 So Ali our goal was to find the hidden roads of America. What do you think? Oh I think that so far we've succeeded. We are out here. Yeah I am loving all the gravel and just long stretches of empty highway. It's really special out here. Another really cool thing about these roads is you know we look at our mats so we never know what's gonna be gravel what's gonna be asphalt and it's exciting you get out there and it's a surprise. How's it feeling Ali? It fucking hurts. My legs are just so just expired from yesterday. Now this is just my bones working. It feels good too. It's in a medication space you can get there. Some sort of water behind the church. Hi there. Is there a hose nearby we can fill up some water bottles. Thanks for helping out. This is good water here. Yeah we come from Astoria on our way to New York. Really? Yeah. You can't get through this way. We're rolling through town we're making great time today. We stopped up at the skies house he lets us fill up our water bottles and we're like yeah we're gonna go to monument and he's like you can't go that way to monument and we're like yeah the Google Maps says you can he's like nope the road is closed I would never take my ATV up there I wouldn't do it he's like you could but I wouldn't do it he's like you got to go all the way up that big ass hill. Oh boy these are the perils of not having a a root plant every day we're planting our root and sometimes Google Maps just throws you the wrong way so we're gonna eat lunch cry a little bit and figure things out. Yeah this is a tough one my deep inner self wants to just keep on going down this really rough road that the guys like oh you guys will never make it I have a hard time turning around going back it's never been one of my strong suits but in the spirit of this adventure where we said that we are gonna let other people direct our trail direct our path I feel like listening to our friend Paul going back and taking this other route makes a certain amount of sense. What's our decision? We're going back. Going back. Back up the hill. We might be lost but at least we're lost together. Nobody I'd rather be lost with. My friend Dana says you're never lost you're just where you are we're on planet earth here we are we know where we are we're just not where we want to be I should say. Yeah this hill is a big hill going down it was really nice. Going up it is not quite as enjoyable. Almost there almost there. So here is the turn off yeah we're essentially like seven miles from where we started the day this is a serious backtrack it's just one of those days where we're just kind of spinning in circles and luckily it's really beautiful and the clouds are puffy and pretty. And that's surprisingly this is called lost canyon drive seems very appropriate because we're lost. I think I have a map. Yeah well we have our phones and we're playing around with the Google Maps and stuff and it's kind of like. You know what if your phone's anything like mine you just won't run over it. Yeah exactly. You're not gonna you're not gonna get to spray tonight. I guarantee your fanny that because it's what it sprays 50 miles to. You probably don't see many cyclists getting lost on this road. I don't it's kind of exciting to see a couple of young people just doing their own thing that's kind of neat. Yeah it is. We're on this road here sprays through over here so this is high elevation this is. Really? Yeah that's windlocking I don't even this road is all locked up that used to be the 21. Now you know you can't get through that area. You can't get through that area. I'll tell you what I'm going to be Mr. Nice Guy and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. I don't have anything else to do I'm retired every day of the Saturday. Right up on top here right up there is is 4200 feet elevation. Wow okay. And I'm going to take your I'm going to take you guys right up on top of that hill. Okay and then then you can go down to Service Creek it's a goddamn fast make your head spin. All right and then Service Creek can be a great place to have a food there. Okay and it's on the John Day River it's a great place to camp. Wow. And you can ride that son of a bitch down there is a fast make your head spin. That sounds fun. What's your name? Dan Shaw. Dan I'm Ryan. Nice to meet you my friend. Allie. Allie go ahead and meet Allie. And we're a brand new couple we met like three months ago we met fell madly in love. Oh cool. And we thought it would be cool to go across the country and ask people for love advice. Do you have any advice? Dan shout. You know what behind every successful farmer is a wife with a good job in town. That's what you have to remember. You're still together? Yeah. How long have you been married? We were 43 years last Saturday. Wow congratulations. I mean 45 45 last Saturday. 45. What's what's the key to longevity because we want to continue this relationship. Now just be nice. That's all you have to do just be nice. I like it. It's kind of the golden rule. Simple. Yeah. Don't cheat on anyone. That's the worst thing there is. That's you know the only thing if you start cheating on someone you're cheating on yourself. That's that's what these kids don't realize anymore. Yeah. You know everything looks the old saying is grass is greener on the other side of the fence but it's not. Yeah. It's not. If you live long enough you're no damn good well. Yeah. Things are the same on this side as they're on that side of the fence. They just look different. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. Thank you. There goes the hero of the day. That was pretty awesome. That guy. We were both on the road and I was like I don't know if this is the right way. And then he shows up. He pretty much was like nope put your bikes in my truck. I'm going to take you to the top of the hill. Your head's going to spin so fast when you go down that hill you're going to love me forever. How could we say no? Yeah. I was like usually I don't let people like boost me. I want to like do these trips all the way human powered but that was a fun experience. He was a great guy. I think that probably we had to get lost so many times today so that we could get hang out with Dan for half an hour in his truck. He had a great story. He had great history about this area. Yeah. He's from this area. His great great grandparents settled it. He's a lager. Yeah. He's a rancher and his his love advice was very simple. Just be nice. All right. We're at the top of the mountain now and what he just boosted us would have taken us forever. Our estimation for how far we needed to go was way off. Like we would have we would yeah. It's amazing how quickly a day can go from we're totally lost. We're totally screwed. We're going to run out of water and food too. I'm sitting at a restaurant eating a banana fudge Sunday. Life is good. Life is so good. And look at Tater Top. We found an awesome campsite right next to the John Day River. We have our own little private spot right here with some tree coverage and most importantly access to the river to wash off our stanky bodies. Whoa. My beautiful river. Thank you for a beautiful place to sleep. And the beautiful stars. All right, Allie. We've been on the road for one week. Ready to ride bikes? I am so ready. I feel like I belong on the road. That's right. You're becoming a bike tourer. That's correct. This is my home. This is where I live. My butt feels great. That's good. Yeah. How do you think it feels? It feels pretty hard getting harder. Boom, boom. You know when you're riding a bike you can enjoy all the sounds like sprinklers. It might seem like nothing but it's kind of a soothing sound. We're slowly making our way on this beautiful byway. This is one of the least trafficked byways I've ever been on in my life. So I appreciate that Oregon. Good work. Seriously, there's been like 10 cars all day and they go way around you. I sure did. We got married. We eloped and ran off to the beach. We did. Didn't tell anybody. So we're riding across the country trying to get hope and inspiration for people about love because we want to fall further in love. What do you think? I think the biggest word there is honesty. 100%. You have to be honest. You have to listen to what the other person is telling you because if they're taking the time to be honest, you have to take the time to be open and really listen to what they're saying. It's important. I just don't think you can love somebody without being honest. You just have to be open and listen and able to actually receive what they're saying because they are taking the time to be honest about it and you need to look at it from their point of view and not your own. Yeah. Can't be selfish. Yep. That's one thing. A lot of it is selfishness because you're looking at how it affects you personally and not how it's affecting them and what they're going through. How did you know she was the one? How did you know he was the one? Different. The whole relationship, like he had said, I've been married three times. My last marriage was 10, 11 years. We were actually going on our 12th year and it was just my relationship with him and the connection that him and I had was completely different than any other relationship I'd ever been in. Kind of like we've known each other for a long time even though that wasn't the case. There was something about her actually. Like I said, I've been after her for a minute. One more. You guys are perfect.