 I'm Ryan. And I'm Allie. After falling in love, we decided to ride bikes across America. Collecting love advice along the way. This is Love Cycles. No flatties, no whannies, no crannies. What is that brown water? I made myself some cold brew tea last night and I just soaked my tea bag in my water bottle overnight and now I have delicious Earl Grey tea. Thank you, beautiful city park in the town of Caruna. We're out of here. Turn left onto East MacArthur Street. Okay, Siri, I will. For a new couple, you have any advice for a new couple? Any love advice? Never. Never. Let your love life take second place. Sex stopped. You all have just excited me here. You know it's so tremendous. Well thank you. God bless you. Thank you so much. It means a lot to us too. It's fun to like see people in real life because we spend all day pedaling, pedaling, pedaling and we're getting our own worlds and it's fun to interact with people in the local towns. That's one of the things I really like about traveling is that you get to talk to so many different people and you know them being from a different part of the world and really a different reality. It's a noticeable plus. Yeah, absolutely. And something if you sit around the house you never experience. People are basically very good. We believe it and we believe it even more after all this. And you all are a moment for the best. Thank you, Steve. Have a good day, bud. Yep. Nice to meet you. Yeah, let's bring it in for a hug. There we go. It was great to meet you. Great to meet you. You all have made my day. You made our day. It's mutual. All right. At that ice cream shop. You may have noticed I've been eating a lot of gluten since rag rye. My metabolism is going so fast that I think I'm just burning it up so I'm having relatively minor negative effects and it's making eating so much easier that I can actually eat the food in the towns that we're going through rather than having to live off cliff bars and gross corn tortillas that crumble. Anyway, so I'm gonna enjoy this little personal pan pizza. I'm usually not a fan of buying water because it comes in big plastic containers that stay on planet earth forever but we are in the land of really, really bad water. So yeah, Flint, Michigan and the surrounding area are still in the midst of a bit of a water crisis. The government said that things have been cleared up but people are still arguing that and they wouldn't serve us tap water at the restaurant we were at here. You can see they're still selling a lot of water and yeah there's still a lot of public concern about the safety of the drinking water here. Continue on Pride Road for five miles. You know something I like about Michigan? They call their liquor stores party stores and when I first saw these signs I thought oh it's a party store. They sell like streamers and party favors but no they sell the liquid you need to party. The northern route that we're on is taking us through Canada. It's the most efficient way to go across so we're gonna ride about 200 miles across Canada and go back into the states right at Niagara Falls, a place I've never been. So we've been riding and riding and riding all day and we rode like 90 miles which is amazing. I didn't think we'd get that far. We got all the way to Port Huron and we saw a sign for a KOA campground which is a place I usually wouldn't go to because it's still like $40 to camp but they have go-karts. So we just got the very last tent site available and I'm really psyched because it is way too beautiful of a night to be shuttered up in a hotel room somewhere and yeah we're lucky to be able to camp tonight. This is the closest campground to crossing the bridge tomorrow. That's right and they have three pools, they have mini golf, they have batting cages, they have basketball courts, this is just like it's kind of like Disneyland for campers. They also have an ice cream polaro which means we can have our third ice cream of the day. This place is a zoo. I have never been to a campsite quite like this. Our first activity of the night is swimming. Originally very excited about go-karts but we don't have enough time for go-karts and mini golf so it's just mini golf. Just mini golf. Something like that. There is a very loud creature in here. I don't quite know what it is. Oh yeah, look at these guys. This is some discovery channel right here. We are today going to Canada. Can you believe that? Just for a little bit. Just for a little bit. We'll jaunt through Canada and then we'll be on to New York, our last state in the United States. We just called MDOT, Michigan Department of Transportation and they said yeah we can take you across. You're going to go to this special lane, you're going to meet us where this truck is. We're going to throw your bikes in the back of our truck and we're going to drive you across the bridge. Lickety-splickety. Thank you Michigan, that was awesome. The process has been really smooth and easy so far, not across yet but you know first we were kind of freaking out. We were looking for alternative routes over to Canada. People had warned us against this bridge that it wasn't going to be a good possibility for us but so far it's looking pretty good. All right, here is our chariot. All right, going to Canada. This is Bruce and he's taking us across. Let's do it. He says they don't let people walk across the bridge anymore since 9-11 so everybody on a bike has to be escorted, which is kind of cool. You feel very special. It gets me on my booth so I'm okay with that. I really appreciate it. Yeah, awesome. Oh Canada, our home and native land. Smells fresh in Canada. Smells like maple syrup. Look at those birdies. Hey guys. Since we are in Canada we should probably go to a Tim Hortons. I don't think Allie's ever been, have you? Never been to a Tim Hortons. Didn't even know it existed until very recently. She's in Fertree. Look how romantic this is. Aren't you excited? Yes, this is such a lovely Canadian date. Our first date in Canada. Yay. And I got Canadian maple. Canada represent. So this is Suzanne, our new friend. She saw on Instagram that we were in the area, got on her bike, started riding around looking for us and she found us at Tim Hortons. This is the place where we meet, right? I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it. Do you want to ride a little bit with us? Yeah, I'll ride for sure. All right, let's do it. It's Canadian corn. It looks just like American corn. I'm like in Canada so far. Everybody's very friendly. I think six or seven different people talk to us at the Tim Hortons. Very curious about what we were doing. I don't think they see a whole lot of bike touring folk in this area. Suzanne, I can't thank you enough for coming with us. Thank you. You're the best. Awesome. So nice to meet up with you, whether you wanted to or not. Yeah, she's she wrote, she's like, I'm a stalker. I found you. I'm like, it's okay. Most stalkers are pretty cool. Do you have any tips for how to make friends in Canada? We're pretty friendly. We're pretty laid back. We're pretty open. Not good. Smile and say aye. Smile and say aye. We have a Canadian friend. No flatties, no whammies, no crashies. That was really cool. I'm glad that we got to meet Suzanne. Her story's pretty inspirational. She's had an autoimmune disease for her entire life and has not been able to be active for whatever reason. They would always flare up. But in the last year, she said she's got under control and she's riding a bike and biking is really what has allowed her to feel stronger. She's so cool. Yeah, and her and her boyfriend are putting together a plan to bike across the country in 2020. By country, she means Canada. Canada. Their country. And I think that is just such a awesome thing for them to be doing together to, you know, she's like just getting her health back under her. She's getting psyched to be out on her bike and now to have that kind of a goal, that special something to be working towards. We are rolling into the cozy little town of Strathroy and it really reminds me of European villages. I dig it. And they're supposedly a place to camp here and that's where we are headed. We just went to the grocery store. We bought a whole bunch of goodies and we're going to have ourselves a Sunday night picnic. We got a spot which has a great open view of the sky, which is really important for this evening because it's the Perseus meter shower and hopefully we'll catch some shooting stars. Shooting stars. I'm just excited to be at a camp spot where we don't have to worry about somebody busting us. And it was only 25 Canadian dollars and the dollar right now it's 75 cents to the dollar. So it's pretty good deal. And we have our very own little lazy river right next to our campsite. What's for dinner? Locally grown cucumbers. Apparently that's a crop around here. And carrots and chips and we have a variety of dips. These things can be dipped into. All right, cheers. Happy Sunday. Happy Sunday. Look at a cute alley all sleepy. And for breakfast this morning we have blueberries and yogurt. Here we go. Heading east again. Not quite sure where but we'd like to get about 75 miles today. Where are you bike heading? Going to New York City. Well good for you. Yeah. The sounds of the cicadas. That's something I'm gonna miss when I get home and I don't hear it anymore. Fox Memorial Bike Path. And Terry Fox, if you don't know, was like a Canadian hero. He had cancer. He beat cancer but he lost a leg and he decided to run across Canada and it was this great inspirational story. The whole country was behind him and then the cancer flared up again as he was going and he ended up dying. It's a very sad but inspirational story. There's a documentary about it. It's definitely has inspired me for a lot of my adventures. It's cool to be riding our bike in the spirit of Terry Fox. That guy was awesome. We're not going to be in Canada for very long so we got to take advantage of protein. It's fries with gravy and cheese and it's all for you. Yum, yum, yum, yum. It's not as good as refried beans and tortillas but it's still pretty good. That is some tall corn, man. This is like double my height. Double, double, double. Hey boy. Yeah, that's what I thought. Hello. Hey, we're in Scotland. Oh god, two months. Two months? Oh sure. Oh it took two months. Yeah, yeah. It's been two months of riding around. We're coming from Oregon. Everywhere we go we cause a commotion in Canada. We stopped out here for like a minute. One guy starts talking then the women start talking and then before we know what the whole town's here. Thank you so much. You guys are so friendly. We love Canadians. They're so cool. We are rolling into this little RV park and some of the long-term campers saw us and said, hey, why don't you just camp with us? So we're going to follow their car to their spot and we're done for the day. It feels good. Oh, this looks so nice. Thank you so much. It's so nice of you. We didn't quite know what we were going to do tonight and then here we are. Hey little guy. Did we smell different? We're American, I know. Steve the dog. Steve. Okay, sit. Boy. 15 minutes ago we were at a random convenience store in a town called Scotland and now we're next to a lake getting ready to jump in. I love how life can change so quickly on a bike tour. Rick, what's the first course for this evening? What do you have out here for us? We have a freshly prepared cob de corn with Canadian butter and Canadian salt. It's a new friends, man. Your journey continues and we assume it's been so far. Thank you so much. Thank you. Oh, Canada. Oh, Canada.