 I'm coming back for you I'm coming for you Don't you worry. I won't leave you behind Hello Let's go ride bikes. Yes amigos My eyes aren't too puffy. Yay. I Don't know how much I slept last night. It was one of those nights where I laid down at 9 p.m And I just got up at about 6 30, but I don't know how much I slept it was loud This road here was raging with cars that beautiful Full moon was great, but it was like a light bulb in my tent and I just didn't get comfortable, but Now everything is right in the world. It's nice and quiet and still Beautiful that's where I slept right there And I have a deluxe Bathroom right next to me. This was actually really handy and it didn't smell bad. It's always nice to have a place to Poo in the morning to steps out of your tent. This is five stars, baby So for breakfast today, I have three hollays the Mexican kind in a bag And this is kind of ironic, but I'm gonna put some hatch green chilies on them I bought these in Boulder even though I'm in the town where these chilies come from and I'm gonna eat a big Breakfast because yesterday. I don't think I ate enough with all the excitement of getting going I didn't really eat much. I had like an energy bar And I think it affected me all day. I needed more salt. Here we go breakfast of campiones champions Had some chilies to the situation here. Oh, yeah There it is the famous duzerito Never gets old. I can eat beans all day long pretty much They're just that good Thank you Pepe's parking lot for a beautiful place to sleep last night If any of you are riding through here Pepe's is on the northern side of town Heading that way. They're very friendly and they make good food. Let's do it That way On the road again Here we go sun is rising. It's nice and warm It's gonna be a beautiful sunday in new mexico No flat ease no crash ease no whammy's no wind in my face ease either Another beautiful day in the desert, right? Here comes the sun All right And today the goal is to get to back to las cruces and finish this northern loop I mean, it's about 65 ish miles away. I'm really thankful to that family back there who let me Stay at their place because otherwise I probably would have been sleeping in this ditch right there These are some serious solar panels I wonder how much power and operation like this generates You can't really tell but those things are probably I don't know 40 feet high. Look what I found here on the side of the highway A real deal chile Must have fallen out of a transport truck or something It sounds like a rattlesnake This is the gold of hatch these chilies. It's what their economy is based on So you might be wondering and I'm wondering too, where is everybody? And I don't really know But I do know that about at 9 30 last night A crew of about 30 guys on bikes with lights Road passed me heading this way. So I'm guessing they probably rode another 10 to 15 miles and camped out here somewhere, but Yeah, we're all pretty spread out now. I'm sure I'll find somebody At some point today All right now, this is a this is a Baha divide style road here sandy rocky bumpy Going about five miles an hour Yeah, yeah Man, this is rough I'm really impressed that those guys rode through here in the dark Last night. I mean there was some moonlight, but still This is hard enough in the daylight This is tricky riding You really have to look ahead and scan what's coming and try to find the root of least resistance sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't There it is the monumental loop I know I'm going the right way I just need to go through this fence and head out into the wild west I'm starting to see signs of riders somebody dropped their gummy bears Should I eat it? Of course five second roll or 12 hour roll Mmm Thank you whoever dropped this gummy bear I found some humans What's up, brother? How you doing doing great? How was riding that in the night? It was pretty epic with this group here, man We got each other here with uh Just like a few minutes before midnight. Yeah. Wow. That's impressive Good work. Yeah. Oh and whoever had blue and green gummy bears you dropped a bunch and I ate them They're really good Nothing like a little bit of early morning Cow trough water cow water Cow water So you live in Las Cruces. Is it awesome to be like doing this in your backyard? Man, I've I've wanted to do this for probably a year or more And I've been slowly getting my bike and everything geared up and Last year, of course, everything got canceled. You have a great state my friend Land of enchantment. You guys had a nice camp spot. This is this is cozy It is beautiful. I dig it What do you love most about bikepack? Uh Oh man, the mental aspect, I guess just trying to have to push through Uh, you know the mental blockage and it's like You know You're just dying over here But then you push through that for a while and your legs come back and your mind comes back and you're having fun again Did you have to employ that last night? Dude, we wanted to stop so many times But I was like, no, we have a goal. We got to get up there So sam, I just found out that you make your bags. What's uh, what are they made of? Uh predominantly x-pack from dimension pollyant. Uh, everybody's probably familiar with their scene Um, been at it for a couple years, but officially just about a year almost And everything's made in my Uh spare room in albuquerque. I'm going to be opening up a pre-order on these here in the next week or so Those look old school. I dig it. Yeah. Is that canvas wax canvas? I like that and uh, I like the natural fibers, man Yeah Yeah, so they're they're nice. I've been this is the the third version that I've run Um, and I've got a few guys out here Running them to kind of give them the last Last testing before we open up some pre-orders on them go order some bags from sam. They're pretty cool Look at this thing What kind of road is this? You this is this is fun Yeah Whoo up this hill That way then up up up up up up up big stuff Let's do it. All right, here we go Yeah, it's hard to get into any type of a rhythm Because you just bounce off rocks the whole time Come on, buddy. It's been the summer of hike bike Nice job ombre Seriously sketchy. It's just rocks. There's no clean line to take. We went down just now So it seems like we're out of the super duper rocky stuff Now we're just done the super rocky stuff Not duper That might be one of the rockiest roads I've ever ridden So you're riding single speed, huh? You bet. This is some really chunky stuff out here. Why do people ride single speed? What's the idea there? Less can go wrong less can break and you're more in tune with your bike because you only have one way of Pushing it and you're not going to question yourself if you're in the right gear or not So you make the most of what you can And then you get off and walk when everybody probably has to anyways That's awesome. I love it. How we doing Dustin check here We've done about 5.8 miles and Way too long time We're like two hours or something like yeah, I think it was about two hours Yeah, well that happens when you're bumbling around on rocks. Yeah, baby head central man What do we have here? Looks like a little bit of trail magic How y'all doing right on thanks for being here You get a high five Thank you. What's your name? I'm John. John. What's your name? Nice to meet you our pleasure. We're glad to be out here. What inspired you to do this? You know, we're just saying we have such respect for you guys on this route Because uh, you know as tough as it can be and as much effort that is as it takes This was what we could do and so brought some 40 gallons of water out here to share with people and Make sure they don't bonk I love humans like you. Oh, it's like Halloween right here Big newton What's up my friend? What's your name? I'm david grinds from albuquerque right on and uh, what do you think about all this? Oh It's a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah, what do you love most about riding your bike sleeping under the stars? Testing myself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you talked about here keeping up with the youngins. How's that going? Uh, it gets harder every day Thank you john and faith you're awesome. Yeah, we'll see you next year All right, that way is last cruises Right, what's that buddy? Looks like we have some more road magic What's up? How's it going? So what do you have here for us? So at the uh, the manor in the desert our new pop-up restaurant going live next week now So we got soda pop We got water. We have chips. We have cookies. We're all sold out of the steak tartare So this goofball right here is actually my host here in last cruises You let me stay at your house. Yes. Wow. And the house has never been the same risky. You know, we've had to like humiday twice now That's a scot. He's a good man. Yeah, Chloe. We got Chloe in the house Oh, it's an emotional support puppy. Yeah, Scott just said he wants to do an ole What a nice family so glad I met him and his wife and his daughter Chloe Very very cool. I didn't know they were going to be out here. That's a surprise Back in the sand back in the sand. I love sand. It's so fun. We got some nice downhill into last cruises Bye my friends Yeah, you guys all rock So we're saying goodbye here because some people are going home to albuquerque and we're all on different schedules. So We're splitting up But my friend Dustin my new friend Dustin just invited me over for sunday spaghetti dinner And I think I'm going to take him up on it because that sounds really good Here we are in the plaza in messia Really beautiful little spot feels like I'm in mexico Dustin are we almost there? Are we almost there? We need water And brownies and brownies for sure. Thank you so much Dustin and Katie for inviting us into your house and making yummy spaghetti You guys are the best Yeah, your kids are awesome. Look at all these amazing kids. We promise not to stink up your house too much