Moving to Honeyman State Park for New Assignment

Early morning (4 AM start) on January 31, 2025. rswfire is transitioning between volunteer positions at Oregon state parks, moving from his previous location to Honeyman State Park. Weather conditions are rainy. He's in preparation and travel mode, completing maintenance routines and relocating his RV setup to a new work assignment.

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January 31, 2025

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rswfire

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[0:01] so it's 4:00 in the morning I'm already

[0:03] up and doing some

[0:06] stuff um yeah it tells me that there are

[0:09] certain parts of my life that maybe I

[0:11] should try to document

[0:13] more without really explaining them just

[0:17] see what patterns emerge thinks that

[0:20] maybe it's

[0:21] important that got me thinking okay well

[0:23] I guess I'll try that I am um I started

[0:27] cleaning my tanks yesterday it's a thing

[0:29] that

[0:30] I want to start doing every month right

[0:32] as I'm if I'm going somewhere

[0:36] else it's very early I got a flashlight

[0:39] here I'll to show

[0:44] you we got full hookups as a volunteer

[0:50] host we're

[0:52] good this way I can shower this morning

[0:55] just do this real fast

[1:01] when you empty the oops when you empty

[1:04] the tanks or you're cleaning the

[1:08] tanks um you know I kind of lose access

[1:12] to certain certain parts of my life a

[1:14] little bit can't

[1:16] shower can't really use my

[1:18] restroom you know cuz I got my tanks

[1:20] full of like sanitizer or

[1:22] whatever do that overnight all yesterday

[1:27] basically and

[1:30] yeah now we're back to just normal

[1:32] situation

[1:34] here put some water into the B tank and

[1:37] then put some deodorizer in there this

[1:39] is a brand new like it's clean right

[1:41] it's can't be any better than it is

[1:43] right now that will change soon

[1:46] though so just get some water in there

[1:48] put in some deodorizer

[1:51] and

[1:53] um you know it'll be good

[1:56] and like I haven't really gotten my down

[2:00] on this yet but you know once a week

[2:03] empty the back tank

[2:04] and flush it out I need to get another

[2:07] hose for that so that I cuz I can't even

[2:09] reach the thing out there where you do

[2:11] the actual flushing Parts I've never

[2:13] actually done that I do the more

[2:14] elaborate stuff um cleaning but that

[2:18] would be good to do I need to get a hose

[2:20] for that

[2:24] and um you know once a month just do the

[2:27] deep cleaning like I

[2:28] do so

[2:30] I'm just ready I'm ready to go leave as

[2:34] early as I can once that you know the

[2:36] Sun is up and it's only 23 mil away I

[2:39] don't have far to go just 23 mil down

[2:41] the

[2:43] 101 and I'm not exactly sure like when

[2:46] my site will be available cuz you know I

[2:48] am coming a day early from when my

[2:50] volunteering starts but this is when my

[2:52] boss asked me to be there so hopefully

[2:54] my site is empty but there might be

[2:56] someone in it now who has to you know

[2:58] there move on to their next project

[2:59] project or whatever they're doing so I

[3:02] might have to find somewhere to park for

[3:04] part of the day or whatever but I just

[3:06] want to get us there and there's a whole

[3:08] part of the park I haven't even seen I

[3:10] didn't know this until maybe like a week

[3:13] ago we doing some research this park is

[3:16] on both sides of the 101 there's

[3:17] actually a bridge going across it and I

[3:21] haven't seen what's on the east side

[3:23] only on the west side and I haven't even

[3:26] seen all of that so we're going to do a

[3:27] lot of exploring today I am just so

[3:29] excited so here I go you know it feels

[3:33] really good to be able to use the water

[3:34] for my own tanks to actually trust that

[3:37] I didn't trust that for the longest time

[3:39] but I do know I've cleaned these things

[3:42] enough time to know they're

[3:43] good man I remember when I first started

[3:46] and the water from my tank smelled and

[3:50] just like you know I knew the previous

[3:52] owner had never cleaned it I didn't know

[3:54] how and I was so new with this life it

[3:56] was like that was one of the things I

[3:57] just accepted until it was something I

[3:59] could deal with so I'm making some

[4:01] coffee over

[4:03] here um one of the things I feel like

[4:06] I'm still iterating is nutrition this

[4:09] morning I'll have a bagel it's pretty

[4:11] much all I've got I don't have a whole

[4:13] lot of food right now but hopefully my

[4:14] boss will pay me today and I can get

[4:16] some

[4:17] groceries but I'm trying you know I'm

[4:19] iterating nutrition my pattern for the

[4:21] last month has largely been Bagels in

[4:23] the morning and hamburger meat at

[4:26] night um and some fries I got some

[4:29] Frozen and Fries that I make sometimes

[4:31] that's pretty much all I've been eating

[4:32] and I know it's not enough so um I did

[4:36] try out my

[4:38] um my Nutra my Ninja neutr blender you

[4:41] know and with Frozen um fruits and milk

[4:47] and um and spinach really good I would

[4:50] love to make that a consistent pattern

[4:52] it's just going to you know it's a

[4:53] little bit expensive and I haven't had

[4:55] the money to really do it consistently

[4:58] but um if I can just afford those frozen

[5:01] fruits and cuz they're kind of expensive

[5:04] my mom was talking to her about it she

[5:06] says it's cuz it's out of season that

[5:08] might be partially true but also it's

[5:09] inflation and everything

[5:11] else once you know my job really gets

[5:14] going and I'm making money consistently

[5:16] then that will become a new pattern for

[5:18] sure uh friend of mine that I met here

[5:21] that I made here another volunteer

[5:25] he's he's makes a lot of really good

[5:28] food and may had some ideas for me that

[5:31] I thought were pretty good um I'm not

[5:34] even awake yet so I'm I shouldn't be

[5:36] trying to explain all this but this

[5:40] part's important to me I I want to eat

[5:43] better and I want to take care of myself

[5:45] and that's that's one thing that this

[5:49] next chapter of my life this next

[5:51] stretch of um this next place I'm going

[5:54] to be every place has meaning to me and

[5:58] almost like

[6:01] just a new place for me to start

[6:02] integrating something and I would love

[6:04] for for here for that to be a whole

[6:07] bunch of things but one of them being

[6:10] way better

[6:12] nutrition gu I'll share some other

[6:14] patterns that emerged this month so I'm

[6:16] using my shower now instead of going

[6:19] down to the shower housee I've been

[6:20] using it in here got rid of all the

[6:22] storage stuff turn this into a real

[6:25] shower there another benefit of having

[6:27] clean tanks I have tried putting man

[6:30] hooks up on these walls and that is not

[6:31] working so this is a little bit

[6:34] inconvenient and I don't have a great

[6:36] deal of hot water I think it's like a 8

[6:38] gown tank it does a pretty good shower

[6:41] head it's got the oxygenator or whatever

[6:43] it does it's got I've got just enough

[6:46] time if I don't around in there

[6:49] to get myself clean basically you know I

[6:52] can't really just sit there and enjoy

[6:54] the water though this this park had one

[6:57] of those shared facilities there were no

[6:58] private showers which is the thing I

[7:00] don't like plus they felt a little dirty

[7:02] and um it just wasn't a very good

[7:05] environment I used it for a couple of

[7:06] weeks and I was like you know what I

[7:08] have full hookups here being a volunteer

[7:11] and I have a shower why am I not using

[7:13] it let's make that a thing so I

[7:17] did um it's not perfect though cuz I'm

[7:20] not showering as often as I was and

[7:23] that's important to me so um that's

[7:25] another thing I'll keep adapting to and

[7:28] you know I've got a whole routine now

[7:30] that's taking me time to integrate

[7:31] everything from you know moisturizing my

[7:34] entire body with lotion to um these just

[7:37] these different products that I use like

[7:38] I always use something for my feet cuz I

[7:40] care about my feet and um I got this

[7:44] like this stuff that you you know it's

[7:46] for men it's like anti-chafing thing I

[7:49] don't know like just all these different

[7:51] products that I use and I moisturiz my

[7:53] face and you know put on this eye stuff

[7:56] cuz you know I don't get enough sleep

[7:57] and I'm getting older and I want might

[7:59] want to look good and um that's hard to

[8:02] do in a small space like this but I feel

[8:04] like I pretty much got that down I'm

[8:06] pretty happy about

[8:09] it that being said this next Park that

[8:11] I'm going to does have um it's got

[8:15] private facilities that's one of the

[8:16] things I scouted while I was there and I

[8:18] could see me doing that it's more like a

[8:20] Kate Blanco setup so I could see me

[8:22] doing that some mornings or something

[8:25] maybe even at night just um heading down

[8:28] there and just enjoying the hot water

[8:30] the one thing I truly miss from a

[8:32] housebound life is uh a bathtub like

[8:35] that's the one thing the one thing so I

[8:38] can see me every once in a while renting

[8:40] a cabin or something just for their

[8:41] bathtub

[8:43] so that's number one Shing in my RV it's

[8:46] just another system that I've integrated

[8:48] into my

[8:51] life the other thing is all the stuff I

[8:54] keep putting on my walls so you know I

[8:56] started with this Lighthouse of the

[8:58] Oregon coast

[9:01] um uh poster cuz that was the best thing

[9:03] I could find they had the coast on it

[9:05] and then I found this next this is just

[9:07] the whole Dunes area that I'm in now and

[9:12] there's a lot to explore there I thought

[9:13] that was a nice map to have but my boss

[9:16] just gave me this booklet Oregon State

[9:20] Park guide she gave me a couple copies

[9:22] of it cuz I told her I wanted to do this

[9:24] and I just put the whole Coast up there

[9:26] North Central and South and it's got all

[9:27] the state parks on it

[9:30] and I'm happy about that I

[9:32] think I know it looks a little ghetto

[9:35] maybe was covered in these you

[9:38] know they're not really meant to be up

[9:40] there treating them like posters or

[9:42] something but for me it just it's a

[9:44] constant it's something I can look at

[9:47] and it represents the life that I'm

[9:49] building here and what matters to me and

[9:51] it just this is my home

[9:57] and it brings me a lot of

[9:59] just to have them up there so and then

[10:02] the last thing this is what I've been

[10:04] thinking about lately so you all have

[10:07] seen my um you know those those sticker

[10:11] things of the United States where you

[10:13] just put the states down once you've

[10:14] explored it when I

[10:16] first um got my RV I was thinking that

[10:19] I'd want to fill this whole thing like

[10:20] everybody else I don't feel that way

[10:22] anymore and have for a long time once I

[10:24] made this path from Kentucky to Oregon I

[10:26] was like you know what this map could

[10:27] stay like this forever and I'd be happy

[10:29] but now I have some thoughts about this

[10:32] so so you know I'm over here on the

[10:34] Oregon coast and I'm going to go to back

[10:35] to Kentucky this

[10:37] summer and I've got two routes planned

[10:39] so basically I'm going to take

[10:41] Oregon I I don't remember I think I go

[10:43] into Idaho and then I'll come down to

[10:45] Utah Colorado and I'll get those two

[10:48] states then I'll go through Kansas cuz I

[10:50] really loved it there and I wanted to

[10:51] spend more time there then into Missouri

[10:53] to some of the places that I was there

[10:54] at before that I also loved down here to

[10:57] land before the Lakes Between the Lakes

[10:59] and then back into Kentucky I'll stay

[11:01] there a month and then when I come back

[11:03] I'm going to go back to Land Between the

[11:05] Lakes and then I'm going to come down to

[11:06] Arkansas I'm going to go through

[11:07] Oklahoma stay in the Panhandle so I

[11:09] avoid Texas completely go into New

[11:12] Mexico then Arizona and then up into

[11:15] Nevada I'm going to go to the Great

[11:17] Basin right before the meteor showers

[11:19] and I'm going to shoot straight up back

[11:21] into Oregon going down this one road

[11:23] that's just completely just desolate for

[11:27] 100 miles get back into Oregon take that

[11:30] all the way up to my next job in

[11:31] September and so this map's going to

[11:34] have a few more States looks like six

[11:37] more States will have stickers and I I

[11:40] just love that cluster there I think is

[11:43] perfect and I'm not sure I'll ever want

[11:45] it to

[11:46] change um of course I said that the last

[11:49] time so who knows I do want to go up in

[11:50] Washington I want to see Canada Michigan

[11:53] being my home state originally I would

[11:55] love to explore that a little bit but I

[11:56] don't have a lot of interest in these

[11:58] states

[12:00] um I don't know they call that the rust

[12:02] Bel right I don't have much interest in

[12:05] Montana or the dtas so I just or Iowa

[12:08] like none of that sounds interesting to

[12:10] me but you know there's Force here

[12:12] between Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan

[12:16] in Canada maybe I go up the coast I see

[12:18] the Washington coast I go into Canada

[12:21] and I go all the way across and come

[12:23] down at the Upper Peninsula one day

[12:25] maybe and then or maybe sooner cuz I

[12:27] want to go to Minnesota and wiscons and

[12:29] then maybe go up in the up then down

[12:31] Michigan that was a long ways cuz that

[12:33] is a big

[12:34] state and then I don't know definitely

[12:37] don't care about the East Coast no

[12:39] interest don't care about Texas don't

[12:41] care about California none of that

[12:43] matters this map will never be complete

[12:45] it'll be my version of

[12:47] complete 700 a.m. basically I'm all

[12:50] ready to go

[12:52] now very little to do in here I've

[12:55] showered U my bathroom there's nothing

[12:57] in here I really need to worry about

[12:59] everything is is good to go there these

[13:02] books down here next to my bed I was

[13:04] planning to throw those out I'm still

[13:05] kind of struggling to do that ones in

[13:08] the back are old children's books from

[13:10] when I was a kid and then the rest are

[13:12] just gaming books but you you know you

[13:14] don't really get those on Kindle and a

[13:16] whole bunch of Minecraft books that I

[13:18] love and strategy guides but they really

[13:20] need to go they're just going to sit

[13:22] down there on this move though got my

[13:24] bed made all my stuff put

[13:27] away my thermos are still drying from

[13:30] yesterday but there's nothing really in

[13:32] the office the desktop shut down I'll

[13:34] shut down the solar um pretty soon cuz

[13:37] it's just powering my heater right now

[13:39] this stuff needs to go out I've got a

[13:42] few um dishes to do I should make a

[13:45] bagel before I go just so I've eaten

[13:47] something and then we got the cab area

[13:49] which is there really not a whole lot

[13:51] happening up here it's storage and this

[13:54] is stuff that's going to go outside

[13:56] that's something I just got it's a tent

[13:58] structure

[14:00] um then my laundry bag that's basically

[14:02] it these things are not um secured so

[14:06] I'm going to just take those down for

[14:09] this move but I'll secure them at the

[14:10] next one I just want to clean this place

[14:12] up better and then secure those better

[14:14] on my charging equipment everything's

[14:16] charged I started doing that

[14:18] yesterday so that's all put away and

[14:21] we're basically ready to go this is it

[14:23] this is my life right here it's not

[14:26] daylight yet so I'm just going to chill

[14:28] for a minute and

[14:32] just I don't know last guess before

[14:36] before the next venture

[14:38] starts so no point wasting daylight 7:30

[14:42] in the morning throw my Jeep over here

[14:45] the day there Etc I'll hook it up it's

[14:47] raining it's like we got a puddle over

[14:49] here I want to show you something I got

[14:51] my boss gave it look at that license

[14:54] plate um what do they call that license

[14:57] plate board order thing says Oregon

[15:00] State Parks

[15:01] volunteer absolutely love it I wanted it

[15:03] so bad they gave those away like 7 years

[15:06] ago to the volunteers and I saw one on

[15:08] one of the volunteers vehicles I had to

[15:10] have one and she actually went and she

[15:12] found one for me so happy about that

[15:15] we're going to check the lake out and

[15:17] we're going to head back

[15:20] and start a new

[15:27] adventure rain finally returned to the

[15:33] coast I hadn't seen rain on this Lake in

[15:36] a while a couple weeks at

[15:41] least set out to the dock I guess spend

[15:45] a lot of time there oh look at the

[15:46] little

[15:47] duckies those things are average this

[15:51] day use area they're constantly

[15:53] eating all over the place you can see a

[15:56] whole bunch over there

[16:00] they're two different kinds know nothing

[16:03] about them I did learn yesterday from

[16:04] one of my friends

[16:06] that um they migrate here for the

[16:11] winter then they'll have back in Spring

[16:13] they're not here all year did not know

[16:19] this here's the dock I love this dock

[16:31] offered to paint it make it pretty of

[16:34] course it wouldn't last very long out

[16:36] here in the water

[16:41] right this is a nice morning

[16:51] damn wow I absolutely loved the lake

[16:54] like this

[16:56] amazing I thought I'd seen it all

[17:00] oh this is

[17:09] wonderful so I have a new phone I couple

[17:13] weeks ago dropped my last one on the

[17:14] ground broke the

[17:16] screen and I think I'm going to try to

[17:19] take care of this one and it's raining

[17:21] so I'm going going to stop it there

[17:23] haven't figured out a theme song for

[17:26] today trying to figure out what that is

[17:29] we're ready to go so I got my Jeep

[17:31] hooked up show little screen there it's

[17:34] all hooked up nothing horrible happened

[17:36] my left earbud fell out it went right

[17:38] into the Grilla of my Jeep and I could

[17:40] not get it so it's gone it's in there

[17:43] somewhere was probably going to like

[17:45] fall out while we're driving so it's

[17:47] gone I got these backups this left one

[17:49] don't work very well though so I'm going

[17:51] to have to get new earbuds now which

[17:54] this is totally the kind of luck I have

[17:55] I'm not even surprised by this this is

[17:57] literally how my life forks I have lost

[17:59] so many earbuds also so this is this is

[18:02] a well-known pattern and I need my music

[18:05] so really not happy about it but I'll

[18:07] manage until I can get some new

[18:09] ones this is a new phone so I got to

[18:12] hook it up to my Bluetooth for my RV

[18:14] speakers to work with that so I'm just

[18:16] going to do that now and then we're off

[18:18] we're about halfway there today's song

[18:21] is Chase the tear t e a r chase the tear

[18:25] my pis heads love them since I was

[18:29] teenager this is I think one of their

[18:31] most recent ones which for them was like

[18:33] 10 years ago but it's very good song it

[18:36] feels like the vibe for

[18:38] today chase the tear it's very similar

[18:41] to me and edges you know they're using a

[18:43] metaphor for Tears which I find that

[18:46] very interesting that's something to

[18:47] think about something to do with

[18:49] explore this is such a nice area I'd

[18:51] love to explore there's a issue with my

[18:53] Jee I haven't actually talked about on

[18:55] camera

[18:56] yet um it's hard to describe I think

[18:59] that I might just need whatever kind of

[19:01] fluid goes into like a manual

[19:02] transmission so I need to get that

[19:04] looked at once I have the money to do it

[19:06] so I been pretty cautious about what I

[19:08] do in my team for the past month but

[19:10] there's a lot to explore at Honeyman

[19:12] that's where I'll be

[19:14] and once I got that sort of then I can

[19:16] do a lot more exploring but for now look

[19:20] at this person P this like this that's

[19:22] ridiculous especially when you're going

[19:23] the speed

[19:25] limit people are very impatient these

[19:27] days just causeing all kinds of problems

[19:29] in the world because they don't know how

[19:30] to just be calm we've been talking about

[19:34] this for 10

[19:36] months so yeah I'm having a good time

[19:39] here see we're passing okay oh I don't

[19:42] know how to pronounce this one but yeah

[19:44] there's a whole bunch of lakes around

[19:45] here we're not far at all

[19:47] now got maybe 10 miles to go I

[19:51] guess absolutely love my

[19:54] life we are here at Honeyman we've got a

[19:57] long drive back

[19:59] this is a huge Campground Dune access

[20:01] for H Loop campers only and that's what

[20:03] I'm managing while I'm here so I'll be

[20:04] back in h loop it's way in the back of

[20:07] the park we got to go see if uh the

[20:10] other person is still there or if I can

[20:13] pull in and also figure out where to

[20:15] detach my Jeep so let's just go for a

[20:18] little drive here oh that's a big speed

[20:22] bump let make it things a little messy

[20:23] in here

[20:29] love to work at this skate house one

[20:31] day be

[20:36] wonderful got someone on a little

[20:39] Gator I'll have a little

[20:43] Gator Hiker Biker Camp I want to check

[20:46] that out that's always

[20:48] fun see how busy this place is see

[20:52] what's happening around here lots of

[20:53] places to walk all these different

[20:55] Campground loops

[20:58] and lots of trails different

[21:02] areas so much to do really happy to be

[21:07] here a lot of the loops are closed right

[21:09] now but you can still walk down them and

[21:11] look at

[21:13] them for

[21:14] winter see I'm here for February and

[21:17] March probably they'll be closed the

[21:19] whole time I don't know maybe they they

[21:21] probably open them in April or May or

[21:22] something like that we'll find all that

[21:25] out we will learn the patterns of this

[21:28] place

[21:37] the welcome Center's up here and that's

[21:38] where I'm going to be

[21:40] working I think that's the Welcome

[21:41] Center let see oh yeah and it's a yurt

[21:45] oh wow I didn't know I was working in a

[21:46] yurt okay that's

[21:49] interesting I didn't realize it was a YT

[21:59] that's cool we're going to be working in

[22:00] the yurt for a

[22:05] month very big

[22:12] Campground we made it we're here now we

[22:16] just got to get

[22:19] parked sometimes that can be stressful

[22:22] not always but sometimes just kind of

[22:24] depends I

[22:26] guess see this Loop is closed f and g

[22:30] are both

[22:36] closed it's never good to be bumpy

[22:39] inside this

[22:41] RV everything's well secured

[22:44] though still

[22:46] it's it's not

[22:53] fun next month I'll be cleaning those

[22:55] Yurts cuz I'll be a YT cleaner so here's

[22:57] h

[23:00] I do know this Loop cuz I've been here

[23:02] I've scouted the

[23:05] place there is an area back here where I

[23:09] might be able to detach my Jeep

[23:11] depending how busy the parking lot

[23:20] is um this is where there would be Doom

[23:23] buggies if anybody's back here for that

[23:25] purpose

[23:35] going to be living in the H Loop there's

[23:37] a park Coast there but it's not

[23:40] me most of them are married couples I I

[23:43] think I saw that here's the parking lot

[23:46] there w a lot of single people like me

[23:48] here's the parking lot nobody's here so

[23:49] we can definitely detach there that's

[23:52] good let's just check that our spots

[23:55] available should be over here near the

[23:57] gate to the Doom

[24:00] oh there's two parking lots I didn't

[24:01] realize that

[24:04] okay and we should be up here and it

[24:07] might be a tight fit I'm unsure of

[24:10] this right across from the gate there's

[24:13] the gate there I've actually walked out

[24:16] there and I think we're

[24:21] 381 yeah we're going to be 381 and it's

[24:24] open okay that's going to be a an

[24:27] interesting fit to get in there but

[24:29] we'll do it so this is where we stop for

[24:31] now I'll I'll check in when I'm done oh

[24:34] no this is the park H spot

[24:36] 383 oh that doesn't look too bad I goe I

[24:39] can get in there all right so let's go

[24:42] detach I'm

[24:44] here got most of my stuff set up my

[24:47] phone is not working I have AT&T and it

[24:50] is not working at all here the satellite

[24:52] looks like it's doing

[24:54] okay um got say building an obstructions

[24:57] map so I got to give that a while but

[24:58] I'm hoping I can just get away with

[25:00] Wi-Fi calling I can't even send any

[25:01] pictures right now I've tried to send

[25:03] them to a bunch of

[25:04] people and it's pretty rainy today so

[25:08] I've already got one pair of jeans that

[25:09] are completely soaked I'm just going to

[25:11] chill for a little while and then some I

[25:14] definitely need to get out there and

[25:15] just explore this place really want to

[25:17] it's cold and very wet so just give it a

[25:21] while and see how things go and try to

[25:22] get my Internet working so I'm here I'm

[25:25] very happy to be here right across from

[25:27] the gate you can see it from here that's

[25:30] the gate to the dunes that's where the

[25:32] dune buggies come and go my Jeep right

[25:35] there my beautiful Jeep and I'm just

[25:39] chilling very excited to be here so this

[25:42] video is pretty long already I'm going

[25:44] to try closing it out here with just

[25:45] some final

[25:47] thoughts you can see I'm using wired

[25:49] earbuds maybe I will be able to hold on

[25:52] to these ones if I do that um I actually

[25:54] think that I always thought this look

[25:56] was cute like I something about having

[25:59] wired earbuds I always thought

[26:01] headphones you know I always thought

[26:03] looked adorable so maybe I'll do it

[26:05] anyways even if I out of your butts you

[26:07] again I don't know I like it of course

[26:09] you can't charge your phone and that

[26:11] could be an issue and I started I'm

[26:13] already wondering like do they make a

[26:15] you know some kind of an adapter or

[26:17] something where you can plug that in and

[26:19] then like a hub maybe um for little USBC

[26:22] devices where you can charge and have

[26:23] headphones in and whatever else at the

[26:25] same time maybe even like external

[26:27] driver or whatever thumb drive bet they

[26:30] do I bet you they do so I'm pretty tired

[26:33] I got up at I got up real early I think

[26:35] around 4 and I didn't I haven't slept

[26:37] the last couple nights

[26:39] so um you know I think I got a little

[26:42] bit of low energy but I wanted to just

[26:43] kind of talk about adaptation for a

[26:45] minute so I'm at my new

[26:47] site um for the past month what I've

[26:50] been doing in order to have more power

[26:52] in here is I've been plugging my solar

[26:56] um Power Station directly into the ca

[26:58] amp ground power the the 20 amp is it

[27:00] called 20 no not 20 amp 20 usually I

[27:04] know that I think 120 volts or something

[27:05] like that anyways usually I have that

[27:07] plugged in but my cord won't reach it's

[27:11] like so close like 3 to 6 Ines and I

[27:14] could have got there but I had already

[27:16] set everything up and put my stabilizer

[27:19] down and everything and I really like

[27:21] the the way that I'm positioned I came

[27:23] in here really easily I backed in really

[27:25] well I'm just very happy with the spot

[27:27] I've got

[27:28] and I'll just see about getting a new

[27:31] cord like just a longer one cuz you know

[27:33] I was going to probably do that

[27:34] eventually

[27:35] anyways um so normally I would have had

[27:38] that on and I would have had my electric

[27:39] heater hooked up to that because then it

[27:41] allows me to run other devices without

[27:43] having to turn that off so but you know

[27:45] it's an adaptation you just um you know

[27:47] for now I got it plugged into my RV and

[27:49] that's good enough and uh what was the

[27:52] other

[27:53] thing um so the internet is doing okay

[27:57] like it's you know was checking for

[27:59] obstructions and things like that maybe

[28:00] I can move it around and find a better

[28:01] spot but there are a lot of trees around

[28:03] me so might be a bit of an issue my

[28:05] phone does not work at all I cannot send

[28:07] pictures going to try doing Wi-Fi

[28:10] calling um but that depends on the

[28:12] internet so you know you just things

[28:14] aren't always going to be perfect and

[28:16] you just accept that you just um you

[28:19] make the best of your situation and

[28:20] that's what I'll do I'm very happy to be

[28:22] here my site um is pretty open and you

[28:27] know old me what would have had a

[28:28] problem with that you know

[28:31] before before I got to Oregon and

[28:33] someone opened my heart up someone was

[28:35] flirted with me and suddenly I've you

[28:37] know everything shifts inside of me and

[28:39] now I'm just like an open book I guess

[28:42] or something I don't know I'm I'm not

[28:44] the same person so you know there was

[28:46] this family across from me I waved to

[28:49] both of them they seemed nice but then

[28:50] they moved I think or something or they

[28:52] were leaving I don't know but you know

[28:54] it's real open so people are going to

[28:55] see me I mean that's kind of expected

[28:57] it's a part Coast site so that's you

[28:59] know just kind of how it

[29:01] goes um some are more private than

[29:03] others like the last one I had you know

[29:05] I was just a YT cleaner so um there

[29:08] wasn't a whole lot of reason for me to

[29:10] interact with the public unless I wanted

[29:11] to and so I had a pretty private side

[29:14] but this one's a lot more open and I'm

[29:16] okay with that I did buy

[29:19] a a dome shaped um tent thing like it's

[29:23] not really a tent it's a thing that you

[29:25] can it's like a little habitat it's like

[29:27] 6x 6 ft I got a tarp that goes

[29:30] underneath of it that fits it perfectly

[29:32] I had ordered some sides for it so that

[29:35] I could put those over the screens I

[29:37] didn't get those yet they're supposed to

[29:39] come anywhere from a week to a a couple

[29:42] of weeks to a month from

[29:44] now

[29:46] um but it's all like this modular stuff

[29:49] that you know I had to buy peace meal

[29:51] and once I have it all I have a pretty

[29:53] cool setup I think I'll set that up

[29:55] later it's been raining very hard and I

[29:57] just don't really see the point of

[29:58] setting it up since I don't have the

[30:00] sides to put in

[30:01] it uh I don't know that I'll ever put my

[30:04] awning out I feel like I got issues with

[30:06] that I the awning lights don't work

[30:08] those just stopped working one day um if

[30:11] I can ever fix that I don't know we'll

[30:12] find out you know I

[30:15] truly it often turns out that these

[30:17] problems are pretty simple like my slide

[30:19] I thought that was a big issue but it's

[30:21] just a little motor that cost less than

[30:22] $100 that I can change myself so I am

[30:25] going to end up doing that but I'm going

[30:27] to still keep my him because I prefer

[30:29] this setup I like this little Al coo for

[30:31] I'm sitting in right now this is where

[30:32] my bed is I don't need to stretch my

[30:35] space out with the

[30:38] slide to be comfortable I feel very

[30:40] comfortable in here and I feel like

[30:42] there's a lot of reasons why I like it

[30:44] like this I've talked about them in the

[30:45] past so you know it's always about

[30:47] adaptation you just you do adapt to the

[30:49] situation

[30:51] and you make the best of it you don't

[30:54] have to be down about it I'm not so I

[30:57] think that's it I think everything that

[30:59] you know as far as challenges and things

[31:00] like

[31:01] that

[31:04] um if it wasn't like I don't know how I

[31:06] feel about the rain usually it didn't

[31:08] bother me the first couple months I was

[31:10] here in Oregon but it stopped raining

[31:12] and I got used to that and the rain

[31:14] started back up again today so I'm sure

[31:17] that you know it's not really a big deal

[31:19] to

[31:20] me um I just feel like being dry and my

[31:24] thermals that I just recently got those

[31:26] are wet because I washed them yesterday

[31:28] and they just didn't drive very well so

[31:30] I can't put those on I will definitely

[31:32] go out there at some point but for now

[31:34] I'm just going to rest and chill and I'm

[31:36] just going to upload this video and

[31:38] maybe I'll have another one later or

[31:40] something

Energetic Signature methodical

Field State infrastructure stabilization

Orientation toward systematic embedding

Summary

rswfire documents his early morning preparation and relocation from one Oregon state park to Honeyman State Park for a new volunteer position. He begins at 4 AM, completing RV tank cleaning and maintenance routines that he's developing into monthly patterns. **Tank maintenance** involves sanitizing and flushing systems, which temporarily restricts water access for showering and restroom use.

He describes **evolving living patterns** including switching from campground shower facilities to using his RV shower, developing a comprehensive personal care routine with multiple products, and ongoing nutrition challenges. His current diet consists mainly of bagels and hamburger meat due to financial constraints, though he's experimenting with smoothies using a Ninja blender when budget allows.

**Wall decorations** in his RV include Oregon coast lighthouse posters, local dunes area maps, and a new Oregon State Parks guide showing the entire coast. He reflects on his **travel map stickers**, planning specific routes for upcoming trips to Kentucky and back, targeting six additional states while avoiding areas like Texas and the East Coast.

The **23-mile drive** to Honeyman proceeds smoothly despite rain and an earbud mishap. At the new location, he'll be working in a yurt as a Welcome Center volunteer and later as a yurt cleaner. His site (H-381) is positioned directly across from dune access gates. **Technical challenges** include AT&T phone service not working and his power cord being slightly too short to reach the electrical hookup.

He discusses **adaptation strategies** for the more open campsite compared to his previous private location, mentioning plans to set up a dome-shaped tent structure once additional components arrive. The transmission ends with him settling in during continued rain, planning to rest before exploring the extensive park facilities.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates the recursive embedding of sovereign systems within mobile field architecture. The signal maps the integration of practical life-support systems (tanks, power, water, shelter) with navigational sovereignty (route planning, territorial mapping, resource optimization) as foundational infrastructure for sustained field operations.

Dominant Language

adaptation patterns integration systems maintenance territory recursive embodied

Symbolic Elements

water threshold map grid mirror bridge

Ontological States

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sovereign
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embedded
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coherent
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integrating

Subsystems

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infrastructural
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cognitive
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somatic
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relational

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Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

31:41

Bitrate

3,098 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028