[0:00]so it's 4:00 in the morning here I'm
[0:02]just waking up bear with me there's
[0:05]something important I want to talk about
[0:07]this
[0:08]morning I'm going to leave here around
[0:11]6:00 in the morning take me about an
[0:14]hour to drive into Lake
[0:15]VI um which the sun should be coming up
[0:18]right around then I'll get fuel and then
[0:20]I'll head back on the road for another 3
[0:22]hours over to
[0:23]Medford and I'm going to look for a
[0:26]campground there to stay up for a couple
[0:27]of days and I'll talk more about that
[0:29]later
[0:33]but what I want to talk about this
[0:34]morning is what I see happening in our
[0:36]country the United States and around the
[0:39]world but I can really only speak to my
[0:42]experience
[0:44]here
[0:46]so I'm 47 years old I've seen quite a
[0:50]lot in my life I grew up in a time
[0:54]when people are very hateful towards gay
[0:57]people and I experienced a lot of
[1:00]homophobia including internalized
[1:03]homophobia because of
[1:05]it and it's all based on superficial
[1:08]nonsense people's hatred towards people
[1:10]like me total nonsense religious
[1:13] or just ignorance you know just
[1:16]just dumb
[1:17] but when you're young you don't
[1:20]know that and I guess even as you get
[1:22]older you don't if
[1:25]you're fragmented because we're going to
[1:29]talk about them
[1:31]but that's how I grew up I grew up
[1:33]seeing how so many people seem to have a
[1:36]problem with me just because of
[1:39]something innate an innate
[1:40]characteristic of mine think my solar
[1:43]wants it's the batteries are low that's
[1:45]surprising they were at 0% I had just
[1:47]looked at them could have sworn it's at
[1:51]something like 10% or something they
[1:53]were low but they wen't at
[1:55]zero okay well that's all right we're
[1:58]going to charge them up at a campground
[2:00]so anyway I grew up seeing how hateful
[2:05]people are experiencing that
[2:10]deeply so I already had a unique window
[2:13]into Humanity that a lot of people don't
[2:16]have they don't
[2:21]understand you know I went about my life
[2:24]etc
[2:25]etc that's just this is important
[2:27]context
[2:30]so the next thing I want to talk about
[2:32]is when Obama became president when he
[2:34]was voted when we voted for him election
[2:38]night I cried because I thought we had
[2:40]reached a new stage in our country where
[2:43]maybe we were finally coming
[2:45]together but that's not what happened is
[2:48]it they saw the rise of the Tea
[2:51]Party
[2:53]um you know overt racism and just more
[2:58]hatred more ignor ignorance more
[3:02]intolerance but you know I'm not letting
[3:04]the other side off the hook here because
[3:06]Obama didn't do a lot for us I was
[3:09]really disappointed in his presidency
[3:12]this
[3:13]man this man offered hope but did not
[3:18]did not provide
[3:20]it people back then would say things
[3:23]like well you know there was a divided
[3:25]house or something and that's why he
[3:29]couldn't get anything done that's not
[3:31]true those first two years the Democrats
[3:34]were in power they had a super majority
[3:36]they could have done whatever they
[3:38]wanted to and they didn't you don't
[3:41]understand that this two-party system
[3:43]that we have is
[3:45]destructive two sides of the same coin
[3:48]the most fragmented thing we've had in a
[3:50]long
[3:51]time and you know I'm not lighting you
[3:55]off the hook because you're just making
[3:57]excuses this does not work
[4:02]but the hatred and the
[4:04]intolerance that's obviously
[4:10]worse and then my dumb country
[4:14]decided to vote Trump into
[4:17]Power I mean when that happened
[4:23]I I guess I wasn't really all that
[4:26]surprised because I know how people are
[4:32]and now they're doing it
[4:36]again voting for a narcissist who's dumb
[4:39]who's just an ignorant
[4:41] but that's who you're
[4:43]voting for and that's who you
[4:46]support and it makes no
[4:49]sense it's like our country has given up
[4:55]on the special status we have in this
[4:57]world
[5:00]we are the heartbeat of this world and
[5:03]we are doing what Rome did when they
[5:06]made Julius Caesar
[5:11]emperor societal collapse is inevitable
[5:14]at this point because people are so
[5:18]fragmented and
[5:20]incapable of being
[5:24]rational and looking at the systemic
[5:27]issues we have that it's just it's
[5:29]unavoidable able at this
[5:35]point a third of my country is going to
[5:38]vote for a
[5:40]bigot a third of my
[5:45]country hates the bigots and another
[5:49]third of my country is just going to sit
[5:50]back and let those other twoth
[5:53]thirds battle it out because that's what
[5:56]we do in this country
[6:01]things keep getting
[6:03]worse and we just let
[6:07]them so I decided
[6:10]to position myself in such a way that I
[6:13]can survive what you people are doing to
[6:16]this
[6:21]world and it's
[6:23]been The Greatest Adventure of my
[6:27]life I'm not looking forward to the the
[6:29]time that our systems start
[6:31]disintegrating because I'm going to have
[6:33]to watch that I'm going to have to watch
[6:35]you
[6:36]suffer and that's going to affect me
[6:38]deeply even though a third of you hate
[6:41]me for an innate characteristic I can't
[6:44]change a third of you looks
[6:50]at looks at me and a a fragmented
[6:55]light because my being gay isn't
[6:58]actually a big deal it's the
[7:01]smallest part of
[7:02]me and another third is just
[7:05]tuned
[7:10]out I have been trying to wake you
[7:12]people up for seven months but you're
[7:15]never going to wake up you're just going
[7:18]to keep the self-destructive pattern
[7:20]going on both sides
[7:31]until we're just a memory just like Rome
[7:35]is so it's too dark to turn this camera
[7:38]around I'm just going to show you my
[7:39]view it is probably like 6:30 in the
[7:42]morning right
[7:43]now and on the road for a
[7:46]while got 25 miles to go to get to my
[7:49]fuel stop and then many hours to get to
[7:53]the campground I'm going to try to stay
[7:54]at should get there around 11:00 in the
[7:56]morning
[8:01]oh there was something I wanted to talk
[8:02]about give me a minute here all
[8:06]right so basically I'll just give you an
[8:08]overview of my plan I'm going to be in
[8:11]Medford I think I think Medford
[8:15]and um there's a couple of different
[8:17]campgrounds there I don't know which one
[8:18]I'm staying at yet but I'm probably
[8:20]going to stay there a couple days my
[8:22]inverter is being delivered to that town
[8:24]so whenever that gets there I can pick
[8:26]it up and I'll only be a couple hours
[8:28]from the coast
[8:32]so I'm very excited for that we should
[8:34]be seeing Forest
[8:36]today uh we're getting out of the desert
[8:38]environment and heading towards the
[8:41]forests so that will be
[8:44]fun I've been thinking I might take
[8:47]everything out of my shower that I've
[8:48]been using as a storage space because I
[8:50]do have more storage now with the SL
[8:52]being in all the time and I can actually
[8:54]start using that
[8:55]shower probably a better option than
[8:58]what I've been talk in last week and a
[9:01]half so I'm going to give that a try I
[9:04]think I'll need to fill my water tank
[9:07]first so I still need to get to a
[9:09]campground I just need a place to kind
[9:12]of set down roots for a short while uh I
[9:15]need to do some insulating in here I'll
[9:18]see if there's anything I can do about
[9:20]the
[9:21]slide uh about getting that pushed in
[9:24]and if I can I'm just going to tape it
[9:25]up
[9:27]so really nothing else I can
[9:32]do so I didn't get to see a lot
[9:35]of uh whatever I was traveling through
[9:37]because it was so
[9:40]dark um it actually looks lighter on my
[9:42]camera than it really is so that's kind
[9:44]of
[9:47]interesting still real early the sun
[9:49]hasn't come up
[9:51]yet we're 5500 ft up and we're starting
[9:54]to see some trees we just passed what
[9:57]probably pine trees
[10:00]so not just these bushes here but
[10:02]definitely entering the
[10:17]forest it's 26° here this has been going
[10:21]down quite a bit it was 40 where I was
[10:24]at and then it was in the 30s once I got
[10:27]up this mountain and then that was still
[10:29]going down 26
[10:32]wow we're entering a national
[10:36]forest
[10:40]REM cool
[11:16]looks like this is Lake
[11:19]View I mean the outskirts of it
[11:24]anyway got feel on now I am turn right
[11:27]at the stop sign feels like I
[11:30]passing right through Lake VII like it
[11:32]was just very tiny
[11:35]Town didn't see
[11:37]much oh there's a hardw
[11:41]store could be that I
[11:46]just waiting on this car here thank you
[11:49]for using your Linker go
[11:53]ahead
[11:56]je all right continue on on North Fourth
[12:01]Street Beach
[12:03]Street there streets are
[12:06]lettered
[12:10]cool tacos oh I want some tacos I'm so
[12:14]hungry oh that's a little RV park there
[12:18]lots of stuff Happening
[12:19]Here Little Town Lake
[12:24]me where's the lake at I've not seen any
[12:27]lakes yet where where's this
[12:31]Lake what a fascinating place there's a
[12:34]little
[12:38]cafe we're just in the man
[12:42]now I like small
[12:46]towns sort of depends I guess it depends
[12:49]on the small town
[12:53]really depends on the vibe they have got
[12:57]to go over these railroad tracks
[12:59]some railro tracks are not fine so I
[13:02]don't know how this one will
[13:04]be okay that one was
[13:10]easy Yep they're lettered PE
[13:13]Street Fairgrounds quarter mile I know
[13:15]you could stay at the fairgrounds
[13:18]here so we're off we got 188 miles to
[13:23]go I so awake today yeah still waking up
[13:27]kind
[13:31]I mean I think I stayed up a little bit
[13:32]later than normal and then I got up at
[13:34]4: in the morning and I thought I slept
[13:37]all that well cuz I was just on the side
[13:38]of the
[13:39]road but I slept okay I just prob only s
[13:45]five or 6 hours at
[13:47]most looking forward to getting to a
[13:49]campground so I can just kind of settle
[13:55]in y got 3 hours to go I think we has
[13:59]some interesting fog here just here just
[14:02]this one little property you know what
[14:04]that's
[14:06]about what's going on over
[14:11]here I'm looking forward to the fogs on
[14:14]the coast wonder what caused those ones
[14:17]though cuz it's just that one spot so
[14:20]curious what do we have
[14:27]here r a Booth Oregan State
[14:32]Parks that one didn't come up in my
[14:36]search 5100 ft
[14:42]up this is a pretty cool Prairie here
[14:45]got horses and cows all hanging out
[14:48]together lots of
[14:50]land mixture of prairies and
[14:54]Forest at top of a mountain lots of
[14:58]forest trees
[15:01]everywhere loving
[15:05]this what does this side
[15:11]thing drown campfires okay it's just
[15:15]warning you I don't think you can
[15:17]actually have campfires
[15:19]here oh okay
[15:22]yeah this is
[15:24]nice wonder where we are
[15:31]oh we got some autumn colors some of
[15:35]these trees are so
[15:37]tall so
[15:42]cool s my driver caring some
[15:45]logs taking from the
[15:49]forest Mak his feelings about
[15:57]that cool I hav't SE a lot of geology
[16:00]like this in a
[16:02]while passing some stuff
[16:08]here one of them said snow park I think
[16:12]AI told me about
[16:20]that this road is not so good makes me
[16:24]feel a little bit unsafe driving the
[16:27]speed limit so I'm going down miles
[16:37]great something very pretty about this
[16:52]spot oh nothing special just in
[16:56]religious nonsense what's going on over
[17:03]here no
[17:05]idea prair SL
[17:09]Forest very
[17:13]fascinating we appear to be entering a
[17:15]small
[17:16]town it's not on the
[17:19]GPS but here we
[17:23]are little town up here on the mountain
[17:31]oh speed liit
[17:36]change I knew that was
[17:46]coming got some RBS hanging out over
[17:49]there maybe I don't know we just
[17:54]parked oh now it's think
[17:57]25 oh hold
[18:03]on little
[18:10]town 25 is very slow still not going 25
[18:15]here we
[18:18]go interesting there's another I stopped
[18:21]at a fast break on my way and okay I
[18:25]could get diesel
[18:27]there all right right I don't need it
[18:31]yet I got range of 400
[18:35]miles this town does it have a name I
[18:38]didn't see anything about a name
[18:42]anywhere how fascinating oh laund mat
[18:46]right there
[18:47]maybe we're in the lay of the land here
[18:51]where are
[18:55]we blind water and sanitary dist
[18:59]okay so blind we must be in blind
[19:02]there's a ranger station yeah blind
[19:04]Ranger Station cool those ranger
[19:08]stations never look accessible to an RV
[19:10]I've
[19:11]noticed like
[19:15]ever what do we have here that is so
[19:19]cool oh I want to stop there I'm
[19:24]hungry we got to keep going
[19:29]fascinating little place we just passed
[19:35]through more
[19:37]prairies I was not expecting prairies in
[19:40]in organs so I'm
[19:44]surprised but these are prairies with
[19:48]trees these horses remind me of Zelda
[19:51]don't ask me why I just feel like I
[19:53]should be in breath of the wild right
[19:56]now it's pretty nice up
[20:16]here
[20:22]okay beautiful tree over there I didn't
[20:26]get it very quickly though so might is
[20:30]Treon all by itself up here way over
[20:33]there not the best view good Bailey
[20:38]we're all right you can get out if you
[20:41]want nobody's keeping the in
[20:44]there you're fine let's pull this net
[20:48]up good morning good
[20:52]morning head
[20:56]no how are you today Bailey are you
[21:01]good oh just hang in there this road
[21:04]sucks I don't know why they make it like
[21:10]this still lots of praries very
[21:13]surprised by
[21:14]par not anticipating
[21:17]praries what's going on what are you
[21:20]doing why is your mouth open like that
[21:23]what's
[21:25]up you see cows over there
[21:30]they you see
[21:32]cows I think you're doing all right baby
[21:35]we're good only going 40 m an hour take
[21:40]3 hours to get anywhere this way hang in
[21:44]there we got a ways to go
[21:48]still we're in the forest
[21:51]again this forest beaves in and
[21:54]out right Bailey we like
[21:57]it the trees you're F what are you
[22:01]looking at me like that for you're fine
[22:05]you're fine we're going to a
[22:10]campground where you can chill and have
[22:13]fun maybe I even find a harness for you
[22:16]that actually works that is a forest
[22:19]that I want to be
[22:23]in the forth floor looked exactly like
[22:27]the kind of for course I
[22:33]like I changed
[22:37]again s I'm going to explore this place
[22:54]somay Mountain de stor
[23:00]ancient those are some massive solar
[23:11]panels check that out they turn this
[23:13]mountain into a solder
[23:16]Farm very
[23:21]cool we still got 90 mil to
[23:26]go we're in cloth fall
[23:30]where I met an
[23:32] so these are on Lane
[23:35]roads well you know there's only one
[23:37]lane going one way and I'm going to go
[23:41]the pace that feels natural to me that
[23:43]feels safe and then so we're going down
[23:46]this road quite a long ways there's
[23:48]people behind me that's normal you're
[23:50]driving an RV you could go around me we
[23:54]finally get to a stop and I'm turning
[23:56]left the guy who was behind me was going
[23:59]right and he just honed his horn for
[24:00]like 20 seconds just a total
[24:05] it's really irritated me like
[24:09]I'm still kind of processing it's like
[24:11]why do you have to be like that that is
[24:13]just such a
[24:16]fragmented
[24:19]like I'm still processing it
[24:23]because that kind of mentality is very
[24:26]problematic
[24:29]generally
[24:31]is first Lake I've
[24:44]seen we're on top of Doak
[24:47]Mountain there was a sign it said
[24:49]volcanic
[24:52]Legacy I don't
[24:54]really I don't know it's pretty
[25:00]I know volcanoes make lots of
[25:13]resources that's
[25:16]pretty looks
[25:19]like well I was going to say maybe the
[25:22]lake is drying up but no that's this
[25:24]Farmland down
[25:26]there very nice
[25:30]entering the forest again we've been in
[25:33]and out of this
[25:34]forest for
[25:37]hours we got Crater Lake National park
[25:40]right here we're going to have to come
[25:42]back to
[25:51]this very curious about Lake up the
[25:55]woods going to have to look that up
[26:00]Junction
[26:09]here a lot of snow parks around
[26:12]here Resort open every day it
[26:16]says and
[26:19]we're I guess we're 3 hours away from
[26:22]where I'll be most of the time I don't
[26:24]know I got to I got to think about it I
[26:27]guess
[26:28]I might not need to be on the coast all
[26:30]the
[26:31]time I want to go slowly so I'm going to
[26:34]think it all through I'd love to explore
[26:37]this place lots of Trail
[26:40]heads so it's 12:30 right
[26:43]now I am at Valley of the Rogue coolest
[26:48]name ever state park right off I9 right
[26:52]there just in this little parking lot
[26:56]here cuz all the the sites were taken
[26:59]except for one which they gave to me for
[27:02]one night um but I can't can't take it
[27:06]until 4: so I'm going to go take a
[27:10]shower and head into somewhere to get
[27:13]some supplies from like a little store
[27:15]or something
[27:16]and and
[27:18]then at the full hookup site so I'm
[27:21]going to maybe try to clean my tanks
[27:24]today I mean I did it recently but I can
[27:27]hear Bailey crying in there
[27:33]um I don't know I'm not sure what I'm
[27:35]going to do honestly I'm only here for
[27:37]one night so tomorrow I'll make plans
[27:39]and I'll just be on the coast sometime
[27:41]tomorrow and figure out the rest from
[27:44]there so I'm just here for the night oh
[27:46]that's pretty maybe I could find a trail
[27:48]to hike or
[27:50]something this is
[27:54]nice it's very stressful Drive
[27:58]people are just so impatient
[28:01]and wonder if I should
[28:04]leave you can't get out that window
[28:08]cany oh I can't trust this cat can I I
[28:12]probably need to yeah I better anyways
[28:15]people were not very friendly on the
[28:18]road so it was a very stressful
[28:21]drive but right in here and things will
[28:25]get better now