 Good morning from Gateway, Colorado, which is pretty much right on the border with Utah and I got to say my favorite place to wake up in the world Is always in the desert the colors the sounds It's just warm dry. It's easy. I'm really excited for the new day. I've never seen this one Nope, I can't wait. I love your energy Dana. Ready to go. Good morning my man Ryan, how you doing? Taking a cream of wheat? Whoa I'm eating scrumptious granola with powdered milk. I haven't had powdered milk since I lived in Honduras in the Peace Corps It's definitely not as good as the almond milk. I usually eat cereal with but it works. Is it really okay? Yeah, it's okay Yeah, I'm not like a food snob. I can eat anything and be pretty happy. Try it Dana Okay, is it rice krispies? Oh and granola. It's granola. Okay. See it's not bad. I Have to say it tastes better than it looks Are you folding that so nicely? You might be thinking Ryan, where is the bathroom? This hut is pretty small. Check it out. It's a tower We go up here Nice screen door This is the bathroom composting toilet You sit right here You can just listen to nature and beautiful views all around Yeah, it's a pretty good spot to do your duty duty. All right. Who wants to ride bikes? Yeah No way win today, this is really amazing. There is a baseball diamond in the absolute middle of nowhere I don't see any schools or towns or anything But imagine hitting a home run right here and the crowd goes wow Good to see you buddy. I love Ryan when you stop and we look back Like we look back because it reminds me so much of my brother when we would hike and bike and stuff He would always stop and look back and I'm like, dude, what are you doing? And it's good life advice and hiking biking advice, but he would always say you have to look back Because if you know where you came from you won't get lost So yeah, like if we're going back. So anyway, I love that we do that and I get to think of him so this is my brother Rocky and He passed seven years ago like this is him and I take him with me everywhere So he goes on all of these adventures With me and it gives me strength and it gratitude and keeps me right here Like I'm so lucky to be doing this today He would have given anything to be here with us. So we can't take it for granted And you spread the ashes around I do all over the world all over the world he has been Matt says that there is a spring right here, and we can kind of see it We're gonna get some fresh water straight out of the ground. Look at this. It happens to be a dog here We're not the only ones at this spring we got our new buddy Sam right here. How long you've been getting water at this spring? Since 1949 wow April 10th My mom was bringing me back from the hospital, and we stopped here to get water. Where were you born? Montrose Me went through Grand Jokes and come back this way because we was going to the mining camps My dad was you raining my He's going to mining camp up her beautiful life It's awesome. I had a beautiful life right here. Yeah What do you love most about this area? You Thank you and her the people huh that's what the most beautiful. I mean, it's the most awesome place in the world But what makes it the most awesome is the people that I get to meet? Glad we met you. Yeah, I'm glad I met you. Can I give you a hug Sam? I would love a hug. I would love a hug. Let's do it Yep, my man. Oh, thank you really glad we ran into you I'm glad I ran into you. You're a special soul. Do you have any like advice for how you have like a full life? Yeah Enjoy it Show the complications if you make it Steep it. Steep it. Life's beautiful if you will let it be. That's right I'm with you. It's these moments on bike tours where you stop in the middle of nowhere and you just meet such kind loving souls and Really makes you feel grateful and he's a very grateful man. He loves life You fought in Vietnam you find Vietnam, right? Yeah door gunner I was a door gunner on a huge helicopter in Vietnam. How long are we there? One year and one hour That's why I got them plates. This canyon is so beautiful Our necks are tired. We're like ah Look it up We are definitely not paying attention to the road. Good thing. There's no cars Need of water to work its Dolores Canyon gold claims the Montrose mining company built a 13 mile canal and Flume to deliver water from the San Miguel River The last five miles of the flume clung to the wall of the Canyon itself running along the cliff face below you constructed between 1988 and 1891 the four-foot deep five-foot four inch wide hanging flume carried 23 million gallons of water in a 24-hour period That is pretty cool. And this is kind of funny and sad They built this whole thing and the mining claim only lasted three years because it didn't yield a whole lot So you put a lot of work into something sometimes and it just doesn't work out. That's life Ready ride bikes Dana Any area or container on this property may contain radioactive materials Well, that's reassuring, but it makes sense because this is uranium mining territory This is like our own personal Canyon down here and we're enjoying this immensely Then how's that bike feeling on dirt? Wow, I'm really loving it on dirt It feels super stable, and I'm loving the thicker wider tires And you know, I had a pretty bad crash on a road bike So this just feels like oh, you're just like super stable And it rides kind of the same as a mountain bike like speed is your friend You know you come up on some rocks and stuff and you just like Just go really fast through it. It just takes it all We popped around the corner here and we have our first view of the lasal mountains which are covered in snow And that's the direction we're going tomorrow We are rolling up to the bedrock store, which I read earlier was featured in the movie Selma and Louise Built in 1881 and It was considered at one time the longest running general store in the state of Colorado since 1885 Your accent's not Colorado. No, I'm actually from Brooklyn, New York So my story is from Brooklyn to bedrock and everybody knows me as pie Because my name is Anthony Passano. They pronounce the pie zano So here I am in bedrock and everybody likes pie. What's it like living out here? It's awesome. It's a dream It's a dream come true, you know, and then my my life and my wife's life is a dream come true as well We met each other when we were 15 and 13 and my dream as a teenager when we were together to live on a farm or a ranch Eat our own Vegetables either on eggs from our own chickens either on chickens know where our cattle's coming from and that's what we're doing today But we're not together all that time My wife and I we were together at 15 and 13. We broke up and 37 years went between us But I always believed that we'd be back together and We did and here I am this my mantra is like you got to believe it to achieve it You have to visualize to realize and your consciousness Will manifest Whatever you're thinking if it's good or better indifferent, that's what you're gonna manifest If you think it's gonna be a bag of crap, it'll be a big bag of crap This is Sarah and she is pie's wife. What's up? Hey? So It's about 28 years since they felt did the film much of the film was Made in this valley, which is Paradox Valley There's a scene in the film and I forget whether it's Gina or Susan Sarandon who's on the phone with Harvey Keitel and they had put a payphone right over here and She's on the phone and Harvey Keitel is saying tell me where you are You're in a lot of trouble will come and get you and she says well I'm looking outside and we're right about in the middle of nowhere Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see from here Dan that was a tough day, you know not so much elevation, but that wind was just Just takes it out of you. All right Who this one has a nice view look at this I? Like that You know what? I'm going straight for the drunk food. Oh, and there it is All the milky ways nut rolls and Snickers you could ever want It's like we almost found a treasure chest look at all of these Snickers. Oh, yes And seltzer water. This is pretty deluxe usually when I do bike tours There is not a mountain of food just waiting for you I feel like a little kid who just got into his parents like candy vault Yes, what did you what did you make here? So the Denver boys were really smart and planned ahead and they actually ordered a meal in From a woman who lives in paradox. It's about five miles away, and she brought them just homemade goodness But my favorite ice cream and homemade apple crisp, you know, I got this thing about mountain bikers now I didn't know was there before well is They're all genuine people. They're all honest and good and you know, it's So refreshing she is a really sweet lady. She just loves coming out here and essentially making friends with people talking to people This is a small area and there aren't a whole lot of a lot of strangers around here So these bikers coming through definitely spice things up party. Thank you so much. That was wonderful. Oh, thank you. Thank you