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So, it's 8:30 in the morning
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here. Just been doing some basic things
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around here and thinking about my day
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because there's a lot I need to navigate
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today. It's Monday morning. I want to
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head down to the laundry mat cuz they
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have a shower facility there so I can
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shower. It's been days since I showered.
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Tried to do it yesterday, but there was
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no one there and the showers are closed
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unless there's an attendant
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there. So, I'm going to do that today.
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I'll find out how much that costs. find
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out what when that when the showers are
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available there so that I can kind of
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try to plan around it. It's pretty rainy
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today. We might even get some pretty bad
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weather as far as um like wind speeds
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and stuff. Uh it's kind
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of Yeah, you can already tell it was
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kind of like that last night. Um so
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that's the next thing. You might have
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seen that flickering. my
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um my house batteries are still working,
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which to me is just shocking cuz I'm not
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sure how many days it's been. It's been
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three or four now. They're still on. Let
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me see what it says as far as
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voltage. It says 11.15 volts. So,
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they're quite low, but they're still on
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all these days later. I don't know if
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it's um if the house batteries are
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drawing power
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from my starter battery or not. I just
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don't know. I know that when the starter
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battery gets low, there will be a
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beeping noise in the cab area because
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this happened once uh on my journey many
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many many many months ago. So, I've kind
[1:31]
of been waiting for that. If I hear
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that, then I'll know for
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sure. This got me thinking um because
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there's some other things. So,
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um yesterday when I tested my inverter,
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if I had thought about it, I would have
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charged my devices then my uh my power
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um my power banks. Didn't think about
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it. So, I need to do that today cuz
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they're starting to get
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low. And
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um you know, I just need to charge all
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of my devices whenever I'm using that
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inverter. So, I just need to be prepared
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for that. I'm going to do that today.
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There'll be video of
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this. Um, and it got me thinking
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maybe maybe I charge the house
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batteries. If I have to run my Jeep for,
[2:14]
let's say, three hours, and let's assume
[2:16]
that that uses one gallon of
[2:18]
gas, that should charge the house
[2:21]
batteries up and keep them going. And,
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you know, if it if that works and I only
[2:26]
have to do that every couple of days,
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then it's well worth it because that
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means I have um my fridge is still
[2:34]
working, my water pump would work. I
[2:37]
don't have any water in this. I emptied
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it all at my last campground because I
[2:40]
didn't think I would have access to any
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water. So, um, I just dropped the weight
[2:44]
for that so that I could get better fuel
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mileage.
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Um, but if I could fill up my water
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tank, then I would be able to use my
[2:54]
water pump and I would have running
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water in here and a fridge and lights
[3:00]
and heat. Although, I'm running out of
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propane. So, um, won't have that for
[3:04]
much longer. But, you know, when I can
[3:05]
fill the propane up and I'd also have
[3:09]
heat, this might be workable. I might be
[3:12]
able to keep those house batteries
[3:14]
charged enough that I can keep them
[3:17]
going and do it all for my inverter, my
[3:20]
Jeep. So, I'm going to I think I'm going
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to try
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that. Uh, at first I was treating it
[3:25]
like a sacrifice I needed to make, but
[3:28]
the fact that they're still running
[3:29]
tells me that maybe maybe I don't have
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to make that sacrifice. that would be
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that would be a blessing. So, that's
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what I'm doing this morning. That's
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where my thoughts
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are. Just need to go into town and
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shower um and then go to a store um to
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get something to eat. And since I'm
[3:46]
going to charge up these batteries, I
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can get something
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refrigerated. Um I have I have $60 in my
[3:53]
pocket, so that's what I have to work
[3:54]
with. I should try to fill up my Jeep's
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um fuel tank. It's a little over half
[4:00]
full right now. So, it would take me
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like I don't know 20 or $30 to fill it
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out. Um, and then I'll start
[4:09]
monitoring how much fuel I'm using when
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it's just idling and running my
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inverter. So, that's an important
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experiment that I need to make.
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And is there something else? Let me
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pause this while I think about it. Well,
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I'll just end with this. So, I have um
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I'm here until the 12th for now. That's
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how long I've been able to extend my
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campground fees. So, I've got until the
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12th, the day after my birthday. I'm
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really fortunate about
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this. Um hoping I'll be able to extend
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it, but I'll have to rely on support
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from my community to do that. So, if
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anyone can help, I'd be greatly
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appreciative.
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Uh, it's $22 a night here. And I did
[4:53]
learn that I can modify my reservations
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so that I don't have to keep paying that
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$8 booking fee. I don't know if you can
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do it for a reservation that's active.
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I'll have to find out about that one
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because I modified one that um starts
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after the first one I made. So, you
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know, because then I I learned that. So,
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hopefully that's
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possible.
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Um, I think it's going to be a good day.
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Hey, I'm going to make it a very
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productive day and do some cleaning in
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here. I'm going to pull out my laptop.
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I'm going to start looking for work on
[5:24]
guru.com uh as a freelance programmer.
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Hopefully, I'll be able to find
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something on there. And, you know, I'll
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have to do that when my inverter is on.
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So, I just got to get everything
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prepared in advance so that um I'm as
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efficient as possible about this because
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I'll be charging my devices, I'll be
[5:40]
running my laptop, I'll be charging the
[5:43]
house batteries of my RV all at the same
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time. So, um, it's a lot. And I'll share
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that. It'll be in a clip after this
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one. So, it's 9:00 in the morning and I
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just got to the place the the laundry
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mat that also has shower facilities in
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there. And there's a truck camper. Truck
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camper right there, which probably means
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somebody else is showering here, too.
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Right. This is Nomad
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Life. Um, there's three of them in
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there. I saw them yesterday, but they
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were closed. So hopefully hopefully
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they're open this morning. I get more
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information. Their shower facilities are
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still closed. There's nobody here
[6:20]
attending it. You know, their hours are
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posted. It's 8 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. I've
[6:25]
been here twice now. I left a message. I
[6:28]
called their phone number and I left a
[6:29]
message asking that they call me and let
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me know. This is a waste of my fuel and
[6:35]
time. And it's a little frustrating
[6:37]
because it's been many days since I
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showered. So if this is not a workable
[6:41]
solution, I'm going to have to find a
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different one.
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So, I'm just going to head back and try
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to get everything charged and do some
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work this morning and hopefully I'll
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hear from them at some point and I'll
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learn more. If I don't, I'll figure out
[6:57]
another solution. I want to acknowledge
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one that would work for some people. It
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won't work for me. So, I'm very close to
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Honeyman, the last state park that I
[7:04]
volunteered at. I have an annual day use
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pass because I was
[7:10]
volunteer. I think technically I could
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probably go there to shower. Although
[7:15]
they would say that um their showers are
[7:19]
for campground guests, but it
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is I don't think that it's completely
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forbidden. I know that many people do
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it. Um some people might come early in
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the morning before the rangers are
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there. I just want you to know this is
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an option that if you ever end up in a
[7:35]
situation you might want to consider.
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um obviously treat the place with
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respect. A lot of people don't and it's
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making them change their policies and
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the way that
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they the way they treat
[7:50]
people. So I, you know, because they
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literally threw me out of that place
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because the park supervisor didn't like
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me. That's really the reason
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why. Um you know, I'm a known quantity
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there and I just wouldn't feel
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comfortable doing it. I will go there uh
[8:08]
to empty my tanks and to fill up my
[8:10]
water tank, you know, at their dump
[8:12]
station because that's open to the
[8:14]
public. That is definitely open to the
[8:15]
public. So, so that's something I'll be
[8:19]
able to do. They're very close. I can
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use it to fill up my water tanks and
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empty my tanks when I need to.
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So,
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um, part of me is wondering if maybe I
[8:32]
should try to figure out how to shower
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off grid or, you know, clean myself off
[8:37]
grid without having to try to find a
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shower
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facility. I mean, maybe that's possible
[8:44]
because if I'm able to keep my house
[8:47]
batteries going, that means I can
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generate hot water. Uh, it would mean I
[8:50]
have a water heater also. So, you know,
[8:53]
I just couldn't use my shower because it
[8:55]
would fill up my tanks too fast, very
[8:58]
very fast, even if I were to try to do,
[9:02]
you know, like an armory shower or
[9:03]
whatever. So, um, but I might even try
[9:07]
that. You know, it's a this is all about
[9:09]
adaptation. Um, I'm not expecting a
[9:12]
perfect life, you know. I just something
[9:14]
that's workable and it keeps me clean
[9:18]
and happy. So maybe I will try that cuz
[9:21]
my shower is available. Um we can figure
[9:24]
out how long it takes to fill those
[9:27]
tanks.
[9:29]
So the hard part's going to be getting
[9:31]
water into my tanks cuz that was a
[9:33]
really hard spot to park in. So if I
[9:36]
have to move and go back to that spot,
[9:37]
oh man, that was pretty hard because of
[9:40]
the angle it was at. But this feels like
[9:42]
something I'm going to need to do. I
[9:44]
might even do it this morning. So I'm
[9:46]
going to think about that.
[9:47]
So, I'm actually very close to
[9:49]
Huntington right now because I'm driving
[9:50]
back from Florence to my camp site. Um,
[9:53]
we're just going to stop there. I'm just
[9:55]
going to go look at their dump station.
[9:57]
I've actually cleaned it before, like,
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you know, with um their blowers and
[10:00]
stuff and run like debris and things
[10:02]
like that, but I haven't looked closely
[10:04]
at it. I know their dump stations are
[10:06]
good um but I don't really know how um
[10:09]
their clean water works. Like, I would
[10:11]
need to be able to hook a hose to it.
[10:13]
So, I just need to make sure that's
[10:14]
possible because a lot of places I've
[10:16]
seen, they have hoses that are part of
[10:20]
the infrastructure that would never
[10:23]
reach. I'm not really sure how they
[10:24]
work. Maybe they would reach. I don't
[10:27]
think so. I'm not sure. Well, I should
[10:29]
just say I don't know. So, we're going
[10:30]
to find out. Honeyman's right up
[10:34]
here. So, I'll just take you with me.
[10:37]
Honeyman State Park. It's a very nice
[10:40]
place.
[10:45]
Coming back to the scene of the
[10:47]
crime where all the rangers and
[10:49]
volunteers know
[10:59]
me. This is a really nice park. If you
[11:02]
haven't been here and you're in the area
[11:04]
is definitely worth staying here.
[11:06]
So, we're just going to go to the left
[11:08]
here and the dump stations will be up
[11:10]
just a little ways. That's a day use
[11:12]
area over
[11:13]
there. It's a very nice lake. I love
[11:16]
that lake. Been to it many, many
[11:23]
times. This is also a day use area up
[11:26]
here. It's the other side of the lake
[11:29]
and there's a dock there. That's
[11:32]
generally um where I would hike to. I've
[11:34]
had some winning memories here. Um
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there's a video of me um where this guy
[11:41]
came to check me out in the rain. There
[11:43]
was a moment over at that gate at the
[11:45]
end. There's that's the day you see
[11:46]
there. That's where that
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happens. What a good
[11:50]
memory. So, we'll just come over here.
[11:52]
Now, if you go to the right, you'll go
[11:53]
to the campground. It's a very big
[11:55]
campground. We're just going to go to
[11:56]
the left and look at the dump
[11:59]
station. We don't need any encounter
[12:01]
with the rangers here.
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So, there are two dump
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stations or what? I don't know. You
[12:13]
know, yeah, there's two dump stations
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and
[12:18]
then Okay, so this says clean water
[12:20]
right here. And yep, it looks like you
[12:23]
can hook something up to it. Yeah. So,
[12:25]
that's perfect. We can get water
[12:27]
here. That's what we'll do.
[12:31]
So, I've got some tasks I need to take
[12:33]
care of this morning. I'll need to make
[12:35]
sure my RV is ready to be moved and
[12:38]
we'll just come down here. We'll get
[12:39]
water. Um, I don't really need to empty
[12:42]
my tanks um yet. So, I don't really need
[12:45]
to do that. We'll get my RV batteries
[12:48]
charged and I'll start using my water
[12:51]
pump and um the water heater and I'll
[12:54]
just figure out how to shower in my
[12:56]
RV and without you know without using a
[13:00]
lot of water and I'll get all my devices
[13:03]
charged. I'll try to look for some work
[13:05]
on Guru. Got a busy day
[13:09]
ahead. So this is a national recreation
[13:12]
area I'm staying at.
[13:14]
just about heading. I'm back now. I'll
[13:17]
just show you the view while I talk for
[13:19]
a
[13:20]
minute. So, I was thinking about
[13:25]
it and I can't use my water heater
[13:29]
without electricity. It only works on
[13:31]
electricity or propane. Um, it's got two
[13:34]
different options. So, I'll have to use
[13:36]
propane if I want to have hot water. And
[13:39]
I don't have a lot. I think I have like
[13:41]
less than 11% now.
[13:44]
Uh, so we're going to drive it into town
[13:46]
first. I'm going to spend $20 to put
[13:48]
propane in it. I don't think that'll
[13:50]
fill it up all the way. I might give me
[13:52]
a half a tank or something like that,
[13:54]
but it's it's a place to
[13:56]
start. And this is always one of this is
[13:58]
one of the hardest things that I do is
[14:00]
driving the RV to a a gas station to get
[14:04]
fuel or propane. I know exactly where to
[14:06]
take it. I know the guy um who operates
[14:09]
the pumps there. He's a nice guy.
[14:12]
and you know, so I'm going to do that
[14:14]
and then on the way back we'll stop at
[14:15]
Honeyman. We'll fill up my water
[14:18]
tanks and I'll just dump my tanks even
[14:21]
though there isn't a lot in there.
[14:25]
And you know, I'll feel good about it
[14:27]
because this will be another instance of
[14:29]
me doing the very hardest part. And the
[14:33]
hard the longer you do that, the more
[14:35]
times you do that, the easier it
[14:37]
becomes. And then it's just your life.
[14:40]
And so you'll get to witness
[14:45]
that. It's quite beautiful back here. If
[14:48]
you take the road all the way to the
[14:49]
end, you end at the beach, at the
[14:52]
ocean. So, there's a picnic area here. I
[14:56]
haven't seen it yet. I plan to explore
[14:57]
everything. I mean, it's just the picnic
[14:59]
area, but I still want to explore it.
[15:03]
And there are
[15:06]
trails, several
[15:09]
[Music]
[15:11]
campgrounds, have a little river here on
[15:14]
both
[15:22]
sides. It says OV is prohibited on road.
[15:25]
I'm not sure what that area is actually.
[15:27]
There isn't a sign that explains what it
[15:29]
is. So, we'll have to explore that one
[15:30]
day.
[15:33]
Um probably where the OVs um it's a
[15:36]
staging
[15:37]
area. It's just saying they can't be on
[15:40]
the roads, but they, you know, that's
[15:41]
where they would stage and then head out
[15:43]
to the
[15:45]
dunes. Oh, and here's the campground I'm
[15:47]
staying at. The other trails and things
[15:48]
are further down. So, this is where I'm
[15:51]
staying. Only one loop is open right
[15:53]
now, but the others will open on May
[15:55]
1st.
[15:57]
And it's been very quiet and nice here.
[16:00]
really enjoyed my
[16:02]
time. Oh, the volunteers are
[16:05]
up. Let me just pause this. He waved to
[16:08]
me. He's a really nice guy. Married
[16:09]
couple. I met both of them. Um the other
[16:12]
person I think is probably
[16:16]
um one of those traveling um what do you
[16:19]
call those? Those traveling repair
[16:21]
people. Um I think you know he's
[16:23]
probably doing some work on his RV or
[16:25]
something. He's got a big RV. So, I'm
[16:27]
just going to park down here because um
[16:30]
I'm going to have to, you know, move my
[16:32]
RV. So, I'm just parking at um an
[16:36]
overflow parking
[16:37]
basically. Grab my headphones
[16:40]
[Music]
[16:42]
here. Jump on my earrings. So, my
[16:45]
piercings are still fresh and
[16:49]
sore. Um everything else can stay in
[16:52]
here. I just make sure everything's in
[16:53]
this
[16:55]
box. Okay.
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I love my Jeep. It is my favorite thing
[17:01]
on earth. Truly, it
[17:08]
is. My keys aren't in my pocket. Hold
[17:11]
on. Let this be a lesson. My keys aren't
[17:14]
in my pocket. I thought they were. And I
[17:15]
locked both of my doors, but I was just
[17:17]
about to lock the back. Don't have my
[17:19]
keys. Can't. And I have to crawl through
[17:21]
there to get my keys. Make sure that I
[17:23]
always have my keys before I lock the
[17:25]
door. I generally do. And that's what I
[17:26]
thought I just did, but I clearly did
[17:28]
not. Didn't find them at first. That
[17:30]
made me so nervous that I started my
[17:32]
Jeep cuz you press a button, it only
[17:34]
works if the key fob is around. Oh,
[17:36]
thank
[17:37]
God. Got to be careful when you live a
[17:40]
nomad life. These things are so
[17:42]
precious. Like, you know, I've always
[17:44]
got my wallet in my pocket even when I'm
[17:46]
sleeping. And you
[17:49]
just It is so important that you not
[17:52]
misplace these things cuz I don't know
[17:54]
what I would do if I did.
[17:57]
Okay, we're off. Thank
[18:00]
God. So, we're just going to walk down
[18:03]
here. You can see my RV over there. Look
[18:08]
closely. It's a hard spot to park in,
[18:11]
but it's, you know, there's nobody here.
[18:13]
It shouldn't be too hard. I know how to
[18:14]
do it. Um, I can only do it if the one
[18:17]
of these pullthroughs um are empty. You
[18:20]
know, if there was a vehicle there, I
[18:21]
would not be able to get in. because I
[18:23]
need to kind of pull into that in order
[18:26]
to maneuver it the right
[18:29]
way.
[18:32]
So, just got to get this done this
[18:34]
morning so that I, you know, it's not
[18:36]
very likely somebody will be there by
[18:38]
the time we get back. And I have that
[18:41]
site booked until the 12th.
[18:44]
um which means I'll have been at that
[18:46]
point I'll have been here for I think 8
[18:48]
days which means I can extend it a
[18:51]
little bit further um up to 14 days
[18:53]
before I have to move to another
[18:55]
campgrounds and I'm hopeful that I'll be
[18:57]
able to do
[18:59]
that because this is a good place to
[19:01]
be and I'm adapting in real
[19:09]
time. So here we are. I have to bring my
[19:12]
awning in and take those things inside
[19:14]
and we'll just be off. I don't really
[19:16]
need to do anything else. Everything
[19:17]
should be basically secure in there. Um,
[19:21]
I'm going to get it started. That way it
[19:23]
is
[19:24]
charging these batteries even now, like
[19:27]
the house batteries. If that's working,
[19:30]
then I know that, you know, I still have
[19:31]
power. So, cuz you can't make that thing
[19:34]
not um sliding or not when you open the
[19:38]
door. Battery's going to be so low.
[19:43]
We'll just start with that. We'll just
[19:44]
get the RV running cuz it will start
[19:47]
charging the
[19:52]
batteries. Only a few
[19:56]
[Music]
[19:59]
minutes. Feel good about
[20:02]
this. I'm pretty low on fuel, though. It
[20:05]
says I've got a quarter of a tank, a
[20:08]
range of 65 miles.
[20:12]
I'm going to have to put some fuel in
[20:14]
this. There's no way around
[20:17]
it. I'd be so so low if I didn't. I'm
[20:21]
going to have
[20:23]
to I guess I'll put $15 in it and I'll
[20:26]
spend $20 on propane and I spent $20 on
[20:31]
um fuel for my Jeep. That's all my
[20:34]
money.
[20:38]
This is what it takes
[20:39]
sometimes. Well, now I have a new
[20:41]
problem. My control panel is not showing
[20:45]
um the awning to bring it
[20:47]
in. I restarted this. It's still not
[20:51]
showing it. I'm wondering if the
[20:52]
batteries are so low that it's just not
[20:54]
showing
[20:55]
up. That's worrying. So, we're going to
[20:57]
give it a little bit of time while I get
[20:59]
everything packaged up in here.
[21:03]
But you know, and if that doesn't work,
[21:04]
then I'm going to have to figure out how
[21:05]
to do it manually. I think I might
[21:11]
know. Another challenge to face this
[21:13]
morning. So
[21:16]
many. This is This is how you
[21:22]
learn. And I'm thinking maybe because
[21:24]
the batteries are so, you know, it's
[21:26]
charging. It says 13.52 volts right now.
[21:29]
I think it would register that.
[21:32]
I'm not sure. I just thought about
[21:34]
something. Maybe it doesn't show. Yep,
[21:36]
that's what it was. I turned the RV off
[21:38]
and now it's showing up. Oh, thank God.
[21:41]
Okay, so now we know
[21:44]
why. Yeah, we're going to bring this in.
[21:46]
You might be able to see it through the
[21:48]
window
[21:50]
here. I just got to listen for the sound
[21:52]
when it
[21:54]
reaches the back walls. Oh, it's pretty
[21:56]
windy
[21:58]
out. But these are tough. This is a
[22:01]
tough
[22:21]
awning. It's slow. I'm just going to
[22:23]
wait till I hear the sound.
[22:33]
Then we'll check it. Make sure that it's
[22:36]
secure.
[22:39]
Okay. Unlock my driver's side door so I
[22:42]
can get in and out
[22:44]
easier. And I can only unlock it or lock
[22:47]
it from inside. It's It's broken.
[22:50]
Everything's broken in this
[22:52]
thing. So, let's see how we're doing.
[22:57]
Okay, it's
[23:00]
in. Yeah, we're good. So, we get the
[23:03]
Harvey going again and then we'll get
[23:04]
everything packaged
[23:06]
up. Get everything inside the camp
[23:10]
basically. I'm happy about this. Um,
[23:14]
feels like a
[23:18]
lot. Definitely navigating a lot with no
[23:21]
money. That part scares the crap out of
[23:23]
me.
[23:25]
um you
[23:27]
know, you just have to roll with life.
[23:29]
You can't you can't get
[23:32]
um can't operate from a place of fear.
[23:34]
You can't let it take over. You can't
[23:36]
let it dictate your
[23:38]
actions. You can't let it cloud your
[23:41]
judgment. You learn to integrate it. You
[23:43]
learn to integrate fear. I actually have
[23:45]
a video of me driving up a mountain in
[23:47]
Nevada that I was very, very afraid of
[23:49]
and I walked you through that process
[23:51]
where I literally integrated my fear of
[23:54]
that
[23:56]
mountain. So that's all I'm doing now. I
[23:59]
have fear in my chest,
[24:01]
but you know, I acknowledge it. I don't
[24:05]
try to push it away. I don't try to
[24:08]
um treat it as more or less than what it
[24:10]
is. It's fear. It's acknowledgment of my
[24:13]
situation. Okay, we're ready to go. Lock
[24:17]
up this door.
[24:20]
put my safety lock on cuz I don't trust
[24:22]
the door. So, there was a tent camper
[24:25]
over there. He left that firewood
[24:26]
behind. I might go gather that unless he
[24:28]
comes back. Um because it just looks
[24:31]
like I'm surprised he left it behind.
[24:33]
We'll see, I guess. And you can see my
[24:34]
Jeep in the distance
[24:36]
there. Very pretty. But we're ready to
[24:41]
go to head out and take care of what
[24:43]
needs taken care of. So, this should be
[24:45]
interesting because I'm driving without
[24:47]
my Jeep um being towed. Very different
[24:50]
circumstances for
[24:52]
me. And this is going to be a tight turn
[24:55]
though. Getting out of my spot. A wood
[24:57]
pole right there. We got to go. We got
[24:59]
to go this way.
[25:01]
So, it's not ideal, but I think that I
[25:05]
can do it. Oh, this feels This is not
[25:08]
the best spot in an
[25:10]
RV. So, we're going to do our best
[25:13]
here. Keeping an eye on the field.
[25:19]
Yeah, it's just not possible. We're
[25:20]
going to have to pull in reverse a
[25:22]
little
[25:26]
bit. That's on
[25:30]
me. All
[25:35]
right. Just got to do
[25:38]
this. Okay. Very close to that lamp
[25:42]
there, but we're good. We got this.
[25:47]
Yeah, this is a tight squeeze. We'll
[25:49]
never get this spot again, that's for
[25:56]
sure. Yeah, we got this. That is a very
[26:02]
tight
[26:05]
spot, but I needed to focus there. We're
[26:09]
good. We're going to head into town
[26:12]
now. I will definitely get different
[26:14]
spots in the future. I had no idea that
[26:16]
that one was It is literally the the
[26:20]
backwards orientation that it should be.
[26:22]
It's probably not really meant for
[26:25]
RVs.
[26:27]
Um, you know, there were no notes on
[26:30]
recreation.gov about it. I actually look
[26:32]
for those cuz some places do put notes.
[26:34]
They let you know if this is not a great
[26:36]
spot for RVs. It didn't have any notes
[26:38]
about it.
[26:39]
So, I assumed it would be fine. It was
[26:41]
long and looked like it would be fine.
[26:46]
We'll
[26:49]
manage. We did it. This we're navigating
[26:52]
this life
[26:54]
successfully. Okay, we're good. We're on
[26:57]
our way out of the park. Just want to
[26:59]
know there's something that I say to me
[27:01]
myself sort of as an
[27:02]
affirmation. Um I haven't been lately,
[27:05]
but I did notice that I bought it and so
[27:07]
I just wanted to share it. I often say
[27:09]
we've got this. When I'm about to drive
[27:12]
this thing, usually the first thing I
[27:14]
say, we've got this. I say it out loud.
[27:17]
And it might seem strange that I say we.
[27:19]
I've actually wondered about even talked
[27:20]
about it with AI. And it's because
[27:24]
I'm calling forth every part of myself,
[27:26]
you know,
[27:29]
um the emotional, the just just um the
[27:34]
sematic, you know, the bodily like we've
[27:37]
got this. My whole being has got this.
[27:39]
the spiritual, I guess you could say.
[27:43]
Um, I think it helps cuz it's not just
[27:46]
an affirmation to something I genuinely
[27:48]
believe. So, when I say it to myself,
[27:51]
it's it's more than an affirmation. It's
[27:53]
an acknowledgement of of my previous
[27:57]
experiences.
[27:59]
And I think I think it probably does
[28:02]
help. So, I think I'll just show you the
[28:04]
drive into town. We don't have too far
[28:06]
to go. It's very beautiful on the coast
[28:10]
because of the dunes. You can't see the
[28:11]
ocean. It would be on the left
[28:14]
side. Um, but you know, this is the 101
[28:18]
and I love the 101. I think of it as
[28:20]
home. I think of the whole thing, the
[28:22]
whole stretch of the 101 is my home
[28:24]
now. And I just want to share that with
[28:26]
you. There will be other clips after
[28:28]
this. So, if you just want to skip ahead
[28:30]
because of the drive, you
[28:33]
can. I'm just going to share this part
[28:35]
with you.
[28:55]
Heat. Heat.
[29:17]
These people here provide tours of the
[29:19]
dunes. Uh they got some very big
[29:21]
machines, you know, where like dozens of
[29:23]
people can be on
[29:25]
them at the same time while they take
[29:27]
you on a guided tour of the dunes. I'd
[29:29]
like to do that
[29:31]
someday. There's a few places like that
[29:33]
around
[29:39]
town. Everything here is about the
[29:46]
dunes. Maybe we can even make it out to
[29:48]
the ocean today after I get everything
[29:50]
else done. We can just walk out there.
[29:53]
Here's State Park. It's very large park.
[29:56]
It's on both sides of the 101.
[29:59]
There's a bridge up here, a walkway type
[30:01]
bridge that takes you to both parts of
[30:03]
the
[30:05]
park. I when I volunteered there for the
[30:08]
two months that I was there, February
[30:09]
and March, I spent a lot of time on that
[30:12]
bridge just looking north and south.
[30:15]
It's kind of like a meditative practice
[30:16]
for me. I would watch the
[30:19]
vehicles. A lot of people would wave to
[30:21]
me, which I thought was pretty
[30:23]
cool. There's the bridge right there.
[30:35]
Just past the bridge is the entrance to
[30:36]
the park. Either way, right or
[30:47]
left, and we'll head there on our way
[30:49]
back.
[31:00]
We got a couple miles to go before we
[31:01]
get into Florence.
[31:48]
So, this fuel station is the first one
[31:50]
before you get to
[31:52]
town. Um, I don't know how to navigate
[31:54]
that. The diesel pumps don't work. I've
[31:56]
actually checked on that. Um, they don't
[31:59]
work. They do have the propane station
[32:02]
there. Um, but the diesel pumps are
[32:18]
broken. Slowing down so that everybody
[32:20]
can get around
[32:22]
me. I'm not being very fast about it.
[32:26]
I hate that. Just going to wait for
[32:28]
everyone to go
[32:43]
around driving a big
[32:48]
vehicle. All right.
[33:05]
Okay. So, up here on the left is the
[33:08]
South Jetty. It's a national forest um
[33:12]
area and it's very nice. It's got dunes
[33:15]
and beach access.
[33:17]
It's there's several miles of um road
[33:20]
back there just over
[33:23]
there with different like parking lots
[33:25]
for access to the beach and there's a
[33:27]
bunch of dunes. I've been back there
[33:29]
quite a few times. It's a wonderful
[33:31]
area. That's where most people go around
[33:33]
here. That's usually where they
[33:41]
go. And then the bridge up here takes
[33:44]
you into Florence.
[33:52]
Oh, wow. The bridge is up. This is the
[33:54]
first time I've seen it up. I was hoping
[33:57]
we would get lucky cuz people I've been
[33:59]
asking people and they're saying they
[34:01]
only see it every
[34:02]
um um couple of times in their whole
[34:05]
life. Bridge is up. I don't know if I
[34:07]
got it on camera and we're a little bit
[34:09]
too far back to see it. Oh, that
[34:12]
sucks. That is so cool. I actually got
[34:16]
to witness
[34:17]
it. We're not going to see it. I'm
[34:20]
sorry. I wish you
[34:21]
could. That's
[34:24]
amazing. Now I know how it
[34:30]
works. I'll pause this till we start
[34:32]
moving again. We came at the exact right
[34:35]
time. I I really wanted to see that. It
[34:38]
was very cool. I hope I got it on
[34:40]
camera. I don't know.
[34:43]
Only a little tiny part of the bridge
[34:45]
went
[34:46]
up. So, we drive over that like every
[34:50]
day. This part that's
[34:53]
not doesn't have a whole lot of
[34:56]
reinforcement compared to the rest of
[34:57]
the bridge. Wow. Oh, that is so
[35:02]
cool. I asked everybody. I asked every
[35:05]
ranger that I met, you know, how often
[35:07]
have you seen that bridge go up and
[35:09]
down? And most of them just said once or
[35:12]
twice in their whole
[35:14]
lives. We just got to
[35:16]
see my tank saying I got a range of 80
[35:20]
miles right now at a quarter of a tank.
[35:21]
And that is about right. I get about 75
[35:24]
miles per quarter
[35:26]
tank. So maybe I don't put any fuel in
[35:29]
this cuz I need every bit of money that
[35:30]
I have. Maybe I just get some
[35:34]
propane. It's enough to get back into
[35:37]
town to get fuel.
[35:39]
So,
[35:41]
um I mean we couldn't have traveled more
[35:43]
than like I guess I'll look it up on a
[35:46]
map before I leave the fuel station, but
[35:48]
I think we've only traveled
[35:50]
like 5
[35:53]
miles. It's not far. It's definitely
[35:56]
close
[35:57]
though. I don't know. This part's hard.
[36:00]
What am I going to
[36:02]
get about this bridge?
[36:07]
[Music]
[36:18]
It does say I've got a decent range. I
[36:21]
can't get that to be clear. Maybe
[36:24]
try 78 miles.
[36:42]
[Music]
[36:47]
Okay, we just got to drive through town
[36:48]
to get to the fuel station that's easy
[36:50]
to
[36:53]
navigate. And I need to decide, am I
[36:56]
going to get fuel or risk it? And I
[36:59]
think the answer is risk it. Range 83
[37:02]
mi. If you go slow, you definitely get
[37:04]
more gallons in this thing. I had to do
[37:06]
that once when I was traveling here from
[37:07]
Kentucky to Oregon. Nearly ran out of
[37:09]
gas and I drove so slow down this one
[37:11]
road. I was so nervous. I made it to a
[37:14]
fuel
[37:15]
stop cuz I was able to conserve gas that
[37:20]
way. And I think we're going to just
[37:22]
have to do that
[37:23]
again. Yeah, cuz the range is pretty
[37:26]
good. It's going up still a little bit
[37:27]
more.
[37:28]
86. It's definitely a quarter of a tank,
[37:30]
though. I mean, if I had fuel, if I
[37:33]
could fill this thing up, I could use
[37:35]
this to charge my house batteries, too,
[37:37]
which would be great. I just once I'm
[37:39]
making more money and I can afford to do
[37:42]
all of that, these are the things that
[37:44]
I'll that I will
[37:54]
do. Florence is a nice little town.
[38:07]
[Music]
[38:17]
I did feel hear a few of my things
[38:19]
banging around back there. Hopefully
[38:20]
everything's fine.
[38:23]
still adapting to that where
[38:25]
everything's always secure all the time.
[38:27]
That's
[38:31]
difficult. I thought I, you know, I
[38:33]
checked
[38:34]
and I don't know. I felt like I was
[38:36]
ready. We'll we'll figure out what that
[38:38]
was later, though. Heard a couple of
[38:41]
things. Okay, this is the fuel station
[38:49]
76. Yep. And we're just here for propane
[38:52]
cuz I've got enough
[38:53]
fuel barely. But I do have enough that
[38:57]
when I need to come back here, I'll be
[38:59]
able
[39:07]
to. Yeah. Right
[39:12]
here. There's their propane is over
[39:15]
there. That's a weird angle. I guess I
[39:18]
didn't know where it was.
[39:22]
Oh, you have to drive around. I
[39:25]
see.
[39:26]
Um, feel challenging though. I'll just
[39:30]
try to do this in reverse. See if I can
[39:31]
get away with
[39:33]
that. I don't have to go far. I have a
[39:36]
backup camera.
[39:46]
[Music]
[39:49]
I'm going to have to go
[39:51]
around. So, there's another
[39:54]
entrance. I'll be right back, I guess,
[39:57]
guy. That
[39:59]
sucks. Now we
[40:05]
know.
[40:08]
Okay. Cuz it's on the passenger side of
[40:10]
the vehicle.
[40:20]
Okay. So, we drive
[40:25]
through. Let's see
[40:29]
here. Probably right
[40:31]
here. Hate to get stuck. I see another
[40:34]
entrance there. So, we'll do that just
[40:36]
to be
[40:37]
careful. Yeah, we'll be able to drive
[40:39]
through.
[40:42]
Let's wait for this
[40:51]
car.
[40:58]
Okay. If I'm not getting fuel, I almost
[41:00]
want to put more propane in it. Um,
[41:03]
lower propane I can get into this thing,
[41:05]
the better.
[41:08]
But it's going to take all my
[41:12]
money. Oh, maybe this propane isn't to
[41:15]
the gas station. It's to the store.
[41:19]
$5 a
[41:22]
gallon.
[41:25]
Okay. So, like
[41:28]
this. Okay. Let's I'll go find out. Just
[41:31]
stop here for now. All right. So, she
[41:34]
didn't want to do it. This This happens.
[41:36]
I feel like they just don't want to put
[41:38]
the propane in. So, they tell you that
[41:39]
they're busy even though there's nobody
[41:41]
here. Literally nobody. Just like it'll
[41:44]
be 45 minutes. And she said there's
[41:46]
another place right down the street, a
[41:48]
different 76
[41:49]
station. We're just going to try
[41:53]
there. So, we're
[42:00]
off. Really nervous about my fuel.
[42:04]
Now you got to got to be
[42:10]
careful. She said that it was an easy
[42:13]
station to
[42:15]
navigate. I see the propane tank down
[42:17]
there.
[42:41]
[Music]
[42:43]
Okay, just ignore the
[42:46]
noises. Things are going to get banged
[42:48]
around. Oh, got to get my
[42:51]
lights.
[42:53]
Okay. Um, based on where that is. I need
[42:56]
to go this way. Okay.
[43:02]
Okay. Yeah, this looks easy
[43:06]
enough. Make a wide turn
[43:15]
here. Yeah, we got this. That's
[43:20]
good. Okay.
[43:31]
Okay. Oh, here comes a guy. Hold on.
[43:34]
They're saying they can't do it either.
[43:35]
Now they're directing me to another gas
[43:39]
station. Life can be
[43:43]
hard. We're not going to get frustrated.
[43:46]
We're just going to keep going. He said
[43:47]
it's on the right hand side of the
[43:51]
road.
[44:00]
Very frustrating though for these
[44:03]
vehicles. So I'm going to have to make a
[44:05]
wide turn
[44:20]
here. Sure, there's a lot of
[44:30]
them. All right, let's
[44:38]
go.
[44:41]
Okay, not familiar with this
[44:44]
BP. Oops. Didn't mean to do that.
[44:53]
I have to. I'm just going to go sit at
[44:55]
that store. I'll wait 45 minutes.
[45:40]
So, I guess we're learning which places
[45:42]
are actually willing to put propane into
[45:45]
RVs. Oh, VP, not VP.
[45:48]
Okay, I see it. Okay. And I see what
[45:51]
side of the road it's on. So, I've got
[45:53]
to go around.
[45:57]
Yeah. Okay. All right. This looks
[46:01]
manageable. Big dealing truck
[46:03]
[Music]
[46:07]
there. Everybody's got propane, but
[46:09]
nobody wants you to use
[46:11]
it.
[46:19]
Okay. All
[46:22]
right. We got this. We got this.
[46:30]
Okay, right
[46:33]
here. So, the cutest man helped me. Oh
[46:36]
man, this man is so beautiful. There's a
[46:39]
little rainbow flag in there, but it's
[46:42]
probably there all the time. I didn't
[46:44]
get gay vibes from him, but you know,
[46:46]
very friendly and
[46:48]
um maybe I don't know. Oh, man. He I
[46:53]
didn't we talked we chatted about
[46:56]
different places and um maybe I'll get
[46:59]
my fuel from here from now on.
[47:01]
Definitely going to get my propane from
[47:03]
here. So maybe I'll get to know this
[47:06]
guy. He seemed really nice. He said he
[47:08]
had just gone up to Cape Disappointment
[47:10]
which is near um the Washington Oregon
[47:13]
border. So he he
[47:17]
just liked him. So, we got fuel or some
[47:21]
propane. Um, I put He told me it's a 20
[47:25]
gallon tank. It's at half now. Um, I
[47:28]
already had some in there. Can't
[47:29]
remember how many gallons he said it
[47:31]
was. Um, but I put put $30 in there. I
[47:35]
got
[47:37]
like It says 350 a gallon, but that's
[47:40]
not what I think it was like eight
[47:41]
gallons. I think I put like eight
[47:43]
gallons in there. So, we're going to use
[47:44]
it very sparingly and hope that it
[47:47]
lasts.
[47:48]
Um, now we're just going to go and we're
[47:50]
going to put water in my tank and then
[47:53]
we'll go back to the
[47:56]
campground.
[47:58]
Um, this my light. I'm glad to have some
[48:01]
new propane. Have to have some of that.
[48:03]
I can use it for heat. I can use it for
[48:07]
um my water
[48:09]
heater. So, just got to use as sparingly
[48:12]
as I possibly can.
[48:15]
If I had lots of money, then I could
[48:17]
come up here like every couple days and
[48:19]
get propane and flirt with that guy cuz
[48:21]
oh my god, he was so cute. He was so
[48:23]
cute. Oh
[48:26]
man, let it go. Let it go. When I see be
[48:29]
I, you know, I name things that are
[48:32]
beautiful. When I see, you know, the
[48:34]
ocean or trees or just whatever, but
[48:37]
also guys, you know, I mean, I really
[48:40]
like them. These things really cool.
[48:45]
So yeah,
[48:48]
whatever. Very foggy day out here.
[48:51]
Starting to get
[48:57]
foggy. Got to get
[49:03]
over people. Cut you off. But
[49:07]
now,
[49:09]
um, going over the
[49:12]
bridge, yeah, we're just going to head
[49:14]
to
[49:15]
Honeyman. All right, we're here
[49:18]
again. Uh, I don't need to really empty
[49:21]
my tanks cuz I barely used them. So, I'm
[49:24]
going to leave that alone cuz that's a
[49:25]
lot of work and it just I don't think it
[49:28]
would
[49:28]
be very useful to try to empty
[49:32]
them until next time. So, we're just
[49:35]
going to get
[49:40]
water. Oh, my um my yellow light came on
[49:44]
on my fuel thing. And then a thing
[49:48]
prompted up saying drive to a fuel
[49:50]
station trying to panic me, but I think
[49:53]
it just does that once it gets to a
[49:55]
quarter of a tank. We're fine. We're
[49:57]
going to be
[49:59]
fine. Okay. So, we're going to Oh,
[50:01]
there's water on both sides. Okay. I
[50:02]
didn't know that. I thought it would
[50:03]
just decide, but now I see it. So, we're
[50:06]
going to fill the water tank up here.
[50:09]
I'm so happy about this that that I'm
[50:12]
able to do this. We're doing it. Even
[50:15]
got my water filter hooked up so that
[50:18]
the water's clean, you know,
[50:21]
cleaner. Then just comes back
[50:24]
here. Wait for the water to start coming
[50:26]
out of there and we'll know it's full.
[50:30]
Okay, that's pretty decent speed. I
[50:32]
guess this will take a while. Be here
[50:34]
for 5 or 10 minutes while it does
[50:37]
this. And I just thought about it. This
[50:39]
is going to make my fuel mileage go
[50:41]
down, but we're still going to be fine.
[50:42]
So,
[50:44]
um, yeah. Oh, man. so much.
