Recounting Cape Blanco Encounters and New Friendship

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[0:01] taking care of my ear this

[0:03] morning still

[0:05] sore two and a half months later ever

[0:07] since Kentucky still this made me think

[0:10] about something I realized I haven't

[0:12] told you guys this story yet so I'm

[0:14] going to do

[0:16] that oh man that man who opened up my

[0:19] heart the

[0:20] gatekeeper I I asked him out I went back

[0:23] up there and I talked to I asked out I

[0:25] had never been so nervous and I had this

[0:27] on my ear the whole time I didn't even

[0:29] know it cuz I was cleaning it before I

[0:31] went up there and I was just in such a

[0:34] hurry

[0:36] like I just really really wanted to ask

[0:38] this man out it just it was on my ear

[0:40] the whole time he didn't say a thing I

[0:42] got back and realized I mean that is so

[0:46] funny oh my God that was like a month

[0:51] ago he was so awesome and so kind he it

[0:56] was his last day of work cuz it was

[0:57] seasonal made perfect sense it was the

[1:00] last damn seasonal like change here in

[1:03] in

[1:04] Oregon

[1:07] and this man was just like bad timing he

[1:10] kept saying bad timing I watched him

[1:12] processing this in his head like he was

[1:14] wanting to say yes but just couldn't

[1:16] bring himself to do it for whatever

[1:18] reason I don't

[1:19] know and I'm just watching this play out

[1:23] and loving how how kind this man is

[1:27] being how cuz I was so nervous oh oh my

[1:30] God it was just it was just one of those

[1:33] it was

[1:35] just I don't know I don't know what it

[1:37] was but I decided to upgrade him from he

[1:41] seems awesome to you you really are

[1:44] awesome or something like that and then

[1:46] I laugh went about my

[1:49] life but I want to tell you

[1:52] um so yesterday I went

[1:55] to uh Cape Sebastian with a new friend

[1:58] that I made this week

[2:00] and he's in a clip that I made I'm going

[2:02] to attach to this video so I want to

[2:05] tell you the story how we met cuz it's

[2:06] pretty funny it's pretty amazing

[2:09] actually

[2:12] and yeah so I am at Cape Blanco which is

[2:17] just an amazing place I've been here

[2:20] many times already and under all kinds

[2:24] of circumstances oh in fact after I

[2:27] asked that guy out I came here this is

[2:29] what where I

[2:30] came

[2:32] and at the time I didn't know it but

[2:34] this place is the Western most edge of

[2:37] the continent um from the you know

[2:40] contiguous United States at least in

[2:42] Oregon maybe the whole country there's a

[2:44] bit of confusion about that between

[2:46] Oregon and California when I talked to

[2:47] AI about it I never really confirmed it

[2:50] so but it is the Western most Edge at

[2:52] least for the

[2:54] state most amazing

[2:57] place and I just came here

[3:00] after

[3:02] that I I guess to process it but I was

[3:05] fine you know I wasn't like I wasn't

[3:08] upset about it or anything I laughed

[3:10] about my ear like I

[3:14] just that's how I know how much I've

[3:17] grown old me 20 years ago would have

[3:20] been heartbroken and you know just all

[3:23] of that right Bailey leave me alone this

[3:26] skid never leaves me

[3:28] alone um um but anyway so I'm at Cape

[3:32] Blanco and the one place I hadn't been

[3:34] yet was the beach here um because we're

[3:37] up we're up hundreds of feet you know on

[3:40] this cliff and I'd been going to that

[3:43] spot my void Edge but I had gotten down

[3:46] to the beach and because I've developed

[3:49] this love affair with the ocean where

[3:50] I'm just wanting to trace its waves I

[3:53] wanted to do that here so I go down to

[3:56] the

[3:57] beach and the road is covered like you

[4:00] can actually drive out there I'm going

[4:01] to do that with my Jeep one day but you

[4:03] can't right now cuz there's this there's

[4:04] Driftwood everywhere you just can't

[4:06] drive out there and I get down to there

[4:09] and I'm just looking out at the ocean

[4:11] and like trying to imagine what am I

[4:15] going to do how am I going to get out

[4:16] there and then this man appears and he

[4:19] starts walking over the drift water they

[4:20] like okay so this is the way this is how

[4:22] we have to do this we want to see our

[4:25] lovely ocean and we're just going to

[4:26] have to you know deal with um

[4:32] with whatever chaos it brings because

[4:33] that's what the ocean does I

[4:35] love this ocean um so he's walking

[4:39] over and I point at the ocean I point at

[4:42] it and I say I want to play with that

[4:44] thing he just looks at me and I watch it

[4:48] register in his expression like I watch

[4:51] something register and he goes okay and

[4:55] then he' start telling me about sneaker

[4:57] waves you know like like like okay go

[5:01] play with it but just know it's it's

[5:02] kind of

[5:06] dangerous it was such a cool moment and

[5:09] then you know I go out there and I

[5:10] actually do I I hike the whole Beach

[5:12] many miles um I didn't play with the

[5:15] ocean because it did feel unsafe like

[5:18] but this was me deciding that not

[5:21] someone telling me about sneaker waves I

[5:23] already knew about those but I you know

[5:26] was watching it and it just didn't feel

[5:30] like the waves would come up to the

[5:33] right up to the edge and then just sit

[5:35] there somehow it was the most amazing

[5:38] strange thing I didn't understand and so

[5:41] I wanted to understand this place better

[5:44] you know cuz then they would randomly

[5:46] come in it was just it's different from

[5:48] all the other beaches I've been on so

[5:50] I'm still learning and you know with the

[5:52] cliff edges if you got caught in a wave

[5:55] there's nowhere for you to go you're

[5:58] trapped so

[6:01] I was like I'll just hike it today and

[6:03] and just kind of get to know it you know

[6:05] and then on the way back I got lost oh I

[6:08] didn't get lost I just didn't see the

[6:10] where the road was and I kept walking

[6:11] and I walked for Miles I phone some's

[6:15] calling so I you know it was a really

[6:20] awesome day and this is how I met him

[6:22] didn't think to ever see him again of

[6:24] course and then a couple days later I'm

[6:27] up at the lighthouse my void penetrating

[6:29] device cuz it's just the coolest thing

[6:31] ever The

[6:33] Sovereign um Sentinel that is

[6:38] just

[6:39] capable of any of the ocean moods and

[6:44] just penetrat the light out into the

[6:46] ocean I mean coolest thing ever

[6:49] I love

[6:51] lighthouses so anyways I'm up there and

[6:53] I'm just sitting on a uh park bench

[6:57] listening to my music bopping around and

[7:01] this man comes up the you know the

[7:04] trail and you know I don't recognize

[7:07] them so I know the light sucks in here

[7:10] is what it is

[7:12] um but you know I flash him with PE sign

[7:15] cuz that's what I do and I watch his

[7:17] face his I watch his face light up like

[7:21] brightest smile somebody gave him a p

[7:23] sign and this man Just Smiles so

[7:25] brightly it was it was cute it was and

[7:29] you know I just sat there watching the

[7:31] ocean listening to my music and then

[7:33] when I was ready to go I'm walking back

[7:34] down and I see this little tiny dog and

[7:39] there's so much I haven't told you guys

[7:42] I love dogs now this one dog on another

[7:45] beach I was at whales Head Beach this

[7:48] this dog I was sitting on a rock and it

[7:50] it just came and sidled up right next to

[7:52] me and said we're friends now it was

[7:54] amazing I like dogs to so this

[7:57] little dog

[8:00] I I get down to go pet it you know cuz

[8:02] it's up to me and then I see him

[8:05] behind the

[8:06] dog and I don't recognize him he

[8:10] recognizes me I guess he even recognized

[8:12] me when I gave him the P

[8:14] sign

[8:18] so he's he says something and then it

[8:21] registers oh I I met this person so

[8:25] we're just talking you know General

[8:28] chitchat walking up Road up to the

[8:30] parking lot and I decided I want to keep

[8:32] talking to him because he's interesting

[8:34] and I want to make friends and you know

[8:37] like like everything's different now and

[8:39] so we're getting to the parking about

[8:41] what happens after that you know we're

[8:42] just going to go our separate ways and I

[8:45] don't want that so I tell him come to

[8:46] the cliff edge with me just walk over

[8:48] there with me and he

[8:51] does only I would say let's go sit on

[8:54] you know the edge of a void to talk so

[8:58] we walk over there and then this man not

[9:01] even conscious of what he's doing just

[9:04] plants himself right on the edge plants

[9:07] his feet there and I'm just blown away

[9:10] by this cuz not even I have done that

[9:11] yet I have now cuz like I'm not going to

[9:14] be outdone like that but he just plants

[9:16] himself there and I just have a moment

[9:19] like did you really just do that like

[9:22] wow you know like

[9:26] just that was the moment I decided I

[9:28] liked him

[9:29] it really was I thought about that all

[9:33] night so we're just talking and

[9:37] I don't remember what we talked about

[9:39] this point look at my toilet in the

[9:41] background so funny that's that's kind

[9:43] of embarrassing not really though

[9:45] anyways so

[9:49] um we're talking and then I'm like I

[9:52] should probably go back to the

[9:54] campground it sucks man lightning sucks

[9:57] it's not daylight yet by the way

[10:00] um and so he's like okay I'll walk you

[10:03] back he actually knows this place really

[10:05] well and he's like he knows where the

[10:06] bench he's like I'll walk you to the

[10:08] bench and then we sit down there and we

[10:11] talk there and then I'm like let's go

[10:12] yeah I know there's this like this

[10:14] there's this like this Lookout area of

[10:16] the cliffs where it's kind of more

[10:18] private because I think it's part of the

[10:21] campground so not as many people go

[10:23] there like not just random people

[10:24] probably just people who are here or

[10:26] whatever and he knows this place too of

[10:28] course and so we walk out there and we

[10:30] talk some more and just this perfect

[10:33] moment of meeting somebody new

[10:37] right pretty cool story

[10:40] and oh we exchanged numbers I forgot

[10:42] about that so Bailey over there making a

[10:46] braacket Tearing Up My

[10:49] Scene

[10:52] um man so much has happened

[10:56] so I don't know we ended up hanging out

[10:59] and um like a lot and then just lots of

[11:03] hiking and beaches and you know all that

[11:06] stuff um and yesterday I took him to um

[11:10] to Cape Sebastian with me and this

[11:16] man this man we're walking down the

[11:18] trail he's randomly eating berries off

[11:20] the side of these bushes I turn around

[11:22] and he's eating little berries I so

[11:25] blown away about that it's just so

[11:27] different from me

[11:30] um and we had a good time so you know

[11:33] new friend and I want you to meet him so

[11:35] there's a clip of him after this

[11:41] okay you want to be on

[11:44] camera Chad you want to be on

[11:47] camera

[11:51] camera

[11:56] perfect oh this is disorienting

[12:11] we're going to go out there

[12:13] though that's the

[12:15] man very cool

[12:17] guy new

[12:20] friend y we're going out here I wanted

[12:23] to come out here last time I was here

[12:25] and I wasn't sure if I could do it but

[12:27] it's actually very easy path so

[12:32] we're out here this looks like a

[12:34] submarine but you can't see it that way

[12:35] from here I'd have to do it from from

[12:37] over there

[12:38] somewhere this is just a giant rock

[12:42] submarine oh I love

[12:48] this oh man the W the water's pretty

[12:52] calm I was here like a couple weeks

[12:55] ago and it was just fierce

[12:59] I would love to see

[13:00] that from this

[13:03] angle

[13:07] definitely I love the way it just breaks

[13:10] against the

[13:13] rocks oh I love that

[13:16] sound that sound there's just something

[13:18] about

[13:21] it

[13:23] wow I can't safely get over me so

[13:27] cool

[13:33] I love

[13:52] this I'm going out to the

[13:56] edge it was so much more fierce last

[13:59] time I was here like we didn't come at

[14:01] the right time

[14:02] but I bet it gets wild

[14:09] here that is still awesome

[14:13] though that is just so

[14:18] cool what a perfect

[14:26] spot ooh I love that look at the whale

[14:29] over

[14:31] there a lot of rocks look like

[14:44] whales Cape Sebastian

[0:01] taking care of my ear this

[0:03] morning still

[0:05] sore two and a half months later ever

[0:07] since Kentucky still this made me think

[0:10] about something I realized I haven't

[0:12] told you guys this story yet so I'm

[0:14] going to do

[0:16] that oh man that man who opened up my

[0:19] heart the

[0:20] gatekeeper I I asked him out I went back

[0:23] up there and I talked to I asked out I

[0:25] had never been so nervous and I had this

[0:27] on my ear the whole time I didn't even

[0:29] know it cuz I was cleaning it before I

[0:31] went up there and I was just in such a

[0:34] hurry

[0:36] like I just really really wanted to ask

[0:38] this man out it just it was on my ear

[0:40] the whole time he didn't say a thing I

[0:42] got back and realized I mean that is so

[0:46] funny oh my God that was like a month

[0:51] ago he was so awesome and so kind he it

[0:56] was his last day of work cuz it was

[0:57] seasonal made perfect sense it was the

[1:00] last damn seasonal like change here in

[1:03] in

[1:04] Oregon

[1:07] and this man was just like bad timing he

[1:10] kept saying bad timing I watched him

[1:12] processing this in his head like he was

[1:14] wanting to say yes but just couldn't

[1:16] bring himself to do it for whatever

[1:18] reason I don't

[1:19] know and I'm just watching this play out

[1:23] and loving how how kind this man is

[1:27] being how cuz I was so nervous oh oh my

[1:30] God it was just it was just one of those

[1:33] it was

[1:35] just I don't know I don't know what it

[1:37] was but I decided to upgrade him from he

[1:41] seems awesome to you you really are

[1:44] awesome or something like that and then

[1:46] I laugh went about my

[1:49] life but I want to tell you

[1:52] um so yesterday I went

[1:55] to uh Cape Sebastian with a new friend

[1:58] that I made this week

[2:00] and he's in a clip that I made I'm going

[2:02] to attach to this video so I want to

[2:05] tell you the story how we met cuz it's

[2:06] pretty funny it's pretty amazing

[2:09] actually

[2:12] and yeah so I am at Cape Blanco which is

[2:17] just an amazing place I've been here

[2:20] many times already and under all kinds

[2:24] of circumstances oh in fact after I

[2:27] asked that guy out I came here this is

[2:29] what where I

[2:30] came

[2:32] and at the time I didn't know it but

[2:34] this place is the Western most edge of

[2:37] the continent um from the you know

[2:40] contiguous United States at least in

[2:42] Oregon maybe the whole country there's a

[2:44] bit of confusion about that between

[2:46] Oregon and California when I talked to

[2:47] AI about it I never really confirmed it

[2:50] so but it is the Western most Edge at

[2:52] least for the

[2:54] state most amazing

[2:57] place and I just came here

[3:00] after

[3:02] that I I guess to process it but I was

[3:05] fine you know I wasn't like I wasn't

[3:08] upset about it or anything I laughed

[3:10] about my ear like I

[3:14] just that's how I know how much I've

[3:17] grown old me 20 years ago would have

[3:20] been heartbroken and you know just all

[3:23] of that right Bailey leave me alone this

[3:26] skid never leaves me

[3:28] alone um um but anyway so I'm at Cape

[3:32] Blanco and the one place I hadn't been

[3:34] yet was the beach here um because we're

[3:37] up we're up hundreds of feet you know on

[3:40] this cliff and I'd been going to that

[3:43] spot my void Edge but I had gotten down

[3:46] to the beach and because I've developed

[3:49] this love affair with the ocean where

[3:50] I'm just wanting to trace its waves I

[3:53] wanted to do that here so I go down to

[3:56] the

[3:57] beach and the road is covered like you

[4:00] can actually drive out there I'm going

[4:01] to do that with my Jeep one day but you

[4:03] can't right now cuz there's this there's

[4:04] Driftwood everywhere you just can't

[4:06] drive out there and I get down to there

[4:09] and I'm just looking out at the ocean

[4:11] and like trying to imagine what am I

[4:15] going to do how am I going to get out

[4:16] there and then this man appears and he

[4:19] starts walking over the drift water they

[4:20] like okay so this is the way this is how

[4:22] we have to do this we want to see our

[4:25] lovely ocean and we're just going to

[4:26] have to you know deal with um

[4:32] with whatever chaos it brings because

[4:33] that's what the ocean does I

[4:35] love this ocean um so he's walking

[4:39] over and I point at the ocean I point at

[4:42] it and I say I want to play with that

[4:44] thing he just looks at me and I watch it

[4:48] register in his expression like I watch

[4:51] something register and he goes okay and

[4:55] then he' start telling me about sneaker

[4:57] waves you know like like like okay go

[5:01] play with it but just know it's it's

[5:02] kind of

[5:06] dangerous it was such a cool moment and

[5:09] then you know I go out there and I

[5:10] actually do I I hike the whole Beach

[5:12] many miles um I didn't play with the

[5:15] ocean because it did feel unsafe like

[5:18] but this was me deciding that not

[5:21] someone telling me about sneaker waves I

[5:23] already knew about those but I you know

[5:26] was watching it and it just didn't feel

[5:30] like the waves would come up to the

[5:33] right up to the edge and then just sit

[5:35] there somehow it was the most amazing

[5:38] strange thing I didn't understand and so

[5:41] I wanted to understand this place better

[5:44] you know cuz then they would randomly

[5:46] come in it was just it's different from

[5:48] all the other beaches I've been on so

[5:50] I'm still learning and you know with the

[5:52] cliff edges if you got caught in a wave

[5:55] there's nowhere for you to go you're

[5:58] trapped so

[6:01] I was like I'll just hike it today and

[6:03] and just kind of get to know it you know

[6:05] and then on the way back I got lost oh I

[6:08] didn't get lost I just didn't see the

[6:10] where the road was and I kept walking

[6:11] and I walked for Miles I phone some's

[6:15] calling so I you know it was a really

[6:20] awesome day and this is how I met him

[6:22] didn't think to ever see him again of

[6:24] course and then a couple days later I'm

[6:27] up at the lighthouse my void penetrating

[6:29] device cuz it's just the coolest thing

[6:31] ever The

[6:33] Sovereign um Sentinel that is

[6:38] just

[6:39] capable of any of the ocean moods and

[6:44] just penetrat the light out into the

[6:46] ocean I mean coolest thing ever

[6:49] I love

[6:51] lighthouses so anyways I'm up there and

[6:53] I'm just sitting on a uh park bench

[6:57] listening to my music bopping around and

[7:01] this man comes up the you know the

[7:04] trail and you know I don't recognize

[7:07] them so I know the light sucks in here

[7:10] is what it is

[7:12] um but you know I flash him with PE sign

[7:15] cuz that's what I do and I watch his

[7:17] face his I watch his face light up like

[7:21] brightest smile somebody gave him a p

[7:23] sign and this man Just Smiles so

[7:25] brightly it was it was cute it was and

[7:29] you know I just sat there watching the

[7:31] ocean listening to my music and then

[7:33] when I was ready to go I'm walking back

[7:34] down and I see this little tiny dog and

[7:39] there's so much I haven't told you guys

[7:42] I love dogs now this one dog on another

[7:45] beach I was at whales Head Beach this

[7:48] this dog I was sitting on a rock and it

[7:50] it just came and sidled up right next to

[7:52] me and said we're friends now it was

[7:54] amazing I like dogs to so this

[7:57] little dog

[8:00] I I get down to go pet it you know cuz

[8:02] it's up to me and then I see him

[8:05] behind the

[8:06] dog and I don't recognize him he

[8:10] recognizes me I guess he even recognized

[8:12] me when I gave him the P

[8:14] sign

[8:18] so he's he says something and then it

[8:21] registers oh I I met this person so

[8:25] we're just talking you know General

[8:28] chitchat walking up Road up to the

[8:30] parking lot and I decided I want to keep

[8:32] talking to him because he's interesting

[8:34] and I want to make friends and you know

[8:37] like like everything's different now and

[8:39] so we're getting to the parking about

[8:41] what happens after that you know we're

[8:42] just going to go our separate ways and I

[8:45] don't want that so I tell him come to

[8:46] the cliff edge with me just walk over

[8:48] there with me and he

[8:51] does only I would say let's go sit on

[8:54] you know the edge of a void to talk so

[8:58] we walk over there and then this man not

[9:01] even conscious of what he's doing just

[9:04] plants himself right on the edge plants

[9:07] his feet there and I'm just blown away

[9:10] by this cuz not even I have done that

[9:11] yet I have now cuz like I'm not going to

[9:14] be outdone like that but he just plants

[9:16] himself there and I just have a moment

[9:19] like did you really just do that like

[9:22] wow you know like

[9:26] just that was the moment I decided I

[9:28] liked him

[9:29] it really was I thought about that all

[9:33] night so we're just talking and

[9:37] I don't remember what we talked about

[9:39] this point look at my toilet in the

[9:41] background so funny that's that's kind

[9:43] of embarrassing not really though

[9:45] anyways so

[9:49] um we're talking and then I'm like I

[9:52] should probably go back to the

[9:54] campground it sucks man lightning sucks

[9:57] it's not daylight yet by the way

[10:00] um and so he's like okay I'll walk you

[10:03] back he actually knows this place really

[10:05] well and he's like he knows where the

[10:06] bench he's like I'll walk you to the

[10:08] bench and then we sit down there and we

[10:11] talk there and then I'm like let's go

[10:12] yeah I know there's this like this

[10:14] there's this like this Lookout area of

[10:16] the cliffs where it's kind of more

[10:18] private because I think it's part of the

[10:21] campground so not as many people go

[10:23] there like not just random people

[10:24] probably just people who are here or

[10:26] whatever and he knows this place too of

[10:28] course and so we walk out there and we

[10:30] talk some more and just this perfect

[10:33] moment of meeting somebody new

[10:37] right pretty cool story

[10:40] and oh we exchanged numbers I forgot

[10:42] about that so Bailey over there making a

[10:46] braacket Tearing Up My

[10:49] Scene

[10:52] um man so much has happened

[10:56] so I don't know we ended up hanging out

[10:59] and um like a lot and then just lots of

[11:03] hiking and beaches and you know all that

[11:06] stuff um and yesterday I took him to um

[11:10] to Cape Sebastian with me and this

[11:16] man this man we're walking down the

[11:18] trail he's randomly eating berries off

[11:20] the side of these bushes I turn around

[11:22] and he's eating little berries I so

[11:25] blown away about that it's just so

[11:27] different from me

[11:30] um and we had a good time so you know

[11:33] new friend and I want you to meet him so

[11:35] there's a clip of him after this

[11:41] okay you want to be on

[11:44] camera Chad you want to be on

[11:47] camera

[11:51] camera

[11:56] perfect oh this is disorienting

[12:11] we're going to go out there

[12:13] though that's the

[12:15] man very cool

[12:17] guy new

[12:20] friend y we're going out here I wanted

[12:23] to come out here last time I was here

[12:25] and I wasn't sure if I could do it but

[12:27] it's actually very easy path so

[12:32] we're out here this looks like a

[12:34] submarine but you can't see it that way

[12:35] from here I'd have to do it from from

[12:37] over there

[12:38] somewhere this is just a giant rock

[12:42] submarine oh I love

[12:48] this oh man the W the water's pretty

[12:52] calm I was here like a couple weeks

[12:55] ago and it was just fierce

[12:59] I would love to see

[13:00] that from this

[13:03] angle

[13:07] definitely I love the way it just breaks

[13:10] against the

[13:13] rocks oh I love that

[13:16] sound that sound there's just something

[13:18] about

[13:21] it

[13:23] wow I can't safely get over me so

[13:27] cool

[13:33] I love

[13:52] this I'm going out to the

[13:56] edge it was so much more fierce last

[13:59] time I was here like we didn't come at

[14:01] the right time

[14:02] but I bet it gets wild

[14:09] here that is still awesome

[14:13] though that is just so

[14:18] cool what a perfect

[14:26] spot ooh I love that look at the whale

[14:29] over

[14:31] there a lot of rocks look like

[14:44] whales Cape Sebastian

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17:07

Testing the Waters on Restarting YouTube

Nov 16, 2024

14:47

Recounting Cape Blanco Encounters and New Friendship

Nov 17, 2024

16:43

Ending a Connection, Relocating Ahead of Storm

Nov 19, 2024

6:56

Mapping Nomadic Romance and Energetic Intensity

Nov 20, 2024

5:36

Documenting the Night a Guest Was Removed

Nov 21, 2024

12:26

Answering Boondocking Question, Documenting Storm Damage

Nov 21, 2024

7:15

Tracing a Wet Brake Controller, Then Walking to the Lighthouse

Nov 21, 2024

2:59

Standing on the Cliff Edge, Naming Parking Lot People

Nov 21, 2024

7:01

Filming After Ocean Play at High Tide

Nov 21, 2024

13:28

Filming a Wind Storm on the Coast

Nov 22, 2024

4:58

Recording on Emotional Integration at Cape Blanco

Nov 22, 2024

8:45

Taking a Rest Weekend Before Monday Departure

Nov 23, 2024

5:11

Waiting on Cattle, Driving to Cape Edge

Nov 24, 2024

9:29

Clearing the Roof, Dropping Minimizing Language

Nov 24, 2024

8:21

Last Day at Cape, Planning Boondocking on 101

Nov 24, 2024

11:32

Preparing First Coastal Boondock at Pinned Pullout

Nov 25, 2024

12:42

Claiming Public Space on the Coast

Nov 26, 2024

15:43

Testing Power Systems and Relocating to Bandon

Nov 26, 2024

13:13

Pivoting to Humbug Mountain, Setting Comment Protocol

Nov 27, 2024

15:02

Recording Thanksgiving Night at Humbug Mountain

Nov 29, 2024

13:41

Driving South Coast, Weighing RV Loan Outcome

Nov 29, 2024

11:09

Breaking Camp for Cape Blanco, Resting Body

Dec 1, 2024

5:56

Recording from Cape Blanco After Missed Uploads

Dec 1, 2024

2:16

Morning Walk to Shower House, Rest Protocol

Dec 2, 2024

10:30

Resting Core Muscles at Cape Blanco, Discovering the Kettle

Dec 4, 2024

3:05

Grocery Run in Pajamas, RV Payment Deferred

Dec 4, 2024

37:15

Recounting the Oregon Journey From Bed Rest

Dec 5, 2024

6:58

Tracking Earthquake Alert and Tsunami Warning on Coast

Dec 5, 2024

3:50

Unhiding the Full Archive, Opening Chapter Seven

Dec 6, 2024

8:46

Driving to Store, Reviewing Memory and Body Signals

Dec 7, 2024

5:26

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Dec 8, 2024

PUBLIC

November 17, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.40

Density 0.50

Energetic Quality

buoyant and amused, exploratory

Journey Phase

integrating — expansive and socially open

Directional Vector

toward connection and terrain familiarity

Narrative

The morning began with his ear. Two and a half months out from Kentucky and still sore, rswfire was tending the piercing when the memory surfaced — the thing he realized he had never told anyone. He turned the camera on and told it: the gatekeeper, the man at the gate, the one he went back up there to ask out. He had never been so nervous. He had been cleaning the ear right before he drove up, in such a hurry, wanting so badly to ask this man out, and he had left the cleaning solution — the whole apparatus of it — sitting on his ear the entire time. The man said nothing about it. rswfire only found out when he got back. He describes this as so funny, oh my God, that was like a month ago.

The ask landed on the man's last day. Seasonal work, the last seasonal change in Oregon, and the man kept saying it — bad timing, bad timing — and rswfire stood there watching him process it in real time, watching something in him want to say yes and not quite arrive there. He does not claim to know why. What he narrates instead is the kindness of it, how kind this man was being while rswfire was that nervous, and his own small internal reclassification: an upgrade from he seems awesome to you really are awesome. Then he laughed and went about his life. Afterward he drove to Cape Blanco. He states he came there to process it and that he was fine, not upset, laughing about his ear — and he marks the measurement plainly: that is how he knows how much he has grown, because the old him, twenty years ago, would have been heartbroken.

Cape Blanco is where he had been many times, under all kinds of circumstances, and where he later learned he was standing at the westernmost edge of the state — the confusion between Oregon and California unresolved even after he took it to AI, so he leaves it unconfirmed. The one place he had not been was the beach itself, hundreds of feet down from the cliff where he keeps his void edge. He wanted the ocean up close; he had developed a love affair with it, wanting to trace its waves. So he went down. The road out to the sand was buried under driftwood — drivable someday, in the Jeep, but not that day — and he stood there working out how to cross it when a man appeared and simply started walking over the wood. That was the answer. You deal with whatever chaos the ocean brings, because that is what the ocean does.

rswfire pointed at the water and said he wanted to play with that thing. He watched it register in the man's face, watched him land on okay, and then heard the warning about sneaker waves — go play with it, just know it's dangerous. He already knew about sneaker waves. He hiked the whole beach instead, many miles, and did not go in, and he is precise that this was his decision and not the stranger's instruction. The waves there were doing something he could not account for: not running up to the cliff edge, then randomly coming in anyway, unlike every other beach he had walked. With cliffs at his back there would be nowhere to go if one caught him. So he chose the hike, chose to get to know the place, and on the way back missed where the road was and walked miles further. He corrects himself mid-sentence on that — not lost, just didn't see it.

A couple of days later he was up at the lighthouse, the void penetrating device, the Sovereign Sentinel that meets any of the ocean's moods and throws light out into it. He was on a park bench with his music, bopping around, when a man came up the trail. rswfire did not recognize him. He flashed the peace sign anyway, because that is what he does, and watched the man's face light up into the brightest smile. Later, walking back down, he saw a small dog and bent to meet it — he loves dogs now, he says, and tells the parallel story of the one at Whales Head Beach that sidled up onto his rock and declared them friends — and only then saw the man behind the dog. The recognition ran one direction first: the man had known him even at the peace sign.

They talked their way up the road toward the parking lot, and rswfire found the man interesting and did not want the encounter to end where encounters end. So he asked him to come to the cliff edge — only he would propose the edge of a void as a place to keep talking — and the man came, and then, not even conscious of doing it, planted his feet right at the edge. rswfire had not done that yet himself. He says that was the moment he decided he liked him, and that he thought about it all night. He has since done it too, not willing to be outdone. They talked there, and when he said he should get back to the campground the man knew the place well enough to walk him to the bench, and they talked there, and then out to the more private lookout inside the campground, which the man also knew, and they talked there. Numbers exchanged — he nearly forgot to mention it. Bailey kept wandering into frame and tearing up the scene; the toilet was visible behind him, which he called embarrassing and then decided was not, really.

Then the second clip, and the coast shifts south. Cape Sebastian, the day before, an out-and-back trail rswfire had wanted to walk the last time and had not been sure he could. It turned out to be an easy path. On the way down, Chad was pulling berries off the roadside bushes and eating them, which rswfire turned around to find and was blown away by — so different from him. At the end of the trail, a giant rock he reads as a submarine, though not from this angle; he would have to see it from somewhere over there. The water was calm. Weeks earlier it had been fierce, and he wanted that back, wanted to see it wild from this vantage. Still: the break against the rocks, that sound, the edge he walked out onto anyway, the whale-shaped rocks — a lot of rocks look like whales — and Chad on camera, the new friend he wanted everyone to meet.

Summary

rswfire opens the transmission while tending his ear piercing, still sore two and a half months after Kentucky, which prompts him to tell two stories he has not yet shared.

The first: he asked out the gatekeeper — the seasonal worker he describes as the man who opened up his heart — driving back up to do it. He states he had never been so nervous, and did not realize until afterward that his ear-cleaning setup was still on his ear the entire time. The man repeatedly said "bad timing"; it was his last day of seasonal work. rswfire describes watching the man process the decision, notes the kindness of it, upgraded his assessment of him, laughed, and went on. He drove to Cape Blanco afterward — the westernmost edge of the state — and states he was not upset, marking this against how he would have responded twenty years ago.

The second: how he met Chad. At the driftwood-covered Cape Blanco beach road he pointed at the ocean and said "I want to play with that thing"; Chad responded with a warning about sneaker waves. rswfire hiked miles of the beach instead, deciding on his own that conditions were unsafe, and studied the wave behavior there as different from other beaches.

Days later they met again at the lighthouse — a peace sign, a small dog, mutual recognition. rswfire invited him to the cliff edge, where Chad planted his feet directly on the edge. They exchanged numbers and have since hiked together frequently.

The signal closes with attached footage from Cape Sebastian, Chad on camera, rswfire walking out to the rock formation he calls a submarine.

Environment

Recorded on the southern Oregon coast, primarily at Cape Blanco — a headland described as the westernmost edge of the state, with a lighthouse, cliff-edge lookouts, a campground, and a driftwood-covered beach road hundreds of feet below. rswfire speaks to camera in daylight-adjacent low light, with Bailey (a dog) moving in and out of frame and the RV interior visible behind him, including a toilet he notes on camera.

A second attached clip shifts location to Cape Sebastian, on an out-and-back trail leading to a rock formation he compares to a submarine, with surf breaking against rock below and a new companion, Chad, present on camera.

Referenced but not present: Kentucky (site of the ear piercing two and a half months prior), Whales Head Beach, and the gate location where the seasonal worker was stationed.

Substrate

The architecture here is edge-relation: rswfire treats cliff edges, tidelines, and unknown people as the same class of interface, and measures himself against how he now meets them. He states explicitly that a romantic ask that went unreciprocated left him laughing rather than heartbroken, and marks this as a change from twenty years ago — a stated benchmark against his own internal standard rather than a resolution. What is being built is a relational field on chosen ground: a new friendship, a repeatedly-visited coastline he is learning wave by wave, and a body carrying a healing piercing that anchors the whole account in the physical.

Actions

Performed

•cleaning and tending the sore ear piercing
•speaking to camera from the RV
•narrating the gate-worker story
•narrating the meeting with the new friend
•attaching a second clip to the transmission
•filming Chad on the Cape Sebastian trail
•walking the trail to the rock formation
•observing wave conditions and comparing to a prior visit
•walking out to the edge of the rock
•pointing out a whale-shaped rock

Referenced

•asked the seasonal gate worker out
•drove back up to the gate to make the ask
•cleaned the ear piercing before going
•observed the man saying 'bad timing' repeatedly
•upgraded his assessment of the man
•went to Cape Blanco afterward
•descended to the Cape Blanco beach
•encountered a man crossing driftwood
•pointed at the ocean and said he wanted to play with it
•received a warning about sneaker waves
•decided against entering the water
•hiked many miles of beach
•missed the road on the return and walked extra miles
•sat on a bench at the lighthouse listening to music
•flashed a peace sign at an approaching hiker
•stopped to pet a small dog
•recognized the man from the beach
•invited him to the cliff edge
•watched him plant his feet on the edge
•matched the edge-standing himself
•walked to the bench and the private campground lookout
•exchanged phone numbers
•hiked and visited beaches with the new friend repeatedly
•took him to Cape Sebastian
•watched him eat berries off roadside bushes
•sat with a dog at Whales Head Beach
•got the ear pierced in Kentucky
•asked AI about the westernmost point question

Planned

•drive the beach road at Cape Blanco by Jeep once driftwood clears
•return to Cape Sebastian to see fierce surf from that angle
•continue learning the Cape Blanco wave behavior
•keep building the friendship

Entities

beings

Chad — New friend met at Cape Blanco beach and re-encountered at the lighthouse; appears on camera in the attached clip

Bailey — Dog present during recording, moving in and out of frame

the gatekeeper — Seasonal worker rswfire asked out on the man's last day of work; repeated the phrase 'bad timing'

places

Cape Blanco — Headland he describes as the westernmost edge of Oregon; site of the lighthouse, cliff-edge lookout, campground, and beach where he met the new friend

Cape Sebastian — Coastal site visited the prior day with Chad; location of the attached clip and the rock formation he calls a submarine

Kentucky — Site of the ear piercing, still sore two and a half months later

Whales Head Beach — Beach where a dog approached and sat with him on a rock

systems

Cape Blanco Lighthouse — Called his 'void penetrating device' and 'The Sovereign Sentinel'; site of the second encounter

AI — Consulted about which point is the continent's westernmost edge; question left unconfirmed

the Jeep — Vehicle he intends to drive on the beach road once driftwood clears

concepts

sneaker waves — Hazard the beach man warned him about; rswfire notes he already knew of them and made his own call

void Edge — His name for the cliff-edge spot at Cape Blanco where he sits and where the friendship formed

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

edge

ocean

void

lighthouse

threshold

gate

driftwood

piercing

wave

cliff

whale

dog

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (deciding for himself not to enter the water, explicitly distinguishing his own read from the stranger's warning)

embedded (repeat visitation to the same headlands, learning wave behavior site by site)

integrating (states the unreciprocated ask left him laughing rather than heartbroken, and names this as measurable change)

embodied (tending the healing ear piercing as the opening frame and the thread that generates the whole account)

relationally open (deliberately extending an encounter rather than letting it end at the parking lot)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

somatic (ear piercing care, nervousness during the ask, felt read on water safety)

relational (asking a man out, forming a friendship, exchanging numbers, introducing Chad to the audience)

ecological (wave patterns, tide behavior, driftwood, berries, terrain learning)

cognitive (observing the gatekeeper's internal processing in real time, comparing beaches, tracking his own changed response)

documentary (recording, attaching a second clip, narrating for an audience)

spatial-navigational (route-finding, missing the road, mapping cliff access and private lookouts)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

edge / void edge / plants himself on the edge

bad timing

I want to play with that thing

how much I've grown

sneaker waves / unsafe / my decision

new friend

void penetrating device / Sovereign Sentinel

Narrative

Mirror

You are cleaning your ear at the start of this. Two and a half months out from Kentucky and it is still sore, and the soreness is what opens the recording — not the story, the tending. Your hands are on your body first. Everything that follows arrives because that piece of metal reminded you of something you hadn't said yet.

You went back up to the gate and asked the man out. You had the cleaning apparatus still on your ear the entire time and did not know it. He said "bad timing" and kept saying it, and you watched him process in real time, and you report watching that rather than reporting what you felt. It was his last day of seasonal work. You upgraded your assessment of him to his face, laughed, and drove to Cape Blanco. You state you were fine. You state you came here to process it and were not upset. You name your own twenty-years-ago self as the comparison point and say the difference is how you know how much you've grown. That measurement is yours; nobody in this account asked you for it.

On the beach below the cliffs the road is buried in driftwood, so you can't drive out. A man crosses the driftwood toward you and you point at the ocean and say you want to play with that thing. He tells you about sneaker waves. You already knew about sneaker waves. You hiked miles instead, and you are explicit that not entering the water was your read, not his warning — the waves came up to an edge and sat there, then randomly came in, and you did not understand it, so you walked the beach to learn it. You note the cliff walls leave nowhere to go if a wave takes you. On the way back you missed where the road was and kept walking for miles.

Days later at the lighthouse you flashed a peace sign at a man you did not recognize and watched his face light up. On the way down you went for the dog first and saw him behind it. Recognition ran one direction — he had you the whole time, including at the peace sign. At the parking lot you decided you did not want it to end there, so you told him to come sit at the void edge with you. He planted his feet on the edge without appearing to consider it. You state that was the moment you decided you liked him, that you thought about it all night, that you had not done that yourself yet and have now because you were not going to be outdone. He walked you back. He knew the bench. He knew the private lookout by the campground. You exchanged numbers and remembered that detail only after telling the rest.

Bailey is moving through the frame and you tell her to leave you alone. The toilet is visible behind you and you name it on camera and move on. The light is bad and you say so, twice. In the second clip you are at Cape Sebastian with Chad, out on an easy path you were unsure about last time, at a rock you read as a submarine that only reads that way from an angle you don't currently have. The water is calm; two weeks ago it was fierce, and you say you'd rather see it fierce from here. You go to the edge. You point out a whale that is a rock, and note that a lot of rocks look like whales.

What is active: your skin, your route-finding, your reading of water at each specific beach as a separate thing to be learned, your tracking of another person's face while it works. What is absent: any account of what you and he actually talked about — you say you don't remember — any grievance about the ask that didn't land, any stated need from the audience, and any endpoint. The signal points at the next visit. You want the Jeep on that buried road one day, you want that water at its worst from this exact angle, and you want to see the submarine from wherever it looks like a submarine.

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