Recording First RV Adventure Video

Speaker is at home in Lexington, Kentucky, recording on their phone due to lack of proper equipment. They appear tired from several nights of poor sleep following an RV dealership visit. Surgery is scheduled for the following day. They are in an active preparation phase, selling household items and buying RV supplies, with cat equipment deliveries expected that day.

Energetic Signature

nervous anticipation

Field State

threshold preparation

Orientation

toward community witness

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February 25, 2024

10:05

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

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[0:01]hey everyone welcome back thank you for

[0:04]joining

[0:04]me um please bear with me I am recording

[0:07]this for my

[0:10]phone I don't really have the equipment

[0:13]for this I I didn't know I was going to

[0:15]do this so this is a very new experience

[0:17]for me um and and actually that's what I

[0:21]I want to address that first um just the

[0:23]video quality if I do keep doing this I

[0:25]will I will invest in a better camera um

[0:28]I'll learn some video editing

[0:30]software and you know I'll definitely

[0:32]improve the quality of my video over

[0:35]time um this was a very uh spontaneous

[0:39]thing I decided to do um I'm honestly

[0:42]quite surprised that I'm doing it cuz I

[0:44]I never really pictured myself on video

[0:47]before um but I just I really do want to

[0:49]share my experience with you and I hope

[0:52]that others get enjoyment out of it and

[0:54]if they do you know that that'll be

[0:56]wonderful and I'll keep doing it um I

[0:58]also I'm doing it for my my family when

[1:01]I'm out there um I want them to see what

[1:04]we're up to I want them to see me and my

[1:06]cats I want them

[1:08]to know we're safe you know I want them

[1:11]to see that we're happy that we're doing

[1:13]well so that's just really the first

[1:15]thing I wanted to address today um when

[1:17]I woke up this morning I felt a little

[1:20]self-conscious um that I had even posted

[1:23]you know my first video but that quickly

[1:25]passed I I actually feel really good

[1:28]about this I'm not sure why to be honest

[1:32]um I just I think it's a very cool thing

[1:35]to try to do so um please bear with me

[1:38]it'll get better over time I

[1:40]promise um second I just wanted to

[1:43]know if I look tired it's because I am I

[1:47]haven't slept in days um you know I've

[1:50]slept a little but I've just I've had

[1:51]trouble sleeping the past three nights

[1:54]um it started when I Vis visited an RV

[1:57]dealership uh I picked a Class C there

[1:59]that I really liked and when I left

[2:04]there I was supposed to come back the

[2:06]next morning cuz the sales person was

[2:08]going to actually drive me around with

[2:09]it you know try to get me to feel more

[2:12]comfortable to buy it from her and when

[2:15]I got home I just started thinking about

[2:17]all the challenges I'd have like like

[2:18]gas stations and I just

[2:21]didn't I wasn't ready so that was the

[2:24]night that I started looking at YouTube

[2:26]videos and discovered this enormous

[2:28]Community yet which is just

[2:30]amazing uh and it started to make me

[2:32]feel a lot more comfortable one of the

[2:34]things that helped a lot was seeing a

[2:35]lot of um solo female rvers out there

[2:39]like I totally applaud you

[2:41]guys it takes so much bravery to do

[2:44]something like this and you helped me to

[2:48]feel like I could do it too I just thank

[2:50]you so much for that um I'm a big fan of

[2:54]a lot of you that I'm learning

[2:57]about so that first night I was up all

[2:59]night long and I was supposed to be

[3:01]there in the morning and I just I

[3:02]couldn't do it so I I just postponed it

[3:05]I'm going to do it in the middle of next

[3:06]week um cuz like I have surgery tomorrow

[3:09]like I said in my first video probably

[3:11]need a few days to just heal up and then

[3:13]I'll I'll go back out there and then the

[3:16]second night um when I posted my first

[3:18]video just super excited about this

[3:21]adventure I I just can't wait to get

[3:23]started so I didn't sleep very well and

[3:27]that's just how it's just how the last

[3:29]couple of days have gone for me um and

[3:32]also it's Modern Life right we just

[3:34]don't get enough sleep and you know

[3:37]that's one thing I'm hoping will

[3:39]change um

[3:41]so oh I wanted to tell you guys

[3:45]yesterday I told you I didn't remember

[3:47]how I got this idea into my head and I

[3:50]remembered just a couple weeks ago I

[3:53]drove my Jeep from um Lexington Kentucky

[3:55]that's where I live uh to Phoenix

[3:57]Arizona and that's where one of my

[3:59]clients Liv I worked with him for seven

[4:01]eight years now it's our first time

[4:03]meeting a person um all that time and I

[4:07]just drove there 2,000 miles it was it

[4:10]was so awesome I loved it and I saw some

[4:14]RV dealerships you know off the side of

[4:16]the highway and once you get to the

[4:18]western states they have they have

[4:20]different it seems like they have

[4:21]different campers because they're just

[4:23]rows and rows of these small campers and

[4:26]I thought wow my Jeep could tow that now

[4:29]I'm not sure what they were I don't see

[4:31]them anywhere in the eastern states I

[4:33]don't see them in

[4:35]Kentucky and I haven't really seen them

[4:37]online either like whatever I was seeing

[4:40]it just felt like a western thing and I

[4:44]don't know if they really could you know

[4:45]if my Jeep really could tow

[4:49]them but I'm guessing probably not you

[4:51]know they probably 3 4,000 lbs it just

[4:55]seems to be like what it's like even

[4:57]with the small

[4:58]ones but but that's what got the idea in

[5:00]my head and I went in you know once I

[5:03]got to Arizona I went through the

[5:04]mountains I lived there as a kid i'

[5:06]forgotten how beautiful those mountains

[5:08]are I just fell in love with those

[5:10]mountains both on the way there and the

[5:11]way back I

[5:15]just it sparked something in me and then

[5:18]on my way back you know I'm seeing these

[5:20]RV dealerships again and it's in my head

[5:22]it's in my head you know maybe I can

[5:24]tellw something with my Jeep because I

[5:26]didn't think I could do it the other way

[5:28]around I have to tell you I feel a lot

[5:30]more comfortable with the idea now after

[5:33]watching a lot of things um on

[5:36]YouTube and joining a few groups on

[5:38]Facebook and actually I wanted to

[5:39]mention that um there's there's a woman

[5:42]named Natalie who had posted something

[5:47]in a Facebook group just asking what

[5:48]were your

[5:49]fears and I just said gas station and

[5:52]she gave me a really good advice she

[5:54]told me that what she does is she pulls

[5:56]up her RV GPS looks at Satellite Mall

[5:59]mod checks out the gas stations you know

[6:01]in front of her you know ahead of where

[6:04]she's going and she looks for the ones

[6:07]that have two two

[6:10]exits so that it's easier for her to get

[6:12]in and out and she just you know she

[6:14]looks for the bigger ones and and I'm

[6:15]like wow like perfect idea and it turns

[6:19]out that she's a full-time camper and

[6:21]she

[6:22]has uh an Instagram and I just wanted to

[6:25]call her out and say thank you um I

[6:28]don't know how to put anything on this

[6:29]screen yet so I just did this she's on

[6:32]Instagram Fearless Fairy Godmother so

[6:35]maybe check her out if you want

[6:37]to um so that's

[6:40]my

[6:42]um you

[6:44]know that's just that's just how I'm

[6:46]doing things

[6:48]today also I had this interesting idea I

[6:52]think I am in the buying and selling

[6:54]phase of this transition I'm selling

[6:57]everything in my house but but I'm

[7:00]buying new stuff for my RV right so I'm

[7:04]thinking this is the buying and selling

[7:05]phase and when that's over you're just

[7:07]closer to your dream and I have some

[7:10]stuff coming today that's why I think

[7:12]this oh I'm sorry I didn't even mention

[7:13]it I think this will probably be in two

[7:15]parts I don't know how

[7:17]to um you know combine two videos yet so

[7:21]just thought I'd start with this one and

[7:23]then when the stuff gets here then I'll

[7:25]make a second video but I have some

[7:26]stuff coming for my cats and I want you

[7:28]know I'm going to I'm going to introduce

[7:31]you to them and I'm going to show you

[7:33]how they live here and then how I want I

[7:36]expect them to live with me in an RV

[7:40]so um it's important to me that you know

[7:43]they're happy that they're

[7:45]getting enjoyment out of the experience

[7:50]too um you know they like to come

[7:52]outside they like to be outside but I

[7:53]don't let them run free they they have

[7:56]um they have like a screened intent that

[7:59]outside that I put them in when I'm

[8:01]outside with them um but I don't feel

[8:04]like it's big enough for what we're

[8:05]going to do so I have found some really

[8:07]cool stuff that's modular that you can

[8:10]kind of put in all kinds of different

[8:12]ways and could give them a lot of time

[8:17]Outdoors

[8:19]um and I just think that they'll love it

[8:21]and I just want to share that with you

[8:23]we're just I'm just going to assemble it

[8:25]see how long that takes um you know and

[8:28]then take it apart see how long that

[8:29]takes cuz that's going to be what my

[8:30]life is like every time we move and

[8:33]we're just going to put them in there

[8:35]and let them play and and just see how

[8:36]that

[8:38]goes so that is my plan for the second

[8:42]part of this um just bear with me guys I

[8:45]love what I'm doing

[8:47]here

[8:50]um and I just I hope that some of you

[8:53]get something out of this I really don't

[8:55]expect to have like a big following or

[8:57]anything like that I I really want you

[9:00]know like my mother my family to be able

[9:03]to find some of my friends there's some

[9:05]friends

[9:06]who feel like they're going to live

[9:08]vicariously through me they've said I

[9:10]have some friends in Ukraine um who I

[9:13]love dearly they're following along I'm

[9:16]friends in Michigan or I'm from

[9:18]originally you it's really you know it's

[9:21]I kind of think I have them in mind but

[9:22]I also have just just you know the the

[9:26]community in general mind hoping that we

[9:29]might connect and I'm trying to be as

[9:31]authentic as I can be I don't want to I

[9:35]don't want to make multiple takes of

[9:37]something um if I say something wrong I

[9:39]mean that's just being human you know I

[9:41]want you to get to know the real me and

[9:43]that way if we do um and end up meeting

[9:46]somewhere along you know this wonderful

[9:48]country of ours that you feel like

[9:51]you've already got to know me and you're

[9:52]not you're not being somebody else so I

[9:55]guess that's it for now uh I'll be back

[9:57]when my cat stuff is here really excited

[9:59]thank you

[10:03]bye

Summary

The speaker records their second video about transitioning to RV life, addressing video quality concerns and explaining their spontaneous decision to start documenting the journey. They discuss recent sleepless nights caused by visiting an RV dealership and discovering the YouTube RV community. **Key events include:** postponing an RV test drive due to anxiety about challenges like gas stations, finding comfort in solo female RVer content, and remembering how a recent drive to Phoenix sparked their RV interest after seeing small towable campers in western states.

The speaker shares practical advice received from Natalie (Fearless Fairy Godmother on Instagram) about using RV GPS and satellite view to scout gas stations with dual exits. They describe being in a "buying and selling phase" - selling household items while purchasing RV supplies. **Upcoming plans include:** surgery the next day, returning to the RV dealership mid-week, and creating a second video featuring their cats and new modular outdoor equipment for them.

The speaker emphasizes authenticity in their videos, wanting family and friends (including those in Ukraine and Michigan) to follow their journey. They express hope for connecting with the RV community while maintaining realistic expectations about their audience size.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission establishes documentation infrastructure while navigating pre-transition anxiety. The field is building witness capacity and community connection protocols as preparation for major structural change, using transparency as both anchor and bridge.

Dominant Language

authenticbear with mespontaneouscommunityreal metransitionbuying and selling phase

Symbolic Elements

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Ontological States

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transitional
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vulnerable
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building
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connecting

Subsystems

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relational
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infrastructural
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emotional
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cognitive

Transmission Details

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