Driving Through Kansas Landscape to Grocery Store

rswfire is in his RV in Kansas during hot weather, having stayed inside to upload video and chat with AI. He's driving approximately 10 miles to get groceries, with hardware store much further away. A storm appears to be approaching which would provide cooling.

Energetic Signature

contemplative wonder

Field State

environmental embedding

Orientation

toward land integration

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September 20, 2024

10:32

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Author

rswfire

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ARCHIVED

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TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

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[0:00]so I was looking at my GPS and I saw

[0:03]that this part of the map's got orange

[0:05]and red on it right and I'm

[0:09]like is that

[0:11]like relative because there's nobody

[0:15]here right there's just nobody here so a

[0:17]few people means turn it yellow or what

[0:20]but no there's construction up here

[0:22]they're um it's one lane road so that

[0:26]explains it but I was really wondering

[0:29]like I wonder if that relative like

[0:31]maybe maybe that thing's very

[0:34]responsive I am loving it out here it

[0:37]is very hot so I've just been in my RV

[0:44]um I'm just trying to get my video

[0:47]uploaded and just chatting with

[0:49]artificial intelligence about it I

[0:50]always do that then I decided to go find

[0:54]me some um I need to get a couple

[0:57]groceries and the closest place was not

[1:00]too

[1:00]bad I don't know like 10 miles or

[1:03]something hardware store is much further

[1:05]away so couldn't do that and I was just

[1:09]watching the landscape all those Hills

[1:11]and the Prairies I try to remember this

[1:13]word now and the trees and the creeks

[1:17]and the rock formations like it is

[1:21]beautiful out here it is

[1:24]beautiful I don't know like what image

[1:26]you have of Kansas but I don't think

[1:29]it's this one the environment is

[1:32]changing the further west I go

[1:35]and it is truly beautiful I will take

[1:38]some video on my way back right there

[1:41]it's a grain elevator they're all over I

[1:44]don't even know what they're called

[1:45]now we might have a storm coming in that

[1:49]would be nice cool it down

[1:51]here I don't know that I'll be able to

[1:53]show you all the beauty that's here but

[1:55]I'll try it basically starts here and

[1:58]it's on both sides of the Road both

[2:00]sides of the road have unique features

[2:03]that make them both beautiful and I

[2:05]won't be able to get them both I noticed

[2:08]this Farmhouse back here way

[2:11]back so cool imagine their lives I mean

[2:16]truly imagine

[2:18]them I just I relate this stuff to to

[2:21]books I've read you know and I just

[2:25]imagine people's lives like I just I'm

[2:27]fascinated with the world

[2:32]it's such a beautiful site right

[2:36][Music]

[2:38]there I think the other side of the road

[2:40]has the creek we'll have to see I don't

[2:43]have a good view for you I'm

[2:46]sorry this is just so wonderful I

[2:49]absolutely love this place I wouldn't

[2:52]want to live here forever anything like

[2:54]that but doesn't me I don't love

[2:57]it I know all you're see right now or is

[3:00]just a bunch of I don't even know some

[3:03]kind of grass I

[3:07]guess but what I see is that look at all

[3:10]the in the distance you can see all the

[3:13]um

[3:15]windmills and there's

[3:18]just these Hills go down so far and then

[3:22]play in the distance the hills come back

[3:24]up and you can see like the little

[3:27]settlements it's amazing then we got the

[3:30]lake over here this where we're

[3:33]at this and there's I think let me see

[3:36]no we're not at the creek

[3:39]here I mean look at it it's

[3:44]beautiful it's just

[3:48]amazing everyone keeps telling me

[3:51]that you're going to get to Kansas and

[3:53]it's just got to be flat to desolate

[3:56]land or something I do not see it that

[3:59]way this place is just

[4:04]beautiful I love these these roads with

[4:07]like Bas you know it's so sparsely

[4:09]populated I mean that is an added bonus

[4:12]right

[4:15]there where did the creek grow it's

[4:18]really nice over here we got a bunch of

[4:21]cows and they got their own little Pond

[4:24]some trees for shade when they need

[4:27]it very cool

[4:30][Music]

[4:34]I saw a sign somewhere that said wonder

[4:37]if this person's looking at the lake let

[4:39]find or the

[4:41]creek wonder where that road goes down

[4:45]there kind of in the middle of nowhere

[4:48]like what's down there want to

[4:52]know I saw this sign it said something

[4:55]like I'm going to get the figure on it

[4:58]was something like for every farmer in

[5:00]Kansas they feed 50

[5:03]people so I thought was interesting

[5:06]makes a lot of

[5:08]sense I notice this on I drive in up

[5:11]that huge Cliff there we've got a little

[5:14]house you know they like their

[5:16]view see I I just it would be wonderful

[5:20]I I know that like I even even I used to

[5:22]Aspire to something like that but I now

[5:25]realize that it become it would become a

[5:28]static view I I would like it after a

[5:30]while it would just you know become the

[5:33]background um that little rock formation

[5:36]there right at the end of that Cliff

[5:37]there I noticed that on the way over

[5:40]there's some over here they're so

[5:43]pretty so beautiful especially with the

[5:46]Sun hitting

[5:47]them I mean I don't know what you guys

[5:50]see when you look at this stuff but I

[5:52]just

[5:54]see Nature's

[5:57]Beauty and all of it

[6:00]interconnected

[6:02]variety and look over here we got a

[6:05]bunch of trees growing

[6:06][Music]

[6:10]together I

[6:12]mean there's so many questions you could

[6:14]ask about that like why why there why

[6:17]not here why is all of this empty but

[6:20]all those trees decided to grow there

[6:23]how do they happen these are important

[6:26]questions

[6:30]this is just an amazing Place mile turn

[6:32]left on there's the bridge over there

[6:34]Shoreline Road we'll be taking the

[6:37]bridge I don't know I guess I missed the

[6:39]crank maybe I can only see it from the

[6:41]other

[6:42]direction cuz it was a very pretty crank

[6:45]I bet it runs right into that

[6:47]link

[6:51]interconnected take the next left onto

[6:53]200th Boulevard over here lots of those

[6:56]just chilling different places oh we're

[6:58]going to miss our spot

[7:00]here woo yeah that was

[7:04]close continue for 1 and 1/2 miles

[7:07]somebody coming to the park it looks

[7:13]like this is an amazing place look at

[7:17]the way the sun is behind those clouds

[7:19]which are clearly rain clouds but you

[7:21]can see the raids coming down way far in

[7:24]the distance I mean it's amazing

[7:34]yeah we're going to have to be patient

[7:35]this this guy needs to go

[7:37]slow trust me I understand

[7:41]that you don't take an RV fast even if

[7:44]you can

[7:46]cuz they're not built

[7:50]for for for roads like

[7:53]this I can be patient it's called a

[7:57]cognitive reset I'm just going chill oh

[8:00]he's going down I haven't gone down

[8:02]there yet but I noticed somebody coming

[8:03]up from here that person might actually

[8:06]be lost thinking that that's where they

[8:07]go but they'll figure it out that takes

[8:10]you down under the bridge and then over

[8:13]here there's a beach and that's probably

[8:16]yeah he probably doesn't realize but

[8:18]he'll figure it out he's got to go a

[8:19]little bit

[8:20]further then we got the lake

[8:24]here it's a beautiful

[8:27]LK look at those boats together like

[8:30]that it's almost like you know almost

[8:32]like a community I guess um you know I

[8:36]wouldn't want to that wouldn't be me if

[8:38]I was in a boat but I totally respect

[8:41]that it is for other people just like

[8:43]the RV lifestyle where a lot of them do

[8:47]feel like a community but it's that's

[8:49]just not for me that's not why it's not

[8:51]why I got an arv didn't even know had

[8:55]become so

[8:57]popular but you

[9:01]know um there's room for all of us in

[9:04]the world

[9:06]generally the marina over there I might

[9:09]want to check that

[9:10]out I'm still wanting to run a boat

[9:13]someday some someday soon maybe like I

[9:17]don't know Pacific Northwest means ocean

[9:20]I don't know I going to vote on the

[9:22]ocean that might be a bit

[9:24]much maybe though that could be really

[9:27]cool actually this person it going to go

[9:30]in well it's late maybe they're not

[9:33]taking their boat out

[9:35]but you know that's what they've been

[9:42]doing take the next

[9:46]right

[9:48]okay that thing's reversing even though

[9:50]you can't tell there's no lights they

[9:53]went too far we can wait for

[9:56]them let me flash them so they know

[9:59]you can do it go

[10:03]ahead yeah they

[10:08]understood do what you need to do I

[10:10]missed this spot too I went driving down

[10:12]that road quite a long ways to find my

[10:14]way

[10:15]back I'm going to pause this okay they

[10:18]made it I made the same mistake though I

[10:21]kept going and eventually turned around

[10:23]and came back I'm glad I did though

[10:24]because I got to see more over there

[10:26]very very sparse and continue for one

[10:29]miles so we're back

Summary

rswfire drives through Kansas countryside to get groceries, observing and recording the landscape. He notices GPS traffic indicators showing construction causing one-lane road conditions. **During the drive**, he documents the terrain including hills, prairies, creeks, rock formations, grain elevators, and windmills, expressing appreciation for the beauty contrary to expectations of Kansas being flat and desolate.

**He observes specific features** including a farmhouse, cattle with ponds, a lake with boats clustered together, and a marina. rswfire reflects on how a static view would become background over time, contrasting with his mobile lifestyle. **Navigation challenges occur** when he and another driver miss turns near a bridge and beach area, requiring patience and course corrections.

**Throughout the journey**, he mentions uploading video content and chatting with AI about it, noting the sparse population as a bonus. He considers future boating possibilities, potentially in the Pacific Northwest, while maintaining distance from community-oriented RV lifestyle approaches.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates embodied field reconnaissance - the systematic mapping of landscape as living system rather than resource or backdrop. The architecture being held is one of receptive sovereignty, where the field consciousness practices deep listening to environmental patterns while maintaining mobile autonomy through RV infrastructure.

Dominant Language

interconnectedbeautiful/beautyimagine their livesquestions you could askthat's not for meroom for all of uscognitive reset

Symbolic Elements

bridgecreekhorizonwindmillsgrain_elevatorstorm_clouds

Ontological States

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embedded
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receptive
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sovereign
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mobile

Subsystems

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cognitive
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somatic
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infrastructural

Transmission Details

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youtube

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