 Whoa, what is this small box that I'm trapped in? Well, this is what it looked like before widescreen high definition video and in keeping with the style of what you're about to see I Decided to go old-school Okay, if you follow my channel, you've probably heard me talk about my epic bike ride from Honduras to Boulder But you haven't seen much footage of it. Well, it's finally time to change that This is 16 years in the making. You know, I just watched Batman Begins recently and I thought to myself I need to make my own origin story now I'm not a superhero but this is the adventure that inspired my love of bike touring and Documenting adventures with a video camera now. Why did it take me so long to make this? Well, I did create a short five-minute summary video of the ride back in 2006 It was actually the very first video I ever made and it surprisingly aired on the travel channel and it was this experience that instigated my passion for telling stories and documenting travel adventures I Planned on making a full documentary of the ride But I moved on to other projects and never went back to all the hours of footage Well, because of the pandemic I've had a lot more time at home than usual and a couple weeks ago I got inspired to find that old dusty footage and take a look I gotta say it's been a blast revisiting all those amazing memories Looking back at baby Ryan is pretty funny That ride from Honduras to Boulder is when I fell in love with traveling at 15 miles an hour with meeting amazing people and Realizing that there's a lot of magic out there Now I had no idea what I was getting into when I started the journey back in September 2005 But I was ready for adventure and I wanted to take the long way home after two Incredible years as a p-score volunteer and check it out This is the actual camera that I used to film the journey an old Sony Handicamp and guess what kids it took tapes. This thing is not digital Total workhorse. I loved this camera. Check out this old artifact This is the actual map that I used to navigate all the way home There was no GPS back then. I definitely did not have a cell phone so it was this map and Honestly, it was just talking to locals everywhere and asking for directions all the way home to Boulder, Colorado And this right here is the bike the Trek 8000 that I bought second hand when I was down in Honduras This is the one that I rode all the way home. It's a mountain bike It's not a touring bike, but it did the job. I would still ride it But I busted the frame right there pretty badly cracked right in half No, it's just a decoration. Okay, one last thing before we get started I want to warn families with kids who usually watch my videos as a rule I try my best not to say swear words because I know that a lot of little people watch my channel But for this film I left them in. There's not a ton just a little but they're in there I wanted to keep this edit raw a true look into every emotion that I was going through There's also some documentation of interesting roadkill and some parasites It's nothing your kids haven't seen in your average violent video game But I just want to put the warning out there. This is definitely PG-13 It has a lot of humor of 25 year old best buddies on the adventure of a lifetime Okay, it is time. Are you ready to watch babyface Ryan? Let's do it Hello, we're here. It is a couple days before the big ride and we're gonna try out The little trailer the kids are very excited about this Vamos a probar la cartilla verdad niños? Simón! Bueno, aquí estamos Cargados con las niñas. We got the girls here We're ready to go and try out to see if this cart works. There's no better way to try out the cart than to Drag around a few hundred Niñas We're gonna give a shot Y quién va conmigo a la usa Veras las dos If I leave in two days Let's see. I got all my important things got my huckleberry fin Motorcycle diaries hmm kind of similar to what I'm doing. I'm a shetty. Let's see if it's really in there Oh, yeah, that's a real one. It's a real machete I've got two things a peanut butter there and jelly and power bars tools flags pumps journals bags Lots of stuff. It's pretty cool. And this is the big big mama bag full of all my Sleeping stuff Oh This is what it all looks like there's just too much Too much stuff My last morning in last veranda, it is beautiful and misty and beautiful, baby Kids came woke me up at 5 30 and now I'm up the last look at my little flowers These guys have been bloom for a year now today they are Constance Esperanza There's the bike there's the trailer way too heavy I'm heading down and into the left. Oh, it's casa casa tan bonita Adios me family. I might sound jolly and excited But leaving Esperanza was one of the hardest days of my life Tears streamed down my face as I pedaled away from my family It hurt so bad to say goodbye to all my kids They were my life for two years I was like an older brother to an entire barrio of ninos and I didn't know when I'd see them again I'd never dedicated myself so fully to anything before I was proud of my work as a Peace Corps volunteer And although my heart was aching. I was excited for the adventure ahead of me I Feel good. I've said my goodbyes I've shed at my tears. I got my goodbyes good my hugs everything. I'm ready to roll Ready to start the adventure. Let's go This is Ryan's view of the bike. Oh, yeah a little bit bouncy It is quite beautiful in this valley Okay, I've been going downhill for about 30 kilometers that have barely even touched my pedal But now I have to head that way Up and over those mountains There's the last road sign I will see for my life from the Meaning I've gone 67 kilometers This is the main tegus San Pedro highway and now is where I'm gonna have to deal with traffic because the other road There was barely any traffic There's my rig looking good Pero yo voy a ir en bicicleta esa bicicleta aquí Si si Porque es una buena pintura no Si verdad Si está bien verdad buena aventura no Prez meses para llegar Justo para la navidad Si Prez meses No no no mucha prisa y es mejor es mejor en bicicleta que avión Si más seguro si All the jungly jungle tropical green lush beautiful Salud a la camera have this function erectile after three months of riding on this bicycle My ass hurts, baby. Oh look how happy they are. I'm in Puerto Cortez at a beautiful star mark Texaco I just bought a nice fierce blue boat Gatorade good thing about these Texaco's got great music all day long blasting Front-page news every day. There's always a dead guy on the cover of Honduran newspapers I'm sitting here waiting for my My last Honduran Baleada's coming out of this Commodore right here Imagine they'll be pretty good. We're in Omoa. Everything is going great Gracias. My last Baleada's here in Honduras. It's pretty exciting Kind of sad at the same time. This is this is my staple food for the past two years We got tortillas. We've got beans. We've got some eggs. It's pretty much a bean burrito So we call it in America, but in Honduras, it's a Baleada Sunday on a Latin American Beach, man. It is packed with people Como están Hablas Inglés Wow very good. Estos no son para comer son para pescar después Cheque. I'm Bonnie Chappan. I'm a health volunteer with Peace Corps So you planted all of these flowers you said? Yeah, that's Jurassic Park style So what do you do mostly as a volunteer here? I started working with midwives. Okay, my first job, but then I've also done a lot of HIV AIDS work Well, thanks for showing me your little garden. Your house is very beautiful and thanks for letting me stay here 6 30 a.m. My earliest start leaving Omoa Shooting to get across the border That way is Guatemala And that's the thing we got some roadkill there Pero pero pero pero pero pero pero Isn't this a sad sight? Two doggies having some happy, humpy time and they get stuck together Aquí estamos en la frontera de Guatemala y Honduras y aquí estoy con algunos hermanos de Honduras, verdad? Y que es lo que hacen aquí en la frontera? No, pero nosotros los ganamos la vista, la vida, cambiando dinero que sale por la empira Que es lo que es lo más bueno de Honduras? Primero punto, las mujeres, gente tenemos buenas costas muy bonitas Y nuestras playas, nuestras islas a por seis barro, a tantos Bueno, paisan Y que tal la gente? Oh, la gente muy buena allá por allá de Honduras You know, Gavalesh, America, Honduras And you take in one of these pastures in your heart, buddy Si, las voy a llamar a la USA, hombre In Guatemala, there seem to be lots of bananas Bananas everywhere, come on, here, I'll show you Bananas, bananas, bananas, bananas, bananas Now I'm at the port, getting ready to get a boat to Belize Adios amigos, adios Guatemala It's a video camera, you can talk How's it going? Talk some Creole for the camera You understand that? No, I don't understand but it's cool Tell me what you're doing in Creole Okay I don't make flour, I tell you Alright Is this a Belizean specialty? Belizean eat bread You understand what I'm doing? No It's bread Okay This is what they eat for breakfast and supper Okay For lunch, it's rice So do you think I'm crazy for riding my bike home to the United States? I appreciate that, everybody else thinks I'm crazy Some people think Oh, that's good I think if you want to do it, it's okay Alright, thank you for the support, I appreciate that Because whatever you want in life, well go ahead and do it Some other people would say, well you're crazy I know you're crazy, but that's what you want to do Exactly, I like that For those jungle mountains is Guatemala Here we have some Mennonites In the jungles of Belize We're at the house of Wilbert What are you making? And what is your name? My name is Maria Oh, very pretty name So what is life like here in this little village? How many people live here? 300 people? Okay And what do most people do for work? Farming? We're going downhill here Maybe not a great idea to hold the camera while I'm going downhill But hey, maybe it's not a great idea to ride my bike to America Just kidding The sounds of the Belize rainforest at night time Alright, so where are we? What's your name? Your fat brother Sure is rainy here Today was a long day, about 85 miles I got rained on the entire time I think the clouds are actually following me Waiting till I got dry And then raining on me again Just at the moment I would get dry And now I'm in some little village In the middle of nowhere That had to hike my bike across the marshland to get to But it was cool And it's worth it Now I'm dry on a veranda Almost to Corazal Which means almost to Mexico baby Sounds so good, I just want to go This is where I'm staying tonight The Julia's guest house And it's cheap, that's why I chose it I'm in room number two This is my room It's pretty big actually I have room for my bike and all my stuff And that's my light bulb right there I've got nice cardboard wood walls And I actually have a fan which is nice Here I am Leaving saying hello to Mexico And North America So I've just crossed the border into Mexico I'm now here, I'm feeling good The people are already very welcoming The road as you can see is Brand new And I've got a huge shoulder all to myself Wouldn't mommy be happy to see this road Or boy is safe I don't really know where I'm going to sleep today But we'll find a nice spot Okay, I'm here in the Yucatan Peninsula My day one, things are going great And then this falls off And it won't go back on, this is my pedal And it makes it a little bit hard to ride my bike When I can't use my pedal Oh man, why did this have to happen? I guess it's all part of the adventure though So we'll see what we can do Hola amigos, ¿Cómo están? ¿También? Cheque, cheque That's one pedal There's the other pedal I think I'm going to ride like this See how it works We'll see Hola amigos, ¿Cómo están? ¿Dónde estamos? Francisco Villa Francisco Villa Y ustedes me rescataron, muchas gracias ¿Y qué hace usted aquí? Yo aquí Trabajo en el campo Haciendo carbón, cortando leña Sembrando chile, maíz, frijoles That's where I'm going to sleep tonight Under that little hut, right on the highway With these nice people Hola, perrito It's quiet out here, isn't it? Came from that way All the way down that little road And I'm going all the way down that road My pedal combination seems to be working It's a relief because I was pretty damn worried This is where we got going here We got one of these I found some big Mayan ruins Right off the highway I had to pay to get into these ones This is an official spot It's pretty impressive There are no tourists here Which is a lot different than most of the Main sites I've been to Here in Latin America There's always tons of tourists everywhere I am the only one here today Which is kind of cool You can see this big guy Got towers back there It's kind of cool, man More mosquitoes But it's good, I like it It's really cloudy and rainy and crappy And I have 55 miles to go Oh my god I'll make it baby I'll make it With a smile on my face I will make it Okay, today is a rough day I've already gone 50 miles And it's only 11 40 in the morning It's cloudy and drizzly And rainy The road is narrow There's lots of truckers But I just stopped at this nice restaurant A restaurant Restaurant 223 That means 223 kilometers Away from Via Hermosa And that's where I'm going And I want to do it in 2 days So today I'm going to go another 50 miles In order to get there in 2 days Because I got my little friend Jeff waiting for me And I'm already going to be late So Here's to another 50 miles In the afternoon This is the color the skies have been all the way Since Belize And I've been told it's because of hurricanes I'm soaking wet 84.86 miles Here's my bell Still working And here's me Still rocking baby Alright, I'm going to put the camera away I bless the rains Down in Mexico It doesn't help love it I'm still getting wet This is what it looks like in this direction Wow Fucking shit I'm a little cranky, a little emotional A little tender A little tender I might bust it any moment Woke up in Via Hermosa this morning The ugliest fucking city I've ever been in I thought that maybe I'd take today easy Going as far as I can Because I want to get to the beach I am sick of the fucking Gold Coast of Mexico I'm sick of the weather All I want to do Is meet Jeff And chill out on the beach I've been going strong here For two weeks now And I need a break It is 4.30 I'm still on the road I'm still rocking and rolling I'm on the odometer here I will show you so you can see Look at that This is where I'll be staying tonight Beside a house on a highway Found a nice guy to let me stay There's all my stuff The only problem is there's no roof So hopefully it doesn't rain much Hello Maximino How are you? How are you? You are my savior today Because he rescued me from the road And what are you doing here? Working on the block This guy has big muscles Yes, he's fat Yes, show the strength And it's a good business It's more or less not a business But for the past Interesting And you made all these blocks today? Yes This is a very big moment I've finally gotten on my highway 185 That means I'm heading towards the Pacific Ocean baby That means I'm heading towards Jeff I woke up to rain this morning It scared me a little bit But it hasn't been rainy since Things are going great I'm in this cute little town Just did some internet Had some good tamales Had some good conversation I'm feeling a lot better today than I was yesterday So here we are And I'm loving this ride baby Ryan loves downhill Who loves downhill Ryan does Ladies and gentlemen Just as I had thought I turned to the corner And there it is baby The Pacific Ocean I've been waiting for this for so long Hello, good afternoon How are you? Good and you? And what do you sell? I sell a lot And what do you think of my trip To the United States on a bike? It's very tough Yes, tough but it's a good adventure Yes And I can meet good people like you Tomato Tomato Boy Boy Short Short, who's short? He's short And what do you do here with your free time? Playing Playing? I turned the corner and who do I find? What are you doing here Jeff? I just thought I would take a little vacation Bring my bike down to Your bike? I'm thinking I found this rascally dudes Or just happened to run into Wow, what are the chances? I went in the Googleplex if you ask me Yeah man I'm very grateful that Jeff came all the way Down to Mexico And met me He is one of my absolute best friends And my only friend Who I knew that I could call on to join me And not think that this adventure Was a crazy idea Jeff is one of those guys Who is always down for a good time And we always manage To get ourselves into trouble The good kind of trouble Life's pretty good right now I might be eating my words here In the next couple of months But for right now life is actually No life will always be good It will just get a little bit harder There's my beach ladies and gentlemen I'm trying to sleep quietly Jeff is still sleeping It's about 7.30 On October 13th And life is good I just went swimming And so stage one of the ride I think it's come to an end All the way back to America It's going to be amazing Puerto Escondido October 14th, 2005 How you feeling Jeff? I took a little nap and I'm feeling great now Still a little groggy though We don't want that So just shake it off buddy How's the legs feeling? It was our first day riding together How are these babies doing huh? They did good today We're thinking that maybe Ryan has got this 100 mile a day thing going on here So today We get here And Ryan says I feel great That was a nice easy little jaunt in the woods And I'm thinking yeah Me too I'm going to take a nap And so I'm thinking that Ryan's in better shape than me at this point And we should go ahead and film this belly Alright Maxi Poo You see that belly? It's not going to be here for very long We're going to take care of that aren't we? Like you see how it jiggles just a little bit Like you can hit it from the back Good morning Jeffrey That's your camera I'm tree view How are you baby? Good What are you doing here? Fishing Fishing? Fishing This is your house right? Yes this is my house And the ceiling is waterproof No it's not It's just water So Vicente your brother Is going to the US today Yes he's going to the US And why isn't he going with me? Because it would be very long Yeah a lot of time right? And it's his first time Really? Yes And why is he going to the US? Because here Life is more difficult It's more difficult and they say That it's better there That's why The money Because there are a lot of people here working there And there's almost no work But you're worried about your brother then? We didn't want him to leave See Hi Jeff What's up today? Nobody here Just us, we're going to camp out here tonight Okay So today I'm saying goodbye to my biking shorts Yesterday They did me wrong yesterday You see here, we've got this really really nasty They opened up and so this seam right here Has now made a seam on my ass Are you going to show us your butt? No I won't show you my ass I'll save you that It's pretty gnarly Oh look at the poor cow It's not a cow, it's a donkey It's a donkey And there's a Jeff so you rode by You just started laughing That's funny but when you die With a boner and if you're exposed to the road And there's these issues you go by I mean that's funny, that's a good way to go Sorry donkey May your boner rest in peace buddy Hello Jeff wee Hi Ryan Where are we? We're in Acapulco Go man go I have no battery Go baby go Go baby go One minute of battery man go I came to Acapulco I saw the clip divers and I'm a happy man Now all I need to see in the world Is to see the temples Of Egypt A couple of other things There's the balloon man We're a little bit tired today We partied until four in the morning But it's nine and I got four good hours of sleep We've got about another week of beach A little less A little less We love the beach We're going to love the interior but god we love the beach Yup we do My poor little bike broken on the highway This guy is on it This guy is quick How are you Alan? Very good Very good What are we going to do today? We're going to fix the rail That broke Is this one? Very good Champion of Mexico How long have you had this workshop? Ten years Ten years really? And why do you like cycling? Because it's for you Yes That's what I say It's part of my body Once again we get trapped in a nice beach We're going to leave today We're going to go somewhere Where are we going to put the camera? Right here It doesn't get much of us Look at us, look at these muscles we have We've just become such big strong gentlemen I'm going to see my body It's too big for you It might knock you over backwards Yes we are so sexy now Look at this We are all tan We are so tan and we are so oily You hear that sound That's the sound of a tortilla Right there baby We're going to go film some tortillas being made The first kilo out of that Machine today And I'm pretty excited about that Let's try them out One kilo, seven pesos Fresh out of the machine Oh man that is so good That is pure Mexico baby Pure corn, tortilla Let's see another good bite There goes Jeffrey It smells Mexico is this sort of rich fragrance of burning trash and meat And meat And meat Just an amazing smell A combination of smells that are in the air around every major town That's how you know you're in Central America You smell that Look, you want to talk to a guy Tell him your name is Chaparro It's fun Okay so it's evening It's about 6pm here and beautiful See what's in Ajo and I tell Jeff to walk down to the pier and sit there While I'm sitting there I notice that my wounds are bleeding a lot more I've had these wounds for a while now We don't really know what they are I'm sitting there and I'm looking that it's bleeding And then I see that there's a little something poking its head in and out of the hole So I have something living in these little wounds I don't think it can focus that close Yeah it can actually Is that little white thing in there Come on buddy, stick your head out So you go in, come out There it went There's come back out We don't know what that is But we're going to pull on it Both holes are showing evidence of little worms Giving birth So now we know that they weren't just mosquito bites There's something a little bit more He knows we're trying to get him Yeah he does, he's a little freaked out What are you doing with that? I'm sticking this and sticking it in the hole in my arm And it goes in pretty deep Deeper than I thought it would So let's see if we can get this It's just like a mosquito bite But this thing goes in a good It goes pretty far in there Oh god this is gross Whatever is in there doesn't want to come out Not yet at least So this is how beautiful it is on this Friday or Wednesday afternoon And Jeff what do you have in your hand? I have a glass of rum Strong enough to kill me Definitely strong enough to kill your little worms So what we're going to try to do is pour rum in the little wounds hoping that they will crawl out And some guys downstairs said that this sometimes happens and people they open up the hole and like it's just all these worms come out Oh really? So yeah we're thinking that might be the case Oh yeah Somebody's coming out tonight Somebody wants to come out to daddy It might take a while we'll get back to you Mr. Camera Alright so I'm feeling a little dizzy this kind of stuff is usually a little bit hard on me We didn't succeed the rum didn't seem to pull it out I'm sticking this in and out of there but those worms don't want to come out yet There's still some growing to do It's night here in Siwataneho We need to enjoy the beauty of it not to sit here and pull worms out of my arms It's kind of gross It's a downer Alright Hi Jeff how you doing? I'm doing super Ryan Yeah and why's that? Well I'm sitting on the beach again It's the last beach that we're going to go to for the rest of this trip So we decided that we'd indulge and we got ourselves some guinea coladas here Our first mixed drinks of the trip Okay this is a big moment It's October 29th it's Logan's birthday We have just gotten off Highway 200 the coastal highway and we are heading inland and we're going to be inland for the rest of the ride and we've just walked our bikes through the toll station because we're not allowed to be on the toll roads We're heading for Dia de los Muertos There's the billboard right there We're going to Potscuado 240 kilometers away Yeah boy! And we're going to camp right here alongside the road right next to this big cactus We've got this nice hill to block us from the highway Deadly looking gigantic wasp that will not leave my hand of ours Look how big that thing is Everybody who knows me knows that I'm a wuss around these kind of things So I don't really I don't quite know what to do here to get to get going because he won't leave I think he's sucking all the sweat off my bike We've got the Denver Broncos on our very own TV baby They just whooped Philadelphia's butt and Jeff and I have found a love shack We have a peacock on the door Jeff's in there bathing with hot water mirrors all around huge king size bed and another bed for the kitties We're going to eat some avocados That's right we're out Jeff just took a nice shower how are you feeling buddy Oh God hot water dudes that's the first time in two and a half weeks I'm happy for you haven't done it in two and a half years Dude just get ready itches your skin Hi Jeff Hi The truck and revelers Dia de los Muertos November 1st 2005 We saw the sign We saw the road sign and it said World Capital of Strawberries Look at this we just got some strawberries and cream Jeff do you like that I love strawberries and here we are World Capital of Strawberries What are we doing eating strawberries We're eating strawberries we just got one of these Fortune is the name of the game here on this ride Burn the calories and eat them up again We look pretty good we just took showers Yep we look good man Cheetos Olympics Let's see if we can do it ladies and gentlemen One Two To the top he's throwing them somewhere He's throwing them to Cheeto heaven We just spent about a half an hour eating some good chili rainos right Jeff And guess what The Cheeto Olympics are still going on Check in right now He's got good form He's stepping back Getting a good grip on the bag One, two, three Oh that's the best one yet He is the champion Cheeto thrower Okay this is a big Friday night I'm here I almost forgot to do this I went to the market today Got a little piece of meat I don't eat this meat because I'm vegetarian This meat is for bot fly We're going to see if we can tape it on my arm here One of these damn bumps And get the bot fly to come out Into the meat Because it loves the meat So we're going to give it the meat treatment tonight See what happens Give it the meat Got all those cool houses on the hill I'll get out of the way And we're floating in the sky Mariyachi Mariyachi Hello Mr. Corona how are you Family size Corona Enough beer for one We worked hard to get here Yeah we did And now we're here and we are very happy that we're here Yeah we are Hey look it's Japanese eating again We're on a fruit platter And we're hanging out at a posh restaurant here In downtown Guanajuato Guanajuato We're just kind of really absorbing it Taking it all in Bikes go faster than cars Here we are in the bike shop Getting my bike fixed once again Tonight we find ourselves In the driving We're parking In this garage Of the town mayor's office Hello friends how are you Good Where are we What's the name of this town Punta How tall Excellent Here we are Zacateca State It's turned into desert man We're going up to 2,500 kilometers or 2,500 meters Above sea level today We've already climbed a big mountain Just come back down one I think we're going to have to go back up another one Somewhere around here So we made it to Zacateca A little bit of uphill riding 2,500 meters We might actually be a little bit higher In a second We're just camping out here in Zacateca It's just normal camping out Don't mind us We're just going to throw our tents on top of your roof There's the best view of the entire city Oh yeah We'll just throw our tents up here Oh yes look where we are We're on top Of a very tall building Make sure you don't fall off the edge Yeah That's the one rule We can't get too drunk Yes because the edge is right here It's pretty big Pretty far It freaks me out to see me go near there Okay this is the tent This is Jeff That is death Here we are We are sitting on the roof Enjoying the sky And the sounds of the Churches on a nice Sunday morning Riding our bikes Riding our bikes back to Boulder We're loving it Life is good Life is beautiful Lots of avocados Looking at the clouds Watching them float on by Kind of like what we do on our bikes That's right we float on by On a cushion of air On our tires So we've gone Let's see I've gone about How far have I gone About 300 miles 2500 maybe That's pretty damn far And Jeff's gone 1200 or so Looking on the map We have lots of straight roads In front of us Very straight Heading north now we are on the road to Boulder Before we were just Dicking around in Mexico Now we're moving Yeah we're moving north mom Don't worry The heavens above Believe it or not It's the same sky as Over Boulder Same sun And it helps to actually ride your bike there Because when you get in a plane You go through this warp This time warp You get in this capsule And then you get zipped to somewhere else And you reappear And you're not even sure if you're on the same planet That you never went through any warp Because it's painstaking the whole way Yeah we don't go warp speed on the bikes No there's zero warp Maybe I've gone warp speed once Can you warp somewhere? I've gone warp speed once Going down a big mountain Mexico That's right baby This is no ordinary gas station It is also a zoo We have peacocks running around here Look at the wild peacock He walks behind the bush Trying to get away from the evil mapkin Hello little buddy Show the public how you do this here First we like to take our gloves off Yeah And you slather a little bit And get a good amount on there Sometimes This is the front way Today we've been riding Forever This is the never ending day It's already five o'clock And we don't know where we're going to end up We're looking for a city called Cuenca May We think it exists We hope that it exists We're really really hungry Our legs are a little bit tired But man it is beautiful Out here in the desert The Surrey Hi Jeff I had some good dreams But about one o'clock in the desert I had some good dreams But about one o'clock in the desert I had some good dreams But about one o'clock in the morning Maybe twelve o'clock at night These damn roosters started up And I spent the next five hours Just wishing I had a shot So I could go murder them all Oh Jeff Quakers don't talk like that Talks for fighting And run a hotel at the same time You would think that your guests Would complain about all the roosters Only Americans complain Mexicans love noise Why'd you wake my friend Jeff up? Hmm? Why'd you wake Jeff up? And what's the name of your hotel? Hotel Cuenca May Hotel Cuenca May in Durango, Mexico I got those vitamins Oh yeah? Oh look at that to make them all pissed off And angry In condition you know In case the fight gets longer Prepare for it How long did the fight usually last? 15 to 20 minutes Do you have names for these guys? Yeah this is the devil Now we do this So they can stand up When they fall down It's got your best one This one has been going in three times And how much money can you make doing this? It depends on You spend a lot of money on it Yeah? It's heavy Sport Yeah? And how many people come to a cock fight? 200 And they're all screaming and yelling And drinking What's the most amount of money you've ever won? We won at 60,000 pesos on derby Really? So you make more money on the hotel Or the cock fights? It's pretty even It goes like this And then it is ready To fight It goes around here Are there rules on these? How long they can be And how sharp they can be There is a scale Where it has three points You cannot pass that You agree with the other guy One line or two lines Or higher It all depends who you agree with You think the roosters know That they have this killer weapon Oh yeah, they know it This is the Grand Derby And that's in Toronto Absolutely I brought this soap all the way from Honduras It's good Honduran soap Is that the only thing you're carrying That really is from Honduras? The only thing I have left from Honduras Is this soap It's going to last you though It's going to last you pretty good Stinky, sweaty socks Be gone With six scorpions on it I don't know So here we are another day Another can of beans Let's see Today we got the good can It's the La Sierra 35% more For the same price We've got our avocados over here We've got some tomatoes It's November 17th And we're leaving Cuenque Oh it's a sad day Say goodbye to such a nice little town We thought we were going to stay one night But we stayed two Hey look It's Jeff So on this year bike trip we've had plenty of time to think Because we have lots of alone time Out in the middle of nowhere And it's fun to be able to think about All childhood memories Think about our parents and grandparents And it's really We're pretty lucky to be able to do this Reminisce about all the good things about life And also get excited about the things that are In front of us We're going to keep on making good memories there Jeff, we are That's the plan We're only 27, 26 years old I figure we've got a lot of life Out ahead of us And if it's anywhere as good As life's been so far We're going to be old men With really happy memories In the desert There is no water Except for right here It's holy water That's right, it's holy water In that case Can you splash a little bit on my helmet? We're going to put some holy water on the bot flies Holy water on the bot flies Thanks man It's either going to infect them severely Or get rid of them We've been riding for a couple thousand miles Our legs are doing great Our arms are getting a little weak I'm going to show you how to do Some arm exercises while riding the bike Oh yeah One and two and three and four And you get your arms built up Lickety-splickety And it's good for the pectorals too It's real good for the pectorals Today is the first day We've been messed with On the toll roads Up until now we've got everywhere we've ever wanted to go On these toll roads But today Two times we got stopped and denied From getting on the toll roads So we did something about it Jeff, show the public what we've done This is what we've done about it See, if you look at this It's nice, it's laminated What Mexicans want Is an official document And that's what we made This is official It has the Mexican flag The American flag The mission security force Pulled all these good things off the internet Thank God for internet Pictures of us riding together As you will see us when we're coming into the cassette It says cruising Crossing the Republican bike Jeff Giffen, Ryan Van Duzer Approved by the American and Mexican embassy Oh yeah Please do not charge them on the highways They are raising money for Orphans It's not totally a lie Ryan is selling some shirts I'm raising money He's going to contribute all the money to his kids They may not be Orphans But they are kids They're poor And we are giving them some money So this is not totally a lie No, not at all The whole approved by the embassy thing Yeah, that's a lie It was quiet out here What happened? Jeff, are you peeing again? The desolate road The desolate part of the country All I can hear is the sound of my flags Nobody We've been passed by like five cars And we've been riding for half an hour We were staying tonight Friday This town is not even on the map Or didn't have a sign for this town It's called Las Marías Hey little puppy Hey little puppy Hey buddy, how you doing? How you doing puppy? How are you? Fine Thanks a lot for the food And all of you are great people I know This is really Really quite amazing What we're doing here We get a little uncomfortable every now and then We get a little tired We get a little cranky But overall baby This is quite amazing We're loving it, right Jeff? Another day On the lonely road Hey adios This is a big moment here Bienvenidos a Chihuahua The big state This is our last Mexican state To the normal person, that is a gas station sign But to me It means cookies All I see are cookies When I see that sign Cookies All these donuts look so good We got them all day long This is our favorite right here at La Sierra We're always eating this All the way from Oaxaca North This is the brand we choose Our favorite La Sierra beans, this is what we live on About two cans of these a day baby And about a hundred farts too Yeah, we get a little party after this Muchos pedos This is good, this is a good bean So if you guys ever come to Mexico Get La Sierra beans I weigh down Mountains of Chihuahua We are on the side of the road 50 kilometers away from Chihuahua I left Esperanza Over two months ago And today I get my first flat tire Whammy That's pretty amazing that it's gone this far That's actually a flatty not a whammy Yeah, that's a flatty right there We made it to Chihuahua Chihuahua Chihuahua Chihuahua A few months ago I got my haircut And it's really long right here And just shaggy and I don't like it So we're going to go in here In Chihuahua Get my haircut so I look nice For Thanksgiving which is tomorrow Look at that nice tan line On the side of Ryan's face Isn't that sexy? I think she's doing a bang up job Chooser flirting with the barber That's right It's Thanksgiving And look what we did We got two big beers Happy Thanksgiving to you We got a TV We're going to watch some football later We got two big pizzas Yummy And we got one of these Kaguama In honor of Thanksgiving I haven't had a beer in a long time So I'm on antibiotics right now As well So hey cheers to Thanksgiving We love life We're thankful for life We're thankful for all the good things that have come our way And will come our way And many many more This is the big morning This is the biggest shopping day of the year Friday the day after Thanksgiving And I just had a solid poop I just wanted to share that with everybody Out there It's more like soft serve ice cream You can check it out right there I've had diarrhea for far too long Every morning I've been waking up And exploding POOP POOM Barrier Hopefully we're going in the right direction This is a new acquisition here This is a wool hat Cause it's cold up here in the north It's Sunday And it's windy We're going to see how this This wind effects us out here on the desert We woke up and it was Just all rowdy windy All around us here in Chihuahua We've been here for four days This is the first windy day Looks like the wind has caused an accident And there's a giant backup When I see stuff like this It makes me Want to ride extra careful Because Accidents do happen We've seen about 15 police cars Tons of ambulances It's got to be something big up here It's so windy that we're riding On this dirt road here On the highway We keep getting blown off the highway It's just not very safe This is just not very fun Right now Okay Today is the first day And the elements Have beat us We cannot go any further This wind is way too strong It's kicking up sand and dust We can't even stay on the road We're getting dirt in our teeth Dirt in our eyes The sand is whipping against our arms So we made a whopping 40 kilometers Today we were hoping to go at 120 Luckily We found a nice farm to stay at These guys are cold, they're going to let us camp out back This is where we're going to sleep Right here We've got some other protection here How are you feeling Jeff? I'm good Alright Just glad that we're going to have a nice place To set up our tents Out of the wind a little bit It is now Monday morning And it's a totally different world Let's see what way the wind is blowing today Oh, there's no wind at all I think we're going to be cruising today Look at my flags Not even blowing It is wonderful So here I am In a town on the map It's called El Sueco Which means the Swede How fitting I wouldn't call it a town It's more of a gas station And a restaurant But this is where we are They're going to let us stay in their room with them Because it is freezing cold and windy They're letting me make my own burrito Another burrito Another burrito I'm just going to slap that on there Okay, so it's the next morning Diego, thanks for letting us stay At your Sueco You're the best man in the world You guys come whenever Thank you The morning light on our way to Juarez Hey look, it's Jeff taking a photo Hi Jeff taking a photo How you doing? You look bundled up man, what's the deal? It's just a little bit cold It's great light You look good, you look real nice This is our last little glimpse of Mexico We're going to have about 4 hours of it But it's going to be over soon And then New Mexico is going to look totally different I'm sure Yeah Here we are in the desert outside of Juarez Eating our last meal Jeff, what are you eating there? Wow, that's pretty good The sand dunes outside Juarez I was told this is where they filmed Conan Jeff, we have about 15 kilometers left in Mexico What do you think? Oh, I think the Mexico has been Excellent so far And this gives us only 15 more kilometers To protect Mexico There's only 15 more kilometers To potentially get hit by a Jesus loving bus driver Yeah If that does not happen Then lock on some metal That has been one heck of a good trip through Mexico That's right baby, here we go I'm going to go change in these pesos For some American dollars It's time to go home So I just turned in that money And I got myself 20, 40, 51 Dollars in two cents Wow, that's more money I'm so excited Let's go cross the border Mexico You're going to miss the fruit, Ryan I'm going to miss those fruit guys Adios amigos Adios Adios Adios Alright, now we're on the street Where does this street go, Ryan? We are going to El Paso, Texas You can see it straight ahead There we are Taking the bridge There's the Rio Grande baby Adios amigos There's El Paso There's Mexico So this sucker just got me into the states No problem, the guy barely even looked at it He said, how long have you been traveling? And I said two months, he says, holy shit A nice big black guy, he said we couldn't film So I'm trying to reenact what he just said He was so cool, he was so chill Welcome back to America, he said Alright, I've been waiting a long time for this moment Two months It's time to put the American flag on the flagpole We've got Honduras We've got Guatemala We've got Belize We've got Mexico America, America I'm back This is pretty exciting We have Simpsons back in English Homer speaking The language he's supposed to speak Not dubbed into Spanish So Jeff and I did a lot of shopping today We just rode our bikes all around El Paso And we got some great stuff Like check out these Nice long tights baby Those are just sexy Sexy And then I got something even more sexy Look at this sweatshirt I found this one in the hunting section Ryan has a Don't Hit Me sweatshirt now It's a Don't Hit Me sweatshirt It couldn't be any more orange, any more fluorescent This goes outside all the everything else So everybody sees me Then I went to a sporting goods store Got a little sleeping bag It's polar fleece baby Also socks And then I got some stretchy gloves to stay warm Then I got some wool socks And I got these nice red pants At a Goodwill And I got this new army shirt Also $2 Ryan just exploded the second one I just Ladies and gentlemen On the wall, it's like stuck on the wall There we have the blot fly I think it's the dead blot fly Ooh, grody That just flew out of my arm It went everywhere Wow We rode by this place And it said $4 all you can eat pizza So here we are, tons of video games Plate full of pizza We're pretty psyched All you can eat baby, yeah Oh, it is beautiful ladies and gentlemen If only every Saturday morning Could be like this You're gonna stop It's not windy enough for you Ah, there you go Keep going Bye Jeff And crowned by good Brotherhood It doesn't get any more America than this American flag and cotton fields Here we have Jeff In thermal hot springs here And truth or consequences New Mexico, Jeff, how's the water? It's getting warmer and warmer To the point where I can't even sit in it For a little while We've been looking for hot springs Ever since Aguascalientes In Mexico And now we find they got some Inside my tent here In truth or consequences Camped out right next to the Rio Grande There's Jeff all hidden in his bamboo forest That's right man Wake up Jefferey The sun's getting very low on the horizon It's been windy Windy windy and cold Cold Since noon and We're pretty tired This is one of the more tough Days we've had Definitely the coldest day A biting cold That just rips at us all day long And here we are On I-25 Who would have thought that we'd be riding our bikes On I-25 What does the I stand for? Interstate Usually you can't ride on those But here you can We love New Mexico But back behind that the colder air is going to push on in And we actually have a chance for A step colder than what we've seen so far Alright so it's Pretty damn cold out here We've got a wind chill of less than 10 degrees And it's about 20 degrees Total we're here in Socorro Albuquerque heading to Albuquerque No we're in Socorro New Mexico heading to Albuquerque And we're pretty excited We had a nice warm hotel room We slept well we had a good big buffet breakfast So we're ready to rock and roll Today was the first day I mentioned to Jeff that This isn't very fun This is not fun But is it fun now? It is fun now Yeah Even though I'm from Colorado and everybody's like Oh you're from Colorado you're used to the cold You're a gringo That's a bunch of crap because I don't like the cold Here we go December 8th Cover of the newspaper in the Albuquerque Journal Deep freeze Oh man we're in for it We're leaving on our bikes today That's going to be us It's not so bad you say How many layers do we have on today Jeff? Okay well let's see we're starting on the feet We've got the We've got wool socks We've got biking shoes We've got these nice new warm neoprene booties And we've got the neck warm right here This is going to keep my nose warm When we're riding How you feeling Nikolai are you excited about calling with us today? We're drinking whiskey all night You're the first ride along we've had And this is the worst conditions we've ever had So you're a true champion And what do you think Nina about all this? I think you guys are nuts though I'm going to go back in the warm house And cuddle under a blanket Oh that sounds good But it's a beautiful day It is a beautiful day sunny Albuquerque day We still have all of our digits That's right how you feeling? I feel cold but I feel good I'm frozen But you know what? I'd rather drink frozen water than be a worker That's right Wave to the camera Jeff Oh that's nice Hello My name is Ryan I've been riding my bike for a long time And tomorrow we ride Into Colorado I've been looking forward to going back to Colorado for a long time now I think I'm ready I think it was a good decision to ride my bike home I would not have been able to make the transition From any Peace Corps Going straight back into Colorado So it was good two months to Clear my mind and ride my bike And have a good time Oh yeah Welcome to colorful Colorado Wow The Rocky Mountains Oh man You know we're in Colorado now So there we go Ryan baby Welcome home Jeff and Ryan Oh yes it feels good Snowy Colorado We're about 30 miles outside of Pueblo Here we are In the front range We just came over a hill And there's downtown Denver Right down now It's an amazing feeling We can actually feel Boulder There's Red Rocks We've been fighting head on Freezing cold winds for about I don't know how long it seems like forever But today has been The most brutal Real day so far I've been listening to some Metallica Getting pumped up Getting pumped up for the last Day of riding in Boulder Pretty excited We got Jeff We got Ben Boyer from Boulder High School And we've got Ethan Van Duzer from Colorado joining us today On our last ride We're ecstatic We're happy And so what made you want to come on this ride This morning The Duzer inspiration Jeff and Duzer They're my heroes I want to be there to lead them in Pull them that last leg Sweet thank you my friend And Ethan you had to wake up Extra early to be here this morning I just had to be here I couldn't miss it And it's worth getting up for Alright Even the cold Here we have Coming up the hill We got Jeff and we got Ethan Oh yeah We knew we were following the right road the whole time So Jeff You're about 12 miles out of Boulder How do you feel Oh my god I'm just thinking about All the wonderful relaxing I'm gonna do I'm gonna get home and all the friends And the socializing And basically I'm just really looking forward To doing nothing for a couple weeks Yeah that sounds good Who would have thought That I would make it all the way to Boulder From Esperanza Good to see you Good to see you We are about To get our first glimpse of Boulder Our Boulder All the most important Are you doing Santa Claus I'm out here with such a good boy He's been out doing good things all year long It's better than riding your bike Who would have thought that I'd actually make it this far Wow It feels pretty amazing 30 seconds away from my house Take one left turn Boom To Boulder Famous last words And you know what I did right when I walked Into my mom's house I did something that I had been dreaming About doing For over two years I took a hot bath And it felt so good And yes Well now what do I do is this This is what I do I create videos I share my adventure stories To challenge yourselves And I am so incredibly Grateful for that experience Riding home from Honduras to Boulder I think back on those memories All the time And all the lessons I learned And the wonderful people I met And I use a lot of that in my everyday life And my adventures that I go on today That adventure kicked Off everything And if you're curious If I've been back to see my kids in Honduras I've been back four times Since I left in 2005 And the kids are no longer kids They are young adults And they are all doing really Really well And with Facebook and email today I still stay in touch with them And they send me photos It's wonderful that we're still connected Because those two years in Honduras Were really impactful years On my life So I really hope you enjoyed This film It was a blast to put together And finally share it with you And stay tuned for more One of these days I'll be able to head out there again Once this pandemic stuff settles down And travel opens up a little bit more freely And I promise Maybe I'll shoot it in HD this time Or even 4K No more of this 4, 3 little box stuff That is history Thanks for watching this video Thanks for watching all of my videos Best my channel is Nothing Without You And I wish I could give you all a big abrazo And yeah Stay tuned for more And don't forget Get off that couch