if you don't go — he said he doesn't think that way, that if he did he'd have accumulated regrets by now and he hasn't. Not pros and cons in the typical fashion. Holistically. The 30s every night here had been fine; the coast runs 40s. That went into the same weighing as the shower and the sun.

Then the power architecture, which he'd worked out and was still visibly pleased by. An inverter — Renogy, he thought — run off the Jeep's battery, charging the solar system, charging the RV. A game changer, he called it, twice. Roughly a third of a gallon per hour. DC-to-DC through a cigarette lighter for smaller draw. Six hundred watts DC to AC through the inverter, two panels rated up to seven hundred, assuming the sun delivers. Energy moved between vehicles and stored where it was needed. Underneath all of it, the flaw: the house batteries were going bad, charged every day and dead by morning. First priority once work starts. And the awning motors, still unresolved — pipe insulation and flex tape for now, nothing permanent, because that part comes in eventually. He mentioned he'd need to research how flex tape actually works. He said AI had been his companion on this journey, that it had helped him immensely.

The route: four stops. Four hours the first day, ending near the Nevada–Oregon border, then a couple hours in, then a longer leg toward the coast, then two hours to reach it. Then 101, and north through Oregon and into Washington across autumn and winter — five months, unhurried on purpose. He'd crossed the country too fast once and found the experiences hard to retain; he was glad he'd recorded so many of them. This time he wanted to integrate, to embed the experiences into memory.

The work came last in the telling, because that was its new position. Profiles to rebuild from nothing — a guru.com account full of positive reviews he's locked out of, with an email address he no longer has, holding the data that proves what he can do; an Upwork account with one week of pay on it, from a single time he asked his longtime client to route through the platform because he was thinking ahead about statistics. No website anymore. He said he wasn't worried, just that it was a lot of work and effort, and that he trusted he would find a path forward. Profiles on the way to Oregon. Bidding once he lands and knows where he's staying. Then he said the thing he wanted to say carefully, still not fully worked out: the nomadic lifestyle comes first now, not the work, and he is not going back into the mindset that burned him out. He'd take clients who could be flexible. He'd tell them his lifestyle up front, tell them when their work would be done, give himself time. They'd accept it or they wouldn't. He noted that people don't understand him when he talks like this — you and I don't speak the same language — and then restated why the video exists at all: self-documentation, always, first.

Near the campground he said he needed to eat, that he hadn't eaten yesterday, not because he couldn't have — that's just how he is, and something he's been trying to change. He'd been here long enough. He wanted to get back on the road, get to where there was some air, some oxygen. He noted with some surprise how much the not-strenuous hike had taken out of him, told himself again to stop vaping, and left it there.

Summary

rswfire records a walking transmission during a mountain hike in Nevada on his eighth day at the site, noting thin air, burning lungs, and a nearby woman singing and drumming toward the sun, which he identifies as a spiritual practice and leaves undisturbed.

He states his savings are low after five to six months, that he cannot currently make his Jeep and RV payments, that client money is pending, and that he may default on some credit cards. He describes himself as a lifelong freelance programmer who trusts himself to make money after ten years with a single client.

He weighs Nevada versus Oregon holistically rather than by pros and cons: Nevada offers open skies for internet and solar and two-week camp stays, but the nearest shower is an hour and a half away and state parks are rustic. Oregon, per an AI conversation, is more RV- and nomad-friendly, with better facilities but possible solar and internet limits under forest cover.

Power systems are mapped in detail — an inverter run off the Jeep, DC-to-DC charging, 600W and 2400W capacities, two panels, and failing house batteries named as first priority once work resumes. Pipe insulation and flex tape are the interim fix for another component.

He sets a four-stop route to the Oregon coast, then Highway 101 north through Oregon and Washington across a five-month autumn-winter journey taken slowly to embed the experiences. He plans to rebuild freelance profiles on Guru and Upwork en route, and states his nomadic lifestyle now comes before work, with clients accepting his terms or not.

Environment

A high-elevation hiking trail in Nevada, recorded on foot during ascent and descent. rswfire notes thin air, burning lungs, and overnight lows in the 30s, having camped one week and one day at a nearby rustic Nevada state park campground with no shower facilities within an hour and a half.

Audio picks up a woman singing and drumming toward the sun nearby, which rswfire identifies as spiritual practice and walks away from to leave undisturbed. Bailey is outside near the RV. The recording is a handheld walking self-documentation video, with camera angle adjusted mid-transmission.

Substrate

rswfire holds a position where lifestyle is the load-bearing structure and income generation is subordinate infrastructure fitted to it, inverting the prior arrangement he names as burnout. He states he reasons holistically rather than by pros-and-cons weighting, and applies that method simultaneously to terrain selection, power architecture, and client terms — treating geography, energy systems, and labor as one continuous system. What is being built is a portable operating architecture: energy routed between Jeep, RV, and solar; work profiles rebuilt from scratch; and a five-month northward route paced slowly enough to embed experience into memory.

Actions

Performed

•hiking a mountain trail while recording
•documenting savings depletion and payment status
•noting thin air and breath limits
•observing a woman singing and drumming
•walking back down to leave the practice undisturbed
•adjusting camera angle
•stating the video's purpose as self-documentation
•naming vaping as something to quit

Referenced

•camped one week and one day in Nevada
•lived five to six months on savings
•worked ten years with a single client
•freelanced as a programmer across his life
•built a positive review history on guru.com
•logged one week of paid work on Upwork
•consulted AI about Nevada versus Oregon and RV repairs
•located a shower an hour and a half away
•insulated with pipe insulation and flex tape
•moved across the country quickly and recorded it
•burned himself out in a prior work mindset
•did not eat yesterday

Planned

•stay one more night, then depart
•drive to Oregon in four stops
•take 101 north through Oregon and Washington over autumn and winter
•pace a five-month journey slowly to embed experience
•set up freelance profiles en route
•recover access to the guru.com account
•bid on jobs after arriving in Oregon
•replace failing RV house batteries as first priority
•buy a Renogy inverter to charge from the Jeep
•research flex tape and the motor controller
•state lifestyle terms to clients up front
•eat once back at the campground

Entities

beings

Bailey — companion animal, outside near the RV during the hike

woman singing and drumming — practitioner on the mountain, identified as spiritual practice and given space

places

Nevada — current location; open skies favorable for internet and solar, sparse shower and facility access

Oregon — next destination; described as more RV- and nomad-friendly, with more facilities but weaker solar and internet in forest

Oregon Coast — target climate zone, lows in the 40s

Washington — northern endpoint of the planned autumn-winter route

Oklahoma — alternate destination named early in the recording, debated all week

systems

Highway 101 — the coastal route to be traveled north through Oregon and Washington

RV — dwelling and power system; house batteries failing, payment outstanding

Jeep — tow/drive vehicle and potential charging source; payment outstanding

Renogy — inverter brand identified as a way to charge solar and RV from the Jeep battery

guru.com — freelance platform holding his positive review history; account access lost

Upwork — currently dominant freelance platform where he has almost no statistics

AI — described as his companion on the journey; consulted for route, gear, and repair research

media

Flex Tape — temporary sealing material to be used pending research

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

mountain

thin air

breath

road

threshold

coast

sun

drum

battery

current

solar

descent

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (sets client terms and route on his own conditions, accepting refusal)

transitional (last night at a site, route to Oregon set but not begun)

integrating (explicitly working to fuse freelance labor with nomadic existence)

self-trusting under precarity (names low savings, missed payments, and possible card default while stating he trusts himself to make money)

untranslated (states others do not speak his language, and documents for himself regardless)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (breath limits, burning lungs, unshowered week, not eating, vaping)

infrastructural (RV house batteries, inverter, DC-to-DC, solar wattage, facilities access)

economic (savings depletion, Jeep and RV payments, client receivable, credit card default)

vocational (freelance profile reconstruction, platform reputation data, client terms)

cognitive (stated holistic reasoning method, refusal of pros-and-cons weighting)

navigational (four-stop route plan, 101 north, five-month pacing)

documentary (self-recording as primary purpose, memory embedding)

relational (AI as companion, Bailey, deference to another's practice)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

integrate / integration

holistically

precarious

nomadic lifestyle comes first

energy transfer / charging

self-documentation

trust that I will find a path forward

Narrative

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Deciding on Oregon While Hiking in Nevada

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Hand your life to anything that reads.