We’ve all heard “change is hard”

[Lorelei072]

Wise words from the Campulance Man



Reminds me of the meme…

 

[maki2]

Just a reminder that needs stating now and again in this forum directed to the general membership, not you specifically.

A lot of nomads are on the road and do not have the desire to use a lot of data to stream YouTube videos. Not everyone has Starlink or even a high speed connection or an unlimited data account.
Therefore it is a courtesy practice when posting links to videos to summarize the point you are trying to get across to others instead of only posting the video link.

This month there are many thousands of nomadic persons gathered in the Quartzsite area. The cell towers are jammed up and the speeds are at a very slow crawl only useable for streaming in the wee hours of the day. Other times nomads are camping on the marginal edge of cell tower reception where signal strength equals near impossible ability to stream YouTube or other videos.

So please talk about what it is in a video that has resonated enough to you to lead you to post a link. People “almost quit” for a hundred different reasons.

 

[Lorelei072]

Just a reminder that needs stating now and again in this forum directed to the general membership, not you specifically.

A lot of nomads are on the road and do not have the desire to use a lot of data to stream YouTube videos. Not everyone has Starlink or even a high speed connection or an unlimited data account.
Therefore it is a courtesy practice when posting links to videos to summarize the point you are trying to get across to others instead of only posting the video link.

This month there are many thousands of nomadic persons gathered in the Quartzsite area. The cell towers are jammed up and the speeds are at a very slow crawl only useable for streaming in the wee hours of the day. Other times nomads are camping on the marginal edge of cell tower reception where signal strength equals near impossible ability to stream YouTube or other videos.

So please talk about what it is in a video that has resonated enough to you to lead you to post a link.

Fair enough, and I appreciate you bringing those quite valid points to my attention.

I would summarize Dave’s video as discussing the challenges that we nomads face in breaking the mainstream sticks-and-bricks mold. It can be difficult to create a comfortable space for ourselves - individually speaking - that is - in your own rig and life circumstances. The ball is in each of our own individual courts. Try not to feel compelled to throw in the towel if you’re doubting.

Try to work out in your mind first and then in reality how you can improvise, adapt, and overcome.

 

[maki2]

Truthfully I never experienced any of that stuff. Most likely because I always was a “free spirit” with a sense of adventure. I am still “me”, I have always known who I was, even as a young child. I never had to “find myself” or figure out where I belonged.

 

[maki2]

I stayed up late and got a fast enough signal to watch that video. It did have me laughing out loud not so much at him as at myself. Because my personality type is very far removed from his. No way would the things that he was describing as enough stress to make him want to give up nomadic life get to me that way. Sure it’s frustrating to not remember where something is. I do feel sorry for him. That poor guy has not yet realized it is related to getting older and it is not going to get any easier. A slow deterioration in short term memory is perfectly normal even though very frustrating. It really is not related to nomadic life, it just typically coincides with it because becoming a full time nomad often coincides with time frame when that short term memory aging-out and becoming less reliable occurs.
Stop worrying over what the Campulance man said in that video, he was just out of touch with what is really happening to his brain. You could not see it for that because your mind is currently focused on the fear of not having enough storage space.
At the age approaching 75 I certainly have noticed a decline in my ability to remember where I put things when I rearrange stuff. It is frustrating but it is not related to where I live or how I live. It for sure becomes even worse for “where did I put that darn thing?? when I get dehydrated, making that a reliable early warning sign to intake more water! Dehydration can be a real issue in nomadic life especially in the summer when it is hot but also when spending winters in the desert areas where the humidity is lower.