First Time Boondocking in RV

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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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

Energetic Signature calibrated vigilance

Field State sovereignty infrastructure testing

Orientation toward autonomous embedding

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.

Clusters

Sovereign Journey: Kentucky to Oregon Coast

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

unsanctioned I don't trust systems ethically I'm not doing anything wrong well-informed opinion this is what I want though autonomy let go of my consciousness

Symbolic Elements

threshold desert mountain monument wagon path edge

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

Signal Reflection

No reflections available

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Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

37:41

Bitrate

2,672 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028