[0:03]we're at Cape Blanco right now in the
[0:06]day use area next to that thing the
[0:10]ocean it's a black moon tonight which
[0:13]means there's no moon out here at all
[0:16]there's a 360° view of the night sky
[0:19]which I obviously can't show you on a
[0:21]phone
[0:22]camera but I could still share it with
[0:24]you through my
[0:28]voice let's call this it's a meditative
[0:33]night could see Port Orford in the
[0:37]distance few lights on the on the
[0:41]water which it's actually surprising you
[0:43]don't see that often there's a couple of
[0:44]Lights though way out in the
[0:49]distance but man that night
[0:52]sky it's perfect there isn't a marine
[0:54]layer so you can see quite a lot
[1:03]here the ocean All Around
[1:06]Me lighthouse in the distance the
[1:08]light's broken though the Coast Guard
[1:11]hasn't fixed it it's been that way since
[1:13]March
[1:15]there's a simple light up there on top
[1:17]but it's nothing like the normal
[1:19]Lighthouse light and it's super
[1:21]disappointing cuz just fix that thing
[1:25]already my Jeep over there it's quite
[1:28]cold it's like 39 degrees out
[1:33]here I don't have the correct um not
[1:38]wearing the right clothing for this I
[1:40]don't have any I don't have winter
[1:43]gear let's go sitting there for a minute
[1:46]though I'm actually cold
[1:50]already I love this Jeep this Jeep as
[1:53]everything to me
[2:04]cold
[2:07]wow yeah I'm
[2:11]freezing I just took a nap I just woke
[2:14]up
[2:17]and it's New Year's Eve guys it's after
[2:20]midnight it's 1:00 in the
[2:23]morning give me a second here I got to
[2:25]find my vape
[2:30]did I actually leave without it wow
[2:33]that's not telling at
[2:36]all I
[2:39]did no it's here
[2:45]okay I
[2:49]am got a lot on my mind
[2:53]tonight tomorrow I start a new life
[2:55]pretty much just
[2:58] nervous about
[3:01]it 24 hours I leave here which this is
[3:05]my favorite place in noron
[3:08]truly
[3:11]and I head north an hour and a half to a
[3:13]place called tugman it's on a
[3:17]lake um but the campground isn't though
[3:20]you would have to walk over to the lake
[3:21]you don't see the lake from the
[3:23]campgrounds I'm just in this n descript
[3:30]campsite at the front of the park next
[3:34]to five other
[3:38]volunteers so I have a whole bunch of
[3:40]new relationships to navigate
[3:44]instantly that's not counting the park
[3:46]rangers that's not counting the
[3:51]guests as a volunteer job I'm not
[3:53]getting paid for it the only benefit I
[3:56]get
[3:57]is that you know I get free camping
[4:00]which I need right now cuz I don't have
[4:02]any
[4:04]money hopefully this month I will
[4:07]straighten all that out but this has
[4:09]been a challenge I don't
[4:11]know the source of my resistance and
[4:16]trepidation about that I'm still working
[4:18]through that I'm trying to figure that
[4:20]out
[4:21]myself something
[4:24]about reintegrating with the systems
[4:27]that just suck the life right out of me
[4:29]is
[4:32]absolutely challenging for me to
[4:33]wrap my myself
[4:35]around
[4:38]cuz I don't want that old life again I
[4:41]spent all my life programming since the
[4:43]sixth grade and I look back at that and
[4:45]I asked myself
[4:47]why what was the
[4:55]point and then
[4:57]there's there's the fact that
[5:00] tomorrow is
[5:03]2025 and we get a new
[5:08]president who I understand a lot of you
[5:10]guys support but you don't see the world
[5:13]the way I do this isn't political for me
[5:15]this is just
[5:19]recognizing that what's happening to
[5:21]this world is getting
[5:22]worse we're accelerating
[5:25]it and that's scary
[5:29]if you don't see that then you're lucky
[5:32]in a
[5:33]sense because you get to just walk
[5:35]through life
[5:38]without without understanding where
[5:40]we're
[5:42]going at the same time though I don't
[5:44]know that I would want that because how
[5:46]do you prepare for something that you're
[5:48]not even facing
[5:50]directly and I've tried it's why I live
[5:52]in an RV it's why I'm on the organ Coast
[5:59]tried to face this
[6:03]directly I don't expect a bright future
[6:06]for any of us I expect starvation and
[6:10]suffering and
[6:12]death and violence a lot of
[6:21]violence and I have no
[6:24]idea where I will fit into all of
[6:27]that if I Will Survive it
[6:31]and you know all I want is just my heart
[6:33]is so open these
[6:36]days it's just connection with others
[6:40]romantic and
[6:42]otherwise it's
[6:44]like my heart open at the end of the
[6:47] world I just have
[6:52]no have no way of processing that
[6:55]because it's so ironic it's it's
[6:58]exactly what would happen to me I feel
[7:02]like I was ready to just Escape
[7:05]into the forest and then some man flirts
[7:08]with me and changes the entire
[7:10]trajectory of my life here in Oregon
[7:12]like I just I don't even know what to do
[7:14]with that honestly and so I have to
[7:17]navigate this whole new challenge and
[7:18]it's like
[7:20]okay well I'm out here and I'm fully
[7:24]awake
[7:26]now but I run out of money because it's
[7:29]is such a long Journey here
[7:31]getting here was a goddamn challenge I
[7:35]stretched myself absolutely thin to do
[7:42]it so okay I guess we're
[7:47]volunteer which you know there's a lot
[7:49]of good in that because you know
[7:52]I I see so much potential in in this
[7:56]that I'm
[7:57]not it's not just like
[8:00]not just trying to complain about it I'm
[8:02]just being real with
[8:05]myself you know I see the good and the
[8:08]bad like the absolutely terrible showers
[8:11]there there's a sign in the shower room
[8:13]that literally says turn multiple
[8:15]showers on if you want hot
[8:17]water I'm going to navigate that for up
[8:19]to 3
[8:22]months
[8:24]and you know I am a gay force of nature
[8:27]like I don't put myself in
[8:30]these these systems where where I have
[8:34]to navigate that fact and systems that
[8:37]don't really support it and systems that
[8:40]don't want
[8:41]to and I just don't know what to expect
[8:45]about this next chapter of my life so
[8:47]I'm pretty nervous about it excited and
[8:50]very very excited am nervous
[9:02]so yeah that's where I am these days we
[9:05]got one day left here I got to get my
[9:07]camper
[9:08]organized um I haven't gone to get
[9:10]propane yet for anyone
[9:12]wondering I think I will do that on
[9:16]January 1st like so first thing in the
[9:18]morning I'm going to wake up and I'll go
[9:21]do that cuz I can just park my Jeep over
[9:24]near there's this area at the park I can
[9:26]just park it somewhere and then I can
[9:28]come back for my Jeep after I take care
[9:31]of my RV tasks at least that way I'm not
[9:33]like as big of a footprint driving to do
[9:35]all this stuff I'm not trying to
[9:37]navigate all of that while also toing my
[9:40]Jeep cuz I can come back for the Jeep
[9:42]because this is the direction I got to
[9:44]head in
[9:46]so I kind of planned it out that way I
[9:49]just need to get everything prepared so
[9:51]that I can actually move
[9:52]it
[9:57]um you know and I'm going to embrace
[9:59]this with my full force like I do
[10:01]everything in life
[10:05]guys I hold all of
[10:09]it everything that I see coming all the
[10:16]patterns everything that I think I'm
[10:18]going to be experiencing and I just hold
[10:20]all of it and I do it
[10:23]anyways and I'll do it my characteristic
[10:26]joyful slash X existential
[10:32]self I'm going to sit out here for a
[10:34]while and just come in with these Stars
[10:38]if we get a little bit more warmed
[10:42]up I want to wish you a happy New Year