 Good morning, Levy stole my sleeping bag, stole my entire bed around me so I was forced to get up. Good morning world, welcome back to the channel, it's day number 404 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the town of Goshen in California in the USA and we just left the camp really early this morning and just went and filled up fuel. There's only 20 pass 7 which for us is like a new record I think on the bike but it was a pretty comfortable night camping there. We can't afford to take rooms in the USA because here in this town they're starting at like $60 a night for a room even in like the cheapest room in town. So pretty much campsites are going to be the only way that we can get a cheap night here in the US. This campsite was part of I think the campgrounds of America so it was $42 for the night. Yes, but we looked on Ioverlander and there were no good suggestions for wild camping spots around this area here and it got really late in darkness yesterday already. We spent a little bit too much time riding around the streets of Hollywood being like oh I wonder who lives there, oh I wonder who lives there. Now we are only 60 miles from our next destination which is the giant Sequoia Forest. So let me show you guys the route for today. So we are here and today we're going to be heading over to the Kings Canyon National Park before returning down to Bakersfield, cutting across the mountains and over to Death Valley. Now normally we would have visited the Sequoia National Forest which houses the largest tree in the world, the giant General Sherman Sequoia Tree. But this park is closed because winter storms have basically ruined all the roads in the park. We checked online. But it did say if you want to see giant sequoias head to the Kings Canyon National Park which is just up from Sequoia National Park and there they have the second largest tree in the world, the General Grant Tree. We should still be able to see some absolutely massive trees today. I can't wait to see them. And after doing the loop through the Sequoia Forest we'll be heading back down to I think Bakersfield where we're going to be making our way to Death Valley. Our aim is to reach Las Vegas tomorrow night because my parents and my brother and my sister are flying in to meet us and then two days later we're getting married by Elvis. Yes, we have some super exciting days ahead but first things first we will have to reach the largest tree or the second largest tree in the world. It's one hour twenty to reach there and it's seven twenty so better hit the road. Let's go. It's crazy the layout of the road here is basically just one giant grid. So you just go straight, straight, straight, straight for ten miles and then take a left and then go straight on that road for ten miles and this whole area is just filled with farmland so there's wine growing here, grapes, you've got I think mandarins or oranges, we've seen cherries, we've seen wheats. So we just stopped on the side of the road to have a bite to eat because we didn't have breakfast yet and I put the bike on the side stand but I guess our bags were too heavy and the hill was a bit too much and it actually fell over the side stand and fell over. That's really unbelievable. Yes, the first time I've ever put it on the side stand and it wouldn't hold it. We've got loads of weight on the bike at the moment with all of our full stuff so we're going to have to take a couple of bits off before we pick it up. I was driving this way and I saw you guys tipping over and I'm on my way to work. I work at the BMW shop and Fresno there and I just thought I'd come and make sure you guys were okay. It would be great if you could help us lift it back up. We actually put it on the side stand but it actually fell over the side stand. Okay, are you guys ready? There we go. Yeah, thanks so much. Okay, be careful guys. Thank you, thank you. Okay, where we welded it, it's kind of still on at the moment but it's definitely got a crack again in it so I think I'll just have to see if it will stay like that. I don't know if we can get another piece like this. We can see if there's a Suzuki parts store in Vegas because if we can get a new piece, it's quite easy to change it out. We'll have to see if we can ride it like that. Yeah, I mean it's given so much ground here. I guess that weld just couldn't take the pressure of the bike sitting on top of it. At least it's still attached for now because I know that he welded some bits on the back as well so maybe that'll hold. We'll see how it goes. I was wondering if you guys had it or if you could order it for me. Okay, glad not at all. Alright, thank you. We're just calling a place in Las Vegas to see if they've got the foot pedal for us. What's the part number? Part number is 43521. Yeah, front left foot bracket, yep. I do not know. Okay, do you know how long it would take to get it in? You think by Friday evening you'd have it? Okay, we could order that in and then come and pick it up when it gets in store. Okay, three, two, one. Okay, I'm up right again. There's always something. Yeah, I can't believe it. I just like the first time it's ever fallen over the kickstand whilst it was down. Yeah. The first time. Yeah, for some reason we thought like it can't do this type of thing, hey. To be fair, we are very, very overloaded at the moment with like a lot of water. The only issue is that the foot pedal is kind of bent forward, so I've got a lot less room to get my foot under the gear. Yeah. I mean, it's better than if the foot pedal was off. Okay. But yeah, I don't know how long that foot pedal is going to stay on there to be honest. No. There's a little bit of a downer at the moment this morning, but hopefully when we go and see some giant sequoias, it's going to lift our spirits. Yes. Oh yeah, we're starting to climb now. We're getting into the mountains. There's a really, really impressive area here. Yeah, we even saw some snowy mountains up in the background. I'm hoping we don't go up as high as that. I don't really want to ride in the snow, but it's beautiful to see. Okay, so we did actually reach the snow line in the end. We are in winter wonderland. Yeah. I did not realize that we'd be climbing up to have snow next to us on the road. That's insane. That is insane actually. Wow. Wow. Winter wonderlands. And as you can see, we're already surrounded by sequoia trees, giant sequoias, which is absolutely awesome. I mean, it's just so spectacular here. And we've got a few more miles to ride. Oh, I say that. No, we're here. Right at the entrance. Wow. I did not realize that we'd be here on snow. Wow. How magical, eh? Look how big this tree there is. Yeah. And that one looks like it's had a fire or been struck by lightning because it's actually completely hollow. They can get really, really big. Really big. The largest tree in the world. Wow. Is a giant sequoia. How impressive. Oh, look at my breath. It's currently eight degrees. So it's not freezing cold, but it's not warm. Hi there. Hello. Hello. How are you? Good. Good. We were wondering if we were able to buy like a multi-pass entry to national parks all over the country. It's possible. It looks like this. Okay. And it will get you into every national park in the state. It's just $80. Okay. But we still have to pay twice $80 or just once. So you just pay one. How cool. $80 and then you both sign it. And then you can each use it on your own. Really? Oh, that's really cool. Even together. That's cool. That's nice. That's awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Good. Let me see if I can get up right. Okay. Just about. Careful with the foot pedal. Yep. Okay. That's cool. That means we can just go in and out of any national park in the country. And we don't have to pay any extra. Yeah. It's actually a really good price as well. I'm happy about that. I mean, I remember the times in Chile where we had to pay for every single national park, at least like $30 US. Yeah. And something like this adds up quite, quite to a big amount. Absolutely. If you want to visit a lot of national parks and you are interested in nature. But wow, this area here is beautiful. You can see the remains of some giant sequoias as well that have fallen down. But where we're going is called Grant's Grove. And there they get even bigger. And that's where the second largest tree in the entire world stands. Wow. So we're coming into Giant's Grove now. And I can tell you there are some absolutely massive trees. Oh my God. Look at this one. Wow. Absolutely. Wow. Cool. That's magical. So we're just going to head on this trail ahead. It's called the Grant Tree Trail. And halfway around is the second largest tree in the world. And we're wearing our nice Gobi Desert beanie hats donated from Doug. It's so soft. It's so nice. Thanks Doug. Wow. It's already so absolutely massive. That's crazy. Here in front of us is a tree called the Fallen Monarch. This tree must have fallen down hundreds of years ago. It says here on the sign that the trees can resist decay and last for even thousands of years. Even after they've died they can just remain here on the forest floor. It's unbelievable. And they've got a picture of the Fallen Monarch from 1900. Look at this. It looks nearly the same as it did over a hundred years ago. So you can actually walk through that fallen tree. But we're going to come back for that because at the moment the entire school is going through it. It was really crowded. So the Kings Canyon National Park was established in 1890. But it wasn't originally called the Kings Canyon National Park. It was called the General Grant National Park in honour of the General Grant Tree. Which we're going to see very soon. It was renamed Kings Canyon National Park in 1940. And that's named after a huge canyon which is in this park. And I think it's more than a mile deep. And of course has one of the largest stands of giant sequoia in the world. So the National Park is actually joining onto the back of the Sequoia National Park. And this National Park is 186,000 hectares. Really, really big. Well, the trees are so big they need a lot of space. Look how high the snow level is here. It goes to my knees. So much snow. And they've got this cabin here. Look at the snow at the very top of the cabin. It's insane. I can't believe the whole thing doesn't collapse. Apparently this was built in 1872. And it's still standing now. Even after like years and years and years of snow on it. Here it is, the star of the show. This tree behind me. It's hard to get it all in shot. This is the General Grant Tree. And this tree is the second largest tree in the world. It actually used to be the third largest tree. Then a lightning strike and then fires actually killed the second largest tree. So then this one became the second largest tree. You can actually see here a huge scar from fires. But it survived. Look at that. That's insane. So some facts about this tree, General Grant. It is 82.5 meters high and 32.8 meters circumference at the base. So the total volume is 1,320 square meters. So that's what makes it the second largest tree. It's actually the volume that the tree is. This has been dubbed the nation's Christmas tree. And it was actually named in 1867 to honour Ulysses S. Grant. But the craziest thing about this is it's actually 3,000 years old. So old. It's so big. And it's still here standing after all these years. This tree was like growing as a sapling when the Egyptians were building their pyramids. The scale of the age of this tree is absolutely unbelievable. Yeah, it's a really special place. And I'm just so happy that we have the chance to come here and see it with our own eyes. The second largest tree in the world. Okay, so we're back at the fallen monarch. And now that all the kids have gone through, we can make our way through this tree. That's incredible. We are inside a tree. And it's absolutely massive. Look, there's a hole in it. Well, that must have been one crazy impressive tree when it was standing. But that's the crazy thing about this forest here is that actually all of the biggest, the tallest sequoias, they've all been cut down. So in the early days, people like on the east coast of America didn't believe that they had such crazy massive trees here. So what did they do? They cut the trees up and they shipped them across all the way to like the east coast. So there was like an exhibition in Philadelphia where they cut a tree and they brought it all the way across. And the people in Philadelphia called it the California hoax. They didn't even believe that it was a real tree. They basically thought that they had kind of pieced other trees together to create it. They cut down some crazy big trees for basically no reason other than to show other people how big trees they used to have before they cut them down. Luckily these days we have our phones, we can take some pictures. Wow, look, there's four massive ones all right next to each other. A little sequoia family. I'm just so impressed with the scale of this grove here. It's absolutely insane. They are massive, absolutely massive and beautiful trees. Absolutely beautiful trees. So now it's time to leave this winter wonderland behind because we're heading to the desert and we're going from snow to one of the hottest places on earth. We're heading to Death Valley. So I reckon although it's only eight degrees up here, I think by the end of today we are going to be sweating. Imagine this scenario. You're travelling in a foreign country exploring the wonders of the world but then all of a sudden you get sick. Panic sets in. You want to talk to a real doctor but you don't speak the local language. What do you do? Well let us tell you about this video sponsor On Vacation Doctor. The On Vacation Doctor app connects you to English speaking doctors in any country in the entire world. You just need to add your location and the app will give you the name, the phone number and the location of the nearest English speaking doctor to you. It also has local fire, ambulance and police numbers as well as the US Embassy contact. 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We've got service back so we have routed our way to Las Vegas through Death Valley and it said it was about nine hours. So to make a nice easy five hour ride tomorrow we've decided we're going to try and get four hours in this afternoon. We've got a really nice hotel that my parents have booked for us in Las Vegas, the Mirage. So we really want to get there as early as we can. So we're going to do a few more hours today so that tomorrow should be quite an easy day. So we looked on iOverlander and found that there's actually a really cool little campsite which is exactly four hours away from us. And it's like an honesty box that you pay six dollars to camp. So it's a really good price actually. Six dollars compared to 42 last night. I just hope that the foot pedal will stay on for the next nine hours. Yeah. And then it can fall off. Exactly. Yeah. Oh my goodness. This is awesome. Thank you. You're born here? Not too far. Oh not too far. Nice. Yeah it's really nice meeting you. It's so worth to stop and talk to you and get my blood going. I gotta go get my motorcycle off my battery tender. Yeah you gotta get out and ride it. Yeah. Well I'll be doing a camping trip. My wife doesn't ride. It's my therapy and it's like the song's in it. I do think I know how to sing in my helmet. Courageous. That's awesome. Nice to meet you Gary. Yeah. So we just stopped here on the side of the road. Having an early dinner break because we're really really hungry. We have about two hours left to the camp but Ollie's leg is pretty painful because he can't rest his foot anymore on the foot pad. I can let it rest a little bit but I can't put too much pressure on it. It's a little bit tough riding but it's okay. The foot pedal still hasn't fallen off so I'm pretty happy about that. Yes me too. So we're just having some refried beans with some cheese and crackers. Everything donated by Michel. We love you. I've only got this little can opener so I'm kind of working my way around. Beanie. I love beans. But anyway we can really take our time because we have just two hours left. We know where we've got a camp tonight and it's just half past four at the moment so we can chill out a little bit. England and Germany. Let's go. Nice to meet you. You guys okay? What are you guys doing? Where the fuck over here? Oh just to have a snack. Oh you got a camera and shit. Having a snack. Oh yeah they put nothing on TV right? No. No exactly want to. Okay whack. You know what I mean? Yeah. So we actually moved on quite quickly. We had just like two crackers each because there was one guy coming and he started talking to us and then he was like saying like oh that he's actually a gangster and that he doesn't want to be filmed and he saw the camera and he was a little paranoid. Yeah he kind of said that if he's filmed then he's going to get whacked or something so I was just a bit like okay I think that's how our queue to leave. Yes so we packed our stuff and we were just like let's leave. Leave for now. Looks like we're just about to head back up into the hills. We're basically heading up and over a bunch of mountains now. Yes and then on the other side it should be desert. Back to the desert baby. Whoa that is one crazy river down there. It must be all the melt water from the mountains. Incredible. Look at these canyons around. That's just gorgeous. It's just gorgeous. It's absolutely spectacular here. This is the crazy thing about doing this trip around the world. We start in the morning with our foot pedals broken. Everything's terrible. How can we even continue? But then this is where we are in the afternoon you know. In the morning up in the Sequoia forest in the snow with the largest trees in the world and in the afternoon in this beautiful crazy place. Look at this. Wow. This is just the best. This trip has its surprises both good and bad but this is a good one. This is a good one. We're just coming past the absolutely beautiful Lake Isabella. Look at this just surrounded by mountains. Yeah it's really pretty. And this is all part of the Sequoia national forest which is directly joined and part of the same grand national park that we were in this morning. So all the way from where we started the day to where we are now is just a huge huge huge area of national park. That's just absolutely amazing to see so much wild space. Really funny plant here on the side of the road. I think it's a type of cactus. Yeah I don't know if it's a cactus or like a spiny tree or something but yeah there's tons of them here. Suddenly we got over the hill and it's like I'm going to go here. This is where I like it. Yeah. Okay. Oh look. Entering California desert conservation area. Oh okay. We are officially coming into the desert. But man this is a beautiful ride. Wow. Yeah it's amazing. All right we're turning off to the campground and the sun has just gone behind the mountains. Yeah. So we've got about half an hour to set up camp before it gets dark. But what a nice area to camp in. This is crazy. This is a crazy place to camp. Look at this landscape around. It's incredible. My goodness. Fossil Falls Campground is the name. Oh look it looks quite busy here. Oh. There are people all over. There you go. That's awful. So I guess you just kind of set yourself up anywhere. Yeah. Oh cool. It's cool. It looks pretty sandy over on that side. Oh no. It must be an old volcanic lava field. Incredible. Okay so I've got to be quite careful then because it would definitely be sandy. Yeah. Cool. This is so cool here. Wow. That's incredible. Yeah I mean we could just set up here now. Yeah well like right at the front. Yeah I don't know. Oh no I'm in a ditch hold on. Yeah I don't want to make like a big thing out of it because of our foot pedal. I really don't want it to break off. Let's see what's going on over here. Okay. Yeah I know. Anyway look we've got the trail max mission tires on the bike now. We have nothing to worry about. Yeah no problem. Oh that looks really rocky Ollie. Oh maybe it's getting too rocky actually hey. I don't think that this here is still a part of the park actually. Okay better stop and turn around. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Let's put the stand down for a sec. Alright let's turn it around and go back that way. Okay three two one go. Three two one go. Yeah if I did this on my own I'd fall. Okay. Okay. I think we're okay here. Yeah I think so too just there. Yeah that's a good one. Okay perfect. We just get past this rocky bit. Yeah. Yeah. Hey I didn't fall hey I was close but no cigar. Jesus. Look at that there's like the most biggest setup in the world. And then there's like us with our super old tent. This is fine look if we pitch up the tent here. Right behind this wall there's absolutely no wind it's perfect. Evening guys we made it have been alive. We've got the camp set up behind us. Bumblebee is just chilling having a rest. And it's time for us to have a rest. But look at this beautiful surroundings. Mountains mountains mountains mountains. It's just absolutely amazing here. What a camping spot. Yeah I was waiting for this kind of camping spots for a long time. Just like sort of in the nature and everyone has like that little spot here. We have like neighbors I feel like a community here. Yeah just like an open area where people can legally camp you know. We've got like all of these lava rocks around us to give a shelter. We've got our own picnic table our own little campfire. I really appreciate places like this. Yeah thank you USA. What have we got for dinner? It's really windy today so I hope we can boil up some water. Because we will have Miso ramen tonight. I love it. Yeah me too. And that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so please give us a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. 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