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[0:00] so we made it to our first stop at 6:00

[0:03] in the morning we're going to get some

[0:04] fuel here at this little truck

[0:06] stop then we're going to head out to the

[0:08] coast we got a only a couple hours to go

[0:12] 100 miles or so we are going to be on

[0:15] the coast this morning as the sun is

[0:16] coming up pretty much very

[0:20] [Music]

[0:26] cool Brookings 101

[0:32] so let's set the world on

[0:35] fire we can grow

[0:38] brigh than the

[0:44] sun

[0:48] tonight we are

[0:52] young so let's set the world on

[0:56] fire we can grow brighter than in the

[1:05] sun check that mountain out that is

[1:08] beautiful oh the

[1:12] F good morning fellow

[1:15] humans the sun is coming out so I

[1:18] thought I would tell you my plans so I

[1:21] am heading

[1:22] to southern coast of Oregon I'll be a

[1:25] little bit Inland about 8

[1:28] Miles and I'm going to stay there for

[1:30] possibly a couple of months there is a

[1:32] whole lot to see and do there from

[1:35] hiking to foraging

[1:38] to storm watching on the coast driving

[1:41] my deep on the scenic

[1:44] routes and just living my best

[1:48] life as I continue to adapt

[1:53] to life in this

[1:56] RV

[1:58] so we I was going to go up the coast

[2:01] just keep going and I will do that but I

[2:04] think I want to spend the winter down

[2:07] here and maybe in the spring we start

[2:09] heading

[2:12] North I think this place has something

[2:15] to offer

[2:36] [Music]

[2:52] [Music]

[2:57] you still

[3:08] take me

[3:10] all take me all the

[3:21] way the other way

[3:35] show

[3:37] hand

[3:44] now so

[3:49] me that's

[3:52] a

[3:56] now I'd rather

[3:58] die I'd rather

[4:01] die than to be with you

[4:13] [Music]

[4:34] [Music]

[4:50] [Music]

[4:53] wild rivers ranger

[4:55] station I love ranger stations say a

[4:58] specific ocean on it I just had my mind

[5:01] blown oh my God we're so

[5:05] close we are almost there to the Pacific

[5:08] Ocean that

[5:11] actually I just had a full body like

[5:14] experience see that on the

[5:18] [Music]

[5:20] back look at all that green

[5:29] oh

[5:41] [Music]

[6:05] oh the come out

[6:25] to see

[6:47] show me

[6:52] love got you

[7:03] show me

[7:07] love got your up and in down

[7:18] [Music]

[7:49] [Music]

[7:55] take

[7:56] me take me all the way

[8:08] on the

[8:21] way head on the but now

[8:35] [Music]

[8:36] somehow up hand on the button

[8:42] now I'd rather

[8:45] die I'd rather

[8:48] die than to be with

[8:52] [Music]

[8:59] oh

[9:12] [Music]

[9:38] right up here should be

[9:41] California we got to travel through that

[9:43] for a little tiny

[9:49] vent beautiful

[9:52] trees organ thanks you come back soon

[9:55] you better believe it

[10:18] Welcome to

[10:22] California no thank you get me back to

[10:24] Oregon please we don't want to be here

[10:28] this not where we want to

[10:38] it's pretty up here don't get me wrong

[10:41] California just not where we want to

[10:51] be we in California going through a

[10:54] tunnel my first tunnel on the

[10:57] RV oh here we go oh this is awesome this

[11:01] is awesome I love

[11:03] tunnels look at this go oh my God we're

[11:08] in a

[11:10] tunnel oh this is so

[11:22] cool I wonder how much effort it took to

[11:25] build this

[11:29] we're going through a mountain we're

[11:32] going through

[11:34] it going through a

[11:39] mountain on our way to the

[11:43] coast yes we

[11:46] are yes we are oh Smith Ridge National

[11:51] Recreation

[11:53] Area we are going 6% downhill here we

[11:58] go get my gears in

[12:06] order oh I'm loving

[12:12] today I can't wait to get to the coast

[12:15] to Oregon to the forest oh there's so

[12:18] much to see and

[12:25] do sling down

[12:30] what would be an appropriate

[12:34] speed I do not know we shall go

[12:48] for o that map just changed I got all

[12:52] bumpy look at all those Ms

[12:57] amazing all these van lifers everywhere

[13:00] so many van

[13:12] lifers narrow road

[13:16] ahead this is very easy no reason to

[13:19] record it

[13:20] anymore so I was just thinking zero

[13:24] elevation is sea

[13:26] level does that mean we're going to get

[13:28] down to like zero

[13:31] elevation I don't even know if I've ever

[13:33] been at zero

[13:35] elevation I'm guessing is not completely

[13:38] zero because you'll have Cliffs and

[13:40] stuff and I know that Oregon has some

[13:43] really dramatic

[13:45] ones but we're definitely going

[13:50] down that is so cool I have never been

[13:53] at zero elevation as far as I know this

[13:56] is amazing oh my

[14:00] we're still going down we less than a

[14:02] th000

[14:04] elevations going

[14:06] down we're so close to the

[14:11] ocean this is

[14:14] amazing oh I feel it all over

[14:29] Little Creek down

[14:39] [Music]

[14:50] there so many little twists and turns

[14:53] around this mountain

[15:05] oh we are so

[15:07] close divided Road 2 miles

[15:15] ahead what will we

[15:17] see oh look at that

[15:24] tree that we wanted to bend a different

[15:26] way

[15:30] you can tell there's been some fires out

[15:33] here can you imagine

[15:37] this

[15:49] plan National Forest River access

[15:52] something about me I

[15:57] think National river access

[16:03] Madrona we are heading towards the ocean

[16:07] we're getting there there's a big old

[16:09] ocean over

[16:11] there that there's a campground over

[16:14] here with

[16:16] host I see a national forest

[16:20] sign I love those

[16:24] signs Panther flat Campground National

[16:28] Recreation

[16:30] area I want to see

[16:32] it we're going to have to come back this

[16:34] way in my Jeep to pick up my inverter

[16:36] cuz they won't have until

[16:39] Saturday so I'm going to have to drive

[16:41] back here like Jee a couple

[16:47] hours I was going to stay at that one

[16:50] place but they didn't

[16:52] have um they didn't have availability

[16:54] plus man everybody is packed in there

[16:56] like sardines I did not like that state

[16:59] park at

[17:01] all it was not a fun place to

[17:06] be this is so

[17:09] cool so pine trees aren't my

[17:12] favorite uh type type of

[17:15] tree but I can get into the Redwoods I

[17:18] know they're around here somewhere and

[17:20] there's a trail there's some Oregan

[17:22] redwoods it's like a mile from where I'm

[17:27] staying they're not my favorite

[17:30] trees but maybe I will grow to love

[17:34] them you know I've been thinking 7

[17:37] months now I've been going to all these

[17:39] lakes and I've just

[17:40] been mesmerized by the water which

[17:43] surprised me cuz

[17:45] I never really got into water but we're

[17:48] heading to the ocean it's like my

[17:51] intuition really wants me to be there oh

[17:55] I can't wait to see it I can't wait

[17:58] getting there

[18:01] Smith River National Recreation Area

[18:04] headquarters six Rivers National

[18:08] Forest we're going to check all this out

[18:11] my

[18:14] Jeep I just yawned my ears cleared up

[18:18] we're at 390 FT elevation that is so

[18:23] cool we are in such a cool

[18:27] place we've been

[18:29] around it's nice and cool down here it's

[18:32] only

[18:33] 50° all these

[18:35] trees this place is

[18:44] awesome I'm loving

[18:47] this holy crap we're at 1 200 elevation

[18:51] it was

[18:53] 185 oh Redwood National State Park

[18:57] people in front of that side of

[19:00] course got to have that Instagram

[19:06] memory so that way we are oh look at

[19:10] those treets I guess

[19:23] so that car couldn't make up his mind

[19:27] couldn't make up your mind could you

[19:34] most people probably stop here not

[19:38] me we'll be back there's a campground

[19:41] over

[19:43] there oh these are pretty pretty trees

[19:47] oh we're in the forest now I love

[19:51] Forest those are very

[19:55] tall 120 elevations

[19:59] oh my look at that tree holy

[20:14] crap that tree must be real old

[20:29] why does it say

[20:30] that that's not the direction my GPS

[20:33] tells me to

[20:35] go man GPS if you mess me up I swear to

[20:39] God we are going to have a problem why

[20:41] are we always dealing with these

[20:43] problems

[20:45] Garmin oh that thing said I know I don't

[20:48] trust you I think it's that green road I

[20:50] would have wanted to be on the Green

[20:52] Road

[20:54] Garmin man I want to be on the Green

[20:57] Road

[21:01] stupid

[21:03] garment guess we're not going to be on

[21:06] it that's so

[21:21] sad feel like that RV don't know what

[21:23] it's doing

[21:31] all right we got 30 miles to go man I

[21:34] really want to be on the Green

[21:38] Road next to a river all of that oh man

[21:42] I wish I had

[21:45] realized this is nice too

[21:50] though I

[21:53] guess I feel betrayed by this GPS Oregon

[21:57] coast Oregon coast here we

[22:01] come oh my God we're going to the Oregon

[22:04] coast oh this is so awesome this is so

[22:11] awesome there's fog

[22:26] everywhere oh oh I love

[22:32] this turn right at the stop

[22:35] sign still want to be on the Green

[22:38] Road been so

[22:45] cool all right we have made it to the

[22:51] 101 so do I just go in like this yeah oh

[22:56] look at that nobody no

[22:59] buddy oh my God I'm in love now let's

[23:05] go continue on US

[23:07] 101 oh we don't even have to go

[23:19] far we are going right to the ocean

[23:51] oh on our way look at that less than 100

[23:55] FT elevation so awesome

[23:59] there's a state park here with Coastal

[24:03] access but we are heading to

[24:06] Oregon we are about to see the ocean oh

[24:10] my

[24:12] God we're so close to the

[24:17] ocean this can't be

[24:21] real oh my God we're so close

[25:28] for

[26:15] where is this ocean

[26:17] at you couldn't even tell there's ocean

[26:20] here what is here

[26:24] somewhere where are you

[26:37] n

[27:00] I don't understand these

[27:03] signs spe liit is 55 why are you telling

[27:06] me I don't understand

[27:11] this what is that

[27:14] about what is that a real

[27:17] boat I think that's a real

[27:20] boat

[27:22] wow we are on the ocean

[27:26] almost where is this ocean in

[27:54] hands okay should be right here

[27:57] somewhere

[28:06] you can feel the cold air tooe look at

[28:08] that ugly Elon must truck so stupid dumb

[28:14] [ __ ] all right where's this

[28:18] over those things are so

[28:24] ugly oh my God it's over there somewhere

[28:27] I know it is is I want to see the

[28:31] ocean oh there's a giant like rock just

[28:35] oh my God oh my

[28:47] God what is

[28:49] happening oh my God there's waves over

[28:52] there oh my

[28:55] God oh my God I have to

[29:06] this oh I love this

[29:14] fall there is a ocean over there we just

[29:17] can't see

[29:19] it oh my God

[29:38] at that undal

[29:42] land right there on the ocean Coast it's

[29:46] over there somewhere

[30:00] you can really feel the cold from the

[30:02] ocean it's so

[30:05] cool oh my God this is amazing holy oh

[30:11] my

[30:13] God I am just going to have to get to

[30:16] this Campground and get my Jeep

[30:20] out I will find a spot

[30:41] there is a ocean over oh we keep getting

[30:44] little glimpses of

[30:46] it all those

[30:52] waves oh my God that is so cool

[30:58] no I got to be over

[31:00] there I got to be over

[31:03] there oh my god

[31:07] oh that is so

[31:21] cool did I know I need to see this so

[31:24] bad oh man

[31:29] oh maybe I take up

[31:33] surfing there to be a organ border right

[31:35] here I

[31:40] think where did the Oregon

[31:43] border going back to

[31:46] Oregon getting out of

[31:54] California there it is they have a nice

[31:57] sign

[32:01] Oregon welcome you yeah see that's

[32:07] pretty

[32:08] actually Camp is set

[32:13] up we here for two

[32:17] weeks from there who knows I don't even

[32:22] know it's not a bad

[32:25] spot I'll be happy here we have a lot of

[32:29] exploring to do I'm going to get some

[32:30] campfire too some wood build a campfire

[32:35] later very pleasant nice people that I

[32:38] met the

[32:40] Rangers lots to see and do I here

[0:00] so we made it to our first stop at 6:00

[0:03] in the morning we're going to get some

[0:04] fuel here at this little truck

[0:06] stop then we're going to head out to the

[0:08] coast we got a only a couple hours to go

[0:12] 100 miles or so we are going to be on

[0:15] the coast this morning as the sun is

[0:16] coming up pretty much very

[0:20] [Music]

[0:26] cool Brookings 101

[0:32] so let's set the world on

[0:35] fire we can grow

[0:38] brigh than the

[0:44] sun

[0:48] tonight we are

[0:52] young so let's set the world on

[0:56] fire we can grow brighter than in the

[1:05] sun check that mountain out that is

[1:08] beautiful oh the

[1:12] F good morning fellow

[1:15] humans the sun is coming out so I

[1:18] thought I would tell you my plans so I

[1:21] am heading

[1:22] to southern coast of Oregon I'll be a

[1:25] little bit Inland about 8

[1:28] Miles and I'm going to stay there for

[1:30] possibly a couple of months there is a

[1:32] whole lot to see and do there from

[1:35] hiking to foraging

[1:38] to storm watching on the coast driving

[1:41] my deep on the scenic

[1:44] routes and just living my best

[1:48] life as I continue to adapt

[1:53] to life in this

[1:56] RV

[1:58] so we I was going to go up the coast

[2:01] just keep going and I will do that but I

[2:04] think I want to spend the winter down

[2:07] here and maybe in the spring we start

[2:09] heading

[2:12] North I think this place has something

[2:15] to offer

[2:36] [Music]

[2:52] [Music]

[2:57] you still

[3:08] take me

[3:10] all take me all the

[3:21] way the other way

[3:35] show

[3:37] hand

[3:44] now so

[3:49] me that's

[3:52] a

[3:56] now I'd rather

[3:58] die I'd rather

[4:01] die than to be with you

[4:13] [Music]

[4:34] [Music]

[4:50] [Music]

[4:53] wild rivers ranger

[4:55] station I love ranger stations say a

[4:58] specific ocean on it I just had my mind

[5:01] blown oh my God we're so

[5:05] close we are almost there to the Pacific

[5:08] Ocean that

[5:11] actually I just had a full body like

[5:14] experience see that on the

[5:18] [Music]

[5:20] back look at all that green

[5:29] oh

[5:41] [Music]

[6:05] oh the come out

[6:25] to see

[6:47] show me

[6:52] love got you

[7:03] show me

[7:07] love got your up and in down

[7:18] [Music]

[7:49] [Music]

[7:55] take

[7:56] me take me all the way

[8:08] on the

[8:21] way head on the but now

[8:35] [Music]

[8:36] somehow up hand on the button

[8:42] now I'd rather

[8:45] die I'd rather

[8:48] die than to be with

[8:52] [Music]

[8:59] oh

[9:12] [Music]

[9:38] right up here should be

[9:41] California we got to travel through that

[9:43] for a little tiny

[9:49] vent beautiful

[9:52] trees organ thanks you come back soon

[9:55] you better believe it

[10:18] Welcome to

[10:22] California no thank you get me back to

[10:24] Oregon please we don't want to be here

[10:28] this not where we want to

[10:38] it's pretty up here don't get me wrong

[10:41] California just not where we want to

[10:51] be we in California going through a

[10:54] tunnel my first tunnel on the

[10:57] RV oh here we go oh this is awesome this

[11:01] is awesome I love

[11:03] tunnels look at this go oh my God we're

[11:08] in a

[11:10] tunnel oh this is so

[11:22] cool I wonder how much effort it took to

[11:25] build this

[11:29] we're going through a mountain we're

[11:32] going through

[11:34] it going through a

[11:39] mountain on our way to the

[11:43] coast yes we

[11:46] are yes we are oh Smith Ridge National

[11:51] Recreation

[11:53] Area we are going 6% downhill here we

[11:58] go get my gears in

[12:06] order oh I'm loving

[12:12] today I can't wait to get to the coast

[12:15] to Oregon to the forest oh there's so

[12:18] much to see and

[12:25] do sling down

[12:30] what would be an appropriate

[12:34] speed I do not know we shall go

[12:48] for o that map just changed I got all

[12:52] bumpy look at all those Ms

[12:57] amazing all these van lifers everywhere

[13:00] so many van

[13:12] lifers narrow road

[13:16] ahead this is very easy no reason to

[13:19] record it

[13:20] anymore so I was just thinking zero

[13:24] elevation is sea

[13:26] level does that mean we're going to get

[13:28] down to like zero

[13:31] elevation I don't even know if I've ever

[13:33] been at zero

[13:35] elevation I'm guessing is not completely

[13:38] zero because you'll have Cliffs and

[13:40] stuff and I know that Oregon has some

[13:43] really dramatic

[13:45] ones but we're definitely going

[13:50] down that is so cool I have never been

[13:53] at zero elevation as far as I know this

[13:56] is amazing oh my

[14:00] we're still going down we less than a

[14:02] th000

[14:04] elevations going

[14:06] down we're so close to the

[14:11] ocean this is

[14:14] amazing oh I feel it all over

[14:29] Little Creek down

[14:39] [Music]

[14:50] there so many little twists and turns

[14:53] around this mountain

[15:05] oh we are so

[15:07] close divided Road 2 miles

[15:15] ahead what will we

[15:17] see oh look at that

[15:24] tree that we wanted to bend a different

[15:26] way

[15:30] you can tell there's been some fires out

[15:33] here can you imagine

[15:37] this

[15:49] plan National Forest River access

[15:52] something about me I

[15:57] think National river access

[16:03] Madrona we are heading towards the ocean

[16:07] we're getting there there's a big old

[16:09] ocean over

[16:11] there that there's a campground over

[16:14] here with

[16:16] host I see a national forest

[16:20] sign I love those

[16:24] signs Panther flat Campground National

[16:28] Recreation

[16:30] area I want to see

[16:32] it we're going to have to come back this

[16:34] way in my Jeep to pick up my inverter

[16:36] cuz they won't have until

[16:39] Saturday so I'm going to have to drive

[16:41] back here like Jee a couple

[16:47] hours I was going to stay at that one

[16:50] place but they didn't

[16:52] have um they didn't have availability

[16:54] plus man everybody is packed in there

[16:56] like sardines I did not like that state

[16:59] park at

[17:01] all it was not a fun place to

[17:06] be this is so

[17:09] cool so pine trees aren't my

[17:12] favorite uh type type of

[17:15] tree but I can get into the Redwoods I

[17:18] know they're around here somewhere and

[17:20] there's a trail there's some Oregan

[17:22] redwoods it's like a mile from where I'm

[17:27] staying they're not my favorite

[17:30] trees but maybe I will grow to love

[17:34] them you know I've been thinking 7

[17:37] months now I've been going to all these

[17:39] lakes and I've just

[17:40] been mesmerized by the water which

[17:43] surprised me cuz

[17:45] I never really got into water but we're

[17:48] heading to the ocean it's like my

[17:51] intuition really wants me to be there oh

[17:55] I can't wait to see it I can't wait

[17:58] getting there

[18:01] Smith River National Recreation Area

[18:04] headquarters six Rivers National

[18:08] Forest we're going to check all this out

[18:11] my

[18:14] Jeep I just yawned my ears cleared up

[18:18] we're at 390 FT elevation that is so

[18:23] cool we are in such a cool

[18:27] place we've been

[18:29] around it's nice and cool down here it's

[18:32] only

[18:33] 50° all these

[18:35] trees this place is

[18:44] awesome I'm loving

[18:47] this holy crap we're at 1 200 elevation

[18:51] it was

[18:53] 185 oh Redwood National State Park

[18:57] people in front of that side of

[19:00] course got to have that Instagram

[19:06] memory so that way we are oh look at

[19:10] those treets I guess

[19:23] so that car couldn't make up his mind

[19:27] couldn't make up your mind could you

[19:34] most people probably stop here not

[19:38] me we'll be back there's a campground

[19:41] over

[19:43] there oh these are pretty pretty trees

[19:47] oh we're in the forest now I love

[19:51] Forest those are very

[19:55] tall 120 elevations

[19:59] oh my look at that tree holy

[20:14] crap that tree must be real old

[20:29] why does it say

[20:30] that that's not the direction my GPS

[20:33] tells me to

[20:35] go man GPS if you mess me up I swear to

[20:39] God we are going to have a problem why

[20:41] are we always dealing with these

[20:43] problems

[20:45] Garmin oh that thing said I know I don't

[20:48] trust you I think it's that green road I

[20:50] would have wanted to be on the Green

[20:52] Road

[20:54] Garmin man I want to be on the Green

[20:57] Road

[21:01] stupid

[21:03] garment guess we're not going to be on

[21:06] it that's so

[21:21] sad feel like that RV don't know what

[21:23] it's doing

[21:31] all right we got 30 miles to go man I

[21:34] really want to be on the Green

[21:38] Road next to a river all of that oh man

[21:42] I wish I had

[21:45] realized this is nice too

[21:50] though I

[21:53] guess I feel betrayed by this GPS Oregon

[21:57] coast Oregon coast here we

[22:01] come oh my God we're going to the Oregon

[22:04] coast oh this is so awesome this is so

[22:11] awesome there's fog

[22:26] everywhere oh oh I love

[22:32] this turn right at the stop

[22:35] sign still want to be on the Green

[22:38] Road been so

[22:45] cool all right we have made it to the

[22:51] 101 so do I just go in like this yeah oh

[22:56] look at that nobody no

[22:59] buddy oh my God I'm in love now let's

[23:05] go continue on US

[23:07] 101 oh we don't even have to go

[23:19] far we are going right to the ocean

[23:51] oh on our way look at that less than 100

[23:55] FT elevation so awesome

[23:59] there's a state park here with Coastal

[24:03] access but we are heading to

[24:06] Oregon we are about to see the ocean oh

[24:10] my

[24:12] God we're so close to the

[24:17] ocean this can't be

[24:21] real oh my God we're so close

[25:28] for

[26:15] where is this ocean

[26:17] at you couldn't even tell there's ocean

[26:20] here what is here

[26:24] somewhere where are you

[26:37] n

[27:00] I don't understand these

[27:03] signs spe liit is 55 why are you telling

[27:06] me I don't understand

[27:11] this what is that

[27:14] about what is that a real

[27:17] boat I think that's a real

[27:20] boat

[27:22] wow we are on the ocean

[27:26] almost where is this ocean in

[27:54] hands okay should be right here

[27:57] somewhere

[28:06] you can feel the cold air tooe look at

[28:08] that ugly Elon must truck so stupid dumb

[28:14] [ __ ] all right where's this

[28:18] over those things are so

[28:24] ugly oh my God it's over there somewhere

[28:27] I know it is is I want to see the

[28:31] ocean oh there's a giant like rock just

[28:35] oh my God oh my

[28:47] God what is

[28:49] happening oh my God there's waves over

[28:52] there oh my

[28:55] God oh my God I have to

[29:06] this oh I love this

[29:14] fall there is a ocean over there we just

[29:17] can't see

[29:19] it oh my God

[29:38] at that undal

[29:42] land right there on the ocean Coast it's

[29:46] over there somewhere

[30:00] you can really feel the cold from the

[30:02] ocean it's so

[30:05] cool oh my God this is amazing holy oh

[30:11] my

[30:13] God I am just going to have to get to

[30:16] this Campground and get my Jeep

[30:20] out I will find a spot

[30:41] there is a ocean over oh we keep getting

[30:44] little glimpses of

[30:46] it all those

[30:52] waves oh my God that is so cool

[30:58] no I got to be over

[31:00] there I got to be over

[31:03] there oh my god

[31:07] oh that is so

[31:21] cool did I know I need to see this so

[31:24] bad oh man

[31:29] oh maybe I take up

[31:33] surfing there to be a organ border right

[31:35] here I

[31:40] think where did the Oregon

[31:43] border going back to

[31:46] Oregon getting out of

[31:54] California there it is they have a nice

[31:57] sign

[32:01] Oregon welcome you yeah see that's

[32:07] pretty

[32:08] actually Camp is set

[32:13] up we here for two

[32:17] weeks from there who knows I don't even

[32:22] know it's not a bad

[32:25] spot I'll be happy here we have a lot of

[32:29] exploring to do I'm going to get some

[32:30] campfire too some wood build a campfire

[32:35] later very pleasant nice people that I

[32:38] met the

[32:40] Rangers lots to see and do I here

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Approaching Oregon Without a Plan

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Driving to the Southern Oregon Coast

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October 10, 2024 rswfire FEATURED

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buoyant anticipation

Journey Phase

transitional

Directional Vector

toward the ocean and coastal embedding for winter

Narrative

rswfire left the truck stop at six in the morning with a hundred miles between him and the Pacific, and somewhere in those hundred miles he made a decision that reorganized his winter. He had planned to keep going up the coast — that was the itinerary, loosely held — but descending through the Smith River corridor, watching the elevation numbers fall, he said it out loud to the camera: he wanted to spend the winter down here, and head north in the spring. Nothing external prompted the change. This is how his navigation actually works, and the drive makes it visible: the Garmin handles the turns, but the routing authority is something he names plainly himself — seven months of being mesmerized by lakes, a surprise to a man who "never really got into water," resolving into the recognition that his intuition wants him at the ocean. The plan bends to the read, mid-drive, without ceremony. That is what sovereignty looks like at fifty-five miles an hour towing a Jeep.

The approach itself he registered with his whole body. A sign saying "Pacific Ocean" produced what he called a full-body experience before he could see any water. He tracked the descent like an instrument — 1,200 feet, 390, less than a hundred — and marveled that he had never, as far as he knew, stood at zero elevation. His ears cleared with a yawn and he announced it. The cold coastal air reached him through the cab before the ocean ever showed itself, and when it finally did, it came in glimpses — a rock, waves over there somewhere, fog everywhere — an ocean he could feel long before he could see. The transcript is full of a man narrating his own perceptual system in real time: elevation, temperature, gear ratios on a six percent grade, the first tunnel of his RV life and the wonder of going through a mountain rather than over it. None of this is heightened state. It is the baseline instrumentation of someone who experiences a landscape as data and delight simultaneously, and does not distinguish much between the two.

Then there is the Green Road. On his GPS it was a green line — a forest service road running along a river — and he wanted it. The Garmin routed him past it, and in an RV towing a Jeep there is no doubling back; by the time the divergence was clear, the road was behind him. What stayed with him was disappointment, plain and returned to repeatedly across the hours of the recording: still bummed at the stop sign, still bummed on the 101, "still want to be on the Green Road." He would later call missing that road the most memorable part of the entire journey, and that inversion deserves to be taken seriously. The day held a first tunnel, redwoods, a border crossing, the Pacific itself — and the thing that lodged was the river road he did not drive. The reading is not hard to find in his own history: rswfire integrates experience rather than resolving it, and the Green Road stayed open as a live thread precisely because it was the one part of the day that did not complete.

And the day's architecture closed the thread for him, through the least romantic mechanism available. The inverter he needed was being delivered to a store he had already passed, not arriving until Saturday, which meant a couple hours of backtracking in the Jeep — an errand, an obligation, the kind of logistics that fills the infrastructural layer of RV life. He took the backtrack as his chance to finally drive the Green Road. That is the shape worth naming: the miss and the errand were two halves of one route. The road he lost to the momentum of a thirty-foot vehicle came back to him through the small vehicle he tows for exactly this reason. His life is built so that the house moves slowly and commits, and the Jeep goes back for what the house had to pass. The disappointment was real and the recovery was structural — not luck, but the system he lives in doing what it is designed to do.

What the signal reveals, underneath the buoyancy, is a man arriving at a threshold he had been approaching for seven months without knowing it. The lakes were the long approach; the ocean is the thing they were pointing at. He crossed into California and back out again with cheerful impatience — Oregon is where he wants to be, and he said so to both border signs — set up camp eight miles inland, met the rangers, planned a campfire, and declared himself happy with a spot he'd chosen over a state park where people were packed in like sardines. Two weeks booked, then "who knows." The open-endedness is the stance, not a gap in the plan. He ended the day at nearly sea level, closer to zero elevation than he had ever knowingly been, with one road still owed to him and a winter newly claimed. The road would come. The winter was already his.

Summary

rswfire documents the final leg of a drive to the southern Oregon coast, beginning with a 6:00 AM fuel stop and continuing roughly 100 miles toward Brookings and Highway 101. He states his plan: stay about 8 miles inland for possibly a couple of months, wintering in the area with hiking, foraging, storm watching, and scenic Jeep drives, then potentially heading north in spring.

The route crosses briefly into California, through his first tunnel in the RV, the Smith River National Recreation Area, and Redwood National and State Parks, with steep downhill grades and dropping elevation he tracks toward sea level. He notes van lifers, ranger stations, burned areas, and old-growth trees along the way.

Key route facts:

The Green Road — a green line on his GPS, a forest service road along a river he wanted to take — was bypassed by the Garmin's routing, and he could not get back to it. The disappointment stayed with him through the recording; he later called missing that road the most memorable part of the journey.
An inverter delivery to Medford would arrive after he passed through, requiring a later backtrack in the Jeep — which became his opportunity to finally drive the Green Road.

He describes a full-body experience approaching the Pacific, catches glimpses of waves and coastal rock, crosses back into Oregon, and sets up camp for two weeks, noting pleasant rangers and much to explore.

Environment

The cab of rswfire's RV, towing his Jeep, on an early-morning drive begun at a truck stop at 6:00 AM on October 10, 2024. The route runs from inland Oregon through the Smith River National Recreation Area and Six Rivers National Forest in northern California — including a mountain tunnel, a 6% descent, and the Redwood National and State Parks corridor — before joining US 101 near Crescent City, crossing back into Oregon, and ending at a campground near Brookings, about 8 miles inland from the southern Oregon coast.

Substrate

The signal holds a relocation architecture: seven months of RV life reorganizing around water, with intuition explicitly named as the routing authority pulling him to the Pacific. The drive functions as a threshold crossing — inland lakes to ocean coast, descending elevation as a literal gradient toward the new base. One thread stays open: the Green Road, the forest service road along a river he wanted and did not get, a disappointment he returns to repeatedly and later names the most memorable part of the journey; the forced Jeep backtrack for the inverter becomes the mechanism that eventually puts him on it.

Actions

Performed

•stopped for fuel at a truck stop at 6:00 AM
•drove the RV from inland toward the coast
•narrated plans to camera
•sang along to music while driving
•crossed from Oregon into California and back
•drove through his first tunnel in the RV
•descended a 6% mountain grade
•followed the Garmin route past the Green Road
•voiced repeated disappointment about missing the Green Road
•watched for and caught first glimpses of the Pacific Ocean
•arrived at the campground and set up camp
•met the rangers

Referenced

•seven months of RV life visiting lakes
•being mesmerized by water despite no prior draw to it
•rejecting a crowded state park with no availability
•inverter shipment routed to a store in Medford, not arriving until after he passed through

Planned

•drive back in the Jeep to pick up the inverter
•stay at the campground for two weeks
•spend the winter on the southern Oregon coast
•head north in the spring
•hike, forage, and storm watch
•walk the nearby Oregon redwoods trail
•return to see Panther Flat Campground
•build a campfire
•possibly take up surfing

Entities

beings

rswfire — Driving the RV, documenting the relocation to the southern Oregon coast.

the Rangers — Pleasant people met at the campground on arrival.

places

Green Road — A green line on his GPS — a forest service road along a river he wanted to drive; the Garmin routed him past it and the disappointment stayed with him; he later called missing it the most memorable part of the journey.

Pacific Ocean — Destination and gravitational center of the signal; first glimpses arrive near the end of the drive.

Brookings — Southern Oregon coast town near his winter base, about 8 miles inland.

Oregon — Home state left briefly and re-entered; declared preference over California.

California — Transit territory — acknowledged as pretty but explicitly not where he wants to be.

Smith River National Recreation Area — Canyon corridor driven through, including its headquarters.

Six Rivers National Forest — National forest containing the Smith River corridor.

Redwood National and State Parks — Redwood corridor passed through; he notes a redwoods trail near his stay.

Panther Flat Campground — Campground noted for a return visit.

Wild Rivers Ranger Station — Ranger station whose Pacific Ocean signage triggered a full-body experience.

US 101 — Coastal highway reached near the end of the drive.

Medford — Store location where the inverter was being delivered.

systems

Garmin — GPS routing the RV; its route bypassed the Green Road.

Jeep — Towed vehicle; the planned means of backtracking for the inverter.

RV — Home and vehicle, seven months into full-time life.

inverter — Delivery routed to a store in Medford, not due until after he passed through, requiring a Jeep backtrack — the trip that later put him on the Green Road.

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

ocean

road

threshold

descent

tunnel

border

forest

fog

campfire

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

transitional (mid-relocation, inland lake circuit giving way to a coastal winter base)

sovereign (self-directed itinerary — winter here, north in spring — set by his own read of the place)

embedded (somatic registration of the landscape: full-body response to ocean proximity, feeling the cold air, descending elevation)

coherent (intuition, route, and seasonal plan running as one integrated system)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (full-body experience at the ocean signage, feeling the cold coastal air, ears clearing on descent)

navigational (tracking elevation, route, borders, and the Garmin's divergence from the Green Road)

planning (winter base, spring northward movement, inverter backtrack, two-week camp window)

perceptual (continuous registration of mountains, redwoods, fog, waves)

infrastructural (fuel stop, RV gearing on grades, inverter logistics, camp setup)

intuitive (naming intuition as what wants him at the ocean)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

the ocean

the Green Road

elevation / sea level

the coast

so cool / awesome / amazing

can't wait

intuition

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