Testing Power Systems and Relocating to Bandon

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November 26, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

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restless-practical, playful under load

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[0:00] so I'm getting my day started here I'm

[0:02] making some coffee using my

[0:05] solar so cool I use 20% of my batteries

[0:10] overnight 18% I guess I should be a

[0:13] little more exact that's with my

[0:15] electric blanket

[0:18] so if I have propane Heat going here

[0:21] then you know maybe I can get that down

[0:23] quite a bit more that's actually pretty

[0:24] much just with the blanket cuz I didn't

[0:26] even have lights going or anything

[0:27] really in here so yeah

[0:33] now I know how much my electri blanket

[0:34] takes quite a lot I guess got me warm

[0:37] though it's pretty cold in here I got a

[0:40] whole bunch of things I need to do today

[0:42] uh one of my friends was able to help me

[0:43] out I appreciate him so much for that

[0:46] I'm going to I have laundry to do I got

[0:49] a whole like thing in my Jeep of just

[0:51] laundry that needs to be done have to

[0:53] get propane for this thing I need

[0:56] fuel I need I need a few groceries I

[0:59] don't I didn't even have dinner

[1:01] yesterday

[1:02] um just so much and I think I'll do is

[1:05] go to a camground maybe for a couple of

[1:07] days while I'm there I'm going to get

[1:10] this place organized cuz it it felt kind

[1:12] of chaotic being here like this and I'm

[1:16] going to start scouting different spots

[1:17] that feel manageable to me this one was

[1:20] not so great not so fun so I'm going to

[1:23] try I have some ideas I just need to go

[1:25] do some scouting so whole bunch of

[1:28] things I'll make a list and figure it

[1:29] out and you can follow me along so my

[1:32] house batteries um they made it

[1:34] overnight just barely though

[1:37] so at least I know I can make it

[1:39] overnight I can Boondock for one night

[1:41] and then I've got to get them charged

[1:43] somehow can do that from a campground

[1:46] or got my inverter for my Jeep but I got

[1:48] to figure out how to I I've never used

[1:50] it um I guess it's a priority to learn

[1:53] that now really want to get it installed

[1:55] into the back of my Jeep but that would

[1:57] require professional help so in the

[2:00] meantime you know I can hook it up like

[2:02] your like like they were jumper cables

[2:05] and probably figure that out um just

[2:08] feels very inconvenient or I could even

[2:11] like charge them from my solar cuz you

[2:13] know we work that out in the the

[2:14] mountain in Nevada right so um but

[2:17] that's not a very convenient option

[2:18] either so I guess they're both about the

[2:21] same between the

[2:23] inverter cuz they're both plugging into

[2:25] the RV

[2:26] directly so I guess I mean I guess it

[2:29] depends how much I don't even remember

[2:31] if we figured out how much power it

[2:32] takes to charge those batteries for my

[2:35] solar how much of my batteries that

[2:36] would take probably a lot but

[2:40] um it's time to start experimenting with

[2:42] this I guess even while I'm on the

[2:45] campground so maybe I disconnect from

[2:47] the power there and just just experiment

[2:50] cuz this is now a priority but what I

[2:53] really need are just I just need new

[2:54] batteries

[2:57] desperately that's the moon there I know

[3:00] you won't see it and there's Stars

[3:03] everywhere you'll get some light in a

[3:05] second as this car comes by so that's

[3:08] something but I just wanted to share

[3:10] this moment with

[3:12] you where's the

[3:14] headlights H oh who's this coming up so

[3:18] right as I was trying to show you guys

[3:20] the awesome sky and all of that the

[3:22] moment I was having somebody pulled up

[3:24] next to my RV so I started walking

[3:26] toward that with attention

[3:28] and they drove off but don't even try

[3:30] with me cuz I'll you right

[3:32] back trust

[3:34] me so I went out B for a little while I

[3:38] didn't really do anything though got

[3:40] back

[3:41] here this thing is just covered in

[3:46] moisture Doom I don't know what you

[3:49] would call it it's just covered in

[3:52] water

[3:54] man guys we're doing it I am charging my

[3:57] RV from my Jeep right now my Jeep look

[4:00] to this thing down to my inverter down

[4:03] here take this all the way over to the

[4:05] RV back

[4:07] here and I see

[4:10] Power go check

[4:12] inside oh man so cool I got to get that

[4:15] installed though under the back of my

[4:17] Jeep or

[4:20] something see if we got what's happening

[4:24] here okay the microwave not on probably

[4:27] normal I don't know

[4:30] wait it says 12.1 this is not

[4:34] charging surge protector is probably

[4:36] saying no for some

[4:38] reason or not enough power or something

[4:40] I don't know I see the problem it says

[4:43] ground fault on it I got to use that

[4:46] that little plug that I got same way

[4:48] same thing with the solar I bet so let's

[4:50] fix that just take this little guy

[4:53] here this might actually fix the

[4:57] problem all right

[5:00] think I don't know I mean that light's

[5:02] not on oh it's yellow now what's that

[5:06] about I don't know but I restarted it

[5:09] let's see what happens with some luck

[5:11] maybe it'll work

[5:13] though if it works then I'll get my jeon

[5:16] oh this isn't even showing the light now

[5:18] okay it doesn't like yellow oh it

[5:20] doesn't like that device then that

[5:21] doesn't like that plug

[5:24] damn okay I got excited too fast

[5:29] doesn't like that plug like that little

[5:31] trick so I guess I'll have to research

[5:34] how what to

[5:37] do guess we're charging for my solar

[5:40] which are at 80% but had to try yep had

[5:44] to try all right at least solar was

[5:47] working that's working so we're good

[5:49] just got to Peck it through the window

[5:51] that's why I don't like doing it this

[5:53] way um you know the microwaves on not

[5:56] that I'd use that but um that tells me

[5:59] me everything's up and being charged

[6:03] now so let's see here

[6:07] 12.99 basically 13 which means charging

[6:10] it should be a little higher I mean

[6:12] there there it goes at a campground

[6:13] though it' be in the

[6:15] 14 they're just bad batteries

[6:18] but this is a workable solution until my

[6:22] solar's going to run out though there's

[6:23] no way to charge those there's no sun

[6:27] here I don't I don't know so I guess I

[6:29] could use an inverter to charge my blue

[6:33] edti this is going to get complicated I

[6:35] need new

[6:36] batteries oh my God guys I was

[6:39] responsible for those lights on the

[6:41] outside there's a switch in there I just

[6:44] turned the switch and they went off I'm

[6:47] sorry Forest River even though you

[6:48] really should you know um waterproof

[6:51] that thing cuz wow but yeah that was me

[6:55] wow

[6:57] okay so I had just been sitting in here

[6:59] because it's warmer in here than my RV

[7:02] oh my God that's so sad but it's true um

[7:05] I made a game plan though I'm just

[7:06] waiting for some money to hit my bank

[7:08] account as long as it does today then

[7:10] we're going to head out to Bandon I've

[7:11] been there before um during my my pause

[7:15] when I wasn't posting videos I went

[7:17] there and I actually did share a clip

[7:19] with you guys from that place I walked

[7:21] out on this long like stretch of it's

[7:24] almost like a road but it's not I forget

[7:26] what they called those but I walked all

[7:27] the way out there and watched the waves

[7:29] um just crashing against it it was so

[7:31] much fun little tiny Lighthouse there it

[7:34] looks like this little

[7:37] tiny well you can imagine um it wasn't

[7:41] anything special so I didn't much care

[7:44] for the lighthouse but I like the I like

[7:46] the um the beach I I did play with that

[7:49] one that ocean there so yeah anyways so

[7:53] I'm I'm just going to go there they have

[7:55] a there's a state park and they've got a

[7:57] campground I've never seen it I should

[7:58] have scouted while I was there I didn't

[8:00] do that but I'll just stay there for a

[8:02] couple days and while I'm there I can

[8:04] take um there's this road so the one one

[8:07] I I mentioned this

[8:08] yesterday after abandon it starts

[8:11] curving Inward and you're not on the

[8:13] coast anymore for like 3 hours it

[8:15] totally sucks but there is a side road

[8:18] like an artery that leads to the coast

[8:20] where there's cape arago

[8:22] and Shady Acres both state parks and

[8:25] both have campgrounds so I can scout

[8:26] those and I can also you know experience

[8:29] those places and also I think I might

[8:31] find better boondocking up there that

[8:33] maybe is less chaotic than down here um

[8:36] I do love this area but you know what I

[8:39] love every area I go to so I guess

[8:42] I'm it's more sentimental being down

[8:44] here than anything I

[8:48] guess I love all of it though like I

[8:50] just love all of it but you know

[8:52] maybe go explore up a little bit not

[8:55] like that I think is my limit for for

[8:58] this stretch of my my game plan so um

[9:03] the circuit for winter anything above

[9:07] that is going to be next season

[9:11] so yeah I guess that's what we're doing

[9:13] hope I get paid

[9:17] yes I mean that says it all right there

[9:22] [Music]

[9:31] [Music]

[9:35] Fe

[9:38] relax third

[9:44] [Music]

[9:48] gear what this is on that wasn't on

[9:51] purpose anyways I'm in Gold

[9:55] Beach um getting supplies I just had a

[9:57] nap to road noise is

[10:00] awful but I got up I had money in my

[10:03] bank account so I came here to get some

[10:06] supplies and then I saw how

[10:09] beautiful it is out like it's nice out

[10:11] right

[10:12] now but and I want to stay but I don't

[10:15] know how to do it I don't know where to

[10:16] go cuz I can't be dealing with this road

[10:19] noise and then I was beating myself up

[10:22] cuz it's like man I guess I'll just go

[10:24] to abandon like I was planning so then

[10:27] I'm starting to look online to make

[10:28] reservation ations and I can't make

[10:30] reservations today because it's just

[10:32] walk up

[10:33] only I'm like well every you know every

[10:36] other day is available so that's

[10:38] probably available you just got to show

[10:40] up I guess cuz of the time it's 2:00 wow

[10:44] okay and like you know so I'm like okay

[10:46] I guess I'm really being brave cuz

[10:49] either way I could end up having to

[10:50] scout a place to

[10:53] sleep so I guess we're going to

[10:56] Bandon I guess we're going to Bandon

[10:58] we're going to Bard State

[11:00] Park there's a whole thing happening up

[11:03] here hold

[11:06] on local police are pulling over the out

[11:10] of state people to make money for the

[11:12] town right we're guessing why did this

[11:16] guy give up he's like I was going to go

[11:18] but then I changed my mind and decided

[11:20] to go in reverse fascinating let's find

[11:23] out if this car is from out

[11:27] estate it is

[11:29] Georgia oh yeah that's what they doing

[11:34] that's what they're doing thank God I

[11:36] have cameras everywhere okay so you know

[11:40] we got to make money somehow I guess I

[11:43] did not just say that cuz you know I

[11:45] don't actually know what I'm just joking

[11:46] I'm in a very playful mood here's the

[11:48] visitor center but I don't see a place

[11:50] to like ask people where can I

[11:54] go moondock where there isn't road noise

[11:57] everywhere

[12:00] you know holding people up let's go

[12:04] we're going to drive down this 101 to

[12:08] where my RV's just parked on the side of

[12:10] the road get my Jeep hooked up and we're

[12:12] going to going to Bandon

[12:17] hopefully there will be a place for me

[12:19] there and I can at least do some

[12:21] scouting and I'm hungry I really need

[12:24] food so yeah we'll leave it there all

[12:27] right just cuz I know what's me all are

[12:30] thinking like why AR you just looking up

[12:33] on the apps where to go let me just

[12:35] explain I actually asked Claud this

[12:38] question and it knows me so it said

[12:42] you're the guy who gave your last $20 to

[12:44] a friend to have him drive you to an

[12:47] Arbor Michigan to drop you off downtown

[12:51] when you didn't have a plan and decided

[12:52] to just be homeless one day and we'll

[12:55] just figure it out cuz that's just how I

[12:58] am that's how I

[13:00] roll I'm not looking for other people's

[13:02] answers I'm looking for my

[13:05] own at the same time maybe I should be

[13:08] looking at those

[13:09] apps so we'll figure it out cu I haven't

[13:13] figured it out I haven't gotten to the

[13:14] point where I'm

[13:17] like accepting that maybe other people

[13:21] have wisdom too who knows could you

[13:23] imagine if that were true

[13:27] wow there's lots of reasons that's a big

[13:29] one though it's like that's just not how

[13:32] I roll I like direct

[13:34] experience so I got to figure this out

[13:37] myself somehow without complicating it

[13:39] cuz I don't want to be sitting looking

[13:40] at satellite maps all day that is

[13:42] so boring like I just need to find the

[13:45] places drive around in my je be like oh

[13:48] right there that's the spot that kind of

[13:51] thing you know um there is a spot near

[13:54] here though that really appealed to me

[13:57] it's off of it's off of the Highway like

[13:59] it's on the highway but it's off like in

[14:01] the grass I'm like can my RV go there

[14:04] I've seen RVs

[14:07] there I don't know I'm still painting

[14:10] all

[14:12] this man cuz it's so nice out there's so

[14:15] many people on the beach my boyfriend

[14:17] could be out there and I and I'm

[14:19] leaving I don't know what to do oh my

[14:23] God Cape Sebastian my favorite place

[14:27] like my favorite cape

[14:30] so many places are my favorites these

[14:31] days but I love Cape Sebastion truly

[14:34] love this

[14:35] place we get to go driving through it oh

[14:39] man I don't want to go I don't want to

[14:42] go I don't know where to go it's a

[14:47] problem Sovereign struggle 101 I guess I

[14:51] don't

[14:51] know we are

[14:54] back I guess my camera turned off I

[14:56] didn't even notice

[14:59] oh man I like it here but I cannot be

[15:03] parked here because like that road noise

[15:05] is killing me it is killing

[15:11] me no guarantees I have a spot tonight

[15:14] but I guess we're going to find out all

[15:17] right I'm just going to go I'm putting

[15:19] my Jeep together getting this done slow

[15:22] so I don't really want to be doing

[15:25] it we're doing it though so I'm just

[15:29] going to compile this and upload it

[15:31] you'll hear from me later and I'll

[15:33] probably be super happy wherever

[15:35] I end up

[15:37] but I really want to be

[15:40] here you guys have a good day

[0:00] so I'm getting my day started here I'm

[0:02] making some coffee using my

[0:05] solar so cool I use 20% of my batteries

[0:10] overnight 18% I guess I should be a

[0:13] little more exact that's with my

[0:15] electric blanket

[0:18] so if I have propane Heat going here

[0:21] then you know maybe I can get that down

[0:23] quite a bit more that's actually pretty

[0:24] much just with the blanket cuz I didn't

[0:26] even have lights going or anything

[0:27] really in here so yeah

[0:33] now I know how much my electri blanket

[0:34] takes quite a lot I guess got me warm

[0:37] though it's pretty cold in here I got a

[0:40] whole bunch of things I need to do today

[0:42] uh one of my friends was able to help me

[0:43] out I appreciate him so much for that

[0:46] I'm going to I have laundry to do I got

[0:49] a whole like thing in my Jeep of just

[0:51] laundry that needs to be done have to

[0:53] get propane for this thing I need

[0:56] fuel I need I need a few groceries I

[0:59] don't I didn't even have dinner

[1:01] yesterday

[1:02] um just so much and I think I'll do is

[1:05] go to a camground maybe for a couple of

[1:07] days while I'm there I'm going to get

[1:10] this place organized cuz it it felt kind

[1:12] of chaotic being here like this and I'm

[1:16] going to start scouting different spots

[1:17] that feel manageable to me this one was

[1:20] not so great not so fun so I'm going to

[1:23] try I have some ideas I just need to go

[1:25] do some scouting so whole bunch of

[1:28] things I'll make a list and figure it

[1:29] out and you can follow me along so my

[1:32] house batteries um they made it

[1:34] overnight just barely though

[1:37] so at least I know I can make it

[1:39] overnight I can Boondock for one night

[1:41] and then I've got to get them charged

[1:43] somehow can do that from a campground

[1:46] or got my inverter for my Jeep but I got

[1:48] to figure out how to I I've never used

[1:50] it um I guess it's a priority to learn

[1:53] that now really want to get it installed

[1:55] into the back of my Jeep but that would

[1:57] require professional help so in the

[2:00] meantime you know I can hook it up like

[2:02] your like like they were jumper cables

[2:05] and probably figure that out um just

[2:08] feels very inconvenient or I could even

[2:11] like charge them from my solar cuz you

[2:13] know we work that out in the the

[2:14] mountain in Nevada right so um but

[2:17] that's not a very convenient option

[2:18] either so I guess they're both about the

[2:21] same between the

[2:23] inverter cuz they're both plugging into

[2:25] the RV

[2:26] directly so I guess I mean I guess it

[2:29] depends how much I don't even remember

[2:31] if we figured out how much power it

[2:32] takes to charge those batteries for my

[2:35] solar how much of my batteries that

[2:36] would take probably a lot but

[2:40] um it's time to start experimenting with

[2:42] this I guess even while I'm on the

[2:45] campground so maybe I disconnect from

[2:47] the power there and just just experiment

[2:50] cuz this is now a priority but what I

[2:53] really need are just I just need new

[2:54] batteries

[2:57] desperately that's the moon there I know

[3:00] you won't see it and there's Stars

[3:03] everywhere you'll get some light in a

[3:05] second as this car comes by so that's

[3:08] something but I just wanted to share

[3:10] this moment with

[3:12] you where's the

[3:14] headlights H oh who's this coming up so

[3:18] right as I was trying to show you guys

[3:20] the awesome sky and all of that the

[3:22] moment I was having somebody pulled up

[3:24] next to my RV so I started walking

[3:26] toward that with attention

[3:28] and they drove off but don't even try

[3:30] with me cuz I'll you right

[3:32] back trust

[3:34] me so I went out B for a little while I

[3:38] didn't really do anything though got

[3:40] back

[3:41] here this thing is just covered in

[3:46] moisture Doom I don't know what you

[3:49] would call it it's just covered in

[3:52] water

[3:54] man guys we're doing it I am charging my

[3:57] RV from my Jeep right now my Jeep look

[4:00] to this thing down to my inverter down

[4:03] here take this all the way over to the

[4:05] RV back

[4:07] here and I see

[4:10] Power go check

[4:12] inside oh man so cool I got to get that

[4:15] installed though under the back of my

[4:17] Jeep or

[4:20] something see if we got what's happening

[4:24] here okay the microwave not on probably

[4:27] normal I don't know

[4:30] wait it says 12.1 this is not

[4:34] charging surge protector is probably

[4:36] saying no for some

[4:38] reason or not enough power or something

[4:40] I don't know I see the problem it says

[4:43] ground fault on it I got to use that

[4:46] that little plug that I got same way

[4:48] same thing with the solar I bet so let's

[4:50] fix that just take this little guy

[4:53] here this might actually fix the

[4:57] problem all right

[5:00] think I don't know I mean that light's

[5:02] not on oh it's yellow now what's that

[5:06] about I don't know but I restarted it

[5:09] let's see what happens with some luck

[5:11] maybe it'll work

[5:13] though if it works then I'll get my jeon

[5:16] oh this isn't even showing the light now

[5:18] okay it doesn't like yellow oh it

[5:20] doesn't like that device then that

[5:21] doesn't like that plug

[5:24] damn okay I got excited too fast

[5:29] doesn't like that plug like that little

[5:31] trick so I guess I'll have to research

[5:34] how what to

[5:37] do guess we're charging for my solar

[5:40] which are at 80% but had to try yep had

[5:44] to try all right at least solar was

[5:47] working that's working so we're good

[5:49] just got to Peck it through the window

[5:51] that's why I don't like doing it this

[5:53] way um you know the microwaves on not

[5:56] that I'd use that but um that tells me

[5:59] me everything's up and being charged

[6:03] now so let's see here

[6:07] 12.99 basically 13 which means charging

[6:10] it should be a little higher I mean

[6:12] there there it goes at a campground

[6:13] though it' be in the

[6:15] 14 they're just bad batteries

[6:18] but this is a workable solution until my

[6:22] solar's going to run out though there's

[6:23] no way to charge those there's no sun

[6:27] here I don't I don't know so I guess I

[6:29] could use an inverter to charge my blue

[6:33] edti this is going to get complicated I

[6:35] need new

[6:36] batteries oh my God guys I was

[6:39] responsible for those lights on the

[6:41] outside there's a switch in there I just

[6:44] turned the switch and they went off I'm

[6:47] sorry Forest River even though you

[6:48] really should you know um waterproof

[6:51] that thing cuz wow but yeah that was me

[6:55] wow

[6:57] okay so I had just been sitting in here

[6:59] because it's warmer in here than my RV

[7:02] oh my God that's so sad but it's true um

[7:05] I made a game plan though I'm just

[7:06] waiting for some money to hit my bank

[7:08] account as long as it does today then

[7:10] we're going to head out to Bandon I've

[7:11] been there before um during my my pause

[7:15] when I wasn't posting videos I went

[7:17] there and I actually did share a clip

[7:19] with you guys from that place I walked

[7:21] out on this long like stretch of it's

[7:24] almost like a road but it's not I forget

[7:26] what they called those but I walked all

[7:27] the way out there and watched the waves

[7:29] um just crashing against it it was so

[7:31] much fun little tiny Lighthouse there it

[7:34] looks like this little

[7:37] tiny well you can imagine um it wasn't

[7:41] anything special so I didn't much care

[7:44] for the lighthouse but I like the I like

[7:46] the um the beach I I did play with that

[7:49] one that ocean there so yeah anyways so

[7:53] I'm I'm just going to go there they have

[7:55] a there's a state park and they've got a

[7:57] campground I've never seen it I should

[7:58] have scouted while I was there I didn't

[8:00] do that but I'll just stay there for a

[8:02] couple days and while I'm there I can

[8:04] take um there's this road so the one one

[8:07] I I mentioned this

[8:08] yesterday after abandon it starts

[8:11] curving Inward and you're not on the

[8:13] coast anymore for like 3 hours it

[8:15] totally sucks but there is a side road

[8:18] like an artery that leads to the coast

[8:20] where there's cape arago

[8:22] and Shady Acres both state parks and

[8:25] both have campgrounds so I can scout

[8:26] those and I can also you know experience

[8:29] those places and also I think I might

[8:31] find better boondocking up there that

[8:33] maybe is less chaotic than down here um

[8:36] I do love this area but you know what I

[8:39] love every area I go to so I guess

[8:42] I'm it's more sentimental being down

[8:44] here than anything I

[8:48] guess I love all of it though like I

[8:50] just love all of it but you know

[8:52] maybe go explore up a little bit not

[8:55] like that I think is my limit for for

[8:58] this stretch of my my game plan so um

[9:03] the circuit for winter anything above

[9:07] that is going to be next season

[9:11] so yeah I guess that's what we're doing

[9:13] hope I get paid

[9:17] yes I mean that says it all right there

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[9:31] [Music]

[9:35] Fe

[9:38] relax third

[9:44] [Music]

[9:48] gear what this is on that wasn't on

[9:51] purpose anyways I'm in Gold

[9:55] Beach um getting supplies I just had a

[9:57] nap to road noise is

[10:00] awful but I got up I had money in my

[10:03] bank account so I came here to get some

[10:06] supplies and then I saw how

[10:09] beautiful it is out like it's nice out

[10:11] right

[10:12] now but and I want to stay but I don't

[10:15] know how to do it I don't know where to

[10:16] go cuz I can't be dealing with this road

[10:19] noise and then I was beating myself up

[10:22] cuz it's like man I guess I'll just go

[10:24] to abandon like I was planning so then

[10:27] I'm starting to look online to make

[10:28] reservation ations and I can't make

[10:30] reservations today because it's just

[10:32] walk up

[10:33] only I'm like well every you know every

[10:36] other day is available so that's

[10:38] probably available you just got to show

[10:40] up I guess cuz of the time it's 2:00 wow

[10:44] okay and like you know so I'm like okay

[10:46] I guess I'm really being brave cuz

[10:49] either way I could end up having to

[10:50] scout a place to

[10:53] sleep so I guess we're going to

[10:56] Bandon I guess we're going to Bandon

[10:58] we're going to Bard State

[11:00] Park there's a whole thing happening up

[11:03] here hold

[11:06] on local police are pulling over the out

[11:10] of state people to make money for the

[11:12] town right we're guessing why did this

[11:16] guy give up he's like I was going to go

[11:18] but then I changed my mind and decided

[11:20] to go in reverse fascinating let's find

[11:23] out if this car is from out

[11:27] estate it is

[11:29] Georgia oh yeah that's what they doing

[11:34] that's what they're doing thank God I

[11:36] have cameras everywhere okay so you know

[11:40] we got to make money somehow I guess I

[11:43] did not just say that cuz you know I

[11:45] don't actually know what I'm just joking

[11:46] I'm in a very playful mood here's the

[11:48] visitor center but I don't see a place

[11:50] to like ask people where can I

[11:54] go moondock where there isn't road noise

[11:57] everywhere

[12:00] you know holding people up let's go

[12:04] we're going to drive down this 101 to

[12:08] where my RV's just parked on the side of

[12:10] the road get my Jeep hooked up and we're

[12:12] going to going to Bandon

[12:17] hopefully there will be a place for me

[12:19] there and I can at least do some

[12:21] scouting and I'm hungry I really need

[12:24] food so yeah we'll leave it there all

[12:27] right just cuz I know what's me all are

[12:30] thinking like why AR you just looking up

[12:33] on the apps where to go let me just

[12:35] explain I actually asked Claud this

[12:38] question and it knows me so it said

[12:42] you're the guy who gave your last $20 to

[12:44] a friend to have him drive you to an

[12:47] Arbor Michigan to drop you off downtown

[12:51] when you didn't have a plan and decided

[12:52] to just be homeless one day and we'll

[12:55] just figure it out cuz that's just how I

[12:58] am that's how I

[13:00] roll I'm not looking for other people's

[13:02] answers I'm looking for my

[13:05] own at the same time maybe I should be

[13:08] looking at those

[13:09] apps so we'll figure it out cu I haven't

[13:13] figured it out I haven't gotten to the

[13:14] point where I'm

[13:17] like accepting that maybe other people

[13:21] have wisdom too who knows could you

[13:23] imagine if that were true

[13:27] wow there's lots of reasons that's a big

[13:29] one though it's like that's just not how

[13:32] I roll I like direct

[13:34] experience so I got to figure this out

[13:37] myself somehow without complicating it

[13:39] cuz I don't want to be sitting looking

[13:40] at satellite maps all day that is

[13:42] so boring like I just need to find the

[13:45] places drive around in my je be like oh

[13:48] right there that's the spot that kind of

[13:51] thing you know um there is a spot near

[13:54] here though that really appealed to me

[13:57] it's off of it's off of the Highway like

[13:59] it's on the highway but it's off like in

[14:01] the grass I'm like can my RV go there

[14:04] I've seen RVs

[14:07] there I don't know I'm still painting

[14:10] all

[14:12] this man cuz it's so nice out there's so

[14:15] many people on the beach my boyfriend

[14:17] could be out there and I and I'm

[14:19] leaving I don't know what to do oh my

[14:23] God Cape Sebastian my favorite place

[14:27] like my favorite cape

[14:30] so many places are my favorites these

[14:31] days but I love Cape Sebastion truly

[14:34] love this

[14:35] place we get to go driving through it oh

[14:39] man I don't want to go I don't want to

[14:42] go I don't know where to go it's a

[14:47] problem Sovereign struggle 101 I guess I

[14:51] don't

[14:51] know we are

[14:54] back I guess my camera turned off I

[14:56] didn't even notice

[14:59] oh man I like it here but I cannot be

[15:03] parked here because like that road noise

[15:05] is killing me it is killing

[15:11] me no guarantees I have a spot tonight

[15:14] but I guess we're going to find out all

[15:17] right I'm just going to go I'm putting

[15:19] my Jeep together getting this done slow

[15:22] so I don't really want to be doing

[15:25] it we're doing it though so I'm just

[15:29] going to compile this and upload it

[15:31] you'll hear from me later and I'll

[15:33] probably be super happy wherever

[15:35] I end up

[15:37] but I really want to be

[15:40] here you guys have a good day

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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

Counting Nine Days of Muscle Recovery

Dec 8, 2024

4:13

Recording Coastal Anticipation and Connection Practice

Dec 9, 2024

3:45

Documenting Nine Months of Transformation and Reception

Dec 9, 2024

6:37

Walking the Beach on Containment Versus Sovereignty

Dec 17, 2024

2:24

Checking Steps Data While Walking Near the Bridge

Dec 18, 2024

PUBLIC

November 26, 2024 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.40

Density 0.70

Energetic Quality

restless-practical, playful under load

Journey Phase

transitional / in-motion problem-solving

Directional Vector

toward a workable power system and a quieter place to park

Narrative

The morning began with coffee made on solar power and a number: eighteen percent. That was what the electric blanket had taken from the house batteries overnight, and rswfire corrected himself mid-sentence from twenty to eighteen because the precision mattered — no lights, nothing else running, just the blanket against a cold interior. He said it aloud like a man reading an instrument. The batteries had made it through the night, barely, which told him what he needed to know: one night of boondocking was inside his range, and after that the system had to be recharged somehow. The RV sat on the shoulder of Highway 101 with the Jeep behind it and a bin of laundry in the back, and he built the day's list out loud — laundry, propane, fuel, groceries, food, because he hadn't eaten dinner the night before. A friend had come through for him. The money hadn't landed yet.

Night had come earlier in the footage, or the day looped back through it — the moon out, stars scattered across the sky, rswfire narrating to a camera that would never capture what he was seeing, waiting for a passing car's headlights to lend the frame something. Instead of headlights, a vehicle pulled up alongside the RV. He walked toward it with attention, and it left. He told the camera not to try him. Later the RV came back coated in moisture, water beading across every surface, and he described it with the plain wonder of someone who had run out of words for coastal condensation.

Then came the experiment. He ran the line from the Jeep down to the inverter, carried it back to the RV, and saw the panel light up — charging, actually charging, the thing he'd never tried and had been meaning to learn. He checked inside. The microwave read as available. And then the voltage: 12.1. Not charging. The surge protector had flagged a ground fault and refused the source. He reached for the adapter he'd been saving for exactly this kind of rejection, plugged it in, restarted, and got a yellow light instead of the one he wanted, then no light at all. The device didn't like the plug. He named it cleanly — got excited too fast, had to try — and reverted to the known-good path, running the solar in through the window because that was the setup that worked even though he disliked doing it that way. The reading settled near 12.99, functional but not what a campground pedestal would give him. He said what the whole sequence had been pointing at from the start: these are bad batteries. He needed new ones.

He sat in the Jeep for a while because it was warmer there than in the RV, and he acknowledged the sadness of that out loud before moving past it. A game plan had formed. If the money hit, he'd go to Bandon — a place he'd been during the stretch when he wasn't posting, where he'd walked out along the long stone arm into the water and watched waves break against it, unimpressed by the small lighthouse, taken with the ocean. There was a state park there with a campground he'd never scouted. From Bandon he could reach the artery road that cuts back to the coast where 101 curves inland for three hours, and check Cape Arago and Shore Acres — both state parks, both with campgrounds, both possible better boondocking. Above that line was next season. That was the boundary of the winter circuit, drawn by him.

The money arrived. He woke from a nap taken against road noise he described as awful, drove into Gold Beach for supplies, and stepped out into a day so beautiful it complicated everything — he wanted to stay and had nowhere to stay that wasn't loud. Reservations were closed to walk-up only, which meant he'd be driving north with no confirmed spot, and he named that as bravery rather than pretending it was certainty. Outside, local police were working the highway, and he filmed it — a car that had started to pull out and then reversed back into the stop, a plate he tracked until he could read Georgia off it. He offered his theory about out-of-state drivers and town revenue, then walked it back into a joke, saying he was in a very playful mood. At the visitor center he looked for a person to ask where to boondock away from road noise and found no such window.

He addressed the question he knew was coming. Why not just use the apps. He said he'd asked Claude about it, and relayed the answer back as a description of himself: the guy who gave his last twenty dollars to a friend for a ride to Ann Arbor, got dropped downtown with no plan, and decided to be homeless that day and figure it out. That's how I roll. I'm not looking for other people's answers, I'm looking for my own. Then he turned it over — maybe he should be looking at the apps, maybe other people have wisdom too, imagine that — and turned it back, because sitting with satellite maps all day is boring and what he wants is to drive around in the Jeep until a place announces itself. There was one such place near him already, off the highway but out in the grass, where he'd seen other RVs. He didn't know if his could go there.

Driving south to retrieve the rig, he passed the beach full of people in the good light and said his boyfriend could be out there and he was leaving. Cape Sebastian came up and he called it his favorite cape, then admitted how many places had become his favorites lately. He didn't want to go. He didn't know where to go. He named the whole condition and gave it a road number — sovereign struggle 101 — and let it stand. Back at the rig he found the camera had shut off without his noticing. He said what was true: he liked it here, the road noise was killing him, there was no guarantee of a spot tonight, and he was going to find out. He hooked the Jeep up slow, not wanting to be doing it, doing it anyway, and said he'd compile the day and upload it and would probably be happy wherever he ended up, and that he really wanted to be here.

Summary

rswfire opens the day making coffee on solar power, noting the house batteries drew down 18–20% overnight with the electric blanket as the primary load. He states the batteries "just barely" made it through the night and repeats that he needs new batteries.

He lays out a task list: laundry, propane, fuel, groceries. He notes a friend helped him out financially and that he did not eat dinner the previous day. He decides to book into a campground for a couple of days to reorganize the RV and to scout boondocking spots he describes as more manageable than the current roadside location.

He runs a live experiment charging the RV from his Jeep inverter, sees the surge protector report a ground fault, tries a workaround plug, and the attempt fails. He falls back to solar, reads roughly 13V at the panel, and identifies installing the inverter properly as requiring professional help.

Environment

Roadside and coastal-highway environment along the southern Oregon Coast, recorded across a full day from inside and around a Forest River RV parked on the shoulder of Highway 101, with the towed Jeep as second vehicle and mobile power source.

Interior conditions are cold, with an electric blanket as the overnight heat source and house batteries at 18–20% depletion by morning. Exterior segments include night sky with visible moon and stars, condensation coating the RV, a supply stop in Gold Beach, a visitor center, a traffic-stop scene involving local police, and a drive through Cape Sebastian with Bandon and Bullards Beach State Park as the day's destination.

Substrate

The signal holds an infrastructure-first architecture: mobile autonomy is only as real as its power system, and rswfire is stress-testing that system directly — measuring overnight draw, attempting a Jeep-inverter charge, diagnosing a ground-fault rejection, falling back to solar. Underneath sits a stated epistemology of direct experience over aggregated answers: he names the apps and the maps as available and declines them, choosing to scout terrain himself. The day's structure is a self-authored circuit — campground as staging point, state parks as scouting targets, winter as the boundary of range — built by him rather than accepted from a platform.

Actions

Performed

•making coffee on solar power
•reporting overnight battery draw figures
•filming the night sky, moon, and stars
•walking toward a vehicle that pulled up beside the RV
•connecting the Jeep inverter to the RV
•checking the RV panel and reading 12.1V
•diagnosing a ground-fault error on the surge protector
•swapping in an adapter plug and restarting the system
•abandoning the inverter attempt and reverting to solar
•reading 12.99V on solar charge
•identifying and switching off the exterior lights he had left on
•sitting in the Jeep because it is warmer than the RV
•buying supplies in Gold Beach
•filming a police traffic stop and checking the plate state
•driving through Cape Sebastian
•hitching the Jeep to the RV
•compiling and uploading the footage

Referenced

•used 18–20% of house batteries overnight with electric blanket
•ran no lights overnight
•received help from a friend
•skipped dinner the previous day
•worked out solar charging on a mountain in Nevada
•visited Bandon during a posting pause
•walked out on a jetty and watched waves crash
•shared a clip from Bandon previously
•gave last $20 to a friend for a ride to Ann Arbor with no plan
•asked Claude why he doesn't use boondocking apps
•napped in the RV amid road noise
•checked bank account for incoming money
•attempted to make a campground reservation online

Planned

•do laundry
•get propane
•get fuel
•buy groceries
•stay at a campground for a couple of days
•organize the RV interior
•scout manageable boondocking spots
•make a list
•learn to use the Jeep inverter
•get the inverter professionally installed in the Jeep
•experiment with charging while disconnected at the campground
•research the ground-fault/plug issue
•buy new house batteries
•drive to Bandon and Bullards Beach State Park
•scout Cape Arago and Shore Acres campgrounds
•hold this stretch as the winter circuit and defer anything further north to next season

Entities

beings

rswfire — Signal originator; recording, diagnosing power systems, and route-planning across the day

friend — Provided help referenced at the start of the day

boyfriend — Named in passing while observing people on the beach

places

Oregon Coast — Operating territory for the documented winter circuit

Gold Beach — Supply stop and site of the police traffic-stop observation

Bandon — Destination for the night; previously visited during a posting pause

Bullards Beach State Park — Walk-up campground targeted for a couple of nights

Cape Sebastian — Named as his favorite cape; driven through on departure

Cape Arago — State park with campground identified as a scouting target

Shore Acres — State park with campground identified as a scouting target (spoken as 'Shady Acres')

Nevada — Referenced prior location where solar charging was worked out on a mountain

Ann Arbor, Michigan — Referenced destination of a past one-way trip taken with no plan

systems

Highway 101 — Travel corridor and the source of the road noise that makes current parking unworkable

Jeep — Tow vehicle, warm shelter, supply runner, and attempted power source via inverter

Forest River — RV manufacturer; named regarding non-waterproofed exterior light housing

house batteries — Central infrastructure constraint; assessed as bad and slated for replacement

solar — Working charge source; fallback after the inverter attempt fails

inverter — Untested Jeep-based charging path; rejected by the surge protector

surge protector — Reports ground fault and blocks the Jeep charging attempt

Bluetti — Portable power station named as a possible secondary charging path

Claude — Asked why he avoids boondocking apps; its answer is quoted back as a description of his method

boondocking apps — Available crowd-sourced solution he names and declines in favor of direct scouting

local police — Observed conducting traffic stops on out-of-state vehicles; filmed and commented on

concepts

boondocking — Off-grid parking practice bounded by battery capacity to roughly one night

the winter circuit — Self-defined seasonal range with Bandon-area parks as the northern limit

direct experience — Stated method — find spots by driving and looking rather than by consulting aggregated sources

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

power

threshold

circuit

ocean

moon and stars

moisture

road

edge

cold

headlights

infrastructure

boundary of range

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

sovereign (declines app-mediated answers, states he looks for his own)

transitional (no confirmed spot; moving between roadside, town, and walk-up campground)

self-instrumenting (measures overnight draw, voltage, and failure modes as data)

embedded (parked inside weather, road noise, coastline, and traffic-stop economy)

provisionally resourced (money arrives mid-day; batteries assessed as failing but functional for one night)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (battery capacity, inverter, surge protector, solar array, propane)

diagnostic (voltage readings, ground-fault identification, adapter test, revert-to-known-good)

logistical (laundry, propane, fuel, groceries, funds arriving, walk-up reservation timing)

navigational (route down 101, scouting Cape Arago and Shore Acres, defining the seasonal limit)

somatic (cold interior, electric blanket, road-noise interference with sleep, hunger, warmth of the Jeep)

epistemic (direct experience over aggregated data; naming the app option and declining it)

observational (filming the traffic stop, reading plate state, noting the revenue pattern)

documentary (narration to audience, compiling and uploading the day)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

batteries / charging / voltage

boondocking and scouting

road noise

game plan / circuit for winter

figure it out myself

direct experience

I don't know where to go

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Testing Power Systems and Relocating to Bandon

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