 it's cold I woke up and looked east and the sky is on fire and it's just a teeny little piece most of the cloud most of the sky is really cloudy I think we're in for some rain today unfortunately but the sunrise is cool I'm trying to film this sunset and somebody keeps knocking my camera I'm shaking it is it you morning rainbow oh my god I don't know if I've ever seen anything like this the Sun just came up over the mountains and on the opposite side of the sky there are two rainbows it's a sunrise rainbow now that is a miracle oh my god this is so cool what a morning wow wake up everybody one of the coolest things I've ever seen I love it we have moved our morning packing operation to under the trees because it started raining that sunrise and morning rainbow have been sucked away by the clouds and I think we might be in for a little bit of a rainy day oh I see you're making them the morning special yeah that's right yep the morning special a little gif and tortilla all right we're heading out from the comfort of the trees into the drizzle I don't love starting my day in the rain but that's that's what we got today a little bit of rain whoo no crashes whammies flaties or severe rain stormy yeah it's chilly it is chilly I gonna put the camera away and try to stay warm bye the cows don't like the rain either raining too hard right now which is nice it is still very cold but I feel like I'm in Ireland it's pretty muddy that is for sure and so are my legs yep still raining still cold we're still biking forward making progress and I have great news it's not raining yeah oh my gosh the cloud started breaking and then the Sun came out and it is so so nice to not be soaking wet and cold we're making good progress today the roads have been pretty flat or even downhill so that's real nice we are aiming at a town called pinedale today we should be able to get there and we need to get there because we're all low on food big time and I need to find a place with power to charge all of my camera batteries there is a Mexican restaurant here and I'm so excited I've been eating a lot of sweet stuff I need some savory you see this giant burrito I've been dreaming about this I've been eating a lot of junk food the last three days this is the first real food I've had in a long time warm food yes so happy and there's a couple vegetables there too oh John that looks good what'd you get bud oh I got a little company I said and Kevin also got lots of beans he's on the bean diet now so Kevin and I decided to get a hotel and dry off and we're in the parking lot and this guy rides by on his bike and then he rides back he's like hey what are you guys doing we start chatting and this guy what's your name I'm David hi David turns out to be an outward bound instructor an outward bound is what got me into the great outdoors when I was 16 years old tell me a little bit about our bound and what the what the mission is so we're trying to get kids out in the outdoors do a little character building I guess what they used to call it but now we're kind of trying to have kids face challenge and failure and success and from that kind of learn more about themselves and be better people from it and that's exactly what happened to me when I was 16 years old 23 days and Utah rafting and canyoneering and I even slept in snow and it was hard it was at that point in my life when I was 16 years old that was the hardest thing I'd ever done yeah and I came back and I loved it so much I came back and I slept in my mom's backyard the rest of summer because I wanted to be outside under the stars yeah so thank you for what you're doing I really appreciate it outward bound all the way Kevin how you feeling about this hotel choice I love it I mean look all this stuff is out drying which it wouldn't be otherwise I'll get to shower clean everything this is tough this is harder than I thought especially with the rain this morning the mountains yesterday than the rain this morning double kick my ass double kick my butt yeah yeah I'm excited dude your spirit is wonderful though man you're doing it with a smile see that thing right there that's a smile he is a happy man John wants to be tough guy and camp out tonight but the sky really still does not look good and that was another factor of us getting a hotel and we don't really want to get rained on all night again but I have a feeling John will be back he's gonna like peruse the area see if there's any camping close by and then he's gonna come back to the hotel another reason why hotels are very important is so I can charge all these batteries and make the videos these two are GoPro that's my navigation device the wahoo this is my power bank these are my three drone batteries and that's not everything I still have to charge more also this is another key one to charge it's been running on empty for the past couple days and when it hits my face it's like all right what's going on here Kevin there's laundry gonna clean these because these are the clothes I'll change into then I'm gonna shower clean all my other clothes hopefully by then these are dry ooh that sky looks mean so glad to have a hotel tonight so John why'd you decide not to camp tonight because Mira missed you Ryan oh that's right there's yes hi Mira I'm really glad you decided to come spend the night with me you can sleep in my bed if John lets you yeah what's happening over here now in the John bike shop in the John bike shop today we are replacing a spoke this happens I got a 40 pound dog in the back we're riding rough roads and I've been riding this wheel since October on very many rough roads so it's not surprising I haven't broken spoken the shop in town was really nice mirror get off me I'm doing an interview right now anyway John's big John's fixing a spoke so I just went grocery shopping this town actually has a real grocery store with pretty much everything you could ever want a lot of the other towns we've been through have just tiny convenience stores with almost nothing so here we go and the reason why I'm buying a lot of food is because we're heading into an area without much happening so I've got two cans of ice cream chilies we got two cans of beans new can of peanut butter fish food is for tonight obviously that's not gonna last on the bike Nutella 20 tortillas got about 15 of these bars and some sneakers and nuts that's about all I can hold on my bike morning Kevin you gotta have clean teeth ride the bike mm-hmm there's my man John we all slept well in the hotel last night hey you doing good good and everybody's happy especially Mira all systems check over here pretty near we got a heavy load today there we do lots of food you don't want to forget the heaviest load 35 pounds of pure joy right right Mira yeah oh is this a stick you want me to throw this is this really what you want me to throw that that's a record this is like a toothpick okay here we go get it oh oh she was tied on how's the packing going oh you know if it could just stick like that it'd be great alright let's do a dummy check we're not leaving anything here under the bed haha good joke John John just said there are three dummies here we are leaving Pinedale after a wonderful stay we are psyched we are happy our bellies are full how you feel this morning Kevin I feel like a million bucks my butt is good my legs are good my tummy's full I have no complaints I'm ready to ride sunshine makes me happy yep I'd say we have a tail end this is pretty smooth rolling so far nice way to start the day and I've done enough bike tours to know that it can all change in five miles then we have a headwind so I'm enjoying this for right now so the tail winds were so strong it blew me right back into my hometown of Boulder huh thanks for watching everybody please like and subscribe what an adventure wait a second that's Boulder Wyoming only 170 people live here I know they call this the great divide mountain bike route but we sure have ridden a lot of pavement for this to be called a mountain bike route they might need to change the name there is some mountain biking but very little mostly gravel riding and roads the great divide bike ride this one should be called I'd like to give a shout out to the steamroller guy right here what's up he is making this dirt road so smooth thank you steamroller guy you can't be stopped water stop there's got to get her water play all right mirror let's go ride bikes what do you say oh one more stick okay ready go it is such a treat to stop in the middle of a bike tour and play with a dog how cool is this mirror has endless energy we humans we get tired but this dog just keeps on going and going and going and going John come on up come up to the rock come up to the lunch rock Kevin lunch rock bring up your goodies look at this view remember this morning when I showed the clear sky and I was like it's not gonna rain today we're so psyched well it might rain today because these clouds are looking pretty threatening we're getting closer to the rain it's gotten much cooler you can tell that we are close I can smell it we may have gotten lucky that way is bad news this way could be bad news soon but right now pretty good but man it is it is beautiful know that Tom Petty song into the great wide open that's how today has felt it is the great wide open and even though I live in the West I sometimes forget how just expansive the West is it makes me feel really tiny out here it's so big I'm just a little itty-bitty spec along with all the little cows you look like Superman with your cape on so the rain finally caught us today we thought we were being pretty sneaky but no this is a big wide open area there's lots of isolated storms and yeah one of them is right on top of us these guys rolled up real slow and said hey you need some water and we said yeah we'll take some water we always want water it's a good thing out here and actually once we go further into Wyoming water is going to become harder and harder to get it's not like Montana where there's a stream every 50 yards it's going to be more of a challenge to get water so these guys are really hooking us up bye bye new friends wasn't that cool all right we have ridden 71 miles today and we are at a highway rest stop with picnic tables and shelter in the sky still looks very threatening so we're gonna hang out here I talked to the caretaker she said we can camp right behind so we're set for the night aren't you happy mirror aren't you happy yes Kevin how you feeling we wrote 70 miles that's the most miles I've ever done bike packing yeah the most miles possibly I've ever done on a bike in a single day and I feel like a million bucks don't ask me to sit on anything but I feel like a million bucks I am so glad we have this shelter if we were out there right now we would be getting demolished by this rain and hail we are so happy and it's just such a great feeling to be somewhere safe at night these people are super cool the caretakers of the rest stop they're letting us use their power and you know they said the racers from the tour divide come through every year and he's like that is just crazy and so John made a good point we got to thank all the riders who come through here and are polite and nice so this guy here obviously takes care of us here it is the famous van dozer sunset burrito cheers John good work today bam cheers Kevin look at that beautiful sunset it's even more beautiful after a rainy day my dudes high five great day good work out there Kevin you're doing awesome and you said this is the longest bike tour of your life now longest bike ride today yeah and it's the longest bike packing trip and the highest elevation and yada yada yada all the above longest biggest highest of everything and tomorrow we're gonna do it again yeah we're gonna do it again the next day and the next day the next day the next day the next