[0:01]hello
[0:03]humans so it's a little bit after
[0:05]midnight on
[0:09]Saturday I think this might be the last
[0:11]time you hear from me from
[0:15]Kentucky after a very long six months
[0:18]I'm finally doing
[0:23]it I'm leaving the Cocoon of my adopted
[0:27]home
[0:28]state in going to an exceptionally
[0:33]rugged and dynamic
[0:36]environment
[0:42]during some of its most chaotic
[0:47]Seasons where there's plenty of solitude
[0:50]lots of rain and fog and very tall
[0:55]trees and mud everywhere while I'm
[0:58]hiking
[1:01]and
[1:03]very steep Cliffs leading down to the
[1:11]oceans it sounds magical oh I forgot to
[1:15]mention the
[1:16]winds winds so strong that you really
[1:20]have to be thinking
[1:23]about how you position your RV where you
[1:27]position it what's around you
[1:30]lots of
[1:33]things and it excites the out of me
[1:37]like I am
[1:39]just ready for
[1:43]this storms that last for days at a time
[1:48]I have never lived somewhere where that
[1:50]happens and I'm going to be experiencing
[1:52]it from my little RV here Here Comes
[1:56]Bailey I heard you this very small space
[2:00]here is even smaller
[2:03]now come on lay down
[2:05]buddy see if I can get him in the frame
[2:08]here a little
[2:11]bit
[2:17]um and I just am very
[2:20]like intrigued by it and really looking
[2:24]forward to it like I just I know that
[2:27]I'm going to love this experience it
[2:30]will challenge me and I love
[2:35]challenges I am imagining all the
[2:37]scenarios that I will embark on while
[2:40]I'm there during these storms I might be
[2:43]working on my little book
[2:45]Nooks which I think is a very
[2:47]interesting contrast between you know
[2:50]violent chaotic storms outside and these
[2:53]intricate Little Worlds being built in
[2:57]here and I'll also spend some some time
[3:00]out there make some my intuition if it's
[3:02]safe
[3:03]enough sharing some of that with you
[3:07]guys I'll do lots of hiking despite the
[3:11]mud despite the constant
[3:15]rain I might adopt some new practices
[3:19]maybe I'll start drinking a lot more hot
[3:21]drinks maybe I'll finally get into tea
[3:23]something I talked about in the very
[3:25]beginning of my my
[3:27]journey did try it it didn't go so
[3:32]well um probably start cooking too you
[3:37]know for
[3:38]me some challenges are cyclical I
[3:43]don't I don't stress about it there's a
[3:46]thing I want to learn there's a thing I
[3:48]want to accomplish and I'll try it and
[3:51]I'll put it aside and then I'll try it
[3:52]again and that's just how I am and I'm
[3:55]very comfortable with
[3:57]it so it's in some ways a continuation
[4:01]of my
[4:03]journey in other ways it's very
[4:06]different I don't believe that I could
[4:09]have done
[4:11]this even 3 months ago even one month
[4:16]ago
[4:19]I am not the same person
[4:24]anymore I have
[4:26]truly transformed myself
[4:31]what I like to describe
[4:34]as crafting myself into a
[4:40]weapon there's deep significance to that
[4:43]for
[4:46]me and it's interesting because I
[4:49]thought why didn't I pick weapon and not
[4:51]tool there are reasons none of
[4:55]them are the traditional ones
[5:00]it's very deeply tied
[5:04]to the holistic person I
[5:10]am so I spent many hours tonight just
[5:14]talking to artificial
[5:17]intelligence doing preparation learning
[5:21]about the environment I'm going to be in
[5:23]so I can describe it to you so
[5:26]well and it was just getting me super
[5:29]we're
[5:31]excited originally I was going to stop
[5:34]at the Great Basin National Park along
[5:37]the way but I decided not to do
[5:40]that because I want to give that place
[5:44]the stargazing just as much attention as
[5:46]I'm going to be giving to this Dynamic
[5:50]environment I don't want a quick stop
[5:52]there I what to spend time there it's
[5:55]not smoke that's that's Bailey's fur he
[5:59]has a lot out of
[6:01]it so I'm having to put that
[6:04]off and in the spring it wouldn't be the
[6:07]right time it's still it would be too
[6:09]cold there
[6:11]so I'm basically
[6:14]accepting
[6:16]that it will probably be a year before I
[6:19]go there it'll have to
[6:21]be the next autumn in Winter and I'll go
[6:25]Star gasing there cuz I want to go
[6:28]straight
[6:30]or I feel
[6:32]called that is Oregan in
[6:36]Washington largely along the
[6:40]coast uh for the
[6:42]temperate temperatures but not a
[6:45]tempered
[6:47]climate so it will be a very
[6:52]interesting
[6:55]Adventure very excited about it
[6:59]very proud of myself that I've reached
[7:01]this level of integration
[7:04]where I'm not fearful of it at all and
[7:07]I'm genuinely just
[7:12]excited um there are some things that I
[7:14]need to do to prepare still but we'll do
[7:17]them
[7:18]there so I'm ready to
[7:21]go um I need to do some more
[7:26]insulating possibly even some fortifying
[7:30]in a
[7:32]sense
[7:34]um the weather there is different this
[7:37]RV needs to be able to hold up there so
[7:41]we're going to have projects like those
[7:43]once I get
[7:46]there
[7:49]um and there will of course be an
[7:51]Adaptive process I willon have to adapt
[7:54]to this
[7:57]environment so my growth
[8:03]for me that is how Evolution works you
[8:05]put yourself in an environment that
[8:08]forces you to
[8:10]grow and I do this
[8:14]willing I embrace it I seek it
[8:20]out for me going
[8:25]there is
[8:28]where I
[8:30]contest myself against all of the growth
[8:33]and adaptation I've done over the past 6
[8:36]months and I know I will Thrive I have
[8:40]no doubt about
[8:46]it
[8:48]so I guess I'll end with just some
[8:51]practical things here
[8:54]so that window is actually inside the RV
[8:58]it's not it's not looking outside that
[9:02]is the slide out wall my slide out is
[9:05]now permanently inside the
[9:08]RV which turns out makes a whole lot of
[9:11]sense for the environment I'm going to
[9:14]with these kinds of storms you actually
[9:16]don't want to have your slides
[9:19]out um there's some kind of
[9:21]synchronicity in that I
[9:23]guess and I have fully embraced it like
[9:27]I this feels better to me I don't want
[9:30]the extra space I actually feel like
[9:32]this space works better for
[9:37]me there is something to be said about
[9:41]too much
[9:43]space too much space
[9:48]breeds lots of things that perhaps
[9:51]aren't
[9:53]conducive to a healthy
[9:57]life that is something I've been
[9:59]learning over these past 6
[10:03]months this feels
[10:08]aligned with
[10:10]how I would want to live my life how I'm
[10:13]living it like it just it feels aligned
[10:15]with my
[10:19]values my practical
[10:22]considerations
[10:26]efficiency
[10:27]um the way that I interact with the
[10:30]space this environment my
[10:34]home it feels
[10:39]right I do see the irony in
[10:44]how I I I find it hard to imagine a
[10:47]whole lot of other people out there who
[10:48]live in RVs
[10:51]fulltime
[10:52]embracing something like this adapting
[10:55]their space to have their slid in all
[10:57]the
[10:57]time and I love that about me absolutely
[11:01]love it because it is quintessentially
[11:09]me for those of you who have been
[11:11]following my journey since the beginning
[11:14]I know you see
[11:16]it I am not the same person
[11:20]anymore and I don't think I will be the
[11:23]same person when I leave the Pacific
[11:26]Northwest which is why I have no plans
[11:28]for after there cuz I don't know where I
[11:32]would want to go after
[11:35]there they have to find out who I'll
[11:38]become before I can decide
[11:42]that so next time we talk probably
[11:45]Tuesday it's when I'm planning to leave
[11:48]so have a good weekend good start to
[11:51]your week