[0:01]hey guys so I realized I have not really
[0:05]shared much about
[0:07]myself um in my first video I said it
[0:09]was about me but I didn't really tell
[0:13]you much about me did I U first of all
[0:15]my name is Sam and I'm just going
[0:19]to just give you a
[0:22]brief story about my life so far um but
[0:27]I'm going to start with what
[0:31]got me into this
[0:33]so I framed this probably isn't going to
[0:36]look too great I wish I could do better
[0:38]here guys I really
[0:40]do um let's see if
[0:43]I maybe this will work better so this
[0:46]picture
[0:47]here this is the land I was going to buy
[0:50]back in December so it was winter
[0:53]time uh it was like 18 acres in Campton
[0:57]Kentucky absolutely beautiful I walked
[0:59]walked up there and just
[1:03]had just had so many dreams about what I
[1:06]would do to this land I was going to
[1:07]make like I said a campground it wasn't
[1:09]going to be an RV campground I never
[1:11]made that
[1:13]clear it was going to be tent camping
[1:16]and cabins like I wanted to learn to
[1:18]start building stuff and I was going to
[1:20]make trails and just all kinds of things
[1:23]like that would have been such a
[1:24]wonderful thing to do but it also would
[1:28]have been very expensive
[1:31]and I don't have that kind of money so
[1:33]it's probably a good thing that it fell
[1:35]through because it was kind of impulsive
[1:38]I don't even remember I was actually do
[1:40]so I was just watching all these things
[1:43]on my
[1:45]television like you know just people who
[1:48]are living off grid you in Alaska and
[1:51]stuff like that um the different kind of
[1:54]tiny homes people were building you know
[1:57]stuff like that and it just got me
[2:02]inspired and so I started looking at
[2:04]Landon and I found that one and it just
[2:06]would have been perfect I frame
[2:09]that you know as a way of trying to
[2:13]manifest it and then when my deal fell
[2:16]through and I
[2:18]couldn't get that land I I still kept it
[2:21]because that's what got me started it it
[2:24]awakened something in me that that I'd
[2:26]lost for a long time so let me just take
[2:28]you through some of my history
[2:31]I'm 46 years old I'll be 47 in
[2:35]April my parents moved us around a lot I
[2:38]have one brother he's a year younger
[2:40]than me my parents moved us around a lot
[2:44]so I lived in Michigan Flint Michigan
[2:46]until fourth
[2:48]grade and then we moved to Arizona my my
[2:53]dad bought a bus and we took a bus to
[2:55]Arizona so we stayed at koas along the
[2:58]way which you know that that was a fun
[3:00]experience and we get
[3:03]to Arizona and we live so many places
[3:07]there Phoenix Glendale Scottdale Phoenix
[3:10]again like fourth to seventh grade I was
[3:13]just somewhere else every year which was
[3:16]hard for me as an introvert but um you
[3:20]know it is what it is and then in eighth
[3:23]grade we moved to
[3:25]Arkansas and then in ninth grade we
[3:27]moved back to Michigan
[3:30]um I went to the same high school for
[3:32]three years and then I we moved to
[3:35]Flushing and that's where my senior year
[3:39]was
[3:41]so you know I've been quite a few
[3:44]places
[3:46]and for some kids that's like a great
[3:50]experience it wasn't for me always
[3:52]having to make new
[3:53]friends you know meet new people like
[3:56]that was super hard I it made me
[4:01]very cautious of people you know often
[4:03]times I was the nerd in school and I was
[4:06]always the new kid and just it was just
[4:08]a bad experience for me I think my
[4:10]brother handled it way better than I
[4:13]did and so those things have influenced
[4:16]my life as an adult
[4:19]and as I've gotten older I've started to
[4:24]realize just how much of an impact
[4:26]that's had on me and I'm trying to be a
[4:28]different person I'm trying try to be a
[4:30]better version of myself I'm not trying
[4:31]to be a different person just a better
[4:33]version of
[4:35]myself so some other things I'd share
[4:38]with you is when I was in Arizona I was
[4:41]in the Boy Scouts and I loved that like
[4:43]I absolutely loved it we hiked the
[4:46]Superstition Mountains the Grand Canyon
[4:49]we went um exploring in a cave called
[4:52]pepper sauce cave I remember that always
[4:54]because I got lost in there by
[4:57]myself um they were going going up this
[5:00]this slide like they're just going up a
[5:02]tunnel that was really slippery I was
[5:04]the one in the back and I slid down and
[5:06]they didn't know so I got lost in there
[5:09]uh we went to Mexico where I had the
[5:12]best Mexican pizza of my life that like
[5:14]to this day I remember it I had a lot of
[5:17]great experiences in the Boy
[5:20]Scouts and it's probably what ignited my
[5:23]my love for being outdoors and camping
[5:25]and stuff like
[5:26]that so as an adult
[5:30]when I you know just a young adult 19 20
[5:34]whatever I'd go camping places like I
[5:37]took a Greyhound down to Kentucky I
[5:40]lived in Michigan at the time so down to
[5:42]Kentucky and then down to Louisiana I
[5:44]went to see a friend there um and I just
[5:47]went you know I'd go camping alone and
[5:49]another thing I always did was just a
[5:51]lot of hiking always hiking my favorite
[5:53]place is the Natural Bridge State Resort
[5:55]Park here in Kentucky when I first moved
[5:58]here everybody body suggested I go there
[6:01]went there fell in love with it I've
[6:03]hiked every Trail there a hundred times
[6:05]including the very long one that takes
[6:07]like I don't know you know it's an all
[6:10]day
[6:11]event um and I just I love that kind of
[6:15]nature so I just that's where my land
[6:18]was very close to there I was it would
[6:20]have just been such a wonderful dream
[6:22]for me but probably undoable at this
[6:25]point in my life maybe 5 10 years from
[6:27]now I could do something like that like
[6:30]it's still something that I want to do
[6:33]it's something I want to do so I'm
[6:35]thinking you know if I'm out there on
[6:37]the road like I'll get to learn more
[6:40]about the country you know the different
[6:43]places in our country and maybe I'll
[6:46]fall in love with some place cuz like
[6:47]another thing is I've always thought I'd
[6:49]love to live in Asheville North
[6:52]Carolina it's probably you know I
[6:54]probably would love that
[6:57]so you know maybe somewhere along the
[7:00]way I find a cabin I want to buy and you
[7:02]know
[7:04]so like I'm just very excited to do
[7:08]this um I guess that I guess that's all
[7:11]I really want to say I mean just want to
[7:14]give you a little bit of information
[7:15]about
[7:16]me um and why you know I just love
[7:20]nature so when I'm on this adventure I'm
[7:23]going to everywhere I go I'm going to be
[7:24]hiking and I'm you know I'm going to be
[7:27]exploring and I'll take video
[7:29]and pictures and I'll probably start a
[7:32]blog that nobody has to watch but me you
[7:36]know just cuz it's going to be full of
[7:37]pictures that just look like every other
[7:40]picture because that's what I do I take
[7:42]lots of pictures and you know a lot of
[7:45]people aren't going to it's just not
[7:47]going to be interesting to them but I
[7:49]want to document like I think I'm going
[7:52]to make a website where and maybe you
[7:55]know there probably are quite a few by
[7:57]now I guess but you know 20 years ago I
[8:00]wanted to do this I mentioned that and
[8:02]my plan was just to make a
[8:04]website where you could really
[8:07]experience uh the national and state
[8:09]parks so that you
[8:11]knew if you were going to go there what
[8:14]it would be like and just encourage
[8:18]people to get out there and that's what
[8:19]I'm trying to do
[8:21]now also for myself for many many
[8:24]reasons you can probably guess some of
[8:26]them
[8:27]so you know I'm really outside my
[8:30]comfort
[8:32]zone
[8:34]um
[8:36]but if you you know the the alternative
[8:40]is to do nothing with your life so um I
[8:44]don't want that I am way outside my
[8:46]comfort zone and I'm just pushing myself
[8:48]through it and you know just taking
[8:51]these videos and talking to you guys all
[8:54]of the stuff way outside my comfort zone
[8:57]but I feel like if I keep keep doing it
[9:00]it's going to get easier and better and
[9:03]I just I'm so excited for this adventure
[9:07]I'm so close to doing it I can't wait so
[9:10]that's all thanks for listening