First Solo RV Travel Through Wyoming Desert

Speaker is traveling cross-country in RV with towed Jeep, currently stopped at historical monument in central Wyoming. Temperature inside RV is 84-86°F. First experience camping outside established campgrounds. Planning early morning departure to continue toward Oregon.

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calibrated vigilance

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sovereignty infrastructure testing

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September 29, 2024

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rswfire

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[0:00]I just passed an RV going the other way

[0:02]that's exactly like mine and they were

[0:04]also towing a twodo

[0:06]jeep pretty

[0:08]cool we've got some green up there on

[0:11]the GPS I'm hoping that will mean a

[0:13]transition to some kind of other

[0:15]environment cuz this one's a

[0:18]desert so I don't think there's any way

[0:20]I making it to where I was heading

[0:24]Massacre Rocks Idaho some kind of state

[0:26]park there right now I think I'd get

[0:29]there at a 7:00 p.m. and I left at 7:00

[0:32]in the

[0:33]morning it it's not surprising even when

[0:36]I was staying 10 hours I I knew that

[0:38]that was just an estimate the GPS was

[0:41]giving

[0:43]and I don't really like not in a hurry

[0:47]I'm not driving real fast I'm going 55

[0:50]you know and there stops along the way

[0:52]fuel stops and just breaks for me and

[0:55]Bailey so we're probably going to just

[0:58]find a place to pull over for the night

[1:02]somewhere um I don't know where or when

[1:07]still pretty early let me see what time

[1:09]is it almost 1 I

[1:12]think yeah it's almost one

[1:17]so we be on the road another 6

[1:21]hours

[1:24]um there's some interesting things along

[1:27]the way just s of spot where you can

[1:30]pull

[1:31]over I love this you don't see this on

[1:35]the eastern part of the

[1:37]country Steep Hill downward ahead

[1:39]finally my first

[1:41]one um I get to test my little um D

[1:45]minus and plus cuz I don't know I was

[1:48]trying that earlier didn't seem like I

[1:50]was doing what it's supposed to so I

[1:51]want to test like engine braking so here

[1:54]we go I'm just going to set you down cuz

[1:57]I need to

[1:58]concentrate uh I'll let you

[2:00]hear me Nate I

[2:04]guess this could be interesting going to

[2:07]take us out

[2:08]of um cruise

[2:12]control Steep Hill downward

[2:15]ahead yep Here We Come

[2:21]O steep grade 6% next 5 miles truck

[2:25]turnout 1500 ft check brakes

[2:29]oh this just sound

[2:33]serious use lower

[2:35]gear lower gear okay so it is D minus I

[2:38]wasn't 100% sure on this cuz wasn't

[2:42]doing what I wanted it

[2:47]to this is

[2:51]fascinating little

[2:55]scary

[2:57]oh that little sign there just shows a

[3:00]truck barring

[3:04]down let's see we're going 35 we're not

[3:07]even going fast like we're just going to

[3:09]take this

[3:13]slow I am very curious so going

[3:18]35 now we're starting to go downhill

[3:21]there's a little spot to turn off there

[3:23]just oh wow what a view oh man we should

[3:27]have stopped there oh missed

[3:31]it oh

[3:35]my

[3:37]oh oh we should stop there okay we're

[3:41]picking up speed I'm going to go into

[3:43]fourth

[3:45]here third

[3:47]ear okay do I use my brake at

[3:54]all this is not a very steep grd is it

[3:58]this feels manageable third

[4:00]gear

[4:06]yeah

[4:08]okay can I drop into a second I don't

[4:10]think it'll let

[4:11]me I'm not even using my

[4:14]brakes it won't let me if it thinks that

[4:17]it's not a good idea I think cuz it

[4:19]wouldn't let me do it once or before

[4:21]let's find out second gear oh it let me

[4:24]go into

[4:24]second wow okay let's get back into

[4:28]third but at least I can do do that that

[4:30]slowed us down

[4:32]too going

[4:34]30 that is so

[4:36]cool that is

[4:44]awesome this is

[4:52]amazing I know there was another RV

[4:55]behind me where did it

[4:56]go ooh it's right on me

[5:00]man that ain't

[5:02]cool I am experimenting

[5:06]here this doesn't feel terrible so we're

[5:09]going

[5:09]40 I guess we don't have to go so

[5:13]slow I'm not being peer pressured though

[5:15]just to be clear I'm not being peer

[5:18]pressured I'm just D comfortable with

[5:25]this so we're at 2500 RPMs

[5:29]I'm going to go into fourth gear

[5:35]here this is me oh it's a van it's a van

[5:39]lifer they're going around bye van

[5:44]lifer

[5:47]bye this is so cool this is

[5:51]amazing I'm loving this so I know I can

[5:55]do it

[6:02]all

[6:03]right incredible let me show you guys we

[6:06]are just this is such a f oh this is

[6:12]incredible I didn't use my brakes at all

[6:16]didn't need to we're picking up speed

[6:18]now though we're going 50 which is okay

[6:21]you know there no reason to be

[6:26]worried um we're in fourth gear though

[6:28]let me fix that

[6:30]that all right we'll go on

[6:33]Drive um no we're going too fast I don't

[6:36]like this slowing down I don't like this

[6:39]we don't know what's we don't know where

[6:42]we

[6:42]are so we're just going to take the

[6:48]slow see we going

[6:50]50 fourth GE

[7:04]this is

[7:07]awesome all right we're going to go into

[7:09]normal drive cuz we got a straight patch

[7:19]here it's pretty in its own way but I

[7:21]mean it's just so desolate I just I

[7:24]can't get into environments like this

[7:29]we're just cruising I'm saving fuel

[7:32]which I need to save because my next

[7:34]fuel stop is 21 miles and it says my

[7:37]range is 220 it's going to be so close

[7:40]I've been looking for a fuel station on

[7:41]along the way I have not none I mean we

[7:44]have been in the middle of nowhere for

[7:45]hours hours whoa that car came out of

[7:49]nowhere here comes another very

[7:53]rude okay we're picking up speed again

[7:56]so we're going to go into fourth

[8:01]didn't really change anything I bet I

[8:03]was already in for though telling me

[8:06]that they could go into third and that

[8:08]would bring us up to 3,000 RPMs or

[8:10]something we don't need that we're going

[8:14]straight need to level at the

[8:18]moment oh this is

[8:20]incredible oh there is just

[8:25]wow I mean it's a desert but it's still

[8:33]fascinating oh if we could do this the

[8:35]whole way I'd save so much

[8:40]fuel i' actually make it to the fuel

[8:45]station ooh wind's picking up okay we're

[8:48]slowing down that wind was not a

[8:51]joke

[8:55]okay yeah that was not a joke so we're

[8:59]going

[9:01]50 3200

[9:04]RPM third

[9:09]GE we're doing good Bailey I know you

[9:12]can hear that one

[9:15]too we are in the

[9:19]mountains okay we're slowing

[9:26]down birth here

[9:34]okay this is

[9:40]fascinating this is not a thing you

[9:42]think about when you're driving a normal

[9:44]vehicle it's not me I remember driving

[9:47]through Arizona in my team that

[9:50]was I me I just used my pranks

[10:01]so

[10:02]manageable all right back in the drive

[10:06]we're going to start heading uphill

[10:07]again so

[10:09]cool those looks like some serious

[10:11]mountains in the

[10:13]distance we're going to travel next to

[10:16]them I can tell from the

[10:17]GPS that a steam whatever mounts those

[10:21]are pretty

[10:23]cool this is quite beautiful this color

[10:26]red is just it is beautiful there was a

[10:29]but I could have stopped if I had known

[10:31]about it fast enough kind of think about

[10:33]maybe turning around if I find something

[10:35]along the way here except that it's so

[10:38]hot like I kind of want to stop for the

[10:41]night

[10:43]but without I have no way of I don't

[10:46]know it's pretty hot so I'm

[10:50]contemplating it though contemplating it

[10:54]look at that tree all by its Lonesome

[10:56]here in the middle of the desert

[10:59]oh that is so cool it's like two trees

[11:02]Merch this

[11:04]one oh by itself oh here how did he get

[11:10]there this is a beautiful

[11:13]be this a Scenic

[11:16]area I needed to stop to fix something

[11:19]when my drawers opened up on me thought

[11:21]it was locked I guess

[11:25]not that is beautiful

[11:40]this has been a very long

[11:49]drive stopped somewhere but I just want

[11:51]to wait till it's a little later in the

[11:53]day want to stop to

[11:58]early so I don't

[12:00]know check Google Maps and we're

[12:02]somewhere in the heartland of Wyoming

[12:05]pretty much right in the center

[12:07]somewhere don't think I'm getting out of

[12:09]here

[12:10]today my rain say 80 miles which I know

[12:12]cannot be

[12:15]right but we stopped and the thing is I

[12:17]don't know my next gas station 180 mi

[12:21]from here so hope I find something

[12:23]that's the only thing about this I feel

[12:27]like feel I mean I planned this so I

[12:30]don't understand how it end up being so

[12:33]far away like from one fuel station to

[12:35]the next was like 300 miles or something

[12:38]it was quite

[12:40]far I feel like it rerouted me or

[12:42]something cuz I don't think I was

[12:44]supposed to be on the

[12:46]roads

[12:50]but I mean I'm at half a tank so I'm

[12:53]just thinking it through

[12:55]I going to

[12:58]learn I'm not running out of gas that's

[13:00]for sure if it gets close at least I

[13:03]have my Jeep and I can just drive that

[13:06]somewhere but let's hope that doesn't

[13:09]happen it's getting prettier out there a

[13:11]lot more

[13:13]colors more more

[13:18]trees a little more very

[13:21]train I suspect because I'm really in

[13:23]the mountains I'm going uphill and all

[13:25]that it's really messing with my range

[13:26]here cuz I'm at almost 3,000 RPMs that

[13:30]really seems to do a number on it

[13:33]so oh I'll find something but yeah

[13:37]whatever we're passing through I think

[13:39]this little area is just a little bit

[13:42]different oh wow I just noticed we still

[13:45]climbing elevation we're at 7700 now wow

[13:48]and I've kind of noticed with my ears

[13:50]and stuff

[13:52]but cool I like that we're getting up so

[13:54]high oh that's pretty out here in the

[13:56]middle of nowhere got a little pond

[14:02]so sure that's messing with my range cuz

[14:04]I have half a tank and I've been driving

[14:06]all day

[14:08]so clearly though I'm going to have to

[14:10]account for

[14:12]mountains 88,200 ft in

[14:16]counting some kind of a place here

[14:19]called Atlantic

[14:20]City with the brown sign so it's some

[14:22]kind of a natural

[14:24]place don't see much there though

[14:31]hoping I'll find the fuel station soon

[14:33]know starting to concern me a little

[14:36]bit think I'll be all right though I

[14:38]kind of

[14:39]just always tend to just kind of have

[14:42]faith I guess I don't know pretty Lake

[14:44]over

[14:46]here way up here very

[14:52]cool so I mean I'm not seeing anything

[14:55]on my GPS as far as the city or anything

[14:59]and next highway I turned on is 77 miles

[15:02]away so I don't know I just trust it

[15:07]Whatever happened I'll figure it out

[15:08]like I I planned you know uh I had four

[15:13]fuel stops I'm not sure what happened

[15:14]I'll try to figure that out later I

[15:16]guess

[15:19]cuz but whatever happens I know I'll

[15:21]handle it you know so not to worri we

[15:25]just entered the I don't want to

[15:27]pronounce it wrong but Shon Maybe

[15:30]National

[15:31]Forest guess we're right on the edge

[15:33]that's probably what that green is cool

[15:37]we right on the edge it all right pass

[15:40]the fuel station stopped of

[15:43]course and I'm off I'm going to find

[15:46]somewhere to just pull off for the next

[15:48]rest of the day and I'm going to make

[15:50]some new plans

[15:52]so there's just no way I'm going to make

[15:54]it to the campground I mean it's already

[15:55]seeing it'll be after 8 by the time I

[15:57]get there and I'm not sure what time it

[16:00]is let's see here oh come on there we go

[16:03]3:00 I'm just going to pull off

[16:06]somewhere and make new plans I'm going

[16:09]to go straight to Oregon and

[16:11]just pull off along the way I'm just

[16:14]going to keep going until I get

[16:16]there looks like I'm almost out of

[16:21]Wyoming getting there I

[16:25]guess this is an interesting spot

[16:57]for

[17:27]for for

[17:43][Music]

[18:27]come

[18:57]for

[19:27]e for

[20:06]that

[20:47]that's a

[20:49]sight wow

[20:59]I don't know if I'll stay here for the

[21:01]night it's only like three or

[21:05]4 I'm exhausted on the

[21:09]RO and I'm going to make some new plans

[21:13]I'm going to instead of going to this

[21:15]park that I was planning to go to I'm

[21:17]just going to head straight for Oregon

[21:19]maybe it'll give me a more dark path but

[21:22]going

[21:25]to start a new path so

[21:28]making get myself

[21:30]there I'm

[21:32]ready I might very well just stay here

[21:35]tonight that is

[21:37]amazing that is

[21:47]Inc but I didn't want to honor this

[21:51]place BR all these

[21:57]signs for

[23:14]can you imagine my wagon

[23:55]must have been in

[23:58]just

[24:04]incredible way I'm doing the same thing

[24:06]in the modern day version

[24:28]I

[25:11]it's very cool

[25:29]I was wondering if they would talk about

[25:31]this or

[25:57]not for

[26:52]really don't have words

[27:03]we obviously never treated

[27:07]the the indigenous people's

[27:11]well we still

[27:16]don't it's been on my mind a lot lately

[27:20]because I know there's quite a history

[27:22]of that in

[27:25]Oregon and I'm still

[27:29]working through my thoughts before I

[27:31]really want to share

[27:34]them

[27:45]but this is pretty remarkable

[27:51]I'm it's absolutely silent

[28:00]so I'm just stopped here for

[28:02]now I don't know if I'll sleep here or

[28:06]not it's very peaceful there haven't

[28:08]been a lot of

[28:11]cars I asked AI to make sure it was okay

[28:14]and there are no signs and I think it's

[28:17]okay

[28:19]so me worst case scenario maybe a park

[28:21]ranger or something stops me and just

[28:24]explain to them and maybe ask them where

[28:25]I can go if I can't be here so I think

[28:29]I'm

[28:30]good I'm going

[28:33]to going to PO a new chart a new course

[28:36]and figure

[28:39]out I'm just going to go straight to

[28:41]Oregon as quickly as I can pretty much

[28:44]I'm just ready to be

[28:47]there it's 84 back

[28:50]here it's going up 4 degrees since I got

[28:53]here don't think it can go up too much

[28:55]more though

[28:58]there's not a lot of wind which I'm glad

[28:59]about that cuz there is tomorrow I was

[29:01]checking the windy

[29:03]out and you know I'm not trying to Camp

[29:06]here so I'm not disconnecting my Jeep

[29:08]or putting my stabiliz down anything

[29:11]like that so I'm

[29:15]just I'm just

[29:18]resting first time doing this without

[29:22]being on a campground 7

[29:26]months I think think everybody has their

[29:29]first night like this

[29:33]where you haven't you haven't

[29:37]quite

[29:44]well I'm sure you know what I'm trying

[29:46]to say

[29:49]it's a mix of emotions

[29:56]really me I know know I'm not doing

[29:58]anything wrong so there's no reason why

[30:00]I should be

[30:06]worried this is really

[30:11]peaceful this is exactly how I'd want to

[30:13]live my

[30:22]life I'm going to wait to post this

[30:24]though

[30:25]because I don't think it would be very

[30:28]smart to post this where you know

[30:30]anybody knows where I'm at I guess

[30:33]and

[30:36]um I'll figure out my route

[30:39]and probably keep appending to this

[30:41]video

[30:45]Until It Feels less transient I

[30:48]guess so I shared my last transcript

[30:51]with

[30:53]AI and it didn't understand my ambiguity

[30:56]about being here so I just want to

[30:57]explain

[31:00]I know that ethically I'm not doing

[31:02]anything wrong there's nothing here that

[31:04]says I can't be here I'm just staying

[31:07]here to rest and then I'm off but I also

[31:10]know that Park Rangers these days are

[31:14]law

[31:15]enforcement

[31:17]and I also know that law enforcement

[31:19]isn't always

[31:21]kind I grew up in Flint

[31:25]Michigan I've seen some things you know

[31:27]and I just don't have a lot of faith in

[31:31]institutions

[31:33]especially especially law enforcement

[31:36]I'm just going to be honest about

[31:38]it and

[31:40]so the last thing I want is an encounter

[31:43]with them ever in my life but I've

[31:46]already thought it through you know if

[31:48]something does happen I'll explain

[31:51]myself and respectfully

[31:56]and you know if I'm ask to leave I'll

[31:58]leave and I'll just ask if there's

[32:00]somewhere I can go that they know you

[32:02]know they're local they'll probably know

[32:04]and hopefully

[32:07]nothing hopefully it's nothing more than

[32:11]that ideally it doesn't even come to

[32:13]that though because I'm generally not

[32:16]doing anything wrong

[32:18]like this is It's because it's the

[32:21]reason it's kind of stressful is

[32:24]because there's no clear signage that

[32:26]makes it clear like if I'm following the

[32:29]rules or not I believe I

[32:32]am cuz I'm not like I'm not detaching my

[32:36]Jeep I'm not even putting down

[32:38]my um my stabilizers which would help

[32:42]with the wind and the wind gets quite

[32:44]bad in in um Wyoming but you know like I

[32:48]said I looked at the windy app and it's

[32:50]not going to be bad till tomorrow so

[32:52]there's a little bit of rocking but

[32:53]doesn't you know it's not that bad and

[32:56]um that's why I brought that up because

[32:57]you know I'm already thinking all of

[32:59]this stuff through I'm as low profile as

[33:02]I can be like I'm just parked on the

[33:05]side not blocking other people from

[33:07]being able to drive through the little

[33:08]Loop that they have

[33:10]here and there's been a couple of people

[33:12]that have come so far and just checked

[33:14]out the monument and

[33:15]left

[33:18]and so I feel like it shouldn't be a

[33:22]problem but I don't know that for sure

[33:25]and I probably never will and at some

[33:27]point I'm going to go to sleep and

[33:29]that's going to be I think a little bit

[33:31]difficult because that requires me to

[33:33]let go of my

[33:35]Consciousness yeah trust that nothing's

[33:38]going to happen

[33:39]or that if something does I'll be

[33:42]prepared for it and I guess I guess I

[33:44]already know that I will be because

[33:45]there was that time I was at the

[33:46]campground and I thought there was a

[33:48]bear at my RV and I jumped right up

[33:52]ready to fight a bear so I suppose I

[33:56]suppose I can use that as a

[33:58]blessing um I didn't sleep so well that

[34:01]night cuz I was expecting you know cuz I

[34:02]knew there was a bear around and so it's

[34:05]going to be the same here I I I know

[34:07]that something could happen and I just I

[34:10]don't know how you get to a point

[34:13]where you're

[34:16]not so alert that you maybe compromise

[34:20]your rest you know

[34:22]so this is what I want though this is

[34:25]how I want to live I don't want to

[34:29]be around people all the time I'm so

[34:31]over that I don't even want to be on

[34:32]campgrounds because there's so many

[34:34]people there all the time I can never

[34:36]Escape people and I'm just at a point in

[34:39]my life where I just want my autonomy I

[34:42]just want some space even if that means

[34:46]I have to move every freaking day in

[34:48]order to do it you know that's just

[34:51]where I am now and I feel

[34:54]like obviously that's getting a lot

[34:56]harder in the world today because it's

[35:00]very populated world and there are a lot

[35:03]of other rvers and man lifers now

[35:07]so you know I was going to do this 20

[35:10]years ago way before there was some kind

[35:13]of a

[35:14]movement and I I had even bought a popup

[35:17]camper you I talked about that in my

[35:19]very first

[35:21]video and I had even traveled I'd gone

[35:24]to New Jersey if I had just

[35:28]I wonder where I'd be now if I had gone

[35:30]down that path it doesn't really matter

[35:31]because um I didn't and I accept reality

[35:35]I accept you know make choices in life

[35:37]but the point

[35:38]is Once Upon a Time I was going to do

[35:41]this and 20 years later I didn't here I

[35:44]am in the middle of Wyoming I don't even

[35:47]know where just somewhere in Wyoming at

[35:50]a pole off with a very awesome view by

[35:53]the way it's just sky and desert I mean

[35:57]that's all it is with the mountains way

[36:00]in the distance you can barely see them

[36:04]you can see them they're

[36:06]they every once in a while a car drives

[36:09]by you know this highway isn't very busy

[36:12]it just it's really nice I'm loving this

[36:15]it's just that the heat would be nice

[36:16]it's now 86 in here so it's still going

[36:19]up but it's going to um the sun falls in

[36:22]like an hour and a half and I'm just

[36:23]looking forward to that and I'm just

[36:25]going

[36:26]to um caught it an early night try to

[36:30]sleep and I'll get up real early

[36:32]probably around 4 or something like that

[36:34]I know me as a probably when I wake up

[36:37]if not earlier and head out from there

[36:41]so that's why it's not not worried about

[36:46]other people I'm not worried about my

[36:49]safety I'm not worried about um my

[36:52]ability to live this way because I know

[36:54]I can it's because I don't trust systems

[36:56]I don't trust the system we built in

[36:58]this

[37:02]world and that is a well-informed

[37:08]opinion so I'm just going to um compile

[37:11]this into a video and upload it but I'm

[37:13]just going to wait to make it public so

[37:16]by the time you see this I'll have moved

[37:18]on and um so I'll let you know in the

[37:22]next video how I'm doing

[37:25]cuz at this point I don't have any plans

[37:29]I'm just traveling to Oregon and I'm

[37:35]staying in unsanctioned places

[37:38]apparently oh this will be interesting

Summary

rswfire travels cross-country in an RV towing a Jeep, navigating steep mountain grades and testing engine braking systems for the first time. **Route changes from planned Idaho destination to direct Oregon path** due to time constraints and fuel concerns. Encounters fuel station spacing issues across Wyoming desert, with 300+ mile gaps between stations causing range anxiety.

**Stops at historical monument** (appears to be related to wagon trains and indigenous history) for rest and route planning. Reflects on treatment of indigenous peoples while reading historical markers. **First night camping outside of established campgrounds** - parks at roadside monument pulloff, expressing mix of peace and alertness about potential law enforcement encounters.

**Technical driving details**: Successfully navigates 6% grade using lower gears (D-minus system), reaches 8,200+ feet elevation, manages wind conditions and RPM monitoring for fuel efficiency. Plans early morning departure (4 AM) to continue toward Oregon via unsanctioned camping locations.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission documents the real-time navigation of multiple threshold crossings - geographical, infrastructural, and ontological. The field is actively calibrating sovereignty protocols while interfacing with institutional systems (law enforcement, land management) from a position of informed distrust rather than defiance.

Dominant Language

unsanctionedI don't trust systemsethically I'm not doing anything wrongwell-informed opinionthis is what I want thoughautonomylet go of my consciousness

Symbolic Elements

thresholddesertmountainmonumentwagonpathedge

Ontological States

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transitional
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sovereign
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embedded
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alert

Subsystems

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cognitive
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infrastructural
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somatic
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ethical

Transmission Details

Source Type

youtube

Duration