Moving RV After 90 Days, Taking Luna to Shelter

Early morning departure day from Smith Ridge campground in Kentucky, cold weather at 57°F requiring heating. The speaker has been stationary at this location for 90 days and is preparing to move to Baron River Lake. They are dealing with the stress of RV maintenance issues and the difficult decision about Luna the kitten.

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August 22, 2024

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[0:01]good morning humans it's 7 in the

[0:03]morning it's 57° out there in

[0:08]here they have to bring the ceramic

[0:11]heater

[0:13]and soon cold kind of

[0:19]cold I want some blankets around his

[0:24]cave so that she would be warm and me's

[0:27]just getting cuddled up to me

[0:33]I like the Colder Weather

[0:35]though I think

[0:38]I I need my ceramer

[0:43]though today is one of those challenging

[0:46]days

[0:48]because you know I have to drive the RV

[0:51]and this time we're Towing my Jeep so

[0:54]there's a hill here it's like when I

[0:58]first got here 90 days ago when I

[1:00]detached my Jeep it started rolling

[1:02]backwards so I know better this

[1:05]time I'm not sure where I'm going to

[1:07]hook it up and I'd been thinking about

[1:09]it for

[1:10]days I think the best I can probably I'm

[1:13]wondering how other people do it but I

[1:15]hadn't noticed so I can't

[1:17]really um there's nobody here now so I

[1:20]wasn't paying

[1:23]attention I think down by the dump

[1:26]station maybe it's more flat so that's

[1:28]where I need to do it so it's probably

[1:30]what we're going to do

[1:32]today um a checkin time at the other

[1:35]place is um I think I think it's 2 it's

[1:39]2: in the afternoon and and they an hour

[1:42]behind me so really

[1:45]3 so I can't actually leave for like six

[1:48]hours kind of

[1:51]early that gives me time to you

[1:54]know take my time at this I like doing

[1:57]that I like I don't like crushing the

[1:59]part I like doing it

[2:02]slow can hardly believe it's been 90

[2:04]days something I'm on the same site

[2:08]where I started or something poetic

[2:09]about

[2:12]that of course I you

[2:15]know I made that choice a couple days

[2:18]ago

[2:23]but it's going to be a good

[2:26]day this is my sight there's nobody

[2:29]really here's over there so you know

[2:33]she's got a top part to her cage too so

[2:35]she's up

[2:36]there but yeah it's pretty

[2:40]cold nobody

[2:45]here me hanging

[2:53]out that's my other site when I moov

[2:56]from here to that one before going into

[2:58]the

[2:58]woods where that truck is at um those

[3:02]people have been there since I moved

[3:04]from

[3:09]there morning is

[3:12]here I'm sitting here in front of the

[3:15]ceramic eater woo it's cold just trying

[3:20]to think about what did I learn while I

[3:22]was here 90 days that's a long

[3:26]time as far as the RV lifestyle

[3:30]I don't feel like I learned a lot

[3:32]because I've been

[3:34]stationary um I did get more comfortable

[3:38]like living here this is

[3:40]home so that's a good thing probably

[3:42]needed that time to just acclimate and

[3:46]feel like this is definitely a home for

[3:47]me I learned a lot about myself other

[3:51]people I had

[3:53]my I was

[3:55]thinking I had my my views of be all

[4:00]kind of confirmed with Luna which is sad

[4:03]cuz I don't want to think that way I

[4:04]don't want to feel that

[4:07]way it's hard for

[4:10]me not to though

[4:13]because it's it's gets confirmed through

[4:16]all the different ways that I interact

[4:18]with the world

[4:20]and observe it you know so that

[4:25]part I would love to see the good in

[4:28]humanity but I don't see it I used to

[4:32]when I was younger but I don't see it

[4:35]anymore I just see a lot of selfish

[4:37]people who are just tuned out

[4:44]and it's just a very disappointing

[4:50]reality but I didn't learn a whole lot

[4:52]here I

[4:56]just I will you know now I'm going to be

[5:00]moving a lot

[5:02]so it's

[5:05]cold a lot did happen here I discovered

[5:08]like

[5:10]Cumberland I quit smoking I um quit

[5:14]talking to my parents I learn I'm alone

[5:16]in the world you

[5:18]know I guess not

[5:21]entirely there are a few of you out

[5:23]there

[5:25]that show an interest who

[5:28]care what you you know I'm just on a

[5:31]physical personal level I'm alone

[5:34]so

[5:38]um I'm okay with that you know I'm not

[5:42]really the type to complain I know that

[5:43]not everyone gets that I'm just

[5:46]recounting my thoughts and people seem

[5:49]to think

[5:51]that's um I just I process the world

[5:55]differently than other people and I'm

[5:57]okay with that too I actually like me I

[5:59]like the way I

[6:03]am so we're going to

[6:06]have it's going to be a busy day busy

[6:09]morning I got some cleaning to do back

[6:11]here I did the cab area but need to work

[6:14]around Luna's cage area and the floor

[6:17]here and the rugs

[6:19]and um I couldn't figure out where to

[6:22]put the rugs though I'm kind of run out

[6:25]of

[6:26]space in garbage Pags to put them in I

[6:29]feel

[6:30]like feel like they should be sealed up

[6:33]in case there's any fleas I haven't seen

[6:35]any

[6:37]though I don't know I'm cautiously

[6:40]optimistic about that situation I need

[6:42]to blow my

[6:45]nose Luna's having a rough morning she

[6:48]was up top I had

[6:50]a flannel shirt up there for her she

[6:53]pooped all over it had to throw that

[6:56]out um I'm not sure what to put up there

[7:00]because anything I put up there

[7:02]is just got to stay warm

[7:05]though it's best I can do for this

[7:08]morning she's not really

[7:13]eating I cleaned her

[7:17]around um guess we'll keep an eye on

[7:22]her I have some bad news guys I'm going

[7:25]to take Luna to an animal shelter this

[7:28]morning

[7:32]um I just I can't take care of her in

[7:35]this environment

[7:37]she's it's

[7:40]deeply difficult and problematic her

[7:42]situation

[7:45]and I just can't so I'm going to take

[7:48]her to an animal

[7:50]shelter uh the rescues wouldn't help her

[7:52]but I assume that the shelter will so

[7:55]I'm just going to go there this morning

[7:56]they open in an hour and going drive

[7:58]down there and talk to them

[8:01]um might have been different if people

[8:03]helped me more but I you know there's

[8:07]that and

[8:10]then

[8:12]she's she needs a different environment

[8:14]this one is too small she's in a cage

[8:17]again she's not using the letter box

[8:20]consistently I know she's young and she

[8:23]needs

[8:24]time it's just it's impossible for me to

[8:27]do it in this environment so

[8:31]I will miss her we can be proud of the

[8:33]fact that we got her healthy she's alive

[8:37]you know she's

[8:39]well um she's young someone will adopt

[8:42]her

[8:45]I I now know that this is not something

[8:49]I can do in this little tiny RV it

[8:51]simply can't be done so we got her

[8:54]healthy that's what

[8:56]matters this space is just too small to

[8:59]care for a kitten with her needs it just

[9:02]it can't be done I've

[9:06]tried there is no

[9:09]room there is no space for

[9:13]this I'm sorry

[9:16]Luna I really wanted to give you a good

[9:18]life with

[9:20]me I wish that I could I truly do but I

[9:23]don't think that I can I'm not

[9:27]capable I tried

[9:30]I genuinely

[9:32]tried not going to say that was a

[9:34]pleasant experience at first they're

[9:36]like you can release her out

[9:38]here and she'll be

[9:40]fed I'm at the local County

[9:44]shelter they took her inside though I

[9:47]think that they're you know I just kept

[9:50]pushing I'm like look I found her on a

[9:52]campground she needs help you need to

[9:54]help her here's all of her things here's

[9:56]a dog kennel you know she needs you so I

[10:03]can't do it I'm sorry guys I wish I

[10:05]could this is very hard for me but I

[10:08]want you to see that I didn't just drop

[10:09]her off like somebody else she is at a

[10:13]shelter that is the best that I could do

[10:15]for her I got her healthy and I brought

[10:17]her to a

[10:22]shelter that these are the systems that

[10:24]humans have created for caring for these

[10:27]animals is unbelievable to

[10:30]me I get there and she's like you can

[10:32]just release her here there's a bunch of

[10:34]older cats out there who you you know

[10:36]probably been there forever there's food

[10:39]everywhere and I'm like this is a tiny

[10:42]kitten

[10:45]like I got her healthy take care of her

[10:49]I really had to keep pushing at her

[10:50]about

[10:52]this I'm not happy about the situation

[10:55]but you know what I cannot save

[10:59]I can't do it I can't I just I am not

[11:02]equipped to do it first of all I'm still

[11:04]struggling with this lifestyle like I'm

[11:06]literally having trouble living in an

[11:10]RV

[11:13]and I just it compounded the stress so

[11:16]much that I was crying yesterday like I

[11:18]literally cannot do

[11:20]it and the County shelter is like just

[11:23]release her right here just release her

[11:26]which I wouldn't do I made her take her

[11:29]made her get her name take her inside

[11:32]gave her the stuff you know the the dog

[11:35]kennel and all of her food and she took

[11:37]her inside I think they'll care for her

[11:39]I'm sure they have a Facebook page and

[11:41]all of that in fact I'm I'm pretty sure

[11:43]they do

[11:47]um I'm a little bit afraid to look at it

[11:49]you

[11:51]know I want to know that she turns out

[11:53]okay but I don't want to know if she

[11:55]doesn't you know so I don't know what to

[11:57]do about that well I've got to put my

[12:00]mind somewhere else right now because I

[12:02]do have to move SES today like I'm right

[12:04]here I'm at the campground I'm going

[12:06]into my spot

[12:10]and this was not something I wanted to

[12:13]do but something I felt I had no choice

[12:16]but to do and the local County shelter

[12:20]should

[12:24]have they

[12:25]should it's insufficient

[12:29]looks like I'll be putting air in the

[12:30]tires every time all right this is quite

[12:33]effective quite happy with

[12:35][Music]

[12:38]it little concerned like they had

[12:41]already lost like 5 lbs in two days so

[12:45]and this one I just filled and then when

[12:47]I pulled the thing out the extender was

[12:50]losing

[12:51]air then I adjusted it and it stopped

[12:54]doing that so now I'm putting air back

[12:56]in it

[12:57]again learning proc

[13:00]process some point I'm going to have

[13:02]those tires I think I need to get

[13:04]different kind of tires like tires that

[13:06]can handle a whole ton of weight or

[13:08]something so this rear tire on the

[13:10]passenger side was down to 20 psi the in

[13:13]inner one of the dual tires I checked it

[13:16]with that and with the analog device

[13:20]when thing's overheating so I decided to

[13:22]stop for a minute that is not good I'm

[13:25]hoping it's just the extender somehow is

[13:28]causing it to lose air but I'm going to

[13:30]have to have them looked at again and

[13:31]this oh my God is is frustrating cuz

[13:34]this is the foundation of my life and I

[13:36]paid several thousand dollars for these

[13:38]tires I'm starting to wonder if I made a

[13:41]very big

[13:45]mistake and I I will have to replace

[13:48]them

[13:49]somehow I think I this is too stressful

[13:53]I need tires at work that I do not have

[13:55]to worry about like this the tires

[13:58]losing air because because the extender

[14:00]is leaking and it's the inside dual tire

[14:02]so I can't fix it myself I had to drive

[14:04]this into that big old tires and then

[14:07]have them fix that and then come back

[14:09]get my Jeep and be on our way so Bailey

[14:12]and I are chilling is over here at this

[14:16]big ass building that can actually fit

[14:18]an RV to fix one of my tires uh the

[14:21]extender was causing it to lose air it

[14:23]lost all its air and then my compressor

[14:25]blew out so I couldn't fix that and I

[14:28]just this was the close to this place

[14:31]and it was one

[14:32]that um I noticed after I bought the

[14:35]tires I would have brought it here first

[14:36]if IID realize I learned that mistake

[14:38]always bring it to a place it's you know

[14:39]can figure our read first of all

[14:44]so um they made me feel comfortable that

[14:46]the tires are good even with the little

[14:48]squishing that's I guess normal because

[14:51]of the weight but not an issue it's not

[14:53]going to kill the tires or anything

[14:57]um they're going to you know the fix my

[14:59]tire and then we can move on so finally

[15:01]get to the next side I got to go get my

[15:02]Jeep it's still at the campground this

[15:04]is stressful but it's getting better I'm

[15:06]I'm getting confident I'm getting better

[15:09]at this I guess more Bailey though right

[15:12]hey Bailey Bailey I think he kind of

[15:16]likes the experiences though in a sense

[15:17]he does like to be out and about don't

[15:20]you yeah so we're good this lifestyle is

[15:24] stressful man

[15:27]what it'll get better I think I believe

[15:30]it'll get better hang in there buddy

[15:33]we're good we're just having a little

[15:35]chill here we've got a hook up the Jeep

[15:37]when we get back and empty the tanks and

[15:40]then hey you're not going anywhere and

[15:43]then um it's like I got to get gas fuel

[15:47]I'll get fuel before it's like right

[15:49]down the street easy to get so I'll get

[15:50]fuel and I'll go back to the campground

[15:52]I'll grab my Jeep empty the tanks drive

[15:55]to our new campsite and hopefully the

[15:58]tires will be good when I have to get a

[15:59]new compressor the thing blew right out

[16:02]that thing was 100 bucks too I'm just

[16:03]like man but I don't have the Recine I

[16:06]don't have the box I you know I I don't

[16:09]have the space for stuff like

[16:12]that eventually I feel like the problems

[16:15]just level out and stop being problems

[16:18]like I'm dealing

[16:20]with I do feel good to that guys like

[16:23]your tires are fine you don't have to

[16:24]worry about that like I believed them I

[16:27]wanted to believe them though

[16:33]oh we're on the road again guys we are

[16:36]on the road again it's nice to see

[16:39]Bailey just chilling with me you know

[16:42]he's so calm he can be so calm when he

[16:44]wants to be he's just you're just

[16:46]stubborn aren't you yeah you're just a

[16:48]stubborn little you are you're

[16:50]you're

[16:52]stubborn she's ready to

[16:54]go looks so much better I can tell

[16:59]I still got little valve stems I got one

[17:02]uhoh all right I can understand them

[17:04]removing it though oh I can see a thing

[17:07]back there though I can reach that I bet

[17:11]they fixed that for

[17:13]me I bet they did

[17:16][Music]

[17:18]that

[17:23]okay interesting so they got rid of this

[17:27]part on the other side cuz that's the

[17:29]one that was

[17:30]leaking but it looked like I maybe could

[17:33]reach it I think I might probably could

[17:35]cuz I have a tool now

[17:38]um these look good I feel so much better

[17:40]about this I

[17:42]do so let's see what we got back

[17:46]here we see the wow I bar it's not

[17:50]nearly as bad as it used to

[17:52]be so this is where we are a proper

[17:55]freaking place you know this is is where

[17:59]you got to go with an

[18:00]RV this is it guys we're leaving this is

[18:04]the end of my 90 days at Smith Ridge

[18:06]campground in campbellville Kentucky we

[18:08]are saying

[18:09]goodbye got my Jeep hooked

[18:12]up did the dump

[18:17]station we are good to

[18:21]go we are on our way to Baron River

[18:27]Lake this was a good place I needed it I

[18:31]am ready to move

[18:32]on I do feel pretty stressed out because

[18:35]after 90 days I feel like I've lost some

[18:37]of my skills so can't let that happen

[18:40]again because wow I really do feel that

[18:42]way so um it was difficult getting it

[18:45]the Jeep hooked out forgot to take the

[18:48]parking brake

[18:49]off

[18:51]um not too bad we had to go fix the

[18:54]tires you know I don't know if those

[18:57]would be an ongoing issue or not I guess

[18:58]we find

[18:59]out I got

[19:01]fuel and we're ready to go I got

[19:05]Bailey's over over here with me right

[19:07]Bailey I don't know that he's happy

[19:10]but um should grab a cold pop before we

[19:14]go and then we'll be out of here get

[19:17]some air going cuz I'm sure it's hot for

[19:19]Bailey

[19:20]too um I'm hoping he doesn't stress me

[19:22]out too much um normally I would I was

[19:25]thinking I'd put them back here but um I

[19:28]want them close to me if we can do that

[19:31]oh right in the lter

[19:33]Box okay that one is a

[19:37]problem um I'm going to run out of

[19:39]propane for sure like there's no way I

[19:42]can not running out propane at this

[19:44]point but it's cold for

[19:47]now um and I will figure the propane out

[19:50]at some point it's in Baron River I

[19:53]hope

[19:55]um maintenance I would like to get the

[19:58]oil changed and stuff like that have the

[20:01]brakes looked

[20:02]at so I need to find places for this

[20:06]stuff

[20:08]and I will because this is my life now

[20:13]and I want

[20:14]to want to master this

[20:17]shent you ready

[20:23]Bailey I am using this to get there um

[20:28]but I don't have

[20:30]my mount's up or anything but I'm going

[20:31]to deal with all that too while we're at

[20:32]Baron River I'm going to make a list of

[20:35]chores tasks that I need to get done

[20:37]because

[20:39]I you know every every place that I go

[20:42]to it's going to

[20:43]be another set of things that I can do

[20:47]to further my

[20:50]goals um I would like to have MS up here

[20:53]for my GoPro so we can talk so I can

[20:55]show like what's in front of me um as

[20:57]I'm driving stuff like that that not

[20:59]ready for that yet so I will end it here

[21:02]and I will see you guys when we get to

[21:03]Baron River we're here we made

[21:07]it um interesting drive those tires

[21:11]feel different than my other tires they

[21:15]the thing wobbles more and it's because

[21:18]they don't have as much surface

[21:20]traction so

[21:25]thinking I don't really like them

[21:27]they're altering tires which is nice but

[21:30]I didn't want them at the expense

[21:32]of stability so I'm going to look into

[21:36]that I'm actually going to make a list

[21:37]and then I'll tell you guys my plan for

[21:39]the next two weeks while I'm

[21:40]here um it it's okay though it's just um

[21:44]it felt harder to tow the Jeep this time

[21:47]and I don't think that was just cuz it's

[21:50]been a while I think it's just

[21:52]the

[21:55]um the tire situation so there's a lot

[21:58]of people here it's distracting me while

[22:00]I try to talk to

[22:03]you glad to be here though there's a lot

[22:05]of people

[22:07]here proba going to go get something to

[22:09]eat at their Lodge cuz I'm

[22:12]starving oh a lot of plants on here

[22:14]we'll get into that but here we are

[22:17]disconnected the Jeep in the

[22:19]road um we're level we're very level I

[22:23]just looked at it and um I put blocks up

[22:26]on the other side and then brought the

[22:27]slide out Bailey's inside he's doing

[22:31]good so we're all set up oh you know

[22:34]basically I got to do the power and

[22:36]stuff I'm decided I'm

[22:39]over letting other people dictate how I

[22:42]live like I will sit out here even if

[22:44]there are people around I

[22:46]know I'm going to I'm a campground rat

[22:50]now at least for now

[22:53]so I'm going to embrace

[22:55]it we have our first driving issue my

[23:00]external speaker has fallen

[23:03]out hanging there I don't know if you

[23:05]can see it I get like good Lighting on

[23:07]this thing but it's just dangling

[23:10]there stop that L to get me some food

[23:14]some take out fries and the burger it's

[23:18]not like the Natural Bridge they have

[23:20]the best ones I've had them here once

[23:22]and they're just not as good but I'm

[23:25]starving there is a Jeep over there a

[23:27]Jeep truck we're going to go give him a

[23:31]duck surely I am garnering some Goodwill

[23:34]and I will get my own duck soon right

[23:37]cuz I still only have one and that

[23:39]actually came from a different Jeep than

[23:40]this one didn't even know what it meant

[23:43]I was like why did someone give me a

[23:46]dock I forgot I moved them I put them

[23:49]back here somewhere okay it's a white or

[23:52]silver truck let's see what we can find

[23:54]I think this one ought to

[23:56]Do's go and give this

[24:01]I don't even know if it has any yet so

[24:03]we're about to find

[24:06]out everybody gets their first one

[24:11]eventually it's actually quite

[24:13]nice I didn't like the trucks at first

[24:16]but damn that one's pretty

[24:21]nice that is a nice Jeep truck

[24:26]wow yeah they don't have any do

[24:28]this will be their

[24:33]first Dave will see it

[24:37]there let's go get some food I'm so

[24:39]hungry let's go

[24:41]eat there she

[24:43]is that's her up

[24:46]there there's a car behind me I would

[24:49]have stopped and gave a proper

[24:51]look guess they didn't know though did

[24:55]they it's awfully nice to be level in a

[24:59]while some

[25:01]food

[25:02]yummy I'm going to eat that up so I'm

[25:06]going to wrap this video up and get us

[25:08]unpacked I haven't even put the mattress

[25:09]on the bed yet may he just chilling over

[25:12]there on the bed platform

[25:15]so have stuff to do and pretty tired

[25:20]going to chill the rest of the night you

[25:22]guys enjoyed our travel day it

[25:24]was you

[25:26]know stress little bar

[25:29]good it was pretty

[25:31]good um I was also Sunny no rain first

[25:35]time

[25:36]right one other thing I wanted to

[25:39]mention I had quite a few chats with my

[25:41]neighbor at the other campsite before I

[25:44]left she was very nice we kind of

[25:46]connected

[25:48]and I hope I meet more people like that

[25:51]on the road you have a good Wednesday

[25:53]it's Wednesday right

Summary

The speaker begins their final day at Smith Ridge campground after 90 days, preparing to move the RV while towing their Jeep. They face the difficult decision to take Luna, a kitten they rescued, to an animal shelter due to space constraints and care challenges in the small RV environment. **Morning preparations** include dealing with cold weather (57°F), using a ceramic heater, and planning the logistics of hooking up the Jeep on a hill.

**The Luna situation** becomes the central challenge - the kitten is not using the litter box consistently, the space is too cramped, and rescue organizations wouldn't help. The speaker takes Luna to the county shelter, initially meeting resistance from staff who suggested releasing her outside, but ultimately ensuring she was taken inside with her supplies.

**Technical challenges** emerge during the move - tire pressure issues requiring a stop at a tire service facility, a blown air compressor, and concerns about the new tires affecting driving stability. The speaker successfully completes the move to Baron River Lake, sets up at the new campsite, and reflects on losing some driving skills after being stationary for 90 days.

**Social interactions** include a positive connection with a neighbor at the previous campground and participating in the Jeep duck tradition by leaving a duck on another Jeep truck. The day ends with the speaker getting food from the lodge and preparing to settle into the new location.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission documents a complex threshold crossing where multiple system pressures converge — physical relocation, care capacity limits, and infrastructure failures — forcing rapid decision-making and structural adaptation. The field is simultaneously releasing what cannot be sustained (Luna) while maintaining forward momentum through mechanical and logistical challenges, demonstrating resilience architecture under acute stress.

Dominant Language

I can't do italone in the worldsystems that humans have createdfoundation of my lifemaster thiscampground ratembrace it

Symbolic Elements

thresholdreleasemovementmechanical failureshelter

Ontological States

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transitional
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pressured
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adaptive
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resolute

Subsystems

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cognitive
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ethical
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somatic
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infrastructural

Transmission Details

Source Type

youtube

Duration