RV Repair Assessment and Mammoth Cave Exploration

Late August 2024, stationed at a Kentucky campground near Mammoth Cave National Park. Extremely hot weather at 95 degrees. RV has ongoing maintenance issues requiring professional repair. Campground becoming busier with incoming visitors for over a week stay.

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August 27, 2024

47:40

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rswfire

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[0:02]I hereby call this meeting to

[0:04]order I've been wanting to do that since

[0:06]I got here on Wednesday I don't know I

[0:08]just had the thought cuz we've been here

[0:11]before and we talked about that like way

[0:14]back in April I think so I think what

[0:17]we'll do is we're going to go towards

[0:19]Mammoth Caves I want to try to hike a

[0:20]trail there we'll visit the visitor

[0:23]center again cuz I want to get another

[0:25]map put this one up on my

[0:27]fridge so I can look at it it's this is

[0:30]where I just I I love things like that I

[0:33]love Maps so um you know I got the Lake

[0:35]Cumberland went over there and that

[0:38]one's got a little different

[0:40]significance to me but this one while

[0:41]we're here you know I want to explore as

[0:43]much of that as I can so we're going to

[0:45]hike a trail there today and on the way

[0:48]is the RV repair well both of the RV

[0:50]repair shop so I'll stop at those and

[0:53]get an assessment from them and then

[0:56]we'll just go hiking we're going to take

[0:57]the big battery with us I love this

[1:01]thing to use that to power my GoPro when

[1:04]it's in my

[1:06]Jeep back here all by ourselves so

[1:11]wonderful oh I love this thing this

[1:13]thing is

[1:15]amazing so my GoPro which I'm using

[1:18]right now um it won't stay up anymore

[1:21]because the adhesive is wearing off

[1:23]which I knew that happened we're just

[1:24]going to tape it up because I don't know

[1:26]where I'm positioning it permanently

[1:28]that yet so we're just going to going to

[1:30]try taping it up and see how this looks

[1:32]I'm using reflectiv because I love this

[1:34]stuff it is remarkably hot outside it's

[1:37]going to be 95 today so that's hot but

[1:42]we're going to make the best of it I

[1:43]don't want to be stuck in doors my GoPro

[1:46]shut off before I could actually take a

[1:48]look at it and see what this angle

[1:50]looked like I think that's probably

[1:51]better it was showing too much of the

[1:53]roof now it's showing join me hello it's

[1:56]not actually

[1:58]recording hello

[2:00]humans so we got a view basically at the

[2:03]front and the side you just me over here

[2:05]you can watch me shifting gears I love

[2:07]manual

[2:08]transmission so I just absolutely love

[2:10]it every Jeep I've had has been like

[2:11]this I I I taught myself so very proud

[2:14]of

[2:15]that so we're off hello humans so we got

[2:20]a view basically at the front and the

[2:22]side and just me over here you can watch

[2:24]me shifting gears I love manual

[2:27]transmission so I just absolutely love

[2:29]it every Jeep I've had has been like

[2:30]this I I I taught myself so very proud

[2:33]of

[2:34]that so we're off we're going to dump um

[2:37]I got some trash to put in the dumpster

[2:38]and then we're going to go

[3:01][Music]

[3:17]spe

[3:32]all right is this on yep okay so um I

[3:36]noticed from my video yesterday that I

[3:38]think that that one part that was just

[3:40]had this weird screeching going on I'm

[3:42]wondering if it was my air conditioner

[3:44]or the wind and I also noticed a lot of

[3:46]noise from my tires because they're

[3:48]special kind of tires um I think we can

[3:50]solve that I have a DJI mic system it's

[3:54]got a receiver and then it's got two

[3:57]mics I'm wondering if I can hook one of

[3:59]the mics up to the GoPro and maybe one

[4:01]of them up to my phone or something that

[4:03]I might just put up on my Dash over here

[4:06]um I'm not sure what you do with the

[4:08]receiver though two different things I

[4:10]don't know you know I need to experiment

[4:12]with all that we won't do that today

[4:14]it's too much I'm not you know trying to

[4:16]overwhelm myself it's an iterative

[4:18]process but I do think over time we're

[4:21]going to come up with the system that

[4:22]works and we haven't talked about it but

[4:24]this is called extended cognition and

[4:27]I'll explain that concept later but not

[4:29]today um I'm trying to create a system

[4:32]that extends my cognition for multiple

[4:36]reasons and it has to be efficient it

[4:39]has to work for me and that's a process

[4:41]and it's a process we'll be working on

[4:42]for a while this is going to be so hot

[4:45]as long as we're in a tree canopy while

[4:47]we're hiking shouldn't be too

[4:51]bad got to deal with that in a minute

[5:01]no Tyler today I don't know why I like

[5:03]him so much he's just an interesting guy

[5:05]like I get a vibe from him I just think

[5:07]he's cool and he has a Jeep and you know

[5:09]that's always part of it it's just a

[5:11]Jeep

[5:12]thing so I'll be right

[5:19]back all right so it's booked up and

[5:22]there's going to be visitors coming

[5:23]Thurs today I'm going to have more

[5:24]neighbors again unfortunately and

[5:27]they're going to be here for over a week

[5:28]the whole time that time

[5:30]here um yeah it is what it is you know

[5:35]I'll take advantage of the time I have

[5:36]until

[5:38]then

[5:40]um so yeah we're stuck where we're at

[5:44]it's fine though also she told me there

[5:46]is laundry there still it's just that

[5:48]the locks are broken and um I don't know

[5:53]I guess there's laundry there I could

[5:54]have saved some money at least I know so

[5:57]that I can do laundry on goinging while

[6:00]I'm

[6:01]here going to stop and get something to

[6:04]drink I didn't have anything

[6:06]cold and then we're going to head to

[6:09]Mammoth Caves or we're going to head to

[6:11]the RV places they're along the way to

[6:13]Mammoth Caves

[6:15]so um I got a whole plan

[6:20]here adaptive thinking

[6:38]I didn't mean to stop you sorry get out

[6:41]of the

[6:46]way okay there was this semi behind me

[6:50]and I I didn't cut him off but he was

[6:52]closer than I

[6:54]realized all right so I am going to get

[6:56]something to drink

[7:02]I was going to get some orange juice but

[7:04]they didn't have any that sucks I need

[7:07]coffee not fully awake yet let's get

[7:10]this plugged

[7:11]up get our day

[7:14]going we'll stop at I think it's called

[7:17]Blue

[7:20]compass and the other one I'm not sure

[7:23]but it's on the way we'll pass it I

[7:25]don't know if anyone is there or not but

[7:27]we I know there was a phone number on

[7:29]the side fine we're going to Blue

[7:32]Compass

[7:37]RV even my phone is hot and it's not

[7:40]even doing

[7:42]anything this one I

[7:46]think

[7:52]okay

[7:57]okayo it is hot

[7:59]it is Fox

[8:03]wow I think it's the um it's not just

[8:07]hot it's the humidity too I got in

[8:10]trouble for that song I love that song

[8:14]it's a new one I just learned about

[8:16]we're going we're going the wrong way

[8:20]there oh how we doing we're good on gas

[8:22]we're good to go I think I go right yes

[8:26]cuz we're going to Scottville I went

[8:27]there last night to get something to eat

[8:30]cuz I was starving and I didn't think

[8:32]about food soon enough so I went pretty

[8:34]late at night this one though I hadn't

[8:36]been driving at night in a long time

[8:39]enjoyed

[8:41]that I am loving my lifesty truly L

[8:48]needs so we got 17 miles to go

[9:00]I learned why they call them River Lakes

[9:02]by the way i' had been wondering about

[9:04]that this is Baron River Lake it's

[9:07]because it is a river but then when they

[9:10]Dam it up like at a CO a Coe makes a dam

[9:13]you know they turn it into a Leake so

[9:15]it's a river

[9:17]lake I once did this on a highway when I

[9:19]was really young and I ended up in the

[9:22]um in the ditch or whatever it's called

[9:25]and that was a bad experience it was a

[9:27]friend's vehicle I really messed it up

[9:30]police came out I was so embarrassing

[9:33]yeah I don't know what I was

[9:36]thinking I was so young I must have been

[9:38]like 19 at the

[9:42]time so I'm a little cautious with those

[9:48]things

[9:51]always use your experiences to inform

[9:53]your future

[9:58]ones Pro propane tanks filled oh my God

[10:00]we found a place to fill my propane

[10:04]yes

[10:06]finally I know I can do it

[10:09]here

[10:11]yes 6 months no

[10:15]propane all right so I'm going to go in

[10:17]here and talk to these guys what I was

[10:20]trying to say is you know I'm not real

[10:22]experienced at this part so it makes me

[10:23]a little uncomfortable but we'll deal

[10:24]with it you know I got to deal with it

[10:26]so um then this is how you get better at

[10:28]it so so we're fine I'm going to shut

[10:32]this down so it don't

[10:35]overheat all right I'm done that was a

[10:37]very long cat I like these guys um so

[10:40]I'm going to bring it in Tuesday morning

[10:43]just after the holiday they're going to

[10:44]need it for maybe 2

[10:46]days long list of things to do it's

[10:49]going to cost me a couple

[10:51]thousand um but

[10:53]it's that's including like um they're

[10:56]going to put in a new power Inlet

[10:58]because of the arcing they're going to

[11:00]put in a new

[11:03]um um surge protector that's integrated

[11:07]into the system and they're going to fix

[11:10]all the things I talked about so very

[11:13]very excited they told me I a good they

[11:15]gave me a pretty good idea of what's

[11:17]going on with my slide and it makes a

[11:19]lot of sense um maybe we'll talk about

[11:21]that later because it's kind of a

[11:23]complicated situation but it shouldn't

[11:24]be a huge problem to fix so I'm very

[11:28]happy to hear that

[11:31]we're going to head out to Mammoth Caves

[11:33]now to The Visitor Center so that I can

[11:35]get a new map and we're going to go try

[11:37]to find this trail that I saw

[11:42]yesterday so we're just going to go have

[11:44]some

[11:48]fun wow we're an hour away 45 minutes

[11:55]away wow that guy is Towing this giant

[11:59]Giant RV with

[12:02]a I don't even know what that is those

[12:04]things that you pick crates up with you

[12:07]know

[12:08]those

[12:11]wow that thing's beautiful holy crap

[12:14]that's

[12:16]beautiful part of me wishes I had a

[12:18]different RV but I'm not going to stress

[12:20]about that oh they're even going to

[12:23]mount my solar equipment for me I'm so

[12:26]happy man am I happy

[12:30]we're finally dealing with the

[12:33]problems can you see it it's a little

[12:35]loader machine let me just come this way

[12:37]so you can see I can't I don't want to

[12:40]bother what is that the pallet things

[12:44]they look pallets he's Towing an RV with

[12:47]it how the it's a big RV by the way

[12:51]it's

[12:51]big I'm shocked did

[12:55]I to this road goes both ways

[13:01]okay I am glad we came here I feel very

[13:04]comfortable with these

[13:06]guyss so which way are we going hey why

[13:09]aren't you

[13:12]working okay yeah

[13:21]turn

[13:23]Okay so freaking hot oh my God we're

[13:26]going to die

[13:27]today going to be it's so hot out

[13:32]there so we got a long drive ahead of us

[13:35]I'm just going to shut this down for now

[13:36]so I can listen to

[13:38]music um I don't want to get myself in

[13:40]trouble with

[13:42]YouTube

[13:44]but it's a process we're going to keep

[13:46]working on

[13:49]it Hello friends that's probably a weird

[13:53]angle looks like it's

[13:56]not not centered

[13:59]so we're at Mammoth Cave Visitor Center

[14:02]we're just going to pick up a map cuz I

[14:04]put the other one on my wall in my

[14:07]fridge oh I was curious how busy they've

[14:09]been given it's a

[14:11]Monday just as busy as

[14:14]yesterday fascinating I like it

[14:17]here we are going to explore the hell

[14:21]out of this place not all of it today of

[14:23]course but I'm thinking maybe I actually

[14:26]want to spend more time here like I I

[14:29]want to see this place in the Autumn I

[14:30]want to see the Natural Bridge in the

[14:32]Autumn before I leave Kentucky so maybe

[14:35]we will hop around between the two

[14:36]campgrounds I

[14:37]found maybe for like an extra month or

[14:40]something I don't know um I need to

[14:44]think through the the timeline there on

[14:46]when autumn will get here but I really

[14:49]do want to explore this

[14:51]place so we're going to do that I

[14:56]think what's this guy doing

[15:00]is he struggling or

[15:03]what we're just going to go

[15:07]over there I

[15:12]think they're not as busy um cuz

[15:16]basically every spot was taken before

[15:20]so um it's not that

[15:25]bad he was parking

[15:29]wondering what I was doing I

[15:32]guess yeah they're not near they're not

[15:34]as busy but they're they're busy there's

[15:36]lots of cars

[15:40]here all over Pennsylvania Rhode

[15:43]Island do we have over

[15:48]here um I don't know what that one is

[15:52]can't

[15:53]tell

[15:56]Maryland just all over I see New Jersey

[15:58]played over there I know what that one

[15:59]looks

[16:01]like some of them just look foreign to

[16:03]me but I don't think that can be right

[16:05]like they just must be like I don't know

[16:07]I'm thinking they're probably the

[16:08]northeastern states or something they

[16:11]just have a vibe to

[16:12]them so I'm going to go get a map and I

[16:16]will be

[16:17]back guys I finally got a ducky I

[16:20]finally got one I met you this person

[16:23]left it let's give them a ducking

[16:30]I don't know when this stopped I'm going

[16:31]to give him this one I think it's just

[16:33]cute it's like a chicken just just came

[16:36]out of a t they got all these really

[16:38]cool things on there Jeep I don't have

[16:41]those they got all those Ducks there

[16:43]they've got two little American ones

[16:45]interesting so they put it on my

[16:48]door that obviously makes a lot of

[16:52]sense let's do

[16:55]that oh I put it in my pocket I was like

[16:57]where's my ducking

[16:59]now I don't know where

[17:01]my keys

[17:07]are

[17:12]good I finally got my second duck I'm so

[17:16]happy I was about to start cheating I

[17:18]was going to put my ducks up here so

[17:19]that people knew I participated but my

[17:22]need for authenticity was stopping me we

[17:25]have a ducky oh and it's wrapped in like

[17:28]what is that it looks like it's wrapped

[17:30]in a bunch of bandages it's so

[17:32]cute that is so cute oh my God I love

[17:36]this one I have a ducky that came from

[17:39]Mammoth Caves I will remember it forever

[17:42]that is so cool for some reason I have

[17:46]to unplug it and plug it back in every

[17:48]time in order to make it start recording

[17:51]again to press the button cuz it won't

[17:53]work if I don't do that it's so annoying

[17:56]but I'm going to keep working on it

[17:59]so I just got my first ducky you'll see

[18:02]that already from my other video but I

[18:04]got a ducky I'm so happy so I just got

[18:07]to visit the national parks and stuff if

[18:10]I want to get them we're going to so I

[18:13]asked about the caves you have to go in

[18:15]groups you have to do it as tours you

[18:17]can't go in on your own

[18:19]anywhere so I don't know like I don't

[18:23]like crowds so I don't know if we're

[18:25]doing that ever I do I guess we'll do it

[18:27]once cuz I want to see the

[18:29]caves but we are here for the trails and

[18:33]I don't want to take a long trail cuz

[18:34]this is super hot I am dying

[18:37]actually let's get some air

[18:41]going

[18:44]um but I'm not really sure like what we

[18:48]should hike today there was a

[18:52]pond where did it

[18:56]go there was near here there's some kind

[18:58]of a Pond Trail there it is

[19:02]Sloan Crossing

[19:04]Pond very small that's going to be a

[19:07]small

[19:09]Trail we need at least something like

[19:14]reasonable how are we going to find this

[19:16]this is

[19:19]like man there are so many cool ass

[19:21]Trails like holy I we have to hike

[19:24]them

[19:27]all well let's let do an easy one

[19:31]today oh this is

[19:37]exciting so let's see here there's one

[19:40]that's near the Green

[19:42]River but that's long cuz you got to

[19:45]take one Trail to another Trail to

[19:46]another

[19:48]Trail and based on the scale down here

[19:51]this is 2

[19:53]miles so let's see

[19:56]here might might be too bad maybe we

[20:00]should do it we need to figure out how

[20:03]to get

[20:06]to I think we should Big Hollow Trail

[20:10]Head wonder if I can pull that up like I

[20:13]don't know let's find

[20:15]out do you make things easy for me

[20:18]Google Big

[20:21]Hollow Trail h

[20:31]can you guide me

[20:38]there internet's not so great at the

[20:46]moment oh my God it

[20:52]can I think it can let me

[20:56]check I don't know if it's I'm not 100%

[20:58]in here but I mean it's only half a mile

[21:01]away it must

[21:03]understand

[21:06]yes my map Reading skills have eroded

[21:10]over

[21:12]time

[21:14]so I didn't

[21:16]find

[21:17][Music]

[21:18]um

[21:21]like why can't think of worse today I

[21:24]couldn't find anywhere to get any cold

[21:26]drinks like a vending machine

[21:29]and we were in the park and I didn't

[21:31]bring a lot I do have some water in my

[21:35]my backpack I guess we're forced to

[21:37]drink water cuz I'm not going to go

[21:39]looking we got a duck I'm so happy oh we

[21:43]got a duck somebody left me a duck I

[21:47]love that person by the way I think I

[21:49]know who it was and I think cuz the jeep

[21:52]was right next to me de always Park

[21:53]together I

[21:55]think um their license plate was from

[21:57]Florida and it said disabled veteran a

[22:00]disabled veteran gave me a ducky and I

[22:03]gave them a

[22:07]ducky all right let's go I wouldn't

[22:10]think the visitor center would had

[22:12]something to drink in there I need you

[22:16]know what they have a big Campground

[22:19]here let's go check

[22:21]it I need like cold

[22:25]drinks May area the lodic okay a lodge

[22:29]that'll have a vending machine let's do

[22:31]that first this thing's taking us there

[22:34]so that can't be right I don't think

[22:36]that's right um for the trail hat I

[22:38]guess we'll find out so we're really

[22:41]going this way

[22:46]okay I love this place ooh I see a place

[22:49]with it's got ice there's stuff going on

[22:52]over

[22:54]there we got to go over there all right

[22:58]let's first check out if there's a trail

[22:59]head

[23:02]here authorized vehicle only and it's

[23:04]tell me to go that way I'm not allowed

[23:07]to

[23:08][Applause]

[23:11]Google that's confusing I don't think I

[23:13]found the trail head for

[23:15]us I don't believe it I don't think it

[23:18]found the trail head we're going to have

[23:20]to

[23:21]have we're going to ask all right let's

[23:24]go

[23:25]around this place is huge what what's

[23:28]going on in

[23:30]here what's going on in

[23:33]there we must

[23:37]know they're building something

[23:41]new I wonder what they're

[23:45]building I love seeing work on our

[23:48]national parks and stuff so

[23:54]cool is this a road

[23:59]does not feel like a road to

[24:02]me what is going on over

[24:06]here that jeep doesn't have any

[24:09]Ducks I mean I'd be stopping every 5

[24:13]Seconds oh it's got a duck maybe we

[24:16]should stop I am so tempted we're

[24:23]stopping we got to give him a

[24:26]duck let come over here

[24:31]they have a doctor we got to give them a

[24:36]doctor it is just how it

[24:42]works all right let's give these people

[24:45]a

[24:46]ducky they only have they got a few

[24:50]actually they seem to come in different

[24:52]sizes I didn't know

[24:55]that o a pirate one pirate one let's

[24:58]give him a pirate

[25:00]one don't know what kind of equipment

[25:03]that is it's very interesting oh I know

[25:06]what that

[25:07]is okay oh that's nice I wish mine had

[25:11]that now they got a

[25:15]pirate we're

[25:19]off we gave him a pirate so cool I want

[25:23]a pirate I'm not cheating though I'm not

[25:26]doing it see I

[25:30]will I will like I'm just so ethical

[25:34]like I've been wanting to put my duckies

[25:36]up here and I'm like no you will get a

[25:37]ducking just wait you will get a ducky

[25:40]I'm the same way with my channel I don't

[25:41]want to manipulate on this

[25:43]channel so I

[25:45]don't be

[25:50]patient I always play the long

[25:53]game all right let's go see if we can

[25:55]get some cool drinks and figure out

[25:57]where that tra

[26:10]that I mean we went to The Visitor

[26:13]Center and they is in like

[26:19]what some kind of a I don't know what

[26:22]that one over

[26:26]here I think

[26:29]I don't know what it is I'm not going to

[26:30]speculate but there's oh it's the post

[26:32]office Mammoth gave I did see that they

[26:35]had a post office so that's not pop

[26:38]that's just

[26:40]ice man I need cold

[26:45]drinks we're just going to end up

[26:46]driving around trying to figure stuff

[26:48]out I

[26:51]gu Mammoth Cave Railroad Company how

[26:55]cool

[27:01]is that a vending

[27:03]machine yes it is oh a camp store

[27:09]cool Hello Camp store you are exactly

[27:12]what I was looking for you have

[27:15]sandwiches I am

[27:18]hungry I don't have a lot of cash on

[27:22]me let us stop here for a

[27:24]moment maybe they could tell me how to

[27:26]get to this place

[27:29]trying to get

[27:31]to Big Hollow Trail Head Big Hollow

[27:34]Trail Head let me try to remember that

[27:36]Big Hollow Trail head

[27:59]oh got a very nice guy in there he told

[28:02]me so the trail I'm trying to get you is

[28:04]an hour and a half

[28:06]away um because you have to drive there

[28:08]if the ferry was working um it's a 20

[28:11]minutes if the ferry was working so but

[28:15]he did tell me where to go for other

[28:17]trails and they're all behind The

[28:20]Visitor Center and they just Branch off

[28:23]so let's do

[28:24]that go back to the visitor center

[28:29]and figure out takes you down by the

[28:31]river so now I know why the fair is so

[28:33]important hour and a half

[28:38]wow that makes this place pretty

[28:41]big this is

[28:46]awesome oh yeah I saw this too I have to

[28:49]have a certain kind of vehicle to park

[28:51]there hybrids and stuff

[28:59]so we shall Park here I guess and go for

[29:02]a hike go for a

[29:08]walk turn this off so I'm going to leave

[29:11]the GoPro behind cuz it's you know I

[29:14]taped it up there I don't want to mess

[29:15]with the mount until I get a better

[29:16]mount for that

[29:17]situation just take my

[29:21]camera and we're off this bridge looks

[29:24]pretty cool but we got to go this way

[29:26]historic entrance think something to

[29:28]deal with his

[29:29]stor that's where the trail store he

[29:32]said something about his stor so we're

[29:33]going to go find

[29:42]that historic

[29:45]entrance this is

[29:48]nice wow we put lots of effort into our

[29:51]national parks

[30:10]think we're going

[30:17]downhill y historic entrance

[30:20]Trail okay at least we have a sense of

[30:23]this those are very like short trails

[30:28]ni okay

[30:31]whatever I like this path it's

[30:34]nice but these are the common TR this is

[30:36]where everybody

[30:37]comes this isn't where I wanted to be

[30:40]this is pretty though I love this tree

[30:42]canopy looks like a trail over

[30:46]there it

[30:48]does might end up on that one look it's

[30:52]real nice but it's just going to take

[30:53]you back up it's going to be a very

[30:55]steep climb back up this is quite an

[31:00]incline

[31:01]um that feels like a way out so we're

[31:04]not going to take that

[31:06]trail be kind of

[31:09]pointless wow it feels remarkably cool

[31:12]down here like whatever the features

[31:17]are that fell there's a nice Cool Breeze

[31:19]these trails are very very

[31:21]short but we'll take them we're

[31:25]here there's some Trails down there they

[31:27]are also short but we'll probably take

[31:29]those

[31:31]to I never been here this is a new

[31:33]experience

[31:36]so

[31:39]um it's nice I like

[31:42]this I suspect the trails down there are

[31:45]more commonly hiked but there will be

[31:47]people here too we're not far

[31:52]from

[31:53]um The Visitor Center

[31:56]so those are very very tall trees

[32:00]wow those are some tall

[32:12]trees there's some nice formations

[32:15][Music]

[32:18]here reminds me of the Natural Bridge to

[32:20]an extent but it's also unique it's

[32:23]different there's something different

[32:24]about this place

[32:27]this is

[32:32]nice and I suppose we're hiking over a

[32:35]very

[32:36]um extensive cave Network and what have

[32:40]we stumbled across

[32:45]here

[32:47]ooh hibernating cave for bats

[32:53]wow white nose syndrome

[32:59]killed a lot of

[33:02]bats

[33:04]what that's fascinating there's a cave

[33:07]over

[33:12]here

[33:14]wow I mean of course there is but you

[33:17]know still I'm here I'm right

[33:21]here okay I'll take you back to the

[33:23]visitor center

[33:25]interesting so where do you go you just

[33:28]an

[33:29]Overlook that it's just a little

[33:31]Overlook to this cave it is I

[33:35]think wow I love this place this place

[33:37]is amazing

[34:01]what oh my

[34:08]God yeah I don't explore places like

[34:12]that never no

[34:15]way but very cool it's like a whole

[34:18]other world I'll explore that in the

[34:21]Zelda

[34:23]games what do we have up here this is a

[34:26]nice little spot to just chill

[34:29]Night Flight so the bats come out at

[34:31]night oh lots of them bats are cool I

[34:38]think this is so neat I love

[34:42]this they sleeper

[34:48]winter trops cold

[34:51]air 44 degre that sounds nice

[34:57]yep they

[34:59]hibernate fascinating I didn't know

[35:03]that

[35:06]fascinating what a wonderful Trail this

[35:10]is makes sense you know the short trails

[35:12]are going

[35:14]to probably have a lot of important

[35:18]features on

[35:20]them that are Central to the park it

[35:23]makes sense why the visitor center is

[35:25]where it is okay I'm starting connect

[35:28]some dots in my head

[35:30]here fascinating so it's important to

[35:33]explore these places even if they are

[35:40]short does that say 9 miles to a picnic

[35:44]area it must be missing a dot it is

[35:47]that's funny somebody I think somebody

[35:49]did that not cool not cool guys but you

[35:54]know still funny still funny I can admit

[35:57]it

[35:59]so 0.9 that's almost a mile mile to a

[36:02]picnic area let's go find

[36:14]it I love it here there's a squirrel

[36:17]over there I've seen a few they're being

[36:19]very playful here yeah they don't seem

[36:22]too bothered by

[36:24]humans so they're quite used to us

[36:31]so maybe this takes us to the original

[36:34]cave entrance is that what they were

[36:36]getting

[36:46]at interesting that lots of people are

[36:49]not on these Trails really I've only

[36:51]past one person so far

[36:58]the visitor center is

[37:00]packed and that was nothing the guy in

[37:03]there told me he's like if you think

[37:04]this is busy you know that kind of talk

[37:08]I'm like dude I'm not making a criticism

[37:10]here I

[37:11]just I'm Different I would like to go

[37:15]see the caves with a big group of

[37:19]people oh that's where a lot of the

[37:21]people are that makes sense I mean it is

[37:23]Mammoth Cave so so what do we have here

[37:26]we have a bran in

[37:28]trail dialectical

[37:31]thinking I like this one even

[37:35]more

[37:37]do this one's awesome let's get a frame

[37:40]of this I'm going to end up using this

[37:51]somehow

[37:53]amazing let's go check out the

[37:58]um the Scenic Overlook this way and

[38:02]maybe check out the

[38:04]oh okay well okay wow lots of branching

[38:07]paths those are always

[38:11]fun let's start with the Scenic Overlook

[38:13]see what we're looking at what's going

[38:16]on around this

[38:19]place I think it's going to be pretty

[38:22]magnificent based on what I'm seeing so

[38:26]far this is a nice

[38:29]Trail such a lovely

[38:37]Trail man I love Kentucky

[38:58]okay another Branch

[39:02]here nothing clearly marked we're going

[39:05]to need to look at the

[39:06]map to understand the um trail system

[39:11]here that's a long trail too I can see

[39:13]how it leads up there wonder where it's

[39:18]going so this is a little

[39:21]Overlook no because it did say half no

[39:23]it didn't say it didn't tell us the

[39:25]distance oh

[39:28]you could walk down there

[39:30]too wouldn't be that difficult just go

[39:33]this

[39:34]way that is a beautiful

[39:37]tree you are beautiful I hope that you

[39:40]keep hanging

[39:42]on clearly trying to is anyone helping

[39:45]support you that little tree I don't

[39:48]know you're probably hurting that one to

[39:50]be

[39:52]honest but yeah that one kind

[39:55]of is taking advantage of those little

[39:57]trees there not cool not cool

[40:01]tree

[40:04]um yeah it really

[40:07]is but you know even though th trees are

[40:10]like okay we'll manage we'll do it we

[40:13]can

[40:14]manage and they

[40:16]are let's see what's this

[40:21]way wait I felt like there

[40:24]were did it Branch over there now I'm a

[40:26]little confused used okay well we can't

[40:29]go up here so let's do

[40:31]it okay yeah Dad right there and we're

[40:34]just we're we're going to merge with

[40:38]it let's see where this

[40:41]goes we got a sign over

[40:51]here yeah nearly a mile Green River

[40:53]Bluff

[40:55]Trail mile to the visitor center if you

[40:57]go this way so it's kind of curve around

[41:01]probably let's do

[41:03]that we need

[41:06]to um we need to really research that

[41:11]map you know let's be smart about it and

[41:14]understand where we

[41:15]are that is very nice maybe I could even

[41:18]bring my nice camera out

[41:23]here those rocks are beautiful

[41:28]I love the way the Shadow and the light

[41:30]is playing on

[41:31]them it's a beautiful shot there it's

[41:35]not as evident on my camera I'm looking

[41:37]at that

[41:38]now um yeah I need my I need my good

[41:42]camera so that we can do

[41:46]something um I want good pictures and

[41:52]video and not just for my main Channel

[41:54]but for others that is a little tiny

[41:56]snake

[41:58]hi you're so

[42:00]cool you're so cool look at

[42:04]you are you new to the

[42:07]world so

[42:11]cool

[42:13]awesome I'm so glad I got to witness

[42:16]that

[42:29]I like it

[42:43]here I'm wondering is there a river down

[42:45]there what's going on down

[42:48]there I think there is I think I

[42:50]remember it out the map so I do think it

[42:54]converged with the visitor center sort

[42:56]of

[42:58]oh those other Trails when we first

[43:00]turned it out when we could have Branch

[43:01]left to right I bet the left ones take

[43:03]you down

[43:05]there okay we want to do

[43:11]that definitely want to see the

[43:17]river but I'm glad that we took this

[43:19]path

[43:20]first I want to

[43:23]see what the forest of Mammoth Caves

[43:25]looks like

[43:30]it's

[43:49]wonderful yeah we're going to have to

[43:50]hike these TRS again too because I

[43:53]want I do want my GoPro

[44:00]and my Lumix camera I just need to learn

[44:02]that

[44:08]one I'm hearing some people but I can

[44:11]tell that they're down

[44:13]there her voices are carrying

[44:27]Family Man Woman

[44:30]child all right let's

[44:45]go I really want to work or volunteer at

[44:50]a place like this so badly I think about

[44:53]it it has been an ongoing thought of

[44:55]mine for a for decades

[44:59]like maybe it's time for me to act on

[45:04]that I want to get out here and help

[45:06]help build these

[45:08]fences clean up trash whatever I don't

[45:11]care what it

[45:17]is I want to help preserve these places

[45:21]that's what I

[45:24]want yep there's a river down there

[45:28]I don't know that we'll see

[45:33]it oh we got a little Overlook

[45:38]here I love this place the Green

[45:44]River I'll show you the map and then

[45:46]I'll show you the

[45:47]river or you know the

[45:51]sign there's a Green River Lake Nolan

[45:54]River that leads up to the park that's

[45:56]there

[45:57]can't read

[45:58]that that's a M's cave so I can tell by

[46:01]the

[46:02]shape so it's where a Green River

[46:05]intersect with Nolan

[46:07]River doesn't really say where we are in

[46:10]comparison like right now

[46:13]but here we

[46:16]go um very low water levels it's

[46:21]unfortunate but there's Beauty in that

[46:24]too you know there really is that's

[46:27]beautiful to

[46:31]me I love

[46:33]it so

[46:36]beautiful what a gorgeous spot this

[46:49]is I'm wondering what this thing is what

[46:52]do they de with that what's its

[46:55]purpose we're going to sit down for a

[46:57]minut we're going to just

[46:58]chill need to get a colder pop and

[47:01]stuff I had an amazing time hiking that

[47:05]simple Trail and seeing some of the park

[47:08]and

[47:09]like oh my God I'm in love with this

[47:12]place it came right out near my Jeep too

[47:14]that was

[47:16]unexpected we've got another Jeep near

[47:18]us of

[47:19]course I'm on the lookout for duckies

[47:22]now we want more

[47:24]duckies we want more of them but we have

[47:29]too we have a pair of them they're so

[47:32]cute

Summary

rswfire begins the day at his campground, planning to visit RV repair shops and explore Mammoth Cave trails. He drives to Blue Compass RV for assessment, scheduling repairs for Tuesday that will cost a couple thousand dollars including new power inlet, surge protector, and slide fixes. He then travels to Mammoth Cave National Park, visits the visitor center for a map, and receives his second Jeep duck from another visitor. After getting cold drinks at the camp store and learning trail locations, he hikes the Historic Entrance Trail and Green River Bluff Trail. The hike includes viewing a bat hibernation cave, scenic overlooks of the Green River, and encounters with wildlife including a small snake. He expresses strong appreciation for the park and considers volunteering there. The day is extremely hot at 95 degrees, but tree canopy provides relief during hiking.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates active integration of multiple infrastructural systems - physical (RV repair), cognitive (extended cognition setup), and social (ducking ritual participation) - while establishing deeper embedding within chosen territory. The field is moving from reactive problem-solving to proactive system-building, with sovereignty expressed through authentic participation rather than resistance.

Dominant Language

extended cognitioniterative processethical authenticitysystems integrationplace-based explorationstructural alignmentearned participation

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maptrailcaveriverduckjeepbatterymirror

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embedded
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integrating
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sovereign
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coherent

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cognitive
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infrastructural
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somatic
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relational

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