 Looks like it's Ryan Oh, I love you so much. Yeah, thanks for cuddling with me Good morning John Look at that cleanly shaved face How'd you sleep? Not that well actually I get to sleep with little warm in here used to the cold hard desert floors This is kind of luxury. It's yeah, it's not for us. We're too wild, but I think you slept all right, didn't you? What are you doing here John? well these these gates they they They're super durable everything, but they have a little squeak, so we're experimenting with using soap as a lubricant Yeah, they get squeaky. Yeah, I mean we're in very dusty conditions. It's hard in the wet. They're fine Yeah, we're just experimenting with a little Duprokin if it if this works we've solved an age-old problem Time to leave the cozy hotel Thank you turn off the lights It's a crisp morning. Thank you Cameron trading post hotel Here we go Another beautiful day on planet earth No flat ease no crashes no Whammy's Yeah, my legs are starting to feel it This is day six We've been riding pretty hard All batteries are charged camera batteries human batteries and dog batteries Let's see it. Oh, I love that job makes me happy every time We've just rode all to ourselves at Sunday early Everybody's still sleeping or they're at church This is John and Ryan's road and Mira Should we have a little mirror break mirror love break? Yes, we should You having a good day? This road is a lot quieter than yesterday's road Yeah, yeah, look at that smile a little chunk here It's definitely Some of the more technical riding we've done in the last week Getting close to a canyon This is pretty incredible. This is not the Grand Canyon. This is another canyon But it looks pretty grand to me. I'm impressed Check it out geology of the little Colorado River gorge The rock layers of the spectacular 1500 foot chasm of the little Colorado River formed in a near shore environment Where a shallow sea periodically covered the area 275 to 270 million years ago Let's go take a closer look. What do you think Mira? This is This is quite beautiful, huh? Unlike the Grand Canyon overlooks well where there's going to be like thousands of people We have this place all to ourselves John. I know this is pretty special Look at that We'll see if this camera can pick it up. But there's some amazing echoes here And check it out. We have our own picnic table To eat burritos And enjoy this Mm-hmm Not a bad sundae You know the desert of all the landscapes on the planet the desert Just inspires awe in me. I started reading Edward Abbey books at a young age desert solitaire A lot of that was based around the Moab Arches area and I just I love the colors I love how stark it is. I love the canyons It just makes me happy. I love the desert. You know, I don't you know oceans and mountains and all the other stuff Is great too but the deserts That's definitely What I like the most Just out here riding with my dogs We've been slowly grinding away uphill not super steep, but it's been constant uphill We've gone up 3 000 feet We are currently at 6900 feet elevation Which is pretty darn high And we're getting very close to the Grand Canyon You wouldn't think so by the surroundings. You'd be like, why where's that canyon hiding? But it's out there And it's beautiful. I can't wait to see it We're officially inside of the Grand Canyon National Park We're riding our bikes to the first view Oh god, yeah, wow Oh mama. All right, here we go. You ready for the reveal? Oh, yes Look at that Oh my god Oh, it's as good as I remember it. Here is getting her glamour shots Oh, I give her cheese grats Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Someone's very sleepy and tired But baby, there's the Grand Canyon So you don't want to check it out? Turn around here. Look I can say to all of you that describes my feelings for this This is just I mean, it just fills my heart with joy to see this This is only the third time in my life. I've been here And it is just it's mind blowing to think that one little river the Colorado River Carved out that giant expanse and it just goes to show Little by little you work on something and you can create a Grand Canyon You might need a few hundred million years to do it, but There you go. The end product is spectacular And I feel I just feel Connected to the environment here. I feel whole. I feel happy I feel grateful And to see all these other tourists around here checking it out. Everybody's having the same experience. Oh my god You know, we live in a world of technology and movies and big screen TVs and fast cars and yeah, that's exciting But this right here This is the most exciting thing I've ever seen in my life nature In all of its grandeur. I mean I love it. Yeah, I love it. I love it. I love it. I'm so glad that we rode 30 miles up here to check out this wonderful Grand Canyon I feel I feel so good. I feel so good here Oh man, good job nature. Good job nature pretty special. It's uh Yeah, I mean you got to come and see it for yourself where it's really just can't capture it, but It is uh A place you won't ever forget even just glimpsing it for a short period of time like we did today Hey, we're heading off to Find a good camping spot since it is winter A lot of these grand canyon camping locations are not open. So We're actually going to ride out of grand cash grand canyon national park and uh onto BLM land and find a place to camp This is so cool. We're sneaking peaks off to our right of the canyon as we're riding this road It's a little bit downhill. It's nice and warm. It's a beautiful sunny day Life is life is good man You know, I've seen a lot of beautiful things on my bike tours, of course But the grand canyon is at the top of the list. It doesn't get much better than that Another day out here in arizona. We are now camping Uh a national forest land. We're outside of grand canyon national park Nice flat area, although it might get very cold. We're at about 7500 feet of elevation above sea level and uh We've had freezing cold mornings at like 4500 feet above sea level on this trip. So it could be very nippy. You might hear me whining tomorrow But right now I am psyched the sun is setting through those trees. We've got john and mira. Where are you there? They are over there somewhere playing throwing sticks And yeah, it was just a great day. I know you already have a stick in your mouth, but I picked out a really good one for you You ready? You're gonna have to make a choice go Good job, you're gonna bring them both back You're gonna bring them both back to me Look at that. That's some skill. Got them both No, I know you're not gonna give it to me. Are you? What we've got here ladies and gentlemen Is the red healer and her element Waiting for the stick to be thrown Nothing will faze her She's got laser focus She will sit here like this And he'll some ding dong throws her a stick So john and I are just standing here talking debriefing like we Normally do at the end of a day and that's the cool part about this We have this shared experience and we go over Everything that happened throughout the day and I was just asking him about the rest of his trip And I want him to share it with you. It's pretty fascinating. John What the heck are you about to do? Well, I'm already doing it I'm basically in simple terms. I'm riding around the world A plan is to ride to all seven continents Um Maybe not in any specific order. So we've we're typically we're in north america right now Um Left canada went to the border and there's all that sort of stuff and and now I'm most of the way through Uh, the united states heading into mexico and then there's central america To go through so that's a lot of great cultures and different stuff. That'll be north america Then into south america and then so many more of course, uh, you know, africa and europe and and uh, australia oceania so, um Yeah, it's going to be a wild time lots of cultures lots of political things food people Uh terrain. Yeah, I'm we're very excited. It seems now like a massive undertaking and it is But we're taking it bit by bit and we're just you know, like today We were at the grand canyon. You know, these are the kind of experiences That we'll have along the way. So it's it's um, yeah really looking forward to it Yeah, how long have you been dreaming about this? Quite a while I think you know these things they start off with a little kernel And then they they get roots and they get in you and they kind of grow and grow and go last year Um, I guess in 2019 I left in in about a similar time period From now road from, uh, my door. I was living in calgary at the time Down to the states on on a very similar route And uh down the Baja where uh, we met actually january 2020. Yeah continued down To the tip of Baja I had some work on a on a movie project in africa So I had flown from Mexico to tanzania kelaminjero and then back This time on the mainland and continued on to as far south as guanuato And at that point covet was in full bloom around the world There was quarantines and lockdowns and all this kind of stuff It seemed prudent to start to return home. And so I then rode back to the us and back up um, uh new routes and development oral genesis up to uh, hood river in Uh, northern out oregon, then of course we did famously the great divide route I went down as far as um steamboat springs in colorado and then Finally rode back to canada Crossing the border in september and then worked for a while um You know work shift work a contract type position and so I can do that work and then and so now here we are We have an understanding of covet things are opening up and loosening and i'm trying again Yeah, man. Well, we're cheering you on a lot of people are cheering you on they love it. That's great Yeah, they love you and they love you Yes, they do And this has been so much fun so far, man. I'm really Grateful that we're doing this together. Yeah, and I'm really glad that you could come and Join part of what will be like the world tour the dog backing world tour And it's awesome that you're you know your subscribers and followers and our followers can You know, they can they can join in in this journey They can follow along and see what's going on and and if they live in these areas say hello Yeah, exactly. We'll come and visit if you're on our route We'll come and visit so you know, that's that's great or if you want to come out and just say hi Or just encourage us. We appreciate it all. Yeah, absolutely And the sun is down it is getting cold very quickly The moon is out the moon is out. We're probably gonna retreat to our tents and call it But thanks and thanks for another great day my man. Thank you Love it Now we're on single track on the az t Yeah, buddy. How you doing John? Wow. There he is. How you doing Mira? Everybody's psyched