Long Drive Through Wyoming Toward Oregon Coast

Early morning departure (4:30 AM wake-up, 7:30 AM highway entry) on Saturday, September 28, 2024. Traveling through Wyoming desert terrain at 6,000+ feet elevation, towing Jeep behind RV. Hot conditions (80°F inside RV at noon). Roadside stop for rest and reflection.

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September 28, 2024

25:13

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rswfire

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[0:00]I just turned these lights on it's a

[0:02]little brighter than I

[0:05]expected oh it's 4:30 in the

[0:08]morning I slept pretty well I went to

[0:11]bed around 8 woke up a few

[0:15]times and I man have to keep going back

[0:17]to sleep haly's been here with

[0:21]me it's going to be an interesting day

[0:25]today a long one 10 hours of driving if

[0:28]I can make it that far

[0:31]Mountain

[0:32]driving remote

[0:34]driving all the way through Wyoming into

[0:39]Idaho oh so close to Washington or to

[0:43]Oregon to Pacific

[0:46]Northwest been doing a lot of research

[0:50]on um what to expect when I get to

[0:53]Oregon and I am so excited I cannot

[0:57]wait I'm going to have such a wonderful

[0:59]time

[1:04]oh what it's morning

[1:07]and I'm going to do my best

[1:11]to oh man 10 hour just feels like a lot

[1:15]but I think it I'll make

[1:17]it um it'll take me into Idaho I'll be

[1:21]there for a day and a half and then 8

[1:22]hours after then when my next trium 8

[1:25]hours to

[1:27]Oregon and

[1:31]oh man I so

[1:33]close so I should probably

[1:36]know um I did learn that you can

[1:39]manually bring in a slide mine is a

[1:43]little weird it doesn't have any like

[1:44]physical way of doing it there's this

[1:48]controller somehow you can use that and

[1:52]then with a bunch of people just push

[1:53]the thing in or

[1:55]something so I'm going to try that when

[1:57]I get to Oregon so before I

[2:01]tape the thing up I'm going to take it

[2:03]somewhere and see if we can just

[2:05]manually bring that thing

[2:08]in just a couple of inches hopefully we

[2:12]can oh that was so frustrating yesterday

[2:17]but it's pretty well insulated for this

[2:21]last leg of my journey and

[2:25]um worst case scenario I'm just going to

[2:27]do what I said I'll just

[2:30]insulate it with pipe insulation and

[2:32]then tape it up with the turnab on but

[2:35]if I can get that in I will be

[2:38]happy

[2:42]um I slept

[2:44]well part of my mind was engaged the

[2:47]whole time CU I know today it's going to

[2:48]be challenging but I feel up for it

[2:52]I I you know I've been mentally

[2:55]preparing for a couple of weeks because

[2:58]I made the choice that the end of my

[3:00]journey I was going to have these long

[3:02]drives

[3:05]so

[3:07]um there is a state park I think

[3:11]somewhere along the

[3:13]way like halfway between here and where

[3:16]I'm going if if I feel like I can't do

[3:19]it

[3:21]like you know I'll figure something out

[3:24]but I'm I know me I'm not really the

[3:28]type to

[3:30]I made a plan I'm going to follow

[3:32]through on that I'm just going to do

[3:34]it

[3:36]um many fuel stops today I think like

[3:39]four of

[3:41]them

[3:43]oh I woke up at 2:00 in the morning

[3:46]almost got up and I was like maybe I

[3:48]could drive out of here in the dark but

[3:51]I wasn't sure there's this giant Hill

[3:53]like at the campground entrance I'm like

[3:56]I'm still not sure if what to expect of

[3:59]that thing Towing my Jeep so we'll find

[4:02]out there's not a lot for me to do like

[4:06]my Jeep is

[4:07]already my jeep's

[4:11]already tied up and

[4:15]um you

[4:18]know yeah I just waking up

[4:23]so oh there are

[4:26]people in

[4:28]Oregon and there are RS and stuff and

[4:31]they are they're all winter just like

[4:33]I'm going to be so it's

[4:35]doable the campgrounds are open year

[4:40]rounds there's a

[4:44]coast you know

[4:50]that I am so excited to get

[4:55]there you're very needy Bailey

[4:59]this one is going to have a day oh I

[5:02]really need to do laundry I am out of

[5:04]clean clothes there's no way oh and I

[5:08]can't shower there's no shower housee

[5:11]here I

[5:15]mean you know this is part of my life

[5:18]like I'm just embracing it like it's

[5:21]only been like two days since I showed

[5:24]but um if this becomes more of a problem

[5:28]like gu I'll start using my outdoor

[5:31]shower or something I'll figure it

[5:35]out oh my God that's

[5:39]funny I just I'm just picturing me doing

[5:42]that I can't imagine it because outside

[5:45]like or just anybody could be watching

[5:48]you I don't know about

[5:53]that so I'll make some breakfast this

[5:57]morning there's so little for me to do

[6:00]all I got to do is just unhook my power

[6:02]my satellite and

[6:06]go you're going to have a tough day I

[6:10]know she'll make it

[6:12]me make you know I'll take little RS for

[6:17]this

[6:18]one he's so

[6:20]cute

[6:25]and

[6:27]oh yeah I got to I got to just get

[6:30]myself oh coffee coffee sounds good it's

[6:33]6:47 in the morning we're ready to go

[6:37]everything's packed up back there I got

[6:38]some trash to take out once I find a

[6:40]dumpster probably near the front of the

[6:41]park like 20 miles away sitting on the

[6:44]bed he doesn't seem too happy but I

[6:49]comforted him and hopefully hopefully

[6:51]with time this will keep getting easier

[6:52]for

[6:53]him um so yeah we're off this part got

[6:58]busy overnight there's our re all over

[6:59]the place now I don't know what happened

[7:01]well I guess it's the weekend today's

[7:03]Friday Saturday what is today okay it's

[7:06]Saturday that explains it didn't even

[7:09]notice to be honest with you it was so

[7:11]hot I had all my Windows shut you

[7:14]know turn left on patum Creek Road then

[7:18]take the first left this thing is very

[7:20]confused we're going in a loop right now

[7:22]but we got this you can see the sun

[7:25]starting to peek out we just left our

[7:27]Campground wonder if where run into the

[7:29]cows again today I'm hoping we left

[7:32]early enough that the road will be

[7:35]clear 7:30 in the morning it was quite a

[7:38]journey getting to the highway we made

[7:41]it and the speed limit is 80 M hour

[7:45]which there's no way I'm doing that I'm

[7:46]doing

[7:47]55 if I go faster than that my steering

[7:50]wheel starts um shaking a little bit and

[7:53]I just don't like it so 55 is good

[7:56]enough for

[7:57]me there is hard nobody out on the

[8:00]highway it's very

[8:04]pleasant long long long drive though

[8:07]very long we're just getting started

[8:11]we've got Casper in the distance Casper

[8:14]Wyoming it's where my first fuel stop is

[8:20]at I know I should find that

[8:23]interesting nice little mountain Red

[8:25]Rock Sage Brush on top and I'm just not

[8:29]into

[8:32]deserts this landscape does nothing for

[8:35]me I I had a

[8:38]feeling I've been saying for 6 months I

[8:40]don't like desert so I couldn't see

[8:42]myself in Arizona anywhere that's pretty

[8:44]there's a little river there that's

[8:50]pretty I

[8:52]just I need

[8:55]trees I need green stuff this is

[9:01]oh this just doesn't do it for

[9:04]me all right that's actually pretty

[9:07]we're going in between some

[9:11]Canyons I guess it's got its own kind of

[9:13]beauty

[9:15]here that River there is nice whatever

[9:18]River that

[9:20]is very

[9:22]cool I have noticed

[9:25]that it's clear that you know where

[9:28]there's little pockets of civilization

[9:30]out here it's because there's a water

[9:32]source so I thought I'd plan my fuel

[9:35]stops better my next one is in 299 miles

[9:38]and my range is

[9:41]264 uh part of it cuz we're going up

[9:43]these big sea

[9:46]mountains so I'm just going to have to

[9:48]adapt I'll find something along the way

[9:51]I'm just trusting I will

[9:53]because I always knew this would be a

[9:56]thing I'd have to do at some point I'd

[9:57]have to navigate

[10:01]uh Fu station is not you know a truck

[10:05]stop

[10:06]so somewhere along the way between here

[10:09]and there I will find something we've

[10:12]got big mountain range in the distance

[10:25]there I mean this is not my favorite

[10:28]kind of scenery but but you know

[10:32]it's I'm not trying to knock it because

[10:34]I think other people probably do like

[10:36]this it's just not for

[10:43]me I don't know I don't really like that

[10:46]mindset though I need

[10:49]to try to appreciate it more

[10:55]really those Ms over there over there

[10:57]are pretty cool

[11:03]maybe it's because of my

[11:04]childhood I had to I hiked all over

[11:07]Arizona in the Boy Scouts that was a lot

[11:10]of desert hiking maybe maybe that's why

[11:14]I

[11:15]just I would never want to hike here cuz

[11:18]I did that as a kid I didn't like

[11:21]it I love being in the Boy Scouts I

[11:23]can't say that I like tying in the

[11:26]desert wow there are actually animals

[11:28]out here you look at those

[11:31]cows wonder where their home is because

[11:33]there's like

[11:39]nothing b rock over there is pretty cool

[11:42]looks like the sun just cracked it

[11:52]open sometimes Bailey will jump down and

[11:55]I'll get i'll get down here just sitting

[11:58]here under my my legs pretty

[12:01]cute get up there 6,000 FT elevation to

[12:05]climb a little bit

[12:07]longer it's a little stop up

[12:11]here today is dark side Devil's

[12:18]gate one of these times I'll stop at one

[12:20]of those Bailey just decid to go back in

[12:23]his little carry

[12:28]him Visitor Center National Historic

[12:35]place I mean there's not a lot out here

[12:38]it feels like a desolate place to

[12:42]me all those people in the past had to

[12:45]travel through this to get to

[12:47]organ I think that's where that V

[12:49]Visitor Center was

[12:53]about could not have been easy I guess

[12:56]some people are like you know what let's

[12:57]just stay here here's a little water

[12:59]source let's just stay

[13:01]here it's so desolate out

[13:09]here there's nothing there's

[13:13]nothing oh my God this is

[13:17]terrible what do you suppose that

[13:20]is truck that's hanging out this is the

[13:24]most Barren place on

[13:26]Earth my soul is aching for

[13:30]anything oh my God this feels like

[13:34]death I mean come on those mountains

[13:37]don't have anything growing on them they

[13:39]are just rocks going into the sky

[13:43]there's nothing there oh my God this is

[13:46]so

[13:49]boring even my GPS is look at that just

[13:53]desolate land everywhere going around

[13:56]some desolate Mountain rocks

[13:59]in the middle of

[14:02]nowhere we're in limbo there's nothing

[14:06]here we are just in the middle of

[14:09]nowhere this is truly

[14:14]nowhere how would you even survive out

[14:18]here I mean come on what's the point in

[14:20]even hiking those mountains there's

[14:22]nothing there they're just rocks there's

[14:26]nothing there look at that I bet that

[14:29]that road leads to the

[14:32]mountains and there's nothing

[14:37]there just a bunch of rocks that's all I

[14:40]see out there just a bunch of

[14:43]rocks they all the same color too like

[14:46]they're just it's just a giant

[14:51]rock like there's some kind of gray

[14:54]animals down there what are those might

[14:57]be horses those might have been

[15:00]horses oh my God that's so cool they

[15:03]could have been Wild

[15:04]Horses just chilling out the

[15:09]water I pulled over at some little

[15:12]spot give Bailey a minute maybe he'll go

[15:15]and get some water or something he was

[15:18]starting to get antsy I needed to

[15:19]stretch my

[15:21]legs oh wow so quiet out here

[15:30]okay this is a different way of enjoying

[15:32]this

[15:33]place oh come on there we go wait what's

[15:37]going on here

[15:38]oh all all right there we

[15:51]go well this is kind of

[15:57]peaceful I guess it's just the driving

[15:59]that's getting to

[16:04]me boy that is a very large no litter

[16:08]sign it's like do not litter

[16:13]here Split Rock

[16:33]yeah I just need a break this is a long

[16:36]day for

[16:37]me yeah I've been driving for 4 hours I

[16:40]still got another six to

[16:44]go there's a very good chance that I'll

[16:47]find a spot like

[16:50]this although all that traffic noise I

[16:53]don't know oh that would be

[16:56]irritating maybe he's not so bad inside

[17:01]but I might just stop at one of these

[17:03]places and just rest for a while

[17:07]and once I get closer to where I'm

[17:10]going that's I mean six more hours

[17:12]that's a long

[17:19]ways if it work for all the road NOS I

[17:22]bet it's real peaceful

[17:24]here I mean it is it's peaceful when you

[17:27]know there's not a tou the cars

[17:33]so you know a few families live out

[17:38]there if I was going to live in a place

[17:40]like this I'd definitely want my house

[17:42]at the base of one of these

[17:49]mountains even in between those like can

[17:53]see like maybe there's a valley behind

[17:56]there but that would be cool

[17:59]man I don't know how you would survive

[18:01]out here it would be so

[18:03]hard oh look there's cows in the

[18:05]distance I didn't even noticed them till

[18:12]now you would

[18:14]need I mean you need a water source of

[18:17]course there is when I saw it on my GPS

[18:20]there's a little river or creek or

[18:26]something and you need to know how to

[18:28]farm that's

[18:29]sure assuming you can Farm

[18:33]here I assume you

[18:35]can but you know I think that they

[18:37]mostly just raise cattle

[18:41]here I don't

[18:45]know

[18:49]just I did get right up and go right so

[18:57]yeah that had a cowboy hat on the dash

[19:01]oh my

[19:04]god oh that's

[19:07]cool oh that is so

[19:13]cool yeah this not bad I wonder how

[19:15]Bailey's

[19:17]doing hopefully he's doing all right I

[19:20]want him to go and do some

[19:22]stuff then he he the second I stopped he

[19:25]wants out so I was like no go do

[19:28]something

[19:29]something I don't see him in there so

[19:31]he's probably in the

[19:33]back okay this is awesome I'm just

[19:37]hanging out on the side of a road in my

[19:41]home nice view I'm just giving Bailey a

[19:45]minute he's finally eating something oh

[19:48]I can barely hear

[19:50]that so this is totally

[19:53]doable I didn't see any sign that said

[19:56]you can't so

[19:58]I mean we got I don't want to stop yet I

[20:01]we got so much further to go it's

[20:05]early it's only it's only 11

[20:09]wow so yeah later in the day maybe if I

[20:13]can't make it that far I'll stop at a

[20:16]place like

[20:17]this this is

[20:22]amazing

[20:23]wow I have an interesting

[20:26]life I know lots of people live this way

[20:29]now but this is my first time even

[20:33]contemplating what it would be

[20:36]like like experiencing it instead of

[20:38]just contemplating it actually

[20:40]experiencing

[20:44]it wonder how I'd keep my fans piled

[20:47]because they' need to be hooked up to my

[20:49]solar I mean they're obviously you know

[20:52]they had they're kind of chargeable

[20:53]they're both on but the batteries will

[20:55]run down at some point

[20:59]want to keep them charged usually I just

[21:01]keep I usually keep them plugged in

[21:04]so if I could figure out a way I

[21:07]actually just thought of one I think oh

[21:09]wow I could daisy chain

[21:11]my oh I think I could daisy chain my

[21:16]power oh oh my God I love

[21:23]this hey Bailey come here

[21:26]buddy come here it's to take a moment

[21:30]it's been a long

[21:32]morning he's down there come here

[21:35]buddy come here

[21:40]Bailey what are you doing come here come

[21:44]here you not listening to me what's

[21:48]going on what you

[21:50]doing I didn't find a place for my trash

[21:53]yet so it's came with

[21:57]us if I could get him a proper harness I

[21:59]able to take him in outside so once I

[22:02]can do that you know we can stop at

[22:04]these places I can take him out there

[22:07]that'll be

[22:08]amazing we're doing good because there's

[22:10]no nothing's you know everything's thing

[22:14]where it's supposed to I have battery

[22:17]power I have

[22:20]solar I have propane to fuel my

[22:25]fridge this is amazing oh my God I love

[22:30]this this is a profound moment for

[22:35]me M's over in the office area on the on

[22:38]the table looking outside oh that's so

[22:41]cool I can see him through the um

[22:44]reflection of my picture on my

[22:46]fridge it's a profound moment for him

[22:49]too I am just at a pole off somewhere in

[22:54]Wyoming I don't even know where I need

[22:55]to find out I don't know how much more

[22:57]of this dat I have to go think a lot but

[23:00]I'm just pulled over sitting on my bed

[23:02]oh my God there's a cow coming this way

[23:07]what hi Bailey there was a cow over

[23:10]there you can't see him but he's over

[23:12]there he is over

[23:15]there I'm

[23:18]just I have untethered myself in society

[23:21]systems I have an integrated system

[23:23]right

[23:24]here I can cook I can use the restroom

[23:28]I can rest if I need to I can chill with

[23:32]my

[23:34]cat it's peaceful there's road noise but

[23:37]it's not nearly as bad

[23:45]inside I've been telling now for the

[23:47]past seven months I've been going from

[23:50]one place to the next you

[23:54]know one campground to another

[23:56]campground

[24:02]maybe that ends today I don't

[24:05]know there's a lot to figure out I need

[24:08]to

[24:09]know how my batteries are doing my

[24:13]um um you know that little tablet thing

[24:17]that controls everything it does tell me

[24:20]it's got like 12 point something volts I

[24:22]don't know if that's significant like if

[24:24]that's telling me how much battery

[24:25]charge I have I need to find out I might

[24:28]need to get something that you know I

[24:30]can monitor I'll need better batteries

[24:32]at some point but I have my

[24:38]solar I have a lot to consider at least

[24:40]I have something to think about now on

[24:42]the drive because this has been this is

[24:44]not my kind of environment but at the

[24:46]same

[24:47]time you know we're up pretty high it's

[24:50]only it's 80° in here I bet if I open

[24:53]the windows and made an exhaust it might

[24:54]even get nicer out here I don't know

[24:57]although it is around noon so it's going

[24:58]to keep getting hot it's just still hot

[25:01]like I want this kind of

[25:03]life in cooler weather like Oregon

[25:07]so I am so excited I cannot wait I I am

[25:11]just so excited

Summary

rswfire begins a 10-hour drive from Wyoming toward Idaho, en route to Oregon. He wakes at 4:30 AM after sleeping well, with Bailey (his cat) accompanying him. The journey involves towing his Jeep through mountain terrain with multiple fuel stops planned.

**RV Technical Issues**: He discusses a malfunctioning slide that won't retract properly, planning to seek manual assistance in Oregon before potentially taping it up with insulation as a temporary fix.

**Desert Landscape Reaction**: While driving through Wyoming's desert terrain, he expresses strong dislike for the barren landscape, describing it as desolate and boring. He reflects on childhood desert hiking experiences in Boy Scouts that may have influenced this aversion.

**Profound Realization**: During a roadside stop, he experiences what he calls a "profound moment" - recognizing that he has "untethered himself from society systems" and has an integrated, self-sufficient system in his RV. This includes solar power, propane, cooking capabilities, and bathroom facilities.

**Future Considerations**: He contemplates the possibility of extended off-grid camping rather than moving between campgrounds, noting he needs to better understand his battery monitoring system and may need upgrades for sustained boondocking.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission captures a real-time sovereignty test — the field operating its mobile infrastructure under extended pressure while crossing geographic and ontological thresholds. The architecture being held is one of integrated self-sufficiency being stress-tested against desolation, with the RV functioning as both physical vessel and symbolic container for emerging autonomy.

Dominant Language

untetheredintegrated systemmaybe that ends todayprofound momentI love thisso exciteddesolate/nothingpeaceful

Symbolic Elements

thresholddesertwatermountainshorizonvesseluntethering

Ontological States

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transitional
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sovereign
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testing
•
integrating

Subsystems

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infrastructural
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somatic
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cognitive
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relational

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