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title: "SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 - Strategy"
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  - "Airstreaming"
  - "Personal Development"
  - "Resilience"
summary: "Daniel and Angelina continue the strategy discussion inside their new 30' Airstream Globetrotter during a Pacific Northwest heatwave-turned-mosquito invasion and winter weather shifts. Using the board game Hoppers as a living metaphor, they demonstrate flexibility (sideways or single hops), incremental change, attention to little things (rivet shavings, factory defects, maintenance habits), and acting 'as-if' the mobile lifestyle is already here. Strategy trumps rigid plans by focusing on the WHY and preparing for the whole situation."
keypoints:
  - "Strategy answers WHY and prepares for every influencing factor (seen and unforeseen); plans focus only on HOW and fixed steps."
  - "Hoppers teaches spotting opportunities and multiple paths forward—sometimes sideways or one hop at a time is wiser than forcing multi-hops."
  - "Little things matter: rivet shavings, wiped plates, glued plumbing, and sorted hardware practiced incrementally prevent big problems on the road."
  - "Act 'as-if' the future is already here by developing habits, to-do lists, and longevity rituals long before hitting the road."
  - "Bold moves and speaking truth change destiny; the internal story you tell determines perseverance and turns Ordeals into maturation."
  - "Airstreaming at home builds real skills—chores become exercise, interruptions become strategy practice, and gratitude keeps the long game in focus."
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  - "incremental-change"
  - "little-things-matter"
  - "airstream-maintenance"
  - "acting-as-if"
  - "bold-moves"
  - "speaking-truth"
monomyth_stage: "08 - The Ordeal"
gameboard_position: "Camp 4: The Ordeal"
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    - "Strategic"
    - "Motivational"
  sycophancy_level: "None"
  notes: "Daniel and Angelina deliver hands-on teaching from inside the Globetrotter and boondocking site, blending light humor at real-time mishaps (mosquitoes, heat, broken parts) with clear strategy lessons. Tone is encouraging and transparent, turning everyday frustrations into practical wisdom."
related_events:
  - "Omicron variant of COVID-19 rapidly becoming dominant in US (Dec 2021), driving record holiday case surges and renewed travel/mask restrictions"
  - "Ongoing global supply-chain crisis and inflation affecting RV parts, maintenance, and mobile-lifestyle costs"
  - "Pacific Northwest winter weather extremes and historic heatwave aftermath influencing boondocking and outdoor plans"
  - "Post-Thanksgiving 2021 holiday season amid pandemic fatigue and economic recovery challenges"
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phase: "Volume 2 - Expedition Strategy & Flexibility"
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### Original YouTube Description

02.08 STRATEGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpmb617x81U

Living full-time in a 30' Airstream Globetrotter has great advantages on the challenge of 'know thyself'. Life comes with you when you live a mobile lifestyle. You can learn a lot about your Airstream and tow vehicle - and you'll have the opportunity to watch yourself make mistakes, errors and miss the mark often.

Having a solid strategy on how you'll cope, shift, and chose will make a huge difference when the weather changes, your plans don't work out and the inevitable happens. In this episode of Scotomaville Daniel shares some strategies that have served them well. The game of hoppers is great practice for recognizing opportunities and staying nimble on the road.

Learn more and watch the complete series for gaining skills you'll want on your personal Everest.

DISCUSS
Living mobile full-time has great leverage on the challenge of 'know thyself'. That is because life comes with you when you 'footloose'. You'll have frequent opportunity to catch yourself making mistakes, errors and missing the mark - and hitting hard stuff.

Having a solid strategy on how you'll cope, shift, and chose will make a huge difference when the weather changes, your plans don't work out and the inevitable happens.

In this episode I share some strategies that have served well. The game of hoppers is great practice for recognizing opportunities and staying nimble - skills you'll want on your Personal Everest.

### Cleaned Transcript

**Daniel:** Welcome to the Pacific Northwest where it has become one heck of a hot day because the wind has shut off. And, welcome back to Scotomaville.

**Angelina:** Angelina tells me that it takes just as much energy to think positively—abundance-minded—as it does to think scarcity. Have you ever noticed that people can have different points of view about the same exact thing? Gary Larson did an excellent job of pointing that out.

**Daniel:** I'm sure you know this guy, and if you are that guy... thanks for watching this channel.

In this episode, we're going to talk about strategy. We're going to continue the last episode's talk about strategy, and in this one, we're going to extend it a bit more. I think you'll find it very, very interesting.

**PLAYING HOPPERS**

It's lunchtime. We're going to play a board game we call Hoppers. The object is to advance all of my pieces across the board to occupy all of these spaces while Angelina moves hers to this side. We're trying to swap sides. The first player to finish all the pieces into the camp wins.

The difference between this game and many other board games is that there's no capturing. You're challenged with spotting opportunities. Whoever sees the best opportunities wins, which is like being an entrepreneur in the marketplace. You're not out to conquer it's not conquest. It is an opportunity recognized and seized.

**Angelina:** In this move, I've used my pieces to build a bridge and I'm borrowing Daniel's to extend it. So I'm going to hop over here, and then I'm going to hop over to here, and then I'm going to hop here, and then hop here, and then over there—in multiple hops.

**Daniel:** What Angelina didn't see is that my next move was to jump to here, to here, to here, to here, back, right. So now I'm blocked from doing that, and I have to find another way around it, so I'll go from here and not get as far.

**Angelina:** Sometimes with strategy, you have to go sideways or backward to move forward. So having careful thought and not always being reactive is helpful. I'm going to go back and then to the side, sideways from here, forward to here, and then I go from here, sideways, and then I can go here. Recognizing there's more than one way to advance by going sideways a couple of times.

**Daniel:** A big point about Airstreaming: You can advance by going sideways.

One of the things most people admire about the Airstream is all the windows and the skylights... (close-up of fresh rain/mud drops covering the outside) Think about it. I have to go clean that skylight again. Oh gosh, I need to get on the roof again because the whole thing is like this.

One part of the Airstreaming life you can do at home is chores—exercise. As soon as you clean all the windows, plan on the next rain shower messing them all up. See... little mud droplets. When you least expect it, you can wash the windows all over again.

Multiple hops are a goal. However, there is wisdom in just doing one hop. There are times when your best planning will fall apart, and where you're going to stay will turn out that you can't. You have to think on your feet and find a well-lit spot in a quiet neighborhood, but be okay with changes at the last minute if you see something you might have missed. Take a deep breath.

**Daniel:** You missed that one.

**Angelina:** Thank you.

**Daniel:** We planned to relocate today to take advantage of the wind and to get out on the river, but our strategy is 'work before play.' Today turns into a pouring rain day. The weather prediction didn't get it right, so we changed our plans.

One of the aspects of developing a strategy is recognizing that the mobile lifestyle is mobile—you can move. That's why we're trying to teach you about Hoppers and the primary strategy of the game. In most player turns, there are multiple opportunities and multiple ways to move.

**HOPING A HISTORIC HEATWAVE**

Having a fundamental strategy, based on some core principles can serve you well as you discover things you didn't expect. We're having a 100-year historic heatwave with high temperatures like 105 to 114 in Hood River, in The Gorge, or all of Southern and Northern Oregon, Southern Washington. With a historic heatwave, you can't be outdoors in an aluminum can at that kind of temperature. Boondocking just does not work.

I've come up into the White Pass Cascade Trail campground. I was very fortunate to get a spot and barely get my butt in it. Parking a 30 feet trailer in a 24-foot slot—that's a little maneuvering.

Life happens between your plans. It turns out the reason why this space was available on a first-come, first-serve basis... (slap! closeup of clapping hands) that was a mosquito. It came in the trailer after I had flown the drone shot. It just rode in on my shoulder or something. Look, they are vampires here. They are horrible. This campground is beside a fly fishing only lake, and it's beautiful. It's dense in the trees, and the mosquitoes are here.

One of the local fishermen said to me; oh well, they'll be gone in a month. I said to him; well I'll be gone on Sunday!

**BACK TO THE HOPPERS GAME**

It's common to repeat a move once you've set up a bridge, or a pathway. Remember the last multi-hop move I made? I moved from here, to here, to here, to here, to there, to there. Here I am again (with a similar move). It would be wise for Angelina to recognize this... "wait a minute, he's done that before."

Watch this. I can move this piece to here, to here, to here, to here, to here, to here. See? I'm gaining great ground on her, so she needs to be aware... as in; here's what the market is doing, here's how other people are behaving.

**AN INDOOR DAY - SINGLE MOVE**

So I think that today is going to be a mostly indoor day. It's not because it's raining. Well, it is reigning. Mosquitoes are reigning, as in control. Yeah, I think that's what I'm saying.

So yeah hoppers. You gotta be flexible, and you gotta look at your options, and since the battery's low I can't edit the video. What can I do? Single move. I can shoot clips like this.

We're boondocking. There's a hundred percent charge rate on the briefcase—meaning it's putting out 11.2 amps, 13.3 amp hours so far, 12.9 volts, yahoo we're up to three quarters charged now, and that while the trailer is mostly in the shade. Yahoo. That is fabulous while a very subtle breeze is coming in off of the lake below a ski area when there's a massive heatwave. Nice.

**MULTI HOPING A HEATWAVE**

Why in the world would that put a smile on my face? Think about all the moves on the board. A historic-century heat wave is underway. We need to get to a higher altitude, but, oh yeah, everyone's going to a higher altitude. Everyone's going to find a cooler place. I forgot about the mosquitoes. Put that aside. I needed to get here in time to get a place. I needed to be able to fit the rig in. I needed to figure out when the sun was going to come out between the tree shadows and where I needed to have the solar briefcase. I positioned the Airstream so that it's in the shade to stay cool while it gets cooled overnight with the windows open.

Count all those steps. I've lost track.

Then to have it work out where the afternoon breeze comes through the windows, blowing off the lake, coming down from the mountain. That's cool air coming through the rig while it's in the shade under the trees with the solar collecting to recharge the battery so your refrigerator and freezer will stay cold.

(close-up of refer controls) Do you hear that churning rumbling sound? It's kind of like the refrigerator's gut is growling. That's coolant running. There's enough voltage... (looking at voltmeter) that's a happy noise. Anyway, that's a long description, Alan Landis would say, of why Daniel is smiling. He made the right moves, with multiple hops to stay cool during a historic heatwave with minimal power. I did well. That was a multi-hop.

**LEARNING TO SPEAK THE TRUTH**

A significant philosophy I'd like you to consider is learning to speak the truth. You see, seeking the truth, and speaking the truth can be difficult. Highly functional Aspergers have a hard time making it up because they don't even have the wiring for that. That gave me an advantage, but I just could not for most of my life even imagine how deceptive people, in general, can be. I'd encourage you to learn to speak the truth.

Here are some examples.

**FRAGILE PLASTIC PARTS**

Part of what you should expect with a home on wheels is plastic things like this just fall off. The replacement part is nine dollars. The Loctite to keep it in place is just a few cents. That should be the way that they do it in the factory. But, oh no, if you put Loctite on one of these things made out of plastic, it breaks right off when you grab it and pull it. Putting Loctite on a plastic handle was not such a good idea. I had to buy a second metal handle to replace the one that I melted. I learned at a small expense. It was only 20 bucks.

**FRAGILE ORGANIC PARTS**

Discretion is the better part of valor. I had to fall off a glacier to realize that was true.

I just came out to wash the truck to make a mental break and take a look at what I just found. That was a bird. I have no idea how long that's been there. It's pretty dry. That's brutal. That's life.

**FRAGILE ALUMINUM PARTS**

Remember when I said I put a 30-foot Airstream in a 24-foot site? Yeah? Apparently, underneath one of those bushes was a solid stump. That dent is going to take me a bit of time to fix well.

**MAKING A BOLD MOVE**

You want to ramp up on your learning. That's what I mean about learning to speak the truth. Most Airstreaming channels are going to tell you that 'living the dream' is great. That gets YouTube to recommend the video and you get more views and they put advertising in it so you can make some income. I get that. It's common.

But here's an example of a spider making a bold move. I found him on my windshield at 30-40 miles an hour. It hung on up to 70 MPH for I think it was seven or eight miles. I think he did well. That completely changed his destiny that's for sure. Sometimes that's a good model to follow—take some bold multi-hop steps.

I took him off the windshield using an index card and put him on the side of the road so that he's got a life to live and children to raise and a story to tell about his great adventure.

Sometimes a bold move will shake some things up in your life. Start small. Take a different path to work. Try different foods. Try a new exercise. Learn a new skill. I was asked, by one older gentleman in a campground, how many ways I could segment a grapefruit. My answer was 'one'. As a result, I learned some new ways to segment grapefruit. You see, old dogs CAN learn new tricks. So can you. You can do some fabulous stuff to chart a new pathway.

I want to say that to change course, to change directions, set your sail a little different. To have a different outcome than you were handed, try making bold moves.

**BEING BROKE VS BEING POOR**

I recall Jim Rohn pointing out the difference between being broke and being poor. Being poor is a state of mind. It points to a lack of ambition. Being broke is just a situation. You can be broke and never be poor. That's the truth.

In network marketing and the RV market, selling the dream is the mantra they march to by inviting you to work when and where, and how you want. I think you've seen examples of the things you can consider and new skills you may acquire to pursue your dream. I want to encourage you, it's worth pursuing. As you've heard me say; "the greatest expedition you will ever undertake is that journey to self-understanding."

Thanks for watching this episode of Scotomaville. I look forward to reading your comments and meeting you at one of our upcoming events.

Thanks for watching.

(closing scene)

We lose the Airstream in Scottsdale and then we find one in Albuquerque New Mexico. We drive all the way there and that doesn't work out. Then we finally found one in Oklahoma City. We stayed there for a month in a hotel waiting for things to come together. Meanwhile Daniel had his kidney stone... a lot of stuff happened that month in Oklahoma City...

[Music] okay that doesn't look right [music]

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**CODEX ENTRY**

**Date:** 2021-12-12  
**File:** SCOTOMAVILLE 02.08 - Strategy.md  
**Monomyth Stage:** 08 - The Ordeal  
**Gameboard:** Camp 4: The Ordeal  
**MA5 Domain:** Initium  
**Summary:** Daniel and Angelina use the board game Hoppers, a historic heatwave, mosquitoes, and everyday Airstream maintenance to illustrate flexible strategy, incremental progress, and speaking truth while practicing the mobile lifestyle at home.  
**Key Insight:** Strategy focuses on WHY and the whole situation; little things practiced incrementally (sideways hops, maintenance rituals, gratitude) turn unexpected Ordeals into long-game maturation.  
**Narrative Significance:** This episode completes the Ordeal phase of Volume Two, showing how the Airstream becomes both tool and teacher—building the resilience, flexibility, and self-awareness needed to leave Scotomaville and continue the Initium expedition.

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**INITIUM.**