[0:01]one tree grew next to another tree and I
[0:04]said you know what I'm going to go do my
[0:07]own
[0:09]thing I'm going to go ahead towards the
[0:17]lake I admire trees
[0:20]who defy expectations and do something
[0:24]different something
[0:26]that just seems more natural to this
[0:29]particular tree
[0:34]that particular angle may not show it as
[0:37]well but it's very curved and it's just
[0:40]heading towards the lake
[0:42]there another tree same kind
[0:47]just inches from it
[0:50]growing right next to it that tree said
[0:54]all right I guess if I'm stuck with
[0:57]you I'm going to head this way
[1:00]heym down
[1:46]I've been reflecting on some things this
[1:50]morning they all kind of have a similar
[1:53]theme and that's Humanity in
[1:55]progress I think to
[1:59]my viewers like
[2:02]you you might think my thoughts were
[2:04]rather
[2:06]gloomy but I don't feel that way they're
[2:08]just reflections of what I see in the
[2:12]world and how I experience it when I was
[2:15]in a city the other day getting my RV
[2:18]fixed the energy there just felt
[2:20]frenetic and
[2:23]chaotic
[2:27]and didn't enjoy it
[2:31]the tight space is just to get Cofe
[2:34]navigating so many
[2:36]people you know so many cars
[2:40]and um trying to find a natural space
[2:43]for me and Bailey waiting for our ourv
[2:46]to get
[2:47]fixed um at these little local
[2:52]parks that are meant to help people kind
[2:55]of reenter themselves I would say
[3:00]but don't because you're still
[3:02]surrounded by
[3:03]chaos and you're not the only one trying
[3:07]to find some measure of Solace at that
[3:12]Park I saw a lot
[3:16]of
[3:19]well I mean the more time I spent there
[3:21]the more I just wanted to
[3:23][Music]
[3:24]go I took Bailey to like three or four
[3:27]different Parks trying to find one that
[3:29]felt
[3:30]felt
[3:31]better they
[3:38]couldn't I don't miss City life at
[3:41]all we've
[3:45]created we've created this
[3:46]infrastructure that separates us from
[3:48]the rest of the world humans treat
[3:52]themselves
[3:53]like they're Above This
[3:56]World they dominate it
[4:00]and they just create these spaces
[4:03]that are just for
[4:06]them at the expense of everything else
[4:09]of
[4:11]course there's no balance or integration
[4:21]or the more you look at it from the
[4:24]outside the more
[4:28]just why I think you'd consider my
[4:30]thoughts
[4:32]gloomy when in reality I'm
[4:35]just finally seeing the world clearly
[4:38]for the first
[4:46]time this tr's quite a bit longer than I
[4:50]thought going to have a busy day but I
[4:52]needed to get out in nature and even
[4:56]living in you know on a campground
[5:01]um it's not the same as as being out
[5:05]here there are
[5:07]some other than that so I want to go for
[5:10]my eyes because of the
[5:17]moisture yeah this Trail seems
[5:19]practically endless I'm confused told me
[5:22]it was a mile but I know I've gone more
[5:24]than a
[5:25]mile probably gone several
[5:36]I'd love to keep exploring but I really
[5:38]do have a busy
[5:40]day I think I slept maybe five or 6
[5:43]hours
[5:44]so um wish i' got more sleep
[5:48]but I'll wake up it's one of the reasons
[5:50]I'm out
[5:54]here head into Kansas
[5:58]today um
[6:02]I'll be somewhere near
[6:05]Topeka and I'll be there for a day and a
[6:09]half and then I'll headen to Central
[6:12]Kansas not then for that one for another
[6:15]day and a half and
[6:16]then um Western
[6:20]Kansas another day and a
[6:23]half and then I head into Nebraska I'm
[6:26]not sure from there I
[6:28]haven't memorized
[6:30]my rck that
[6:32]much but eventually I end up in
[6:36]Oregon somewhere around the Nebraska
[6:39]point I
[6:41]think maybe it was Kansas felt like I
[6:44]had gotten stuck there trying to
[6:47]find um a path that worked for me where
[6:50]I could book
[6:51]a my campgrounds in
[6:55]advance
[6:58]um they had basic
[7:01]amenities and it started getting very
[7:03]difficult I
[7:05]couldn't you started to um encounter the
[7:07]first come first serve kind of
[7:11]campgrounds and I just
[7:14]wanted I wanted my route plan that was
[7:17]important to me it's a big Journey it's
[7:19]my first one I'm living this way
[7:23]and so at first I
[7:27]was um
[7:30]trying to get into the Pacific Northwest
[7:32]I think from Utah maybe but it just
[7:35]wasn't working I had
[7:37]to I tried several routes that Montana
[7:41]um nothing was working
[7:44]so I ended up doing
[7:47]was just one of these days I don't know
[7:50]which
[7:51]one one of the camp CRS I go
[7:54]to the next one will be like a 10-hour
[7:57]drive it's going to be quite far
[8:00]I think that happened
[8:02]twice and I just accepted it
[8:07]because you know if it turns out I can't
[8:09]do it for some
[8:11]reason worst case scenario I just pull
[8:13]over somewhere I can I can sleep without
[8:18]without any hookups without even
[8:19]bringing my slide out and
[8:23]so but I'll make it cuz I know
[8:26]me I am a very persistent person
[8:31]when I set my mind to something when I
[8:33]have a
[8:34]goal I aim for and I don't stop until
[8:37]I've completed it I've been doing that
[8:38]my whole
[8:41]life
[8:42]so I'll endure those days and enjoy them
[8:46]too the extent that I'm
[8:49]able
[8:51]um might even be truly enjoyable now
[8:55]that my RV feels like it's in good
[8:57]condition
[8:59]I've learned how to use the cruise
[9:01]control on it you know and um the
[9:04]further west I go I think the less
[9:06]people I'll encounter at least I hope so
[9:09]it feels
[9:12]like you know there's a ton of rvers out
[9:15]there
[9:16]so it doesn't feel like you can truly
[9:19]Escape people
[9:21]anymore
[9:24]and for someone like me that's very
[9:26]problematic I I got my RV not knowing
[9:30]about RV life I wasn't watching this
[9:32]YouTube
[9:33]crap I just knew what I
[9:37]wanted it didn't take long for me to
[9:41]discover Van lifers RV lifers
[9:45]and I mean I couldn't even find anywhere
[9:48]along the Oregon coast to book in
[9:52]October cuz they're booked
[9:55]up in
[9:57]October and the Pacific
[10:01]Northwest
[10:04]so I'm going to constantly be at tension
[10:09]with this
[10:10]community CU I wasn't trying to join a
[10:12]community when I first started my
[10:14]channel I said this is not an RV Life
[10:17]channel said that many
[10:20]times it remains
[10:24]true doesn't mean I don't like
[10:26]connecting with people occasionally it's
[10:28]got to be on my turn terms of
[10:31]course um my sovereignty and the
[10:34]boundaries of myself I maintain those
[10:38]and I defend
[10:41]them I think that's one of the things
[10:43]that you guys haven't figured out yet
[10:46]when I turn off
[10:47]comments
[10:49]or I tell you stop giving me unsolicited
[10:52]advice that's me defending my
[10:55]borders cuz I won't tolerate anyone
[10:59]who tries to to breach my borders caus
[11:03]decoherence within myself because I'm
[11:05]not interested I'm
[11:09]not
[11:11]so um my thoughts on this are kind of
[11:15]nuance when I get to the Pacific
[11:16]Northwest I'm going to spend quite a lot
[11:19]of time
[11:21]just learning about that region and what
[11:24]the Dynamics are the relationships
[11:33]and hopefully there's space for me there
[11:37]cuz if there isn't I don't know what
[11:38]I'll do I pick that place in winter time
[11:42]to get away from people and I couldn't
[11:45]even find a campground on the coast
[11:49]anywhere that to me
[11:51]is
[11:56]disappointing but I will figure it out
[12:00]so I guess the last thing I'll talk
[12:02]about is cuz I'm just going to I'll
[12:04]probably upload this before I go we for
[12:06]the um when I get back to my RV before I
[12:10]pack up my starlink and
[12:12]stuff um it's a short drive it's only a
[12:15]couple of
[12:16]hours so it won't take me long to get
[12:19]there very low on
[12:21]fuel and I'm cutting it pretty
[12:25]close but I wanted to go to a truck stop
[12:27]I just feel like it's I'm not
[12:29]comfortable trying to navigate a normal
[12:31]gas station in my RV especially toing my
[12:34]Jeep
[12:35]so it took some effort yesterday finding
[12:39]a place along the way
[12:41]that it's within my range
[12:45]and has the kind of pumps I'm looking
[12:48]for so I did find one though so should
[12:52]be okay um this causes me a little bit
[12:54]of tension cuz I know I know how close
[12:57]I'm cutting it
[13:00]but I
[13:01]will remain flexible
[13:05]if um it seems like okay my range
[13:09]isn't um holding up the way I thought it
[13:13]would you know I'll reassess the
[13:15]situation before I run out of gas of
[13:17]course so
[13:22]um that's really the only I'm also going
[13:25]to test
[13:26]my how my new mirrors do I was thinking
[13:30]about how to stop the vibrating maybe
[13:31]some tape but
[13:35]um yeah cuz that's important to me I
[13:38]really need that mirror to to work
[13:42]correctly I know the new concave mirror
[13:44]I attached to it will
[13:46]help especially if it doesn't vibrate
[13:49]out of out of alignment
[13:52]so you know
[13:56]um I'm just going to
[14:00]head back to my my home my RV and pack
[14:03]up a few
[14:05]things head out for
[14:08]Kansas and once I get there
[14:12]I'll assess my situation and decide
[14:16]where what I'm doing from
[14:18]there I hope you all enjoy the rest of
[14:21]your
[14:23]day that person's actions right there
[14:25]have Ripple
[14:27]effects well literal and figurative cuz
[14:30]you can just see them racing away in
[14:32]their
[14:33]bone leaving ripples behind them messing
[14:36]with this guy over here who's been
[14:38]silently fishing while I've been sitting
[14:40]up
[14:42]here Ripple
[14:44]effects I'm not saying he shouldn't be
[14:46]out there not even saying he's doing
[14:49]anything
[14:51]wrong at the same time if that were me I
[14:54]wouldn't be going at the speed he is I
[14:57]would be trying to leave his little of a
[14:59]footprint as
[15:01]possible I will be respecting that
[15:03]person over
[15:04]there because I know that I'm in a
[15:07]relationship with them right
[15:09]now that's how life Works everything is
[15:12]interconnected so my actions affect this
[15:17]person that person's actions affect all
[15:19]of us including me because he Disturbed
[15:21]the peace that we were having
[15:23][Music]
[15:26]here this is a beautiful spot
[15:29][Music]
[15:36]I getting yeah somewhere to be be in the
[15:39]grand scheme of
[15:41]things it's just a
[15:43]momentary um
[15:45]distraction
[15:46][Music]
[15:48]tension then we'll go back to the
[15:50]peaceful
[15:52]world there are so many people in this
[15:54]world now that it's getting very hard to
[15:58]find moments like like this
[16:03]one I don't think that we can support
[16:05]the number of people that we have on
[16:07]this
[16:10]planet we're we're way out of balance
[16:13]with
[16:17]nature I've been sitting here watching
[16:19]these waves
[16:54]very disruptive because you could still
[16:56]hear that bone
[17:11]oh here comes another one I
[17:15]guess I guess we're not going to get a
[17:17]lot of Peace here
[17:19]today so that will be my last memory of
[17:22]here I
[17:25]guess we have to share the world with
[17:28]each other
[17:30]trust me I
[17:31]know doesn't mean I always have to like
[17:34]it