 How you feeling, Allie? Good, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we have some big news. If you watch my most recent video, you probably know who this beautiful girl is. Her name is Allie, and we're pretty excited about things. I don't know what to say. You don't need to say. That's perfect. That is great. One of the things a lot of you were asking is, who is Allie, what does she do? So who is Allie, and what does she do? Hi. Hi. You don't need to be that formal. I'm going to totally adapt to this situation. She's not a YouTuber yet. I am not a professional YouTuber. Well, tell them what you are. My name is Allie, and I'm not a professional YouTuber. Yet. Yet. But I am a writer and a filmmaker, and I live here in Boulder, Colorado. I'm also an athlete, runner, biker, skier, all the good stuff, rock climber, and a former life. What's your favorite ice cream? My favorite ice cream is fish food. Ah, hold on one second. Let's see if we have some in the fridge. This is the best ice cream in the world, and we both happen to love it. You know it's real love when you have the same favorite ice cream. We're so excited about life right now. We met about three months ago, and it knocked all of our socks off. You can see we're not even, we're still not wearing socks, because the situation was so powerful. We've fallen madly in love, and this summer I was gonna plan by myself to ride a bike across the country. My friends at Trek were gonna sponsor the ride, and I was just gonna go across the country, and have a great experience, and share lots of videos with you, but then I met Allie, and we quickly fell in love, and I was like, I don't wanna leave Allie for two and a half months. So I called Jocelyn at Trek, and I said, hey, can my new girlfriend come on the ride, too? And so we're going together! We're gonna ride bikes across America! Yay! Should we tell them what kind of bikes we're gonna ride? Ooh, yeah, let's do it. So Trek has a brand new, awesome gravel bike called the Checkpoint. You wanna see it? Poof! Look at it, here they are. Yours should be in front, yours is really pretty. Mine should be in front. So this is the Trek, Trek, it's hard to say, Trek Checkpoint. And it's their new line of gravel bikes, and we're gonna ride these all the way across the country, and why are we riding gravel bikes? Because we are going to try to stick to the back roads. We wanna take the paths less traveled upon so that we can meet the people who live out there. Yeah, so we wanna take as many rail trails or whatever we can do to get off the main highways. Of course, we're sometimes gonna ride main highways. We're gonna start in Portland, Oregon, and go all the way over to her hometown of New Pulse, New York. I've been on a lot of cross-country bike rides before, and my favorite part is meeting people. And I really am excited to do it again. I've never done a Northern route, so this is gonna be a first for me. And what are we gonna talk to people about? Yeah, well, when Ryan first told me about this trip, he was telling me about how he was gonna go across America, talking to Americans who he didn't usually get a chance to connect with here in the bubble of Boulder, Colorado. After the elections, you know, there was a big shift in, I think, our awareness of the diversity of the face of America. And... Well said. She's good. She's way more articulate than me. It's certainly something that I have a deep interest in. After the elections, I was part of a campaign that's goal was to, you know, create voice of unity in really divisive times. And that was what Ryan was saying he wanted to do with this trip. He wanted to share the voices of people whose stories were otherwise and not heard. So we've kind of changed that a little bit, but that's still at the core of what we're doing. And what we've changed is that since we're in a brand new relationship, we're both very excited about this. We're gonna meet people all over the country and we're gonna talk to them. We're gonna talk to you about your advice for love and relationships and how to make it work, right? Absolutely. I think it's cool. And I'm really excited to hear love advice from people who I have never met before whose type of life I've never even thought about. That really makes me excited. I'm sure that there's some really good advice out there that I've not encountered in my pretty limited social sphere. And love is something that everybody can relate to. Everybody loves their wife or their son or their daughter or their husband. And it's something that connects all humans. And I think that's what this ride is all about. It's about connecting the people we meet along the way and sharing their stories with you. And I'm gonna try my hardest to edit as many videos as possible on the road. It's going to be hard sitting in tents on our computers doing this, but we're gonna do it for you, YouTuber audience, because I love you. Yes, the reality is that we do live in devices of times and love is a bridge, not only between us, but between all of us. Oh, damn. Did you prepare that? No. Oh, that's good. Well, I mean, I've been thinking about our pitch. Should we add that it might be hard to find these back roads and it might be hard to find these people for exactly the reasons we've talked about, so we need their help like that? That's where you come in. We're gonna be asking you out there in the YouTube social media world. If you see us out there and we're gonna be doing this on Instagram and Twitter, you're gonna know exactly where we are. If you're like, hey, my cousin lives over here or hey, I know of a trail over here, just tell us. We wanna go where you send us, kind of a choose your own adventure route. Choose our adventure. Yeah, because we don't know where these trails are necessarily. We don't know where the people are that we should be meeting and connecting with. So we're really excited to have you help us find them. And here's something. So what we're doing is kind of risky. Everybody we've told that we're gonna do this, you're like, wow, that's gonna be quite the test on your relationship. And it is gonna be hard. We've both done very difficult adventures and not only are we gonna be dealing with severe exhaustion but navigation and finding food and where to camp and all that, but then the dynamic between us. And it's exciting of course, but also she might ditch me halfway across the country. Yeah, we've been together three months. A month of that we've been separated on different trips. Not that long really. Yeah, not that long we like don't live together or anything like that. I have not been in a relationship, I committed a relationship for seven, eight years. Are you committed to me now? I'm committed to you. Okay, good. Woo! At the end of this, hey, listen. Sorry. We still need the bikes here? We don't really need the bikes here. It's kind of an awkward position. I'm like, hey, how you doing? It's kind of a nice arm rest though. Okay, we'll move the bikes. Thank you Trek. Thank you, Jocelyn. Why are you telling us our hands were unbuttoned? Oh, I didn't know they were unbuttoned. Luckily it was blocked by the Trek checkpoint. Trek, we love you. Trek and Jocelyn, we love you so much. We are gonna make you so proud. You've never sat on a bike for more than eight hours at a time, I'm guessing. No, and yeah, I have very little experience with the road bike. I'm intimidated by that. The position is like, yeah, it hurts. Are you worried about your butt? And more about my back. Really? Your butt's gonna hurt. Oh. I have a tough little butt. All right, we'll see. Do I feel it? Yeah, oh. Hurrr. Hey, she's gonna get me a lot more viewers with that kind of stuff. Yes, I always needed somebody sexy in my videos to finally get my subscriptions up. I was talking about the end of this ride. It's gonna be two and a half months. We want, I would like to be even more in love, which is hard to believe right now. But I wanna be like, oh my God, we just did this amazing thing together. We met so many incredible people and the end of it be like, damn. Look what we did. That's what I was gonna say for Michael. Oh. Sorry. I am really excited to spend two and a half months just with you, exploring, building this relationship and also getting to know my country in a way that I never had before. There's something about when you move slowly through a space, how you can really develop a deep relationship with it. And I just haven't really done that in America. Yeah. I'm in a car. Hi. I'm also excited to sleep outside. Yeah, under the stars. Oh my gosh. Fireflies. We don't have fireflies in Colorado. So as we get further east, we better see some fireflies. Mm-hmm. Country fairs. Country fairs, small town fairs. We're gonna be sleeping in your backyards. Dirty diners. I love a dirty roadside diner. Roadside attractions. Roadside attractions. Yeah. It's gonna be absolutely incredible. I mean, I have, as you know, I love traveling by bicycle. It's showed me so much of the world. And when you're on a bike, you're not an intimidating figure. You can just roll up in this small town and people are like, hey, who's that weirdo on a bike? And it starts up conversations so quickly. I've never had a problem meeting people on these bike trips. And I'm really excited to share this with you. Really excited for you to experience like why I love doing this so much. I'm super excited for that too. And I think that I will love traveling by bike myself, even though I've never done much of it. The best way to follow us, since I'm not gonna be able to put up videos every single day, my goal is two videos a week on YouTube. The best way to follow us is on our Instagram accounts, atduzr and at. At least like geyser. We'll put that right here. Maybe a little bit of Twitter. Maybe we'll do some live stuff as we go. But we wanna make this interactive with you. That's really another part of the goal is we wanna share these stories with you. But we also want you to kinda direct us and tell us where to go. So Ryan, as we're biking across the country, we're gonna be asking people for love advice. For love advice. And I thought maybe it'd be fun if we could share some advice for each other just from the start. What advice would you have for me? For dealing with me. Yeah, for loving you. For loving me. Man, advice. Mm. I would say to just have some patience with me. Uh-oh, fun, turn it off. Dang it, because when I do these rides, I really feel like I want you to have the best experience ever. So I feel like I have all the burden of making sure it's perfect every day and the route's perfect every day and that you're well-fed and sometimes I might get frustrated or just like errr, freak out. Cause it's like really, I want you to have the best time ever. I've done this. And now I want you to love it as well. And if we get into situations where, you know, it's not going that way, just wait longer. Yeah, how about you go next? I would say not to take things too personally. If I am being really quiet or kind of like snippy or sullen, just give me some space. Yeah. And let me just have some alone time. And chances are I will snap out of it. All right, cool. But yeah, usually if I'm in a bad mood, it has nothing to do with you. Yeah. If it does, I'm going to let you know. These rides are difficult. They're stressful. You know, you're maybe not sleeping very much because you're on the side of the road and it's raining or it's hot or it's cold and like, yeah, a lot of, you know, stresses on your mind and your body come out when you do this kind of stuff. And we're going to be together dealing with this. And I think we're going to be able to help each other but also there's the risk of us like bumping heads and like pissing each other off. I would say the other thing perhaps more specific to me is that I can kind of be like an old nag, you know, like the horse that you can like, we'll just go until it dies. And I will push myself until I not die. I mean, I haven't died yet. Yeah, good thing. But so to just like help me be gentle with myself. Yeah, that's good. I promise. Yeah. You take such good care of me. Once again, everybody out there who already follows me, thank you so much. It means the world to me that you enjoy my videos. I'm so excited to introduce you to the beautiful Allie. She's going to be with me for a lot more adventures in the future. If you want to tell your friends about this, it's going to be a great summer. The series is going to be awesome. You're going to see the best of America. You're going to see beautiful landscapes, you know, inspiring stories and a lot of goofiness. And I'm thrilled to be meeting all you brilliant humans and be sharing this adventure with you. So thank you. Yeah, please like and subscribe and leave a comment. Luckily, she thinks my humor is humorous. Some people think I'm a total nerd. I don't think that blocked anything.