[0:01]hi everyone I have a story to share with
[0:04]you I haven't really thought this
[0:06]through I don't know what I'm going to
[0:08]say
[0:11]um I hope you'll stick it out with me
[0:13]and see if this is something that
[0:14]interests you didn't want to wait cuz I
[0:16]want you to see this from the
[0:18]beginning um so let me just start off by
[0:21]saying as you can see I have no teeth
[0:23]I'm 46 years old I lost my teeth from
[0:26]drinking Mountain Dew my whole
[0:28]life there's no amount of money in the
[0:30]world it's going to save you from that
[0:31]so keep your kids away from that stuff I
[0:34]still drink it you know I I I hope that
[0:38]changes hopefully soon right um I'm
[0:41]getting Dentures I I have bottom ones
[0:45]and some temporary top ones but I just
[0:47]can't wear them doesn't work for me I
[0:49]get this gag reflex I actually have a
[0:51]surgery in two days to get implants on
[0:53]the top few months after that from
[0:56]healing I should be able to wear them
[0:59]and I
[1:00]hope you know I'll look like the rest of
[1:02]you
[1:03]then so I want you to know what I'm
[1:07]about to do cuz I'm making some big
[1:09]changes in my
[1:11]life I am about to embark on the biggest
[1:14]journey of my life
[1:16]I'm I am selling all my stuff I have a
[1:21]house full of stuff to get rid of buying
[1:24]a camper and I'm going out there and I'm
[1:26]living the RV
[1:27]lifestyle I wish I had done done this 20
[1:30]years ago and I almost did uh
[1:33]something I wanted to do even 20 years
[1:36]ago I just wanted to visit all the
[1:39]national and state parks and blog about
[1:42]those and encourage people to get out
[1:44]into
[1:45]nature because I think it's the most
[1:47]wonderful thing a person can do in the
[1:51]world I find so much Solace there I
[1:54]always have since I was a
[1:56]child
[1:58]um
[2:01]I bought a pop-up camper and I had like
[2:04]I think it was probably my first Jeep
[2:06]then I had some on my fifth one now but
[2:08]back then it was probably my first Jeep
[2:11]and I drove that thing to New Jersey in
[2:12]wintertime was a pop-up camper winter
[2:15]time cuz I had I had a client there
[2:18]you'll learn more about what I do
[2:20]later
[2:22]um and that just didn't work for me you
[2:24]know was
[2:25]cold pop-up camper that I had I don't
[2:28]really know a lot about them I couldn't
[2:30]you know I don't think I had really the
[2:31]ability to cook
[2:32]anything um nowhere to shower I did have
[2:36]like a a toilet that I never used it was
[2:40]just
[2:41]a like a mobile toilet you know so I
[2:43]just I never used that so I was
[2:45]showering on the campgrounds in the
[2:47]middle of winter and it just wasn't a
[2:49]good experience and I gave up on my
[2:51]dream after that I wish I hadn't but I
[2:55]did and for the next 20 years I have
[2:58]just been living a normal life like
[3:00]everybody else does um just doing my
[3:04]best to get through the world right it's
[3:06]it's very hard isn't
[3:08]it it can be a challenge I think it can
[3:11]be very hard to be human like it's just
[3:15]it's not easy we all struggle we all
[3:18]struggle with different things I
[3:21]mean
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[3:23]um so I don't know I guess that's where
[3:27]my story starts here I want you guys to
[3:29]see see what it's like from the
[3:30]beginning I've recently discovered
[3:33]YouTube you know where um there's quite
[3:35]a lot of
[3:37]RV um not even sure what you call them
[3:40]right just RV lifers or whatever who are
[3:44]documenting their Journeys I don't know
[3:47]if I'll do
[3:49]that um I'm going to try I think but
[3:52]what I really want you to see is what
[3:55]it's like from the beginning from Once
[3:57]the from the time that you've made the
[3:59]decision decision that this is what
[4:00]you're going to
[4:02]do I want you to know what that's like
[4:06]cuz I'm going to experience it and I'm
[4:08]experiencing it
[4:10]now and I haven't seen anything like
[4:12]that and I think I think it's important
[4:15]for people
[4:16]to it helped me to see these other
[4:20]YouTubers living their
[4:22]dreams I was really
[4:25]struggling cuz I I haven't even driven
[4:28]an RV yet I know I'm getting a
[4:30]see I'm scared death to drive it I'm
[4:32]going to be toying my Jeep behind
[4:35]it um you know and i' been really
[4:38]struggling with that how am I going to
[4:39]do this how am I going to go to a gas
[4:42]station
[4:43]um you know driving a big class scene
[4:47]towing a jeep behind it like how how am
[4:49]I going to do that I've never done that
[4:51]you know and I I haven't seen a lot
[4:54]about that um I read a book last night
[4:57]it's pretty short book I I wish wish I
[4:59]could remember the name it was an ebook
[5:01]I read from an
[5:02]RV and he had something to do with um
[5:07]he'd been doing it for seven years and
[5:09]the concept of the book was these are
[5:11]the things I wish I'd known seven years
[5:14]ago and he you know he talked about a
[5:16]lot of things it was a great book U he
[5:19]talked about having to sell your stuff
[5:21]you know all your stuff I've got a house
[5:23]full of stuff just so much
[5:26]stuff um but he never never mentioned
[5:30]the fear of just driving an arvine you
[5:35]know I I I really have trouble picturing
[5:38]me doing that but I know I can you know
[5:43]and I'm going to do it I I'm I've made
[5:46]the decision so that's where I am now
[5:49]I'm I'm at the beginning I'm going
[5:54]to well I have a lot of plans to make
[5:57]basically and I've been I've been doing
[6:00]that um and I got a lot of stuff to sell
[6:03]I have an RV to find I I need
[6:08]to I need
[6:11]to just just so many things right like
[6:14]it's just it's a lot and I want to share
[6:17]that with you I want you guys to see
[6:18]what that's like um cuz I hope it helps
[6:21]somebody else it's a big decision but I
[6:24]think once you make
[6:25]it once you've made that decision you
[6:28]will feel a lot better I I do I
[6:33]I I am so excited to do this like I just
[6:37]know how rewarding it's going to be for
[6:40]me like I just I know that I'm going to
[6:43]love this I know it's going to be
[6:46]challenging I'm not the type of person
[6:51]who um can just
[6:55]ignore the reality of a situation like
[6:58]that's always at the Forefront of my
[6:59]mind mind I know this is going to be
[7:01]hard for me cuz I know me right so I I I
[7:05]just know how much of a challenge it'll
[7:07]be for me to do a lot of things that a
[7:08]lot of people take for
[7:10]granted
[7:11]um you know and and good for them I wish
[7:14]I could it's just that I can't I I I'm
[7:19]an introvert I struggle with being
[7:22]around
[7:23]people um you know it's hard for me it's
[7:25]hard for me to go places it's hard for
[7:27]me just to go anywhere and I've been
[7:29]pretty much locked up in my house ever
[7:31]since covid and that's what four years
[7:33]ago I have not been living it hasn't
[7:36]been a
[7:38]good hasn't been a good way of life and
[7:42]that has to change I had to do
[7:45]something um this wasn't my first idea I
[7:48]was going to buy some land I in December
[7:52]was going to buy some land I wanted to
[7:54]make a campground of my own place for
[7:56]people to come um from scratch I mean
[7:59]that that would have been a big big
[8:01]project fell through I couldn't get the
[8:03]lamb because they couldn't get me a
[8:06]title um but I still had this problem I
[8:10]was
[8:11]unhappy I was unhappy with my job was
[8:15]unhappy with the way I'm
[8:17]living just it wasn't working you know
[8:21]it's just not
[8:25]working I don't know exactly how
[8:30]I decided that RV living was the way for
[8:33]me to go I hadn't been watching anything
[8:36]on YouTube at that point it just was an
[8:38]idea I had
[8:41]um my original idea was that I would
[8:44]find something I could to with my Jeep
[8:45]Wrangler it's a twoo Jeep Wrangler it's
[8:47]a 2023 beautiful it's red it's my third
[8:50]red
[8:51]one I love Jeeps I'm a Jeep guy
[8:56]and I discovered they can't tellw
[8:59]anything they just they can't they can't
[9:01]tellw anything you know well they can
[9:03]tellw a few things right but gener they
[9:05]just they can't tellw much and I have
[9:07]two cats and they're coming with me you
[9:10]know I can't abandon my cats um you'll
[9:12]you'll learn about them because they're
[9:13]going to be a part of this like Bailey
[9:16]he he was abandoned by his mother one
[9:19]day after he was born in winter in
[9:21]Michigan I went up there and got him and
[9:25]you know pretty much raised him from
[9:26]birth
[9:28]he he awesome you know and I mean I
[9:33]still don't understand how how a mother
[9:35]could do that I mean he she just picked
[9:37]up all her babies and went to another
[9:39]porch and left him there this woman she
[9:43]found him out there and took him back to
[9:46]the mother and the mother just rejected
[9:47]it I mean wow right and I'm so grateful
[9:52]and fortunate to have him and then my
[9:55]other cat Oliver
[9:57]he um someone just threw him out of a
[10:00]car here in Kentucky just threw him out
[10:02]of a car into a field I got him on my
[10:05]birthday one year he's I call my
[10:07]birthday cat cuz I just decided I wanted
[10:09]a cat for my birthday so I got him and
[10:11]it was like a few weeks after that that
[10:13]I got
[10:14]Bailey um and since then you know it's
[10:18]been I'm not sure it's been a long time
[10:21]five six years it's about how old they
[10:24]are and you know they're they're my life
[10:27]they have to come with me at to have
[10:29]enough room for them so getting getting
[10:31]back to the point right
[10:33]um my Jeep can only tow 2,000 2,000 lb I
[10:38]I you know I'm thinking wow I have a
[10:40]Jeep Wrangler like this is supposed to
[10:42]be the most rugged vehicle ever made
[10:44]right but you know that's true it's true
[10:47]for you know off-roading things like
[10:49]that it's not true for towing stuff and
[10:53]I I am terrified of
[10:57]towing anything thing um but I thought
[11:01]you know what I could do a a small
[11:04]camper behind my jeep that could work
[11:06]right um no cuz my cat
[11:11]so it just isn't a thing
[11:15]that I have to get over this fear I have
[11:18]get a class
[11:19]C1 and Tow my Jeep behind that cuz I
[11:22]definitely want my Jeep anywhere I go
[11:25]and so that's what I'm going to do I've
[11:27]looked at some I don't know if I'll get
[11:29]a new one or a used one uh the one I'm
[11:32]looking at is new but you know I since
[11:34]having discovered this whole
[11:36]Community
[11:38]um seems to
[11:42]be uh
[11:47]generally I don't know how to say this
[11:49]basically I think people would suggest
[11:52]that I get something used you know
[11:54]something that I can get used to on and
[12:00]um just see how that goes and then if I
[12:02]want something you get it but you know
[12:03]make sure it's it's what I want that I
[12:06]I'm comfortable with it I learn what
[12:09]what features in an RV I need that sort
[12:11]of thing so I'm totally open like I I
[12:15]don't know what I'm going to get yet I
[12:17]just know it'll be Class C cuz I looked
[12:19]at the class B you know the Vans and
[12:21]that just wouldn't work for my cats
[12:23]that's how I look at that one uh it
[12:25]would be easier for me I think but you
[12:27]know no room for my cats situation with
[12:29]like pop-up campers and you know if they
[12:32]have to be under 2,000 lbs you're you're
[12:36]you're you're getting some specialty
[12:38]stuff like really lightweight stuff and
[12:42]they're they're small and you're going
[12:45]to probably do your cooking outside and
[12:48]just you know stuff like that um just
[12:52]not a lot of room and so it just it
[12:54]feels like Class C is the way to go I I
[12:56]do think that I'll do a lot of
[12:57]boondocking like
[12:59]that's something
[13:01]that appeals to me a lot um I don't have
[13:06]to I am fortunate
[13:09]I um I'm I'm a programmer first of all
[13:12]I've been doing that since I was a
[13:14]child and you know I'd say I'm pretty
[13:18]good at it and you know so so I have
[13:20]money I have enough money to buy an
[13:23]arvine um to get all the things I
[13:26]need um
[13:29]so I'm fortunate in that regard and you
[13:32]know so I have a very good start I have
[13:35]to keep working you know I'm not
[13:36]independently wealthy or anything like
[13:38]that I have to keep
[13:40]working um but you know I've got time
[13:43]I've got time to get started to do
[13:46]this and you know I'm very excited
[13:48]there's a lot I'm going to share with
[13:50]you you know I'll just take you around
[13:52]my house
[13:53]and you know show you this is what it
[13:55]looks like I have to sell all this stuff
[13:58]how did I get get all this stuff you
[13:59]know I didn't even need all this stuff I
[14:02]was trying to live a life that was
[14:03]somebody else's it it wasn't mine it
[14:07]never it
[14:10]just I know some of you get
[14:13]it and I guess it's you I'm trying to
[14:15]reach I'm not going to try to be some
[14:17]big YouTuber you know I I consider
[14:20]myself an old guy um no offense to
[14:23]anybody who's older than me I'm like 46
[14:26]now I'll be 47 in two months
[14:30]you know um that's just how I feel at
[14:33]this point in my life I feel like I'm
[14:35]just an old guy who's really going to be
[14:36]interested in me right
[14:39]um probably a pretty select number of
[14:42]people you know and just people are
[14:44]interested in
[14:46]this um this lifestyle and would like to
[14:49]see you know that my thought is you know
[14:51]maybe there are people out there who
[14:53]would like to know what it's like from
[14:55]the beginning cuz I haven't seen that I
[14:57]have been trying to to find videos
[15:00]about people who are afraid to dry ring
[15:03]you know I haven't seen many and
[15:07]and that's a fear I have to get over or
[15:10]get get used to you know I have to
[15:12]become comfortable this is how I
[15:14]describe it I have to become comfortable
[15:16]with the
[15:17]discomfort you know that's
[15:21]what that's the only way I can do this
[15:24]and so that's what led me to YouTube and
[15:27]that's what
[15:30]um made me feel like I could do it too
[15:33]like at that point I felt like okay I
[15:35]can do this I can do
[15:36]it and I want you to see what that's
[15:39]like so I look forward to getting to
[15:41]know you guys thank you bye