[0:01]hello humans so I don't normally do this
[0:03]but I'm going to introduce myself my
[0:04]name is Sam I live in an RV I've been
[0:07]living in an RV for 6 months I do a lot
[0:09]of hiking and exploring and this video
[0:12]is about my day today it was actually
[0:15]quite profound I encountered a mother
[0:17]deer and two of her her Do's children on
[0:22]a trail we couldn't get around each
[0:24]other so we kind of existed in the same
[0:26]space for over an hour it was one of the
[0:28]most profound things to ever happened to
[0:29]me my life it was truly special then
[0:32]after that I kept hiking and some
[0:35]branches from a tree fell down very
[0:37]close to me but I was observing and knew
[0:40]what was happening so I was paying
[0:42]attention I got all that on camera and I
[0:44]talked about some other things like um I
[0:47]want to work for the Park Service I've
[0:49]decided that's the direction I want to
[0:51]go in my life I'm a programmer all my
[0:53]life but this lifestyle I was a
[0:56]deliberate choice and I'm trying to
[0:58]align my life
[1:00]completely differently than how Society
[1:03]tells me I should live it anyways
[1:06]enjoying good morning
[1:09]humans just walking back from the shower
[1:12]houses took a very long shower today
[1:16]still not awake though need coffee I
[1:19]don't
[1:20]have um the supplies for it in my RV not
[1:25]sure what we're doing today want to go
[1:27]hiking somewhere we could go to the
[1:29]local
[1:30]Trail um that I was talking about one of
[1:33]the cor engineer Trails but I feel more
[1:36]drawn to Mammoth Cave I kind of want to
[1:39]go there again I was thinking maybe we
[1:41]could go and take the other Fork um to
[1:43]the original Trails they have I bet it's
[1:46]pretty cool down there because of the
[1:47]caves and it's going to be 95 today
[1:52]again um for the next 3 days it's going
[1:54]to be in the high
[1:56]90s
[1:58]and um I need to find a slightly bigger
[2:01]city cuz I need to go to a hardore store
[2:04]we'll talk about that in a
[2:06]minute so I'm just kind of thinking
[2:09]through what I'd like to get done today
[2:11]it's pretty much RV related and Hiking I
[2:14]need to
[2:16]just well so the Heat's really bad well
[2:21]there's a couple of problems and I think
[2:22]I can solve a couple both of these
[2:25]problems with the same
[2:26]solution so it's getting up to8 5 inside
[2:30]the
[2:31]RV and late afternoon that's just too
[2:35]hot um you know this is Kentucky it's
[2:37]not just high heat it's high humidity
[2:39]too it's quite
[2:42]unbearable and last night a whole bunch
[2:44]of gats got into my RV
[2:47]and um that was
[2:50]unfortunate not fun so I was wondering
[2:54]how they got in and I had a feeling I
[2:55]knew if there was a slide
[2:58]mechanism so there were a whole bunch of
[3:01]them out here this morning I noticed
[3:03]they were all over my RV over on this
[3:05]side I had already put this pipe
[3:08]instulation in there cuz I'm used to
[3:10]this spot like having problems um
[3:13]because there's like a hole there but I
[3:15]never put it on this side I did this
[3:17]this morning so I just want to go to the
[3:19]hardware store and get properly cut
[3:22]links for this um cuz there's a spot
[3:25]there that's not done obviously I could
[3:26]cut that and put it there but I just
[3:28]want to I want to be more more efficient
[3:30]so I can put them into that storage pay
[3:32]there I want to keep these on the
[3:33]outside and start using them make this
[3:35]part of my
[3:37]routine so that should help keep out
[3:40]these little gnats or whatever they are
[3:41]one of them landed on me this morning
[3:43]and bit me I don't I didn't think gats
[3:45]bit you so whatever they are they're
[3:47]kind of they're real Annoying and
[3:50]hopefully it will help with the heat a
[3:51]little bit I truly don't
[3:54]know um so another
[3:58]issue my
[4:00]fridge is getting too hot during the day
[4:03]I do monitor The Temper I you know I
[4:05]have to monitor everything in my RV I
[4:07]monitor the temperature of the fridge
[4:09]and
[4:10]it's I'm getting into like 42 you it has
[4:14]to be under 40 or bacteria starts
[4:16]growing not really keeping much in there
[4:19]so it's not a huge problem it's just you
[4:22]know basically soda that I have in there
[4:24]um I had you know condiments the kind of
[4:27]things you always have in a fridge I'm
[4:29]going to have to throw throw them out I
[4:30]feel cuz you just can't I've been having
[4:33]this problem every day all week so don't
[4:35]trust that stuff now and I won't I won't
[4:39]refill it until I feel like I've solved
[4:41]the problem and that one I'm not quite
[4:43]sure how to solve there is a buildup of
[4:46]ice on the mechanism that creates the
[4:48]cool effect in there I don't know what
[4:50]it's called um I'm wondering if that
[4:53]makes it less efficient so I'll try like
[4:55]getting all that ice off of there might
[4:58]not do that today we'll see
[5:01]and um but you know you'll see when I do
[5:04]it I have a feeling it probably does
[5:07]make it less fishing I don't know it's
[5:08]just a a feeling I have maybe that will
[5:11]help I'm not sure what else I could do
[5:13]though because see on this side usually
[5:15]when the fridge gets too hot it's
[5:17]because the sun is beating down on this
[5:19]side of the RV but that doesn't happen
[5:21]because of this tree I don't even need
[5:23]to bring out the awning you can bring
[5:24]out the awning to kind of protect that
[5:26]area there from the Sun but it's not
[5:29]going to help
[5:30]so those are my current issues minus all
[5:33]the other ones that the RV Shop's going
[5:34]to you know fix for me next week
[5:37]so um I think we can do something about
[5:40]that today and that's pretty much my
[5:42]goal along with finding somewhere to go
[5:44]hiking I think we decide we're just
[5:45]going to go to the original Trails there
[5:48]oh let me just address this so usually
[5:50]when I address something I don't ever
[5:51]bring it up again so if I get comments
[5:53]in the future about it and someone sees
[5:55]it you are welcome to reply um You
[5:58]probably noticed I started to use we
[6:00]more often it's cuz I'm taking Along on
[6:03]my journey it's not like I think of you
[6:05]know it's
[6:06]not it's it's just me I guess
[6:09]acknowledging that we're this is a Shar
[6:11]Journey so that's why I've been doing
[6:13]that so we're back at the mammo cave V
[6:16]Visitor Center um when I was hiking here
[6:20]yesterday we went behind the visitor
[6:22]center we hiked a trail and I ended up
[6:23]back in the parking lot which is in
[6:25]front of the visitor center right next
[6:28]to my Jeep I just CED some things that I
[6:30]wanted to show you guys
[6:33]because they have influenced me quite
[6:37]profoundly and have chared me a path for
[6:40]my future so I want to show
[6:43]you you see these buildings
[6:45]here those are for Resident
[6:48]workers and they have inspired me to
[6:52]decide on a new path for my
[6:54]life so we're just going to go for a
[6:56]hike I'm not even bringing my backpack
[6:58]or anything we're just going to
[7:00]talk any I could have brought my Jeep
[7:03]down here you can drive down
[7:06]here this will take us to the trail that
[7:09]I took
[7:10]yesterday and I noticed these over here
[7:13]these little
[7:15]residential buildings you know that's a
[7:19]community community lives
[7:22]there diverse people who all share kind
[7:25]of a common goal you know they're all
[7:28]working for the Park Service
[7:31]I want that I have spent 6 months trying
[7:36]to figure out what I want to do with my
[7:37]life and I know now I want to work for
[7:40]the Park
[7:42]Service don't know if that will
[7:46]be easy or hard to do there's a lot to
[7:49]consider
[7:52]so
[7:55]um with my mobile lifestyle right but I
[7:59]think that they're accommodating to
[8:00]things like that
[8:03]so I did you know do some talking with
[8:06]AI about it last
[8:08]night things are seasonal um some many
[8:12]jobs are
[8:14]temporary you can move within the park
[8:16]system
[8:18]probably there's a lot to figure
[8:22]out that's what I want to do and I would
[8:24]do anything I pick up
[8:27]trash I just want to work for the park
[8:29]Serv
[8:30]Serv that's what I want I love the
[8:33]infrastructure here the buildings are so
[8:38]nice it's just a beautiful place I like
[8:41]the
[8:42]way they've Blended human activity with
[8:46]nature feels very organized there's a
[8:48]whole system
[8:53]here and I love
[8:55]it I want to be a part of it
[9:00]this this is the trail that I came off
[9:01]of
[9:03]yesterday so we're going to hike that
[9:05]and that'll take us behind the visitor
[9:07]center and then we can get to the other
[9:16]trails that building over there says
[9:18]Environmental
[9:21]Education Green River Bluffs Trail 1.3
[9:25]miles very easy Trail
[9:29]um I enjoyed it so we're
[9:34]back it's quite hot
[9:37]today it's well above the
[9:41]90s I'm thinking once we get to the end
[9:44]of this Trail and we get on the other
[9:47]trails that I didn't take yesterday
[9:49]they're going to take us down
[9:50]further um I felt the very cool
[9:54]breeze it was quite remarkable
[9:57]when I first got on the trails over
[10:00]there so I'm thinking if we go down
[10:03]further we might experience more of that
[10:05]might be quite cool freaking mosquito or
[10:09]something I put on that new
[10:13]lotion but now they're going for my ears
[10:15]should have used it there
[10:18]too it's mostly an non issue
[10:24]though I've just been getting eaten up
[10:27]so badly you know see
[10:30]oh this part of the trail felt like it
[10:32]had more mosquitoes than the other part
[10:34]of the trail I was on which I found that
[10:37]interesting cuz the other part was just
[10:39]so Serene
[10:41]and you were not dealing with
[10:49]insects but that's what Summer's like
[10:52]you
[10:53]know definitely prefer the other
[10:56]Seasons that was another thing
[11:01]um you know there a lot of seasonal jobs
[11:04]but some parks probably are open year
[11:08]round and I'm wondering if
[11:12]maybe the off seasons are harder to fill
[11:15]the jobs for and those are the seasons
[11:18]that I would most want to work
[11:20]so
[11:22]um I really want to explore
[11:26]this I'm hopeful that it works out
[11:31]so I learned today this is why the ferry
[11:33]is closed the river is too
[11:36]low it gets you over to the north side
[11:39]of Mammoth Caves
[11:42]where there is a trail there I want to
[11:44]hike I'll take an hour and a half to
[11:46]drive there 20 minutes by ferry I think
[11:49]we'll end up down there somehow once I
[11:51]get off of this Trail and we start
[11:53]heading downward I think we're going to
[11:54]end up over near the
[11:56]river I'm hoping so I think we'll
[11:58]actually be able to so get closer to
[12:00]it there's some deer over
[12:03]there I don't want to startle
[12:09]them oh it's a mother and two
[12:13]babies walking the
[12:16]trail to get
[12:19]backwards not disturb
[12:22]them here walking the
[12:25]trail wow oh my God that is so so
[12:32]cool hi Mama dear
[12:35]hi I'm not here to bother you or your
[12:38]little
[12:40]kids but somehow we got to get around
[12:42]each
[12:44]other we have a
[12:50]solution it's right there sorry I can't
[12:53]get you here you
[12:55]go oh she's eating she's like whatever
[12:58]human I see humans all the
[13:00]time how
[13:02]interesting she is walking over
[13:06]here with her babies oh my God this is
[13:11]insane
[13:14]wow oh my God this is
[13:20]wonderful we can wait for
[13:22]you we can
[13:28]wait
[13:58]e e
[14:32]there's another little one over there
[14:34]but I can't really get you a good angle
[14:36]on
[14:37]her they are just eating
[14:45]away hi hi little one you're
[14:50]adorable you're
[14:52]adorable
[14:55]hi look at you eating
[15:04]I'm wondering if they needs more space
[15:07]because I don't know that they can
[15:08]really get up there or not real
[15:11]sure we're just going to turn around
[15:14]right over here is the par
[15:16]Benes I have to zoomed in yet
[15:21]so fix
[15:24]this just give them some time I don't
[15:27]know where they're going to end up
[15:31]so you know this is their space too more
[15:35]theirs than
[15:39]ours very cute very
[15:42]adorable
[15:44]very nice to
[15:50]see amaz are so calm around
[15:54]me she's in there somewhere I can't tell
[15:57]if you can see her on the camera or not
[16:01]there she
[16:04]is little kid still over there another
[16:07]one's back
[16:09]for so we're just hanging out here
[16:11]letting them
[16:13]eat she's slowly coming this way though
[16:16]I don't know what to do about that
[16:51]all she looks healthy but kind of
[16:54]thin I don't know if it that's normal or
[16:57]not
[17:00]very thin
[17:02]legs very thin hope that's
[17:08]normal I don't know what to do
[17:11]Mama I'm not sure what to
[17:14]do your kids are a little bit away from
[17:17]you
[17:18]now there's nowhere to really
[17:21]go come over
[17:24]here I can come over here in this corner
[17:32]it sounds pretty
[17:33]close they must be on the
[17:42]trail I'm completely harmless I can't I
[17:45]can't speak for the other
[17:49]people y I see him coming
[17:55]now this could be a
[17:57]problem I'll go deal with them
[18:03]okay I don't know what I mean they're
[18:05]just hanging out their mom is quite far
[18:08]away so she's way over there
[18:11]somewhere I don't know if they're
[18:13]waiting for a mom to be like let to go
[18:15]or
[18:22]what I mean I don't know do I just try
[18:25]walking by them
[18:29]there is one right in the
[18:31]path I cannot get around this is not the
[18:34]train for
[18:36]that can I get around you guys would
[18:39]that be
[18:41]possible we've been here for like 30
[18:45]minutes can I get around you
[18:50]guys can I just go past
[18:54]you would that be all
[18:56]right you're so tired you're so
[19:01]cute I don't want to disturb you but I
[19:04]got to get
[19:05]by can I get
[19:08]by your mom is over
[19:11]there want to go see
[19:15]her am I too close is that why you're
[19:18]shaking like
[19:20]that or is that that fly bothering
[19:27]you yeah yeah I'm not walking by you I
[19:31]will
[19:32]wait I will
[19:36]wait can you come this
[19:39]way your mom's over
[19:47]here he's like
[19:51]whatever oh she is way over
[19:54]here still
[19:57]eating guess we hanging out for a
[20:00]while do you know how profound this is
[20:02]we are sharing a space with these deer
[20:04]right now it's like we have a space in
[20:07]their lives at this moment we're just
[20:10]we're inhabiting the same
[20:13]space she's right over there just
[20:16]watching me I'm just hanging out you
[20:19]guys have me blocked in now they're on
[20:21]both sides of the trail I am stopped
[20:24]here I don't know what to do
[20:30]I'm stuck here I mean I guess I could
[20:33]walk up there if that will get you guys
[20:36]moving I'm thinking the little babies
[20:38]have to stay on the
[20:41]trail that doesn't make a lot of sense
[20:45]though well maybe I mean that just
[20:48]depends on the terrain I don't
[20:53]know she's paying attention to her kids
[20:57]listening to the little noises they
[21:08]make I'm kind of stuck here I don't know
[21:12]what to do she's sitting there chewing
[21:13]her food it's so
[21:17]adorable oh
[21:19]my that is so cool look at
[21:23]you you are so
[21:27]chill oh
[21:34]wow they're just sitting down there
[21:37]right in the
[21:40]bat you know that though don't
[21:49]you I'm stuck here I've been sitting
[21:53]here for an hour and some
[21:55]humans um are getting in the way are
[21:58]coming down the the path so the little
[22:00]deer are trying to move
[22:02]now
[22:04]so I think that they'll come past me I'm
[22:07]completely harmless guys completely
[22:15]harmless it's
[22:18]okay
[22:20]hi hi there hi you're very
[22:25]pretty you're very pretty
[22:29]don't worry about me I'm right here I'm
[22:31]not moving I
[22:33]promise I'm not
[22:37]moving it's
[22:39]okay it's okay your mom's over
[22:44]there they're
[22:46]reunited that's a wonderful
[22:50]site that was truly one of the coolest
[22:52]experiences of my
[22:54]life that was just so so profound I
[22:58]don't have words for it I must have been
[23:01]there for an hour just inhabiting the
[23:04]same space as
[23:06]them trying to understand
[23:11]like if they
[23:12]were choosing to to be where they were
[23:16]or if I was an obstacle or what you know
[23:18]like I was just just trying to show that
[23:21]I'm not a threat
[23:24]and really enjoying watching them
[23:26]because that was so cool that was so
[23:32]cool
[23:33]amazing can't recall if we went this way
[23:36]yesterday I know that it was we came
[23:39]near it I might have gone that way
[23:41]that's where I just came from that's
[23:42]where the deer were and that's the way
[23:45]back to the visitor center I can't
[23:47]recall if we went this way yesterday but
[23:49]I would like to see the Scenic Overlook
[23:51]and then we can go down to whatever the
[23:53]spring
[23:54]is it could be fun but I'm just I can't
[23:58]call did we come to this Overlook over
[24:02]here feels like a thing that would do
[24:07]uhoh you definitely want to be mindful
[24:09]in the
[24:10]forest that is interesting timing what a
[24:13]wonderful
[24:14]day what a wonderful
[24:26]day always be mindful of your
[24:29]environment oh yeah I remember we did
[24:31]come over here it wasn't that much to
[24:33]see it's just a spot over
[24:37]here I remember
[24:44]now yeah you can keep going and it's
[24:47]just you're going to end up at a spot
[24:48]like this just a few rocks and it wasn't
[24:51]like a great view or anything I don't
[24:53]know but I know I didn't take the other
[24:56]path so we'll do that
[25:00]he found another
[25:04]deer this one seems to be on his
[25:07]own or her own
[25:10]hi I'm going to keep going this is an
[25:14]interesting
[25:19]transition wow there's a nice Cool
[25:21]Breeze
[25:23]here very
[25:25]fascinating where it's coming from
[25:32]so no telling where we are no idea a
[25:37]bunch of ranching
[25:39]Trails this is different I guess we're
[25:41]not taking the same way
[25:45]back I love
[25:48]this old Riverboat
[25:56]Landing fascinating
[26:02]then what did they do walked
[26:05]miles through the
[26:14]forest what did this place look like
[26:16]back
[26:19]then nice tree
[26:21]formations love that
[26:28]nice fractal
[26:36]patterns we're getting
[26:43]there I bet you at some point in the
[26:45]distant past people just chilled there
[26:49]hung out talked to each other
[27:00]I love these trees
[27:04]here that is
[27:14]beautiful I feel the tension too you
[27:17]know of our modern world the way it
[27:20]disconnects us from this place
[27:25]nature I see those deer
[27:29]my first impulse is to keep moving
[27:32]rather than sit in a Lial state with
[27:41]them it's not
[27:43]good if I'm experiencing it I can only
[27:46]imagine what the majority of people are
[27:52]experiencing it explains a lot about my
[27:54]channel too it
[27:56]just but that's not important
[27:59]what's important is
[28:02]that we become very
[28:07]disconnected and it is not an easy
[28:09]problem to solve but we have to be
[28:12]mindful of
[28:16]it we should be able to connect with
[28:19]places like this
[28:30]you really can't get lost here because
[28:32]there's a whole other Trail we could go
[28:34]and
[28:36]explore or we could go that way back
[28:39]to where my Jeep is at there's a trail
[28:42]here but it's
[28:44]closed wish I
[28:47]could um wish I worked here and I could
[28:49]work on Trails like
[28:53]that but it has been a very pleasant
[28:55]time in the high 9s
[28:58]my
[29:00]humidity um my entire skin is
[29:03]glistening love that
[29:06]word think we'll just head back for now
[29:09]there's still much to
[29:11]do and I had a very good time here it
[29:14]was very good for my
[29:17]soul and it's time
[29:22]to tend of the Practical I guess I'm
[29:26]guessing this was the original like Road
[29:28]or path that they took back then after
[29:31]they got off the the
[29:33]ferry um or whatever the what did they
[29:36]call that not a
[29:40]steamboat well you
[29:42]know we saw the sign for
[29:48][Music]
[29:50]it is so hot and muggy and
[29:58]definitely takes a lot out of
[30:03]you and we're going up a very steep
[30:06]England here for half a
[30:10]mile there is nothing though compared to
[30:12]the Natural Bridge
[30:14]or my hikes back in the Boy
[30:18]Scouts Boy were those
[30:24]brutal it's very pleasant actually
[30:29]I like it this whole area right
[30:32]here it's like an air conditioner it is
[30:36]absolutely
[30:38]amazing it is so pleasant on a day like
[30:42]today wow it is just
[30:46]magical there's cool air conditioned air
[30:53]just I'm blending with the hot humid air
[30:58]it's just an it is an interesting
[31:02]Dynamic it is it is fabulous
[31:06]and so
[31:09]wonderful oh I could just sit
[31:13]here
[31:15]amazing that is just such an amazing
[31:18]sensation we're guys there are
[31:21]people coming all down the row 829 to 98
[31:28]right behind me 829 to
[31:31]92 I don't know about further down
[31:34]yet I just got
[31:37]back least I got a couple days it looks
[31:41]like let's go check on
[31:46]Bailey I am going to figure out a way to
[31:48]get more Solitude into my life cuz I do
[31:51]not like having neighbors it's one of
[31:53]the reasons I moved on my freaking house
[31:58]hi buddy I I figured you heard the Jean
[32:01]you're very
[32:03]attuned let's check on the temperatures
[32:05]in here shall we 82 up
[32:10]there all right I move that one 76
[32:14]that's not
[32:15]bad back
[32:18]here
[32:21]76 in
[32:23]here
[32:26]73 not too bad considering it's over 90
[32:29]right now so those things actually did
[32:30]help putting them under the slide I'm
[32:34]fascinated by that the heat out here is
[32:37]brutal so let's fix this this Slide part
[32:41]is 119 in so we're going to make we're
[32:43]going to cut it into thirds it's going
[32:45]to be 40 40 and
[32:47]39 that should fit into this storage Bay
[32:51]I need to confirm that yeah easily it's
[32:53]like 42 in at the door and it actually
[32:55]has more space than that so for 40 40
[32:58]and 39 got those
[33:00]in up here too look at this I guarantee
[33:05]you that is my wardrobe there or my bad
[33:08]platform actually what a shitty design
[33:11]it's just shitty we're going to put
[33:14]something there
[33:15]too
[33:18]okay so now we got that oh that doesn't
[33:21]look too good it pushed it in too far I
[33:24]guess we'll do something like that I
[33:26]think that's better than these these
[33:28]things I can feel the cold air um when I
[33:32]without that isulation there just
[33:34]seeping right out of my RV you know what
[33:37]a
[33:38]waste absolutely
[33:40]ridiculous this might look a little bit
[33:44]silly and it's extra steps right but
[33:47]this is what you got to do it's what you
[33:49]got to do putting that pipe insulation
[33:52]around my slide mechanism is going to
[33:54]solve several problems it's going to
[33:56]help keep the heat or cool in
[33:58]you know it's going to keep the
[33:59]environment better sealed and it's going
[34:01]to get keep insects from getting in
[34:03]there which has been a long-term problem
[34:04]since I moved into the thing and I
[34:06]suspect that's probably how they're
[34:07]getting in
[34:10]so pretty pleased with that um solution
[34:15]and I wish that you know the RV
[34:17]manufacturers made these better but they
[34:18]don't and you need to be aware of that
[34:22]because some of it's quite pathetic and
[34:25]you know you have to do the these do
[34:28]these diy things in order to to live
[34:30]this way