Breaking Camp at Cape Blanco, Moving North

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January 1, 2025 rswfire PUBLISHED

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[0:01] I'm not moving very fast

[0:03] today it's 9:00 in the

[0:07] morning have a very long day I got to go

[0:09] and I got to get up on that roof in the

[0:12] rain to make sure there's no debris up

[0:14] there there's been four storms already

[0:16] this

[0:17] week oh I got to go into town and get

[0:20] fuel and propane I need to get my Jeep

[0:23] hooked up I have to drive an hour and a

[0:26] half north I have to set up at a new

[0:28] campsite I got to get this place ready

[0:30] to

[0:31] go I'm just sitting here I am being a

[0:35] very bad Nomad right

[0:38] now well I just needed some high energy

[0:41] music to get me moving got back from the

[0:44] shower we got 3 hours left flooded

[0:46] campsite got to get up there got to take

[0:49] this down in the rain put my starlink

[0:54] away just deal with those two c oh we

[0:57] got a moat starting to

[0:58] form it's a lovely day take my Jeep down

[1:02] I'm going to park it

[1:04] somewhere I think we'll walk down to the

[1:06] um the cape Edge just for a

[1:09] minute then going to have to deal with

[1:11] this and then we'll go into town so I

[1:14] just got a troll comment from somebody

[1:16] saying I'm not monetized cuz I'm not at

[1:18] a thousand wonder what my phone's doing

[1:21] that for

[1:22] weird I think I've been destroying my

[1:24] phone because of all the wind here

[1:26] putting it in 80 M hour wind and stuff

[1:28] like that I noticed it mess up with my

[1:31] audio yesterday now I can't even hold a

[1:34] can't even hold a picture that's

[1:37] interesting oh well we'll navigate that

[1:40] too if we have to so anyways I got this

[1:43] comment from this person who's just

[1:44] being an because um apparently

[1:47] they don't consider 500 Subs to be

[1:50] monetization um I think that's curious

[1:52] because you literally have to apply for

[1:54] monetization at 500 in order to unlock

[1:57] membership so whatever this is typical

[2:00] trollish abusive Behavior on YouTube and

[2:03] I'm going to call it

[2:04] out okay we're just going to park there

[2:07] for a few

[2:08] hours hope she'll be safe

[2:12] there we'll see how this thing is doing

[2:15] in the rain

[2:16] today that guy's assholery annoyed me so

[2:20] much I missed my turn onto the trail the

[2:23] long way which is fine we're going to go

[2:25] see the parking lot over here you could

[2:27] see a lot of different things and so of

[2:30] just the cliff Edge lighthouses over

[2:31] here but it's pretty foggy

[2:34] today nice and rainy it's a nice

[2:38] day you know I'm not going to pretend

[2:40] like people don't annoy me when they do

[2:42] like I know people say ignore the trolls

[2:45] you know that's a human being being an

[2:47] to another human being for no

[2:49] good reason and you should call

[2:51] that out so that it's not normalize the

[2:53] way that we've normalized it you know I

[2:56] don't know who they think they are

[2:58] they're not that special all

[2:59] they they did was irritate me and I'll

[3:02] move on

[3:04] and

[3:05] continue living my best life which I

[3:08] guarantee is better than theirs I've

[3:10] really been wanting to go up to that

[3:12] Lighthouse but my core muscles are still

[3:14] so sore that just can't risk it it's a

[3:18] pretty high descent Ascent you on

[3:21] descent you know get back down and how I

[3:24] messed my core muscles up on that

[3:26] mountain I got to give it another month

[3:28] I think I'm listening to what told me

[3:30] I'm taking it easy especially

[3:33] considering you know

[3:35] today literally moving to another

[3:38] campground where I'm going to be

[3:39] volunteering doing physical labor so

[3:42] just don't want to overdo it I need to

[3:43] give them time to heal so I can go back

[3:45] to my normal routine I can 10 15 miles a

[3:48] day 7 days a week maybe I'll cut back a

[3:53] little

[3:55] bit not a lot though I got up to the top

[3:58] I think it was the top

[4:00] I can't remember 6 or 8% of all Samsung

[4:03] phone users of the Samsung heal

[4:06] app um of everybody every age

[4:08] group I was so damn proud of

[4:11] that not competing it's just nice to

[4:13] know that even at my age you know I've

[4:16] still got it

[4:18] so really want to see that Lighthouse

[4:21] so I suppose there's wisdom

[4:26] in um acknowledging that you can do that

[4:29] another day I don't know what that

[4:32] wisdom is it's not something

[4:34] that I'm likely to ever embody

[4:38] myself well I'll pretend like I

[4:41] do it's nice Misty day I'm definely

[4:44] getting wet out

[4:45] here so we're just walking up to the

[4:48] cliff Edge

[4:52] now it's going to

[4:55] be an interesting day so the next part's

[4:58] hard I got to get up on my roof in the

[4:59] rain I don't even like getting out there

[5:01] when it's dry out so then I got to drive

[5:03] that thing into

[5:05] town that's always the hardest part is

[5:07] driving the RV like it's I going to

[5:10] pretend that's gotten easy for me I did

[5:13] drive it across the country and it's

[5:16] still um I suppose some of that

[5:19] trepidation goes away once I start

[5:20] driving though it's just um anticipation

[5:25] maybe but I got to drive it into town

[5:27] and navigate a gas station I mean the

[5:29] truck stop so it'll be all right though

[5:32] I know it will and hopefully they're

[5:35] open hopefully I can get

[5:36] propane just not sure this January

[5:40] 1st

[5:41] um and I'll drive back H my Jeep hook up

[5:45] and we'll drive

[5:47] north start the next chapter of my

[5:50] life I am excited about

[5:54] it I hope

[5:57] like hope I meet some interesting people

[6:00] there if we meet some hot

[6:05] guys they don't all have to be hot

[6:07] though yeah they do they do they got to

[6:11] be hot

[6:13] so you know we'll go

[6:16] and do some Doom buggy Wars

[6:20] and discover some new segments of the

[6:22] beach there a couple of lighthouses to

[6:24] go check out um pretty close to there

[6:27] there's one very close and then there's

[6:29] another not too far

[6:31] away we'll just have to start looking

[6:34] more North cuz everything below that

[6:37] I've explored

[6:38] so we'll come back explore it all again

[6:42] in a different season but it's time

[6:46] to put my eyes

[6:48] North and you know

[6:50] what I actually know which direction

[6:53] that is because of this ocean right here

[6:55] that's

[6:57] North you can Orient your stuff because

[6:59] of the ocean how cool is

[7:02] that so we're

[7:08] here this is a nice day nice last day

[7:11] here like this you don't know would see

[7:14] the fog like this here at least I

[7:16] haven't I've been here a

[7:21] lot you can't even see the lighthouse if

[7:24] only that light was working Coast Guard

[7:26] fix it already

[7:31] so that would be a nice thing to see

[7:33] right now wouldn't

[7:34] it we're

[7:39] here oh I was going to say you know

[7:43] there's a lesson

[7:44] in how high in emotions can disrupt your

[7:49] patterns you know and I'm like sitting

[7:51] here thinking to myself how could that

[7:53] happen to

[7:54] me I'm not too happy about that but then

[7:56] I realized oh we drove my Jeep up there

[8:00] past the trail that's why I didn't find

[8:02] the

[8:03] trail we we drove past it I just kept

[8:06] walking

[8:08] yeah

[8:11] whatever a nice view from up

[8:13] here bit

[8:15] scary oh look at that you could see

[8:18] the

[8:20] um you could see where the workshop is

[8:23] at they're watching me up here you all

[8:26] see me up here yes this is scary

[8:30] I may spend a lot of time on Cliff edges

[8:33] but this is up house still a little bit

[8:35] scary we're up here though this thing is

[8:39] clean I did my I did my chore the most

[8:42] important one I feel cuz it's about

[8:44] safety so wasn't that bad four

[8:48] storms I don't know I always expect big

[8:51] logs to be up

[8:52] here who are you are you attractive

[8:56] can't

[8:57] tell anyways I got all right let's get

[8:59] down from here this is scary this is

[9:02] truly an abysal site I didn't want to be

[9:05] at this one for two weeks I want to be

[9:07] next to it but it didn't work out that

[9:10] way we got the flooded one we're ready

[9:12] to go except I made one mistake that

[9:15] propane tank got to go in the back of my

[9:18] Jeep so we got to go back and get my

[9:20] Jeep and it's very heavy I'm not going

[9:22] to try carrying that especially with my

[9:23] core muscles the way they

[9:25] are being

[9:27] responsible even if my cor muscles were

[9:30] totally healed right now I still

[9:31] wouldn't care that thing way

[9:33] down here no thank you we'll go get the

[9:38] Jeep I'm ready for today I'm

[9:43] ready it's going to be an interesting

[9:49] one it's

[9:52] just these are threshold

[9:54] moments you're going to feel a lot of

[9:56] things during

[9:57] those it's like yourself feel

[10:02] them I love this weather it's a perfect

[10:06] perfect way to end my time here okay

[10:09] that task is done now now we can go and

[10:12] actually go to a fuel

[10:17] station so when you don't

[10:20] compartmentalize you you process

[10:22] everything even some comments

[10:24] and I'm sitting here thinking you know

[10:27] that's how that man chose to start a new

[10:28] year

[10:30] I'm applying it to larger patterns it's

[10:31] not about the troll it's about Humanity

[10:34] in general this man started a new year

[10:37] by being an to someone he

[10:39] doesn't know and you

[10:43] know I wait for this

[10:46] I wait for humans

[10:50] because we had so much

[10:53] potential and we squandered

[10:56] it we didn't stand up for better better

[11:00] values and

[11:03] ethics we let the world compartmentalize

[11:06] and fragment

[11:07] us we're going to pay the price for that

[11:11] okay I think we're

[11:12] W we're readying I don't think we

[11:16] are so find my keys

[11:19] here nice and dark back

[11:23] there I'm just going to head in Port

[11:25] Orford get some fuel and hopefully some

[11:27] propane

[11:34] I pulled up to get myself out of the

[11:37] flooded zone so I could get stuff into

[11:38] the storage B very wet you know now I

[11:42] don't have my cat anymore so I can

[11:44] actually have my window

[11:46] down trying to see the positive do miss

[11:49] him been a couple weeks now surprisingly

[11:52] almost you know I've been here for two

[11:55] weeks but it was the right choice I was

[11:59] what needed to

[12:01] happen so see I got half a tank we would

[12:05] have been able to make it but I want to

[12:08] get this thing filled

[12:10] out

[12:12] and just do those tasks get those out of

[12:14] the way before I stationing there for a

[12:17] while that rain did a number on my

[12:20] moisturizer too was like dripping all

[12:22] over me and stuff all right let's go

[12:25] looks like we're going to be dealing

[12:27] with some very strong winds to day I

[12:30] didn't notice there was a storm I

[12:31] noticed it yesterday when I looked at

[12:32] the windy

[12:34] app um think we'll be fine though just

[12:37] take it

[12:39] easy this is my first time kind of

[12:41] driving in this weather though so we'll

[12:43] see how that goes we're doing it we're

[12:46] getting propane here he comes hopefully

[12:49] I'm close enough hopefully I'm close

[12:50] enough this a very SL Diesel

[12:54] power SL this wind is just threatened to

[12:58] Bow me over went over a bridge and that

[13:00] thing looked just the side of my RV so

[13:04] it's going to be a bit of

[13:06] a um bit of a stressful drive I'm

[13:09] thinking got to go back to the cave to

[13:11] get my Jeep kind of thinking maybe I

[13:13] should have just brought it but no

[13:14] because my Jeep would have been out in

[13:15] the road when I got propane so I did the

[13:19] right thing I just got to go back and

[13:20] get my Jeep and then it'll be off

[13:23] so real proud of myself got

[13:26] this we're on our way back to keep bonco

[13:31] let's see the sign up here have to say

[13:34] goodbye to the

[13:35] place I love this place so much I'm

[13:38] going to miss it I'm going to miss you

[13:41] Kate

[13:43] bonco this RV driv is pretty nice

[13:45] without

[13:46] this maybe I could get like if I did it

[13:49] enough maybe I could get used to driving

[13:50] this around places but this just a big

[13:54] beast of a thing I don't really

[13:56] trust so

[13:59] I'd much rather just park it at the

[14:00] campground or just get in my Jeep and go

[14:04] somewhere so yeah we going to go get my

[14:06] Jeep and then we'll be

[14:08] off um probably just going to compile my

[14:12] video before I leave and just let that

[14:13] upload on the

[14:15] way this the next chapter of my life is

[14:19] very profound there's a lot that's going

[14:21] on that I haven't talked about um I do

[14:25] talk about on my memb only channel so if

[14:26] you're interested check that out

[14:30] I have one person subscribed so far and

[14:32] I wanted to thank this person because

[14:34] they're partly why I was able to get

[14:36] propane today thank you you made my life

[14:38] easier today you really

[14:40] did

[14:44] um there's a lot going on that I just

[14:46] feel

[14:48] like requires a payLo so if you're

[14:51] willing to pay it cuz we' been follow my

[14:53] journey and it matters to you it's there

[14:56] for you

[0:01] I'm not moving very fast

[0:03] today it's 9:00 in the

[0:07] morning have a very long day I got to go

[0:09] and I got to get up on that roof in the

[0:12] rain to make sure there's no debris up

[0:14] there there's been four storms already

[0:16] this

[0:17] week oh I got to go into town and get

[0:20] fuel and propane I need to get my Jeep

[0:23] hooked up I have to drive an hour and a

[0:26] half north I have to set up at a new

[0:28] campsite I got to get this place ready

[0:30] to

[0:31] go I'm just sitting here I am being a

[0:35] very bad Nomad right

[0:38] now well I just needed some high energy

[0:41] music to get me moving got back from the

[0:44] shower we got 3 hours left flooded

[0:46] campsite got to get up there got to take

[0:49] this down in the rain put my starlink

[0:54] away just deal with those two c oh we

[0:57] got a moat starting to

[0:58] form it's a lovely day take my Jeep down

[1:02] I'm going to park it

[1:04] somewhere I think we'll walk down to the

[1:06] um the cape Edge just for a

[1:09] minute then going to have to deal with

[1:11] this and then we'll go into town so I

[1:14] just got a troll comment from somebody

[1:16] saying I'm not monetized cuz I'm not at

[1:18] a thousand wonder what my phone's doing

[1:21] that for

[1:22] weird I think I've been destroying my

[1:24] phone because of all the wind here

[1:26] putting it in 80 M hour wind and stuff

[1:28] like that I noticed it mess up with my

[1:31] audio yesterday now I can't even hold a

[1:34] can't even hold a picture that's

[1:37] interesting oh well we'll navigate that

[1:40] too if we have to so anyways I got this

[1:43] comment from this person who's just

[1:44] being an because um apparently

[1:47] they don't consider 500 Subs to be

[1:50] monetization um I think that's curious

[1:52] because you literally have to apply for

[1:54] monetization at 500 in order to unlock

[1:57] membership so whatever this is typical

[2:00] trollish abusive Behavior on YouTube and

[2:03] I'm going to call it

[2:04] out okay we're just going to park there

[2:07] for a few

[2:08] hours hope she'll be safe

[2:12] there we'll see how this thing is doing

[2:15] in the rain

[2:16] today that guy's assholery annoyed me so

[2:20] much I missed my turn onto the trail the

[2:23] long way which is fine we're going to go

[2:25] see the parking lot over here you could

[2:27] see a lot of different things and so of

[2:30] just the cliff Edge lighthouses over

[2:31] here but it's pretty foggy

[2:34] today nice and rainy it's a nice

[2:38] day you know I'm not going to pretend

[2:40] like people don't annoy me when they do

[2:42] like I know people say ignore the trolls

[2:45] you know that's a human being being an

[2:47] to another human being for no

[2:49] good reason and you should call

[2:51] that out so that it's not normalize the

[2:53] way that we've normalized it you know I

[2:56] don't know who they think they are

[2:58] they're not that special all

[2:59] they they did was irritate me and I'll

[3:02] move on

[3:04] and

[3:05] continue living my best life which I

[3:08] guarantee is better than theirs I've

[3:10] really been wanting to go up to that

[3:12] Lighthouse but my core muscles are still

[3:14] so sore that just can't risk it it's a

[3:18] pretty high descent Ascent you on

[3:21] descent you know get back down and how I

[3:24] messed my core muscles up on that

[3:26] mountain I got to give it another month

[3:28] I think I'm listening to what told me

[3:30] I'm taking it easy especially

[3:33] considering you know

[3:35] today literally moving to another

[3:38] campground where I'm going to be

[3:39] volunteering doing physical labor so

[3:42] just don't want to overdo it I need to

[3:43] give them time to heal so I can go back

[3:45] to my normal routine I can 10 15 miles a

[3:48] day 7 days a week maybe I'll cut back a

[3:53] little

[3:55] bit not a lot though I got up to the top

[3:58] I think it was the top

[4:00] I can't remember 6 or 8% of all Samsung

[4:03] phone users of the Samsung heal

[4:06] app um of everybody every age

[4:08] group I was so damn proud of

[4:11] that not competing it's just nice to

[4:13] know that even at my age you know I've

[4:16] still got it

[4:18] so really want to see that Lighthouse

[4:21] so I suppose there's wisdom

[4:26] in um acknowledging that you can do that

[4:29] another day I don't know what that

[4:32] wisdom is it's not something

[4:34] that I'm likely to ever embody

[4:38] myself well I'll pretend like I

[4:41] do it's nice Misty day I'm definely

[4:44] getting wet out

[4:45] here so we're just walking up to the

[4:48] cliff Edge

[4:52] now it's going to

[4:55] be an interesting day so the next part's

[4:58] hard I got to get up on my roof in the

[4:59] rain I don't even like getting out there

[5:01] when it's dry out so then I got to drive

[5:03] that thing into

[5:05] town that's always the hardest part is

[5:07] driving the RV like it's I going to

[5:10] pretend that's gotten easy for me I did

[5:13] drive it across the country and it's

[5:16] still um I suppose some of that

[5:19] trepidation goes away once I start

[5:20] driving though it's just um anticipation

[5:25] maybe but I got to drive it into town

[5:27] and navigate a gas station I mean the

[5:29] truck stop so it'll be all right though

[5:32] I know it will and hopefully they're

[5:35] open hopefully I can get

[5:36] propane just not sure this January

[5:40] 1st

[5:41] um and I'll drive back H my Jeep hook up

[5:45] and we'll drive

[5:47] north start the next chapter of my

[5:50] life I am excited about

[5:54] it I hope

[5:57] like hope I meet some interesting people

[6:00] there if we meet some hot

[6:05] guys they don't all have to be hot

[6:07] though yeah they do they do they got to

[6:11] be hot

[6:13] so you know we'll go

[6:16] and do some Doom buggy Wars

[6:20] and discover some new segments of the

[6:22] beach there a couple of lighthouses to

[6:24] go check out um pretty close to there

[6:27] there's one very close and then there's

[6:29] another not too far

[6:31] away we'll just have to start looking

[6:34] more North cuz everything below that

[6:37] I've explored

[6:38] so we'll come back explore it all again

[6:42] in a different season but it's time

[6:46] to put my eyes

[6:48] North and you know

[6:50] what I actually know which direction

[6:53] that is because of this ocean right here

[6:55] that's

[6:57] North you can Orient your stuff because

[6:59] of the ocean how cool is

[7:02] that so we're

[7:08] here this is a nice day nice last day

[7:11] here like this you don't know would see

[7:14] the fog like this here at least I

[7:16] haven't I've been here a

[7:21] lot you can't even see the lighthouse if

[7:24] only that light was working Coast Guard

[7:26] fix it already

[7:31] so that would be a nice thing to see

[7:33] right now wouldn't

[7:34] it we're

[7:39] here oh I was going to say you know

[7:43] there's a lesson

[7:44] in how high in emotions can disrupt your

[7:49] patterns you know and I'm like sitting

[7:51] here thinking to myself how could that

[7:53] happen to

[7:54] me I'm not too happy about that but then

[7:56] I realized oh we drove my Jeep up there

[8:00] past the trail that's why I didn't find

[8:02] the

[8:03] trail we we drove past it I just kept

[8:06] walking

[8:08] yeah

[8:11] whatever a nice view from up

[8:13] here bit

[8:15] scary oh look at that you could see

[8:18] the

[8:20] um you could see where the workshop is

[8:23] at they're watching me up here you all

[8:26] see me up here yes this is scary

[8:30] I may spend a lot of time on Cliff edges

[8:33] but this is up house still a little bit

[8:35] scary we're up here though this thing is

[8:39] clean I did my I did my chore the most

[8:42] important one I feel cuz it's about

[8:44] safety so wasn't that bad four

[8:48] storms I don't know I always expect big

[8:51] logs to be up

[8:52] here who are you are you attractive

[8:56] can't

[8:57] tell anyways I got all right let's get

[8:59] down from here this is scary this is

[9:02] truly an abysal site I didn't want to be

[9:05] at this one for two weeks I want to be

[9:07] next to it but it didn't work out that

[9:10] way we got the flooded one we're ready

[9:12] to go except I made one mistake that

[9:15] propane tank got to go in the back of my

[9:18] Jeep so we got to go back and get my

[9:20] Jeep and it's very heavy I'm not going

[9:22] to try carrying that especially with my

[9:23] core muscles the way they

[9:25] are being

[9:27] responsible even if my cor muscles were

[9:30] totally healed right now I still

[9:31] wouldn't care that thing way

[9:33] down here no thank you we'll go get the

[9:38] Jeep I'm ready for today I'm

[9:43] ready it's going to be an interesting

[9:49] one it's

[9:52] just these are threshold

[9:54] moments you're going to feel a lot of

[9:56] things during

[9:57] those it's like yourself feel

[10:02] them I love this weather it's a perfect

[10:06] perfect way to end my time here okay

[10:09] that task is done now now we can go and

[10:12] actually go to a fuel

[10:17] station so when you don't

[10:20] compartmentalize you you process

[10:22] everything even some comments

[10:24] and I'm sitting here thinking you know

[10:27] that's how that man chose to start a new

[10:28] year

[10:30] I'm applying it to larger patterns it's

[10:31] not about the troll it's about Humanity

[10:34] in general this man started a new year

[10:37] by being an to someone he

[10:39] doesn't know and you

[10:43] know I wait for this

[10:46] I wait for humans

[10:50] because we had so much

[10:53] potential and we squandered

[10:56] it we didn't stand up for better better

[11:00] values and

[11:03] ethics we let the world compartmentalize

[11:06] and fragment

[11:07] us we're going to pay the price for that

[11:11] okay I think we're

[11:12] W we're readying I don't think we

[11:16] are so find my keys

[11:19] here nice and dark back

[11:23] there I'm just going to head in Port

[11:25] Orford get some fuel and hopefully some

[11:27] propane

[11:34] I pulled up to get myself out of the

[11:37] flooded zone so I could get stuff into

[11:38] the storage B very wet you know now I

[11:42] don't have my cat anymore so I can

[11:44] actually have my window

[11:46] down trying to see the positive do miss

[11:49] him been a couple weeks now surprisingly

[11:52] almost you know I've been here for two

[11:55] weeks but it was the right choice I was

[11:59] what needed to

[12:01] happen so see I got half a tank we would

[12:05] have been able to make it but I want to

[12:08] get this thing filled

[12:10] out

[12:12] and just do those tasks get those out of

[12:14] the way before I stationing there for a

[12:17] while that rain did a number on my

[12:20] moisturizer too was like dripping all

[12:22] over me and stuff all right let's go

[12:25] looks like we're going to be dealing

[12:27] with some very strong winds to day I

[12:30] didn't notice there was a storm I

[12:31] noticed it yesterday when I looked at

[12:32] the windy

[12:34] app um think we'll be fine though just

[12:37] take it

[12:39] easy this is my first time kind of

[12:41] driving in this weather though so we'll

[12:43] see how that goes we're doing it we're

[12:46] getting propane here he comes hopefully

[12:49] I'm close enough hopefully I'm close

[12:50] enough this a very SL Diesel

[12:54] power SL this wind is just threatened to

[12:58] Bow me over went over a bridge and that

[13:00] thing looked just the side of my RV so

[13:04] it's going to be a bit of

[13:06] a um bit of a stressful drive I'm

[13:09] thinking got to go back to the cave to

[13:11] get my Jeep kind of thinking maybe I

[13:13] should have just brought it but no

[13:14] because my Jeep would have been out in

[13:15] the road when I got propane so I did the

[13:19] right thing I just got to go back and

[13:20] get my Jeep and then it'll be off

[13:23] so real proud of myself got

[13:26] this we're on our way back to keep bonco

[13:31] let's see the sign up here have to say

[13:34] goodbye to the

[13:35] place I love this place so much I'm

[13:38] going to miss it I'm going to miss you

[13:41] Kate

[13:43] bonco this RV driv is pretty nice

[13:45] without

[13:46] this maybe I could get like if I did it

[13:49] enough maybe I could get used to driving

[13:50] this around places but this just a big

[13:54] beast of a thing I don't really

[13:56] trust so

[13:59] I'd much rather just park it at the

[14:00] campground or just get in my Jeep and go

[14:04] somewhere so yeah we going to go get my

[14:06] Jeep and then we'll be

[14:08] off um probably just going to compile my

[14:12] video before I leave and just let that

[14:13] upload on the

[14:15] way this the next chapter of my life is

[14:19] very profound there's a lot that's going

[14:21] on that I haven't talked about um I do

[14:25] talk about on my memb only channel so if

[14:26] you're interested check that out

[14:30] I have one person subscribed so far and

[14:32] I wanted to thank this person because

[14:34] they're partly why I was able to get

[14:36] propane today thank you you made my life

[14:38] easier today you really

[14:40] did

[14:44] um there's a lot going on that I just

[14:46] feel

[14:48] like requires a payLo so if you're

[14:51] willing to pay it cuz we' been follow my

[14:53] journey and it matters to you it's there

[14:56] for you

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Dec 25, 2024

5:12

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Dec 25, 2024

2:16

Requesting Subscribers and Listing PS5 for Sale

Dec 26, 2024

3:42

Naming Boredom as Pressure Toward Transformation

Dec 27, 2024

4:04

Applying for YouTube Monetization, Setting Terms

Dec 28, 2024

4:01

Reviewing Channel Archive Before Campground Volunteer Move

Dec 29, 2024

8:38

Running Town Errands Before Campground Departure

Dec 29, 2024

5:11

Filming the Cliff Edge and the Call of the Void

Dec 30, 2024

6:33

Making First Smoothie in the RV

Dec 30, 2024

5:23

Receiving YouTube Monetization Approval

Dec 30, 2024

Photos · Dec 30, 2024

Dec 30, 2024

4:37

Opening First Amazon Package in Nine Months

Dec 31, 2024

Declaring Sovereign Movement Along the Coast

Dec 31, 2024

4:45

Announcing Membership Tiers on Last Day at Cape Blanco

Dec 31, 2024

13:37

Announcing Membership Channel Ahead of Tugman Move

Dec 31, 2024

26:30

Marking New Year in the RV with AI Dialogue

Jan 1, 2025

15:17

Arriving at Eel Lake as Park Host

Jan 1, 2025

Photos · Jan 1, 2025

Jan 1, 2025

8:54

Answering AI-Generated Reflection Questions On Camera

Jan 1, 2025

7:41

Answering AI Follow-Up Questions on Camera

Jan 1, 2025

15:03

Breaking Camp at Cape Blanco, Moving North

Jan 1, 2025

18:15

Processing First Working Day at New Host Site

Jan 2, 2025

11:57

Attending Volunteer Orientation at Umpqua Lighthouse

Jan 3, 2025

Photos · Jan 3, 2025

Jan 3, 2025

Photos · Jan 3, 2025

Jan 3, 2025

13:45

Driving South to Port Orford for Package Pickup

Jan 3, 2025

3:10

Formulating Fire Water as Hydration Replacement

Jan 3, 2025

9:43

Mapping Eel Lake Trail, Planning Honeyman Move

Jan 4, 2025

37:20

Planning Day and Scouting Honeyman State Park Dunes

Jan 4, 2025

5:24

First Yurt Cleaning Day and Golf Cart Orientation

Jan 5, 2025

18:23

First Yurt Cleaning Shift and Meeting the Boss

Jan 5, 2025

7:04

Announcing Channel Direction and Members-Only Structure

Jan 6, 2025

Photos · Jan 6, 2025

Jan 6, 2025

12:34

Mapping Volunteer Social Dynamics at Siltcoos

Jan 7, 2025

16:30

Morning Walk, Yard Work Plan, Channel Goes Members-Only

Jan 7, 2025

11:25

Restating Position to Camp Man, Riding Cart at Dusk

Jan 8, 2025

12:12

Morning Coffee, Yurt Cleaning, and Audience Boundaries

Jan 8, 2025

Photos · Jan 8, 2025

Jan 8, 2025

12:20

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Jan 8, 2025

10:00

Working a Full Campground Day, Meeting Campers

Jan 9, 2025

8:38

Mapping Campground Population and Volunteer Authority

Jan 9, 2025

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January 1, 2025 rswfire PUBLISHED

Temp 0.50

Density 0.70

Energetic Quality

propulsive under load — annoyed, clear, and moving

Journey Phase

transitional — mid-relocation, threshold crossing

Directional Vector

north, toward the next station

Narrative

At nine in the morning on the first day of January, rswfire sat inside his RV at Cape Blanco and did not move. Outside, rain fell on a campsite where a moat of standing water was assembling itself around the vehicle — four storms in one week had made the ground into something that held rather than drained. He narrated the day's shape aloud before beginning it: roof clearance in the rain, breakdown, fuel and propane in town, Jeep hookup, ninety minutes north, then setup at a new campground. Each item load-bearing. He named his own stillness plainly — I am being a very bad Nomad right now — and then put on high-energy music to move himself, returning from the shower with three hours on the clock.

Before the work began he drove the Jeep out to park it and walked toward the cliff edge. On the way, a comment surfaced on YouTube: someone telling him he wasn't monetized because he wasn't at a thousand subscribers. He noted the factual error — application opens at five hundred, which is how membership unlocks — and then declined the standard advice. That's a human being being an asshole to another human being for no good reason and you should call that out so that it's not normalized. His phone was failing at the same moment, unable to hold a picture, the wind at eighty miles an hour having worked into the hardware. He registered both, annoyance and equipment degradation, and kept walking. The irritation carried far enough that he missed the trail turn entirely — a fact he later diagnosed correctly, not as emotional disruption of pattern but as route error: the Jeep had driven past the trailhead, so he had been walking from the wrong start.

The lighthouse stood somewhere in the fog, unseeable and unlit. He wanted to walk up to it and did not. The ascent and descent were steep, his core muscles still sore from the mountain, and he was driving toward a campground where volunteer physical labor waited. I got to give it another month. I'm listening to what my body told me. He mentioned, without competing, that Samsung Health had once put him in the top six or eight percent of all users across every age group, and that this pleased him — even at my age, I've still got it. He allowed that there was wisdom in doing a thing another day, then noted he was unlikely to ever embody that wisdom, and would pretend to. The Coast Guard, he added, should fix the light.

The roof came next, the task he liked least and rated highest. I don't even like getting out there when it's dry out. He climbed anyway, in rain, on a wet surface at the edge of a site he described as truly abysmal — the flooded one, not the one he had wanted. From up there he could see the workshop, and knew they could see him. He found the roof clean. No logs, despite four storms. I did my chore, the most important one I feel, because it's about safety. Getting down was scary and he said so, a man who spends a great deal of time on cliff edges naming this particular height as different.

Then the mistake: the propane tank needed to be in the back of the Jeep, and the Jeep was parked elsewhere. He looked at the tank and refused it outright — too heavy, core muscles or no core muscles. Being responsible. Even if my core muscles were totally healed right now, I still wouldn't carry that thing down here. No thank you. He drove the RV into Port Orford instead, first pulling out of the flooded zone to reach the storage bays, window down for the first time in weeks because the cat was gone — noted plainly, missed, and stated as the right choice. Half a tank would have made the trip, but he filled it anyway, clearing tasks ahead of stationing.

Driving the RV had not gotten easy, and he refused to pretend it had, even having taken the thing across the country. Wind threatened to blow him over on the bridge, slapping the side of the RV; the fuel island was slick, the diesel pull tight. He got the propane. On the return leg, the troll comment surfaced again and he routed it upward: when you don't compartmentalize, you process everything, even asshole comments. That's how that man chose to start a new year. Not about the troll — about humanity, potential squandered, values not stood up for, a world that compartmentalized and fragmented its people. We're going to pay the price for that.

He drove back toward Cape Blanco to collect the Jeep, and said goodbye to the place as the sign came up. I love this place so much. I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss you, Cape Blanco. North was verifiable — the ocean was right there, giving him his cardinal reference, and he said so with delight. North meant lighthouses he hadn't seen, beach segments not yet driven, interesting people, hot guys, and the thing he called the next chapter. He planned to compile the video before departure and let it upload during the drive. He thanked the single member who had subscribed to the paywalled channel, naming exactly what that subscription had bought: you're partly why I was able to get propane today. You made my life easier today. You really did.

These are threshold moments, he said, standing in the rain with the site broken down and the destination not yet reached. You're going to feel a lot of things during those. Let yourself feel them. And then: I love this weather. It's a perfect way to end my time here.

Summary

rswfire records a New Year's Day departure from a flooded campsite near Cape Blanco, working through a task sequence before an hour-and-a-half drive north to a new campground where he will volunteer.

The day's work list is stated plainly: clear the RV roof of storm debris in the rain after four storms that week, break down the site and stow the Starlink, stage the Jeep, drive the RV into Port Orford for fuel and propane, then return, hook up the Jeep, and leave. He completes the roof check and the fuel/propane run, noting high winds on the bridge crossing and that driving the RV remains the hardest part of the operation.

Midway he walks toward the cliff edge and lighthouse overlook in fog and mist, skipping the lighthouse ascent because his core muscles are still healing from a mountain climb; he states he normally walks 10–15 miles a day, seven days a week.

He addresses a YouTube troll comment disputing his monetization status at 500 subscribers, states he will call out that behavior rather than ignore it, and extends the observation to a broader pattern about compartmentalization and squandered human potential.

He notes his phone camera malfunctioning after wind exposure, references his cat no longer being with him, thanks his first paying member for making the propane purchase possible, and names the move as a threshold into the next chapter.

Environment

Filmed on January 1st across a single relocation day on the southern Oregon Coast, beginning inside an RV at a flooded campsite at Cape Blanco and ending mid-drive back toward it. Conditions are rain, fog, and high wind following four storms in one week; a moat of standing water is forming around the site.

The recording moves through several settings: the RV interior, a parking lot and cliff-edge trail overlook near the Cape Blanco Lighthouse, the RV roof, the highway into Port Orford for diesel and propane at a truck stop, and the return drive. Digital environment is present throughout — YouTube comments, channel monetization thresholds, a members-only channel, the Samsung Health app, and the Windy app. Phone hardware is degrading from wind exposure.

Substrate

The architecture held is sequenced task execution across a threshold day: roof clearance, breakdown, fuel, propane, tow hookup, ninety-minute drive, new campsite setup — each item load-bearing for the relocation to complete. rswfire names the day's condition explicitly as a threshold moment and states that feeling is permitted rather than suppressed, positioning non-compartmentalization as method: a troll comment is not discarded but routed upward into a general read on human ethics and fragmentation. Somatic limits (core muscles) are treated as governing constraints on task selection rather than obstacles to override, and departure from Cape Blanco is registered as attachment stated plainly alongside forward orientation.

Actions

Performed

•narrating the morning task list from inside the RV
•playing high-energy music to initiate movement
•returning from the shower
•breaking down site and stowing Starlink
•driving the Jeep to a parking spot
•walking the trail to the cliff edge
•reading and responding on camera to a troll comment
•climbing onto the RV roof in the rain to check for debris
•confirming the roof is clear
•moving the RV out of the flooded zone to load storage bays
•driving the RV into Port Orford
•filling the diesel tank
•getting propane at the truck stop
•driving back to Cape Blanco in high wind
•saying goodbye to Cape Blanco on camera
•thanking the single paying channel member

Referenced

•drove the RV across the country
•injured core muscles on a mountain
•walked 10–15 miles a day, seven days a week
•ranked in top 6–8% of Samsung Health app users across all age groups
•spent two weeks at the flooded site he did not want
•explored all coastline south of the next station
•rehomed his cat two weeks prior
•checked the Windy app the previous day
•damaged his phone in 80 mph wind
•applied for monetization at 500 subscribers
•missed the trail turn after driving past it

Planned

•hook up the Jeep to tow
•drive an hour and a half north
•set up at the new campground
•volunteer doing physical labor at the new site
•rest core muscles another month before resuming full routine
•climb to the lighthouse another day
•explore new beach segments and two nearby lighthouses
•return to explore the southern coast in a different season
•compile and upload the video during the drive
•continue posting to the members-only channel

Entities

beings

The troll commenter — Anonymous YouTube commenter disputing his monetization status; used as entry point into a general read on human ethics

His cat — Rehomed two weeks prior; he states it was the right choice and that he misses him

The single channel member — One paying subscriber; he states their support made the propane purchase possible

places

Cape Blanco — Campground and cape he is departing; site was flooded, and he states attachment to the place

Cape Blanco Lighthouse — Visible landmark he wanted to climb to but deferred due to core muscle injury; obscured by fog, light not working

Port Orford — Town where he obtains diesel and propane at a truck stop

Oregon Coast — Operating field; the ocean serves as his directional reference for north

systems

YouTube — Platform where the troll comment originated and where monetization thresholds (500 subs, 1000 subs) are contested

Starlink — Connectivity infrastructure stowed as part of site breakdown

Jeep — Towed vehicle; parked separately, then retrieved for propane transport and hookup

RV — Mobile dwelling and the day's hardest operational element to drive, especially in high wind

Samsung Health app — Tracking system in which he placed in the top 6–8% of users across all age groups

Windy app — Weather system consulted the previous day; showed the incoming storm

Coast Guard — Institution he addresses directly regarding the non-functioning lighthouse light

concepts

Compartmentalization — Named as the mechanism he does not use — processing everything is stated as the alternative

Threshold moments — His own term for the day's condition; feeling is permitted rather than managed

media

Members-only channel — Paywalled layer where he documents material not shared publicly; one subscriber to date

Symbolic Elements

Represented archetypes or recurring motifs.

threshold

cliff edge

ocean

wind

storm

flood

moat

fog

lighthouse

unlit beacon

roof

north

fuel

departure

ascent deferred

Ontological States

Expressed modes of being or awareness.

transitional (mid-relocation; site broken down, destination not yet reached)

sovereign (task sequencing, ethical calling-out, and pacing all set by his own standard)

embedded (weather, terrain, ocean orientation, and campground infrastructure directly governing the day)

integrating (troll comment routed into a general read on human ethics rather than discarded or suppressed)

somatically bounded (core muscle injury governing which tasks are taken and which deferred)

Engaged Subsystems

Architecture engaged in this transmission.

infrastructural (roof clearance, Starlink stow, propane, diesel, tow hookup, site breakdown)

somatic (core muscle injury setting hard limits on lifting and ascent; deliberate healing timeline)

navigational (ocean used as cardinal reference; missed trail turn diagnosed as vehicle-route error)

ethical (naming troll behavior as abuse and refusing its normalization; generalizing to human values)

cognitive (recursive processing; non-compartmentalization stated as method)

economic (monetization thresholds, single paying member funding the propane, paywall as filter)

media (filming, compiling, uploading during transit; two-tier channel architecture)

meteorological (four storms, 80 mph wind, rain, fog; Windy app as forecast input)

relational (stated desire to meet interesting people and hot guys at the new site; cat absence noted)

Dominant Language

Core motifs or linguistic fields.

threshold moments

I got to / I have to (task-sequence imperative)

compartmentalize / fragment

north / next chapter

core muscles / take it easy

call that out / normalize

monetization / members-only

Narrative

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