 So for now, the most important thing is to decorate Bumblebee a little bit. So we asked Michelle to write on USA on our nice box. Yay! Alright, happy in a line! USA! USA! We're getting a lot of countries on there now. We just installed on the back here on the pole our USA flag. Our little bodyguard as well. He's taking care of Bumblebee. This is Bumblebee 2.0. We also got some stickers from the Funbike Centre. Yep, that'll do it. Yeah, that looks good. Eight ball tyres, the guys that put our Trailmax missions on. Okay, eight ball tyres prior to place. And also one of our amazing supporters from the channel, David Hampton, has sent us some stickers. Look at these, look at these, they're so cool. Lavianoli, happy and alive. How cool is that? And he also sent us some of his own, what he calls, beard of wisdom stickers. Look at this, how cool is that? So, David, you get to go on the very, very front of Bumblebee, right there on the windshield. It's a perfect place. So as we ride along, we can have a little bit of your beard of wisdom guiding us along. Wow. That's a great place, David. I think we can probably fit two of these ones on. Perfect. Cool, look at that. Happy and alive, happy and alive. Happy and alive, right here. Yes. So keep you safe and happy and alive. That's good. Be a journey. And there, and there, and there, and here. Bumblebee is looking so good. Look at these tyres. We're on full tread for the first time in such a long time. And the last set of these lasted us for 18,000 miles, which is absolutely unbelievable. So we started on Dunlop Trailmax missions, and now we're back on Dunlop Trailmax missions. It's really cool. And you can see our shiny new suspension here. All fixed up, all cleaned up by suspension 101, and everything just looks super nice and shiny. The guys from Funbike Centre, they really cleaned up Bumblebee, got everything really nice. So, wow, we couldn't be more ready for this next leg in the US. Thank you so much for everything. Thank you. You guys have been absolutely amazing. It's heavy. Oh my God. It's heavy. Start eating. Doug and Michelle basically gave us so much food. They've packed us up with food. Okay. I will miss you. Okay. There we go. See you on Friday, guys, you. We love you. Thank you so much. It's out. Oh, yeah. There we go. Can we turn around and go back? Yeah, it's been absolutely beautiful. How many days? Five, six days in San Diego? Six days, yes. Six days in San Diego. Wow, yes, we had such a good time. Oh my God, we had an amazing time. I think this is like with the greatest thing when you have actually a YouTube channel that you meet awesome people like that, you know. Otherwise, we would never ever have the chance to meet Michelle and Doug. That's true. Oh, we forgot to do our intro. Oh, good morning world. Welcome back to the channel. I'm at 403 on our second navigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in sunny San Diego, California in the USA. This will be our first proper ride in the USA. I'm not even sure who has right of way here. I think they do. I don't know. I'm going to have to get used to how this works because Doug told me that you can actually turn right on red on traffic lights. Unless it tells you you can't, it says that you can always turn right on a red traffic light. So this is a new rule that we haven't had before. But after we arrived in San Diego, we took a bit of time to get Bumblebee fixed up and ready for this next leg. But also to see the size of San Diego, to eat really amazing food and just chill out with the amazing Doug and Michelle. Yeah, Doug, you're a very good tour guide. Yeah, and those guys just welcomed us into their home. We've been chatting online for a while. They're big supporters of the channel. And it was like we knew them when we arrived. And like Michelle always said, she just wants to see us actually succeed. So we have to make sure that we succeed. Yeah, you guys have helped us get like literally 100% ready. We are like we have everything we need now to hit the next leg, to get to Canada and then to get across to Asia and get back to Europe. I think we have everything we need. So thank you so much guys for our first stop in the USA. USA! USA! But now unfortunately after six beautiful days, it is time to hit the road. So let me show you guys where we're heading. So this is our new map of the Western United States. And we are here right at the beginning. And our mission is to head up through California, across through Nevada and Arizona before turning north through Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington to reach the Canadian border around here. So our first mission, our new mission here in the USA is to reach Las Vegas because I don't know if you guys heard from a previous episode, but we're getting married in Vegas. Us too, yes? So it's Monday today and on Friday, we are getting married at the Little Vegas Wedding Chapel. We're getting married by Elvis Presley. He's gonna sing us a couple of songs. So we've got three rides to get to Las Vegas and that'll get us there a couple of days before the wedding. So the first thing that we're gonna go to see is the Hollywood sign. So we are heading up the coast from San Diego to LA. After that, we'll be going up to the giant Sequoia Forest. Now the Sequoia National Forest, which actually has the largest tree in the world, the General Sherman Tree. That whole park is closed because the winter storms have destroyed the roads. Oh look, here's the Mormon Temple. Beautiful, hey? Wow, look at that. Wow, it looks like a Disney. That's so cool. So instead of the Sequoia National Forest, we are heading to the Kings Canyon National Park, which is another national park just up from Sequoia National Park. And that national park has plenty of giant Sequoia trees as well for us to see and actually has the second largest tree in the world, which is called General Grant. So we probably won't reach all the way up there today. I think the aim will be to head to LA, go see the Hollywood sign and then get up as close as we can to this forest and maybe find a camp somewhere. Yes, because accommodation here in America is really expensive, but I saw on our overland a couple of free camps. So hopefully we will reach one of those for tonight. And then tomorrow we'll see the Sequoia National Park and then start making our way towards Vegas. Yes. So we route it at the moment to the Hollywood sign and the Google map says it will take us two hours. It's already, oh my God, it's already 10.45. So better hit the road, let's go. All right, our first fill up in the US. And this is going to be interesting because this will be the first time in such a long time that we've had to fill up our own fuel. So they've got three options here. They've got Shell Regular, Shell Plus, and then Shell V-Power Nitro Plus. Yeah, so it's like 87 octane, 89 octane and 91 octane. So I think we'll just go for the regular, hey. Yes. There's nobody to help us. It's the first time that we have to do it on our own since, wow, yeah, since Morocco. I can't even remember filling up this bike on my own. Okay, please remove cart. Push button to select fuel grade, push. Okay, I've chosen that one. Lift handle to start fueling. So the price is $5.20 per gallon and a gallon is like 3.75 litres. $1.40 per litre. Okay, I mean, that's better than European prices. It's slightly more expensive than it was in Mexico. It's our first American school bus. Yes. There it is. And it's actually, that is actually a school bus, like Oceanside Unified School District. Cool. It's not for show. That's actually a real school bus. No, it's like the same one from the movies. Everything that we've seen so far in California is just straight out of a movie. Straight out of a movie. And that's where we're heading today. We're heading to the land of movies. We're heading to Hollywood, baby. Unbelievable. But these highways are pretty crazy. Look at them. They're like four lanes. They're traffic's moving really fast, even though we're doing the speed limit right now, 65 miles an hour. Yes, it's true. And everyone else is doing more. And everywhere they've got these giant USA flags in front of stores. There's one over there. I mean, you almost can't go a few hundred meters on the road without coming across a giant flag. Yeah, this place is absolutely crazy, but it's really cool. Blue skies, sunshine, nice cool breeze. I mean, you can't really get better conditions for riding a motorcycle than California. So we're just stopping for our first break before we get into downtown LA. We have so much cool stuff from Michelle and Doug. Oh my God, have a look at this. We have some olives. Olives. A gourmet honey bar. We have some crackers with avocado and really nice cheese. It's actually English cheddar. Thank you. So it's really cool. I don't know. Is it actually from England, you think? I think this is cheddar. I think this is cheddar. Mature English cheddar. Super crazy. And then we have some crisps as well. And for dessert, we have some sliced mango. We're living like the kings. For our first snack break here in the US, this is a good spread. This is a smorgasbord. Oh my God, we are driving down the 101. This is it. This is Highway 101. And right there, over there to the left is downtown LA, the city skyline. Yes, baby. We made it. And there's no way you guys will see in the camera at the moment, but I just saw the Hollywood sign on the hill over in Hollywood that way. And actually in seven miles, we're going to be coming off onto Hollywood Boulevard. I feel like I know all of these places like San Bernardino. I'm sure that's come up in a movie. Probably. Many times. And you know what? Traffic doesn't seem like that bad compared to what I was imagining. Yeah, it's true. I mean, okay, it's slowing down a bit now. It's getting busier. But I mean, look, we're in downtown LA and the traffic's moving. Wow. That's kind of crazy. Yeah, it is. The road system here in America is incredible. Well, I can tell you, they've got a lot of lanes, that's for sure. Oh, yes. A lot of lanes going on. I mean, look how many lanes on just this highway. Wow. So many lanes. Oh, the Hollywood sign. Wow. It's just over there on the hill. Incredible. So cool. But hopefully we can get a lot closer. We're trying to sort of root ourselves towards it so that we'll be coming up under the hill. But yeah, it's definitely there. I can see it. I can see it too. Wow. We are like six minutes from the Hollywood sign. And actually, okay, the houses they look quite like nice. They look like way like nice or richer or more like castles. Or I don't know what I was imagining, but it looks quite like nice and calm actually. I thought there'd be a lot more fences and you couldn't get to the front doors and stuff. But like a lot of these houses are just like quite, yeah, normal houses. You can just go and knock on the front door. And this is like the Hollywood Hills right here. So these houses are like crazy expensive. So expensive. Really cool. Look at this colorful house here. Griffith Park. So Griffith Park is the park just underneath the Hollywood sign. And there's an observatory up here called Griffith, Griffith Observatory. And we're heading up to the observatory and from there we should be able to see the Hollywood sign which is a little bit further up the hill. I don't really know where we're allowed to go, where we're not allowed to go, but we'll just carry on and see what happens. We're just going to keep riding until we get close to it. Yeah, it's just so funny because it's not very crowded or anything, you know? What do you think that you're like in the middle of Hollywood right now? It's totally different to what I was expecting. I was expecting like, you know, cars everywhere, people everywhere. This is just like pretty chill. Look, there's just people walking their dogs, going for walks. It's pretty nice actually. Yeah, totally. It doesn't feel like LA here. It doesn't feel like we're in the middle of a city. No. No, it doesn't. It feels like actually so nice and quiet and green and just chilled. Wow, but the parking is apparently $10 per hour. Whoa, okay. We're not going to park then, hey. No. We're going to stop, take a picture. Yes, yes. I have no idea where the Hollywood sign's gone now. I've lost it. Can you see it? No, I can't. Where is it gone? I don't know. When you get to the stop sign, there's free parking for you guys to park on. Oh, okay. Thank you. We were just looking for a good place where we could see the Hollywood sign. Literally right where you park it, you'll see the sign right there. Cool, thank you. There it is. Still quite far away. I thought we'd gotten closer. How do you get like underneath the sign? I don't know. Maybe you're not allowed anymore. I don't know. You see that street there? Yeah. Right? And it bends round and goes up the hill. I reckon we should try riding up that road. Let's see if we can go. That's a massive city, eh? It's crazy. There's so much going on here. Look at this. Just a sea of buildings over there, all the way to the coast. We can just about see the ocean in the background. But then it just stops. And then you've got Griffith Park, which is just beautiful and green. It's so cool. Yeah, it's a pretty impressive place, definitely. Well, we can walk around here and see the city here. And then we'll see if we can get a little bit closer or not. There you go. The Griffith Observatory. Impressive. Yeah. It's nice and sunny. Ooh. Sorry? It's a nice way to do a little bit of sightseeing. Oh, that was close. I mean the roads here are very narrow. Very narrow. Very windy. This is like a quiet countryside street. Oh, except you've got these mega, mega mansions everywhere. Oh my God. Look at these streets. Wow. Wow. No way. That's really steep. Look at these houses. Who's living here? I don't know. I don't think they want you to know who's living in these houses. Yes, look at this street. Yeah, it's hilly here. It is. It is the Hollywood Hills. Who's coming? Who's in there? Somebody was waving. Who was that? There you go. George Cloney. Oh, it's George Cloney. Hi, George. Oh, there it is. Up ahead, we're on the right street now. We're going to get a bit closer. Yes. It's right there at the top of the street. That's awesome. And actually, guess what? We just hit 28,000 miles on the road. Yay. So we just spoke to a couple that are actually living just here. They're like, yeah, we live just here. And they told us to go up this road. They said this is pretty much the closest you can get to the Hollywood sign. There's a place called Ledgewood Drive. There's really, really big hills here. Ledgewood Drive, straight, yep. But yeah, we've got to be a bit careful. It's very thin roads. Otherwise, us and George Cloney are going to have a crash. I don't want to crash into George Cloney. Okay, let's be super careful around here. Oh, wow. Look right up ahead. Let's see if I can see it in a good way. Oh, I can just see, like, Hollywood. Yeah. Just about the Hollywood. Yes. Slavy in Hollywood. We made it. We made it. This is the closest we can get to the Hollywood sign. Yeah, I think so. But we are now pretty close. We can't really get any further, unfortunately. No. This is local traffic only. And I think that probably somebody's going to stop us. Wow, that was pretty tough to get here, though. Yeah. It's really not too easy. Bait it to Hollywood. I just can't believe how green it is around here. Yeah, it's not like they've packed to the houses in. Hey, I mean, look, this is like prime real estate. But no, they just leave it nice and open. And that just makes the whole place just really nice. I'm really impressed, Hollywood. Really impressed. Bye, Hollywood sign. Bye, bye, Hollywood. It's so beautiful. Wow. Look at that, hey? And we got our picture. I was like, when we go to California, we have to get that. We got it, baby. We got it. So now we have a long drive ahead, long ride ahead, because we are heading out of LA now towards the Kings Canyon National Park. But it is 237 miles away to get to Grants Grove. We're the biggest of the giant sequoia trees are. So I don't think we're going to get there today, but we can at least start riding, get out of LA, get back into the countryside, and get as far as we can. Look, Universal Studios. That's so cool. That's where all the stuff is happening, hey? All the good movies. Oh, yeah. So it looks like we kind of hit rush hour heading out of LA. We spent a little bit too much time driving around the Hollywood, and now it's quarter to five, and it looks like everyone is heading this way. It's looking like it's really getting super busy, and I can see on Google it's just red up ahead. We are still four hours away from the National Park actually, so that's quite a long way still. We've still got a few hours until sunset, so we'll just ride and see if we can sort of beat this rush hour traffic and kind of get away from the city, and we'll see how it goes. Yeah. We just stopped at a rest area just off the highway, and we're having our second snack. These beautiful Nutella crackers. Look at the pot that Doug and Michelle left us. Oh, that's so much Nutella. Eat like kings. I tell you, we love you guys. We love you. That's a good snack break. So we've just hit nearly 200 miles for the day, and we have to reach the King's Canyon National Park, so we reckon we'll go probably half that distance, maybe an hour and a half more, and then we'll call it a day, and then we'll ride the rest in the morning. I actually would love to just sleep here, but we have to go a little bit further today. Yeah, hopefully we can find something like this in an hour and a half. Nice quiet rest area, some trees around. Yeah, that would be good. So the sun is just setting on the horizon over there, and we've had a little look online, and there aren't really that many options around here. There's a lot of farmland. There's not really any island of a land or wild camping or anything like that. We have found one paid campsite. We tried to call them, but they didn't answer, so we're not really sure if it's going to work, but that's coming up in about 15 miles. All right, it looks like we're coming up to the place. I think this is already in here. Oh yeah, okay. Okay, let's check it out. Here we go, K-O-A. I thought it was like campsites of America, but it's with a K, so I don't really know what that's about. Okay, night registration is just there. Late arrivals welcome. Oh, sounds nice. Fill out completely a night registration envelope, selected space from the site map to determine fees from the price list and put in an envelope $42. Is it weekday? Yeah. Well, at least it's weekday. All right. Good evening, guys. We made it. Happy to live. This campsite here is really incredible. It's really big. It's really well maintained. It's actually beautiful, but it's really expensive as well. Like, I can't believe it. Just to pitch up the tent is like $42. There's like more than most rooms that we paid for, but we did check on booking.com and the cheapest room in the area is like $60. Yeah. We either had the choice to keep riding into the night for like another hour or stop here and pay the money. And after so much riding today, more than 300 miles, I was just ready to call it a day. But what a nice day to ride around Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills and seeing all the crazy houses and cars and yeah, it's like not what I expected at all, but it was super beautiful and I'm super happy that we have seen it. We made it to the Hollywood sign. I'm super happy that we made it there and it was a really cool ride actually. We have a really nice light here, which is actually a power bank donated from from Doug, thanks Doug. Our first night is a camping night in the dark, so it's really useful. So we're just going to make some dinner. We've got the water boiling. We've got some noodles like noodles. We got from Michelle donated a bunch of noodles and this one here is like the Vietnamese. So will be nice. It's going to be good. And then tomorrow we've got some giant trees to see. So it's going to be awesome. Yeah, I'm super excited. So that's it from us today. 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