 The Sun and I get so happy when the Sun comes up and drives me off because it's cold in the morning You're my favorite dog in the whole world. Well, it's Diaz Bjorn. How'd you sleep? Good morning? I slept pretty good. Yeah knees hurt a little bit, but that's okay. That's all right. That happens Yeah, you're using them a lot. I am Mira has a world record. Look how many sticks she has in her mouth One two three four Bad not bad Good morning, John. Morning Ryan. How are you doing great? Good? My shadow is right on you Hello, what are you gonna do with the little sticks? Can I have one? Can I have one? Come on you gotta share it. Give me a stick. Give me a stick, bud. Here. Come on give me a stick All right, we all slept well last night. It wasn't too freezing cold Our tents weren't covered in dew for the first time in a long time. Oh, it's gonna be a great day. It's Saturday Salvo lo Higante No crashies, no flaties, no whammies Mira There you are. Oh good way to start the day We have about 70 miles of Idaho today, and then we will dip into Wyoming Right near the border of Yellowstone National Park Which is pretty cool this is actually The same route that Ali and I took on love cycles, so it'll be a little trip down memory lane and Then we're gonna go see the Tetons I Joined my man. It was good riding with you. I wish you the best on your journey. Yeah, and have fun Yeah, you guys enjoy your ride too. Totally and thanks for joining us for a day We are very close to Yellowstone and the Tetons Lots and lots of outdoor activities which means lots and lots of people and it is a Saturday So We're uh We're gonna get dusted. It's just what's gonna happen. We're gonna get dusted. Good morning Thank you Sandy Sandy Sandy Reminds me of Baja I'm glad I'm on a mountain bike not a skinny tire gravel bike and now we're riding on what seems like an old Rail grade It's very sandy It's flat, but the pedaling is It's pretty hard. You just Just kind of digging through sand the whole way That's all right We got to earn our peanut butter and Nutella tortillas So not only is this Mira's basket, but it's also my drone launcher when the When the ground is too dusty gonna make it straight up out of here one two three Sketchy did you make it buddy? You did it I hope you're not getting sick of my shots of flowers, but one of my favorite parts of the day is stopping and just Taking in the moment and being here and checking out flowers. There's so many good flowers right now Everywhere every day. There's something new And it's even though riding a bike is slow. It's a slow way to travel stopping really Centers me and grounds me and puts me right in place and It's important to do this from time to time. It's a good lesson in impermanence these flowers don't last forever These bike rides don't last forever life doesn't last forever and sometimes you just need to stop and Appreciate it all So We've come to one of those fun historical markers. I'm gonna read it for you So this is where the bear Gulch ski basin was it says look around you You are standing amid a faded dream a dream to create a premier ski resort out of the wilderness Much of eastern Idaho during 1938 was considered a frontier when forest ranger Rufus Hall search for a location to build Idaho's second ski resort passenger trains traveling to Yellowstone just a few hundred yards from where You are standing brought skiers to bear Gulch when the resort opened during the winter of 1940 powered by a simple gasoline engine with cables wrapped around large drums Anxious skiers paid ten cents to ride a toboggan to the top of the hill Skiers coined the phrase if you could ski the bear you could ski anywhere and that passenger train that they're talking about is the rail trail We've been riding today The route has us on a road right now and you remember very quickly Why you like riding off of roads the traffic is Right by us. So these are the moments. We really have to be attentive to the road But we can only do so much we've been in the Alpine woods most of the day and then we just popped out and there's these giant farm fields It looks like we've been transported to Iowa or something and you know what? I think these are you know what? Iowa or Idaho is famous for potatoes We have left the farm fields behind we're heading back into the forest and The teetons look really special right now. There's a big thunderstorm brewing right over the top of them It's like something out of Lord of the Rings Hopefully we won't get caught in the rain right John. Yeah, not again not hail not hail But we got Sun behind us and it is It's a really dramatic Scene we have brewing here. Yeah, I just I love this like The storms are brewing you have these powerful storms and the fronts off in the distance You just feel the scale of this planet that we're on We're just crawling across on our bikes You see off in the distance the majesty of the teetons and lightning strikes and big convective cloud heads That's amazing Idaho you were beautiful. I wish we could have hung out longer, but now it's time for I Lot of you wonder how I find camp sites and Really, I try to find water and if there's water I will camp next to it And right now we're looking for some sort of stream Not only to bathe in but just to fill up our water bottles have water tonight water tomorrow morning There are mosquitoes everywhere These mosquitoes are fast. They're catching us while we're riding bikes. Go hurry mosquitoes are coming Yeah water We found a lot of water. I think we found our spot We have a full-on reservoir over here. There's gonna be a ton of mosquitoes We might be hanging in our tents early tonight, but at least we have lots of water Boom good work today. Yeah, that was awesome. It was a great day. Yeah another great day So many great days back to back to back to back feeling pretty fortunate We've been here about a minute and a half and look who already has found her sticks. There's some great sticks buddy Yeah, those are great sticks Look at that You happy to be here Mira And you know what? Mosquitoes can't get me in the lake. I might just hang out here for a while Got the tent all set up with the rain fly on tonight because the skies are still threatening and My bike and I want to show you all the goodies that are in my frame bag This frame bag is amazing so much can fit in one of these frame bags. Let's see what we have We have a can of refried beans we have smokehouse almonds We have a big can or jar of peanut butter we have a full package of Tortillas wait, there's more king-size Snickers Other Snickers regular size Regular-sized Snickers my three drone batteries Another king-size Snickers can it be We have my pump There's more We have a bag of California med medley nuts. We have a full block of cheese We have a package of corn nuts Cliff bar string cheese My power block This is crazy. We have my good luck butter knife We have more in here. We have in this plastic bag is a jar of honey We've got bike tools We've got a water bottle collapsible water bottle and that is it Can you believe all of that stuff was inside of there? And I have a bunch of bars In my little snack bag. I'm loaded up And if you're wondering this bike that I've been riding the priority 600x has been amazing top-notch been loving it It's been doing great on some of the technical uphills on the downhills. It flies It's really nice to have the 100 millimeter shock up front And of course my favorite part is the gates belt drive in the pinion system It just fires through all the gears and it's been working like a dream Are you seeing this? It's a double rainbow Oh man I love rainbows. That is just seriously nature magic at work So cool a pot of gold is over there somewhere. Do you want your good night stick thrown? Okay All right, never mind be mirror. Come here. Can I have it? I'll throw it to you. Okay. It's your Good night stick But I know just go get it. Oh, that's so beautiful. Whoo