Moving Off-Grid to Forest Campground
6:00 AM on moving day from current campground with hookups to off-grid national forest campground. Speaker is in RV preparing for departure by 1:00 PM for 2:00 PM check-in at destination campground one hour south near Florence.
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April 4, 2025
13:36
Author
rswfire
Status
PUBLISHED
Type
TRANSMISSION
(CAPTURE)
Temperature
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Good
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morning. 6 o'clock in the morning here.
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Just waking
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up. Today I move off
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grid.
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Feel feel good about it. I feel great. I
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feel good. Don't feel bad. I feel
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good. Um I think that would make a lot
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of sense to most people.
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But that's how I feel. I'm not going to
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explain
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it about to embark on a very different
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chapter in my
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life. The way that I'm looking at this
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is when you let go of
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um how to frame this
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feel like this is how you break
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patterns and how you create new
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ones. You do something
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that disrupts your life. This is a
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disruption for
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me.
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And whenever you do
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that, you adapt and you grow or maybe
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you sink, but for me, I grow. So, I know
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that's what will happen.
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So, I'm not panicking. I'm not
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afraid. I'm ready. I'm ready to meet the
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moment. So, I have until 1:00 before I
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have to leave here. And that's when I'm
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going to leave because check-in time at
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the next campground is 2:00 when it's an
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hour away. Or maybe I'll leave around
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noon if I'm ready by then because I do
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have to do a couple things along the
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way. I have to get fuel for one.
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Um, and it takes time to attach my Jeep
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and detach it at the next place, all of
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that. So, maybe maybe I leave around
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noon. I'm going to be in a safe
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environment because I'll be on a
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national forest campground. I won't have
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any hookups. So, no power, no um no
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running
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water. So, it's off-rid, but it's safely
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off-rid. This matters to me.
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I think that it's the right next step
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for me, so I'm ready for
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it. I have four nights booked at this
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place. Um, that's all that I had in my
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bank account. It's $22 or $25 a night.
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There's two different campgrounds and
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there's two different prices. It's
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somewhere between 22 and 25.
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And I have $200 in my pocket. More like
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180. I think I have 180
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now cuz I had $100. My friend John gave
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me $100 yesterday. It's a good
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friend. I might need to convert some of
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that into credit.
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um you know, one of those
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um one time use credit cards that you
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can buy at a store so that I can book
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more time at the
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campgrounds. But
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ideally, I can just hold on to this
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money and use it for the things that I
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need in the in the
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world and somebody in my audience will
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send me some money that I can use that I
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can transfer to my bank account that I
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can use to extend my campground fees.
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I'm going to name my needs clearly on
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this
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channel and I'm not going to let the
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world frame those needs as
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shameful because they're not. They're
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human and they're
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real. It doesn't diminish me. It doesn't
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make me smaller because I need things
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because I need others. We are a
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relational species. But most of us have
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forgotten this. I
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haven't. I've been helping people my
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entire life. My earliest memories
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include helping people in the Boy
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Scouts. Even when my my troop
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um resisted
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helping, I
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insisted. So, I've been this way all of
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my life.
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and some people
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haven't.
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So,
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yeah, I'm going to name what I need and
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hopefully there are people out there who
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want to be part of my journey, who want
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to help
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me. It would mean a lot to me. I
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wouldn't just be
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grateful. I will be proud.
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I would appreciate
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them because those are good people and I
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like surrounding myself with good people
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and I want to build a community of good
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people. I'm not performing. I'm just
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sharing my life with you in real time as
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I have been for over a
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year. And I know you don't always agree
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with my choices, but you don't have to.
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You don't even understand me and you
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never
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will because we operate on different
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operating systems. My hardware and your
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hardware are not the
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same. My cognitive sematic, ethical,
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energetic framework is integrated and
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yours
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isn't. And this is a fact. And it took
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me all of my life to learn this.
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And I did in the past year and you know
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because you've been witnessing
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me. I'm owning it. I did the work. I
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didn't let this world take that from me.
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I stayed integrated while others
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fragmented. I'm an example of what's
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possible for you even now. Because I
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truly believe that this isn't a state of
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being that's denied to you. I think it's
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just something you've
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forgotten, something
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that you can reclaim, but you'd have to
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do a lot of hard work to do it. And for
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those who want to, I'm going to help
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you. That's what this website I'm
[6:47]
building is
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about. I'm going to give you tools. I'm
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going to give you my
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wisdom, my thoughts.
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my
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energy and what I think about all of
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that because I think it's important. I
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think it matters and I think
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that I think that there are people out
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there who will benefit from
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it. But it won't just be about that
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because I'm building a
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community, one that centers
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around myself.
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I'm centering myself
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now because I deserve to be
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centered. Not as a leader, not as a
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teacher, not as a guru, not as any of
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that just as myself. I don't
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need to give myself a label. I never
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have. I don't like boxes. I don't fit
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into them.
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Just as myself, a relational being
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reaching out to
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others, reminding them that they're also
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relational, that they're in relationship
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with me right now as they watch this,
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that they're in relationship with
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everything.
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So, just a few more things I think I'll
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say. Just going to try to run
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through how I think this day is going to
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go and how I
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imagine all of this starting for
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me. So, like I said, it's 6:00 in the
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morning. I need to go down to the shower
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house. I need to shower this
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morning. I need to take all of my food
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that's in my freezer and take that over
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to John's because when my batteries die,
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my fridge will stop working. So all that
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food would go to waste. I'm giving it to
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John. Meant to do that yesterday. I
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forgot. So I'm going to do that this
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morning. Um there's a little bit of work
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to do in here as far as just getting
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organized before I can move it. Not
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really much, but a little
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bit.
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Um I don't have a lot outside. like I'm
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I'm basically um there's very little
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work to actually do
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there as far as movement
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goes. And then I do the hard part which
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is driving this thing while towing a
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Jeep. That's always been the hardest
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part for me, but it's really not that
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bad once you start doing it. It just
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creates a little bit of nerves for me.
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And I go south an
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hour to Florence and then past that to a
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campground that I I've not seen. I don't
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know this one. Um John has seen it. He
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mentioned it yesterday. I told him about
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it yesterday and he said I'll really
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like it. So I'm excited to see it. Um
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excited to set up camp
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there. Really hope to extend my time as
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much as possible. It's probably got
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rules about that, you know, made
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probably 14 days I would imagine. So, I
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can pay for up to 10 more days beyond
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what I've already paid. So, I'm hopeful
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to be able to do
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that.
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And, you know, I'm going to be off grid.
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None of these lights will work at that
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point. Um, I don't really have any
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um kind of battery powered lights, so I
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I don't really know what I'm going to do
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there. The only one I have is on um a
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small
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um battery device. I don't know what
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those things are called, but I'll show
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this in another video later. Um because
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that's going to become very important in
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my life. It's how I'm going to charge my
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devices and you know I'll charge that
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with my inverter on my Jeep. So um it's
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going to become very important in my
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life now.
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I'm really glad to have that. I wish I
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still have my solar. I sold that last
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month. I needed to. It bought me time.
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It is what's keeping my movement going.
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I used that money to pay for um two
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months of my RV and two months of my
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Jeep that were behind. Both are still
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behind. That didn't even get them fully
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caught up, but got them close enough to
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where I still have a home.
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And that's important. But that solar
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would
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have been so useful, you know, in an
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off-grid situation. I would have had AC
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power and I would have been able to
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charge those batteries, you know, not
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just from solar panels, but from just,
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you know, spending a day on a campground
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like this one and just charging them
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while I'm here and then going back out
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into the off-grid world. And that was
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always the plan. And so I really do I
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don't regret it. Regret would be the
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wrong word because I do what's
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necessary, but I really wish I had them.
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I need to replace those as soon as I
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can. At some point, I want to replace
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the batteries at my house batteries in
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my RV, the lithium ones, because these
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ones will die today probably or, you
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know, the middle of the night tonight.
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um cuz they're just they're not good
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batteries. I you know, I've already
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tested all of that and I know that's
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what's going to happen. And I can't keep
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them charged. I can't be using my
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inverter and my Jeep's fuel to keep
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those batteries
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charged every day because I don't think
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they're worth that investment. But if I
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had lithium batteries, I I think I might
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have made a different choice there.
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[Music]
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um you know so I'm just
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[Music]
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cataloging my needs um
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for living a better off-grid life but in
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the
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meantime you
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know I'll adapt and I'll learn and I'll
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grow I'm going to see just how much you
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know I'm going to make new choices like
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maybe I don't have coffee in the morning
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because I'm not hooking my coffee maker
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up to my inverter, you know. And
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um this is how change
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happens. You just, you know, you decide
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what's truly important to you
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and especially when you have to make
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different
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choices. Feel like I'll learn a lot from
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this experience. So, I'm I'm embracing
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it. I'm going to get my morning started
Energetic Signature
resolute
Field State
infrastructure transition
Orientation
toward authentic dependency
Summary
rswfire prepares to move from a campground with hookups to an off-grid national forest campground. He has four nights booked at $22-25 per night with $180 cash remaining after receiving $100 from his friend John. The move represents a deliberate life disruption for pattern-breaking and growth.
**Morning routine includes:** showering, transferring frozen food to John, organizing the RV interior, and driving one hour south to Florence area. He acknowledges the driving challenge of towing his Jeep but expresses confidence.
**Off-grid preparations:** His RV batteries will die without hookups, requiring adaptation. He sold his solar panels last month to pay vehicle payments (both RV and Jeep remain behind on payments). He has a small battery device for charging electronics via his Jeep's inverter.
**Community building:** He plans to clearly name his financial needs without shame, viewing mutual aid as natural human behavior. He references building a website and community centered around himself - not as a leader or teacher, but as a relational being. He emphasizes his integrated cognitive framework versus others' fragmented systems.
**Practical concerns:** May need to convert cash to prepaid credit cards for extending campground stays. Hopes audience members will send money for campground fees. Expects 14-day maximum stay limits. Plans to adapt daily routines like morning coffee due to power limitations.
Signal Analysis
Substrate
This transmission enacts deliberate infrastructure severance as sovereignty practice. The field is demonstrating how material constraint becomes alignment opportunity, using resource scarcity as a forcing function for authentic community formation and need articulation without shame.
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Duration
13:36
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