Organizing RV Life and Reconnecting with Nature

Speaker is at a lakeside campsite in an RV, spending the day outside organizing and reflecting. The environment is peaceful and isolated, with occasional wildlife encounters. He's in a transitional phase of adjusting to small-space living after previously owning a house.

Energetic Signature

contemplative processing

Field State

stabilization and skill building

Orientation

toward domestic competency and nature re-embedding

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May 7, 2024

10:57

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

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[0:00]there did come a point though where I

[0:01]stopped and then didn't do it again and

[0:04]I'm just

[0:05]like

[0:07]why how could I have let that happen

[0:11]I've been outside almost all day

[0:13]today

[0:15]just relaxing really haven't been doing

[0:18]a whole lot except one side you know

[0:21]I've been

[0:22]organizing such a

[0:25]challenge I'm sitting across from from

[0:28]my site just looking at it

[0:30]there's just

[0:32]something just a unique perspective I've

[0:35]ever imag like it's not something I ever

[0:37]did when I had the house you

[0:39]know this is different and I keep

[0:42]looking at it and it's

[0:46]like it's very hard to describe I

[0:50]haven't I'm processing it I

[0:54]am maybe one day I won't be

[0:57]anymore maybe one day this will just

[1:00]feel like normal

[1:04]life it feels good though does feel

[1:08]good despite the challenges it it it's

[1:11]pretty awesome

[1:18]actually just need more time more

[1:21]practice

[1:23]more healing More

[1:27]Everything more time

[1:34]yeah all day I've been out here just by

[1:37]myself there's nobody else back here

[1:39]it's just

[1:40]me every once in a while a car drives

[1:43]through or um occasionally someone will

[1:46]walk by but not today

[1:50]actually see deer one was like 10 ft

[1:53]from me that was so

[1:56]cool watch this little Tail Wag it's say

[2:00]himself a lot I'm like he probably has

[2:02]sck right didn't want to get too

[2:06]close but it was a neat I mean he was

[2:08]just like right

[2:11]there completely unbothered by

[2:16]me have the like in the background can't

[2:19]really see it but it's

[2:25]there w't be long and I'll be moving on

[2:31]trying to get organized before that

[2:33]happens just looked around my camper and

[2:35]thought you know that one storage Bay

[2:38]that I put full of gaming books and

[2:40]stuff I starting to think maybe I'm

[2:43]ready to let them go they just don't fit

[2:46]this lifestyle they

[2:51]don't guess I could take them to my

[2:53]parents house don't really have the room

[2:56]though even in my

[2:58]Jeep I mean it's crazy like the whole

[3:01]back of my jeep's just towing gear and

[3:04]the braking system you know for when you

[3:07]tow it

[3:09]and I mean it's just a little twodo

[3:12]Jeeps doesn't have a lot of room it's

[3:15]full of jeep stuff so there's no room

[3:17]for anything

[3:19]else yeah that camper the storage base

[3:22]one of them is all cleaning supplies and

[3:25]Propane fuel for

[3:27]my uh my grill and

[3:30]another is just all RV stuff just full

[3:33]of RV stuff that you have to

[3:35]have you know hoses and adapters and you

[3:40]know all of that another one is camping

[3:43]gear and the stuff that you lift your

[3:45]vehicle up with if something happens you

[3:47]have to change a tire

[3:49]whatever and that

[3:53]leaves that leaves two storage Bays one

[3:56]that's got books in it that probably

[3:57]shouldn't be there and another one that

[3:59]can store two of these big blue bags

[4:03]that I have and you know keeps things

[4:05]waterproof and I just put other bags

[4:07]inside of that all disorganized all kind

[4:10]of really random in

[4:11]there but if that's all you can work

[4:14]with it's like you're going to go out

[4:17]there all the time having to find the

[4:19]particular bag that you need and when

[4:21]you're done put it away or it takes no

[4:24]time at all and there's just chaos in

[4:27]there I haven't gotten to that point yet

[4:30]I'm still dealing with the initial chaos

[4:33]like every time I go to my parents house

[4:35]I come back with something like art

[4:36]supplies this time and there's just no

[4:39]room for any of it

[4:41]it's I don't know how van life is

[4:45]doing um I think a lot of Vans are the

[4:48]size of my camper that I started to

[4:50]notice that I mean some are you know

[4:52]very small and I I

[4:55]um I have a lot of respect for what

[4:57]they're doing

[5:00]a lot of them are my size though I think

[5:03]and I mean it doesn't matter the point

[5:07]is it's really hard to live in a small

[5:11]space yeah and that is a part of the

[5:15]adjustment you go through is just trying

[5:17]to do that especially when you're not an

[5:19]organized person like would not call

[5:23]myself like I I what I used to say is

[5:26]I'm not like I'm not good at the

[5:29]domestic stuff I never was like

[5:33]ever I have to get good at it or this

[5:36]life will not work for me it's just too

[5:39]much chaos in there I don't want to be

[5:41]in there it's

[5:43]just what slowly I've been working on it

[5:46]and today I was working on the pantry I

[5:49]feel like I made progress

[5:52]there

[5:54]um but there's still a lot I got to

[5:57]figure out I got to figure out the

[5:58]kitchen I have to figure figure out the

[6:01]bathroom my office area very

[6:04]messy and nowhere from my art suppli is

[6:08]truly

[6:09]nowhere so I'm

[6:11]thinking it's probably time to put that

[6:13]other net up but it will fall down and

[6:16]it'll be pretty close to where my

[6:17]monitor sits I don't know if it'll work

[6:20]but I have to

[6:22]try I think that's what will end up

[6:24]happening is art supplies and office

[6:27]supplies will just end up in this and

[6:29]that above above the

[6:33]table there's nowhere else to do

[6:36]it I just I have to installed I'm not

[6:38]good at that like there's quite a few

[6:41]holes in my camper now that shouldn't be

[6:44]there cuz I'm not very good at it I've

[6:47]never really done anything like

[6:49]that it'll probably take me a few

[6:53]hours and then all that's left are just

[6:55]a few cabinets you know above the cab

[6:58]area

[7:00]and those aren't organized either

[7:03]so guess I have some some room to

[7:08]work just have to do it and I'm trying

[7:12]to motivate myself to do it just keep

[7:15]coming out here and just

[7:17]relaxing it's a nice day Lake looks very

[7:21]nice been staring at that all day I just

[7:24]came over here

[7:32]I hope you guys are having a good

[7:35]day I'd say I

[7:41]am I mean I don't want to spend every

[7:43]video telling you guys how I'm going

[7:45]through withraw you know like like

[7:48]that's over but it's not I

[7:52]guess now it's is mental health it's

[7:56]ridiculous mostly I think I've been

[7:58]pretty

[8:00]pretty okay today it really helps to

[8:02]just be outside just just be

[8:05]outside like when we were kids like we

[8:07]used to

[8:09]just I used to just spend so much time

[8:13]outdoors in the woods and the parks and

[8:17]just

[8:21]exploring I was thinking a lot about

[8:23]that today a couple of times that came

[8:25]up it's just like when when did I stop

[8:29]doing

[8:34]that I mean I went hiking for a good

[8:37]long part of my life into adulthood

[8:40]so didn't lose that in childhood it

[8:48]didn't there did come a point though

[8:50]where I stopped and then didn't do it

[8:52]again and I'm just

[8:54]like

[8:56]why how could I have let that happen

[9:02]I I would be in a very different state

[9:05]of mind and position in life if I had

[9:08]just kept doing that

[9:11]because nothing centered me more than

[9:14]just hiking being out in nature it is

[9:16]the most centering thing I know of and I

[9:19]used to call it

[9:20]like what did I I think I used to just

[9:23]call it like living proac or something

[9:24]it

[9:26]just as long as I did it every day I

[9:28]felt centered

[9:31]so I certainly unored myself

[9:34]because it has been a long

[9:38]time not sure how long I I tried

[9:41]thinking of that and I think it could

[9:43]have been 10 years now which is kind of

[9:46]shocking to me not a thing I'd want to

[9:49]admit

[9:51]either but I know I didn't hike the 3

[9:53]and A2 years I was at my house or the 2

[9:56]years I was living in an apartment or

[9:58]the years before that that I lived with

[10:01]my parents or the years before that

[10:02]where I lived in a different

[10:04]house like I was hiking

[10:08]there I don't remember when I stopped

[10:11]that must have been it that must have

[10:12]been

[10:16]one it's too

[10:19]bad not to be you know all nostalgic and

[10:22]all doesn't matter I

[10:25]mean I'm doing it now you know it's

[10:28]never too too late you can always make

[10:31]new

[10:32]choices that's what I want to remind you

[10:35]of if you're like me and you do

[10:39]something like that or whatever it is

[10:41]really there's something that centers

[10:43]you and you've stop doing it maybe maybe

[10:46]try to do it

[10:48]again don't let too much time go by it

[10:51]gets harder and harder to go back

[10:53]to when you do that

Summary

rswfire spends the day outside by a lake, reflecting on the challenges of organizing life in a small RV space. He sits across from his campsite observing it from a unique perspective he never experienced when living in a house. **Storage organization** is a major challenge - the RV has limited storage bays filled with cleaning supplies, propane, RV equipment, camping gear, and gaming books he's considering letting go. He worked on organizing the pantry and needs to tackle the kitchen, bathroom, and office area. Art supplies have no designated space, requiring installation of another storage net.

He encounters a deer that came within 10 feet, completely unbothered by his presence. The area is isolated with occasional cars or walkers passing by. He reflects on **childhood outdoor experiences** and realizes he stopped hiking approximately 10 years ago, recognizing this as a significant loss since nature was the most centering activity he knew. He encourages others not to let too much time pass before returning to activities that center them, as it becomes harder to go back.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission maps the somatic and infrastructural challenges of transitioning from house-based to mobile field existence. The field is actively building domestic competency as survival architecture while processing the recursive question of how centering practices were abandoned and can be reclaimed.

Dominant Language

centered/centeringchaos/organizedstopped doinglet that happentoo much timenever too latesmall space

Symbolic Elements

thresholdcontainerwildernessdeerlakechaosorganization

Ontological States

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transitional
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embedded
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learning
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integrating

Subsystems

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somatic
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infrastructural
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cognitive
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emotional

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1280 × 720 @ 30fps

Duration

10:57

Bitrate

700 kbps

Codec

avc1.4d401f