 Well, lookie here. I'm back in Baja. Oh, man. It feels good two years ago I attempted the entire Baja divide all 1700 miles in one go It was incredibly beautiful, but also incredibly hard I pushed myself too much and I blew myself up and decided to quit halfway through But I always knew that I would come back so in early 2020 I've got all my stuff together flew to San Diego dragged my bike box through the airport put together my bike Road through San Diego jumped on a trolley called my mom at the border. I will be super careful I love you and I will see you when I get home Put my bike on a taxi make quick friends with the taxi driver Victor put my bike under a bus and then a 14-hour ride to biz Cayeno where I jumped off the bus bought some beans filled up my water and here I am Man it feels so good to be here this return to Baja has been a long time in the making and I can't believe I'm actually here. It's just I know these cactus. I know this smell. It's like Visiting with an old friend. Hello Baja. I'm back Let's have a good time. You know what I'm saying everybody The goal of this trip is to obviously have a lot of fun to make some new friends to enjoy beautiful mother nature at her best To not crash my drone To not get lost eat lots of beans and just to be out here and to start the decade off, right? 2020 that's crazy. We're living in the future people, but besides all that I'm excited just to Be out in nature by myself with my thoughts thinking about life and how beautiful it is and how grateful I am to be here and Yeah, those are all really good things So I'm gonna put the camera away now and Enjoy my first few miles of Baja in Solitude Oh, and how can I forget? Can't start off a big ride without my good luck mantra. Here we go everybody. You know the words Sing it along with me. No crash. She's no whammy's no flat. He's Time to get off the bike because I want to show you something I'm seeing something that I've never seen in Baja before that's wild flowers And it's been really rainy here at the last month This is what happens in the desert when it rains and it is beautiful You can also see that the little flowers are blowing around quite a bit. It's breezy out here It's perfect temperature and today the breezes go in my way Got the tailwind Found my first cool little critter of the trip Big old beetle Hey, buddy Got his butt all propped up Shown off his nice butt. Hey, I found the slow-moving sandy stuff That's all right Been a great great day. Oh, it's hard to Ride through sand and talk to the camera at the same time with one hand on the handlebar I'm going to take this moment while I'm standing here in the middle of nowhere to talk about something new that I've never had on a ride before And it's one of those fancy GPS computer thingies that a lot of people have in their cars And it tells them turn-for-turn directions. Well, I finally joined the 21st century and I got one This one's made by Wahoo, which is awesome because every time I look at it I go wahoo and I loaded all the Baja Devide maps in there And it just gives me a little line and I follow it last time on the Baja Devide I had a little Garmin e-trex Whatever and I'd have to pull it out constantly and fish through it and make sure I was on the right route and this thing Is so much easier Baja just inspires a lot of whooping and hollering 45 I've ridden about 50 miles which isn't bad because I started at 11 30 a.m. And In Baja you can camp pretty much wherever you want. There's not a whole lot of people out here and Anything goes pretty much as long as you're not on private property. So I found a nice spot right here that seems to be free of Cactus and stickers and stuff and set up camp and wait for the moon to come out Last time in Baja. I did not have a tent. I just slept into the stars, which was great But this time I thought, you know, I'll try this tent. It's super small and easy to pack. There I did it. I've got my house all put together got my laundry up. This is another new toy I'm bringing on this trip here. You see Baja's in the middle of nowhere. There's not much cell reception So this is a Garmin in reach and it works all over the world No matter where you are and the reason why I have this is two-fold one so I can send a message to my mom every Single night letting her know that I'm okay and that she can go to bed and not worry about me And the other thing is if anything horrible happened, there is an SOS button and The cavalry will come save you. I don't know who comes to save you, but somebody will come and save you It's a pretty cool little device. My friend Larkin lent it to me. Thank you Larkin So it was a nearly perfect day until I opened up my food bag and I see that avocado looks pretty gnarly Eeeeeeeeee I'm still gonna eat it. It's still good. It just looks sloppy. Looks like baby diarrhea There goes the last raise of the Sun my friends and as an homage to Burning man when the Sun goes down you all howl like a bunch of wolves Oh Yeah, look at that beanie goodness. They don't sell these kinds of beans in The United States and I love them. I mean, of course we have refried beans, but this brand exactly is so good This is another very funny thing that I always bring on a bike tour There's also a token of luck, but a butter knife is a very handy thing to have for peanut butter or beans You don't want to be messing around with a Leatherman getting in jars of peanut butter gets it all gunked up This is what you want I've had a butter knife with me on every single tour ever since my first tour from Honduras to Colorado and a little bit of salsa we told To spice it up I've been dreaming about this moment right here eating bean burritos in the middle of the desert in Baja Since my last trip and I'm pretty excited that I'm actually here doing it Wayne Provecho. I'm me When i'm in the middle of nowhere in a beautiful area usually nature I like to do what's called Love shout outs and this was introduced to me by Dana my good friend Dana You all know Dana you love Dana and the idea is that you're just sending out love and you get to pick some people in specific Maybe they need some love or whatever it is, but it also it brings them into your moment in your space So let's let's do it. Here we go. I love you mom I love you eat that Logan Sarah Carter Dad Melissa there's a lot of people but you get the idea. It's a lot of fun I do this usually what I'm on the on the edge of a mountain or a cliff and you kind of you think maybe they Could hear me. I don't know maybe they can maybe they can't but you're sending out love to the universe And that's always a good thing. Whoa check this out. Oh my god Look at that beautiful gigantic full moon. Oh Man, that's incredible. Look at that. I am in for a treat The moon always looks so awesome when it's just on the horizon And this camera is not really doing it justice, but believe me It looks like one of those Hollywood full moons mother nature. I love you. I do. I'm a big fan of you You make me happy You