 I'm Ryan. And I'm Allie. After falling in love, we decided to ride bikes across America. Collecting love advice along the way. This is Love Cycles. No flatties! No cruddies! No cruddies! We survived the stinky room and we're heading out into Michigan. Are you excited? I am. Yeah, we're going to go explore the Michigan farmland. I don't know what they're growing out there. I have no idea what they're growing in Michigan. We're going to find out. No crashes, no whammies, no slammies. As I was packing up to leave today, I noticed that one of my paniers completely ripped off one of the support bars. So I got to find a way to fix this because that's no bueno. Right there. It's supposed to be like this. That's a lot of weight flapping around this hotel. I think this hotel had little trolls that came in last night and just started pulling out our stuff. We're riding through the neighborhoods here of Muskegon looking for the Muscatawa Trail. And this trail is going to take us all the way to Grand Rapids, which is about 40 miles away. Pretty sweet. And in Grand Rapids, we're going to meet up with some YouTube fans, which should be exciting. And they say they're going to try and help us fix our broken panier. Panier. French for expensive bike bag. We've really been loving these rail trails in the Midwest. We've been on them a majority of the time. Barely any riding through city streets. This is great. It's weird that we're here in real life and not on YouTube. I didn't even think you guys were going to come to Michigan. Yeah. It was kind of a last minute decision. This is Ali, as you know. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. How's the trail going? Oh, it's incredible, man. So good. It's an inspiration. It's nice to see you guys doing this. Thanks. I appreciate it. What's some advice you got for us? Basically honesty. You know, giving yourself some space, knowing that you're two individuals and you're going to have your own ways of life. What do you do during the hard times? You're fighting heads when you're fighting. Know that you're going to go to sleep and you're not going to be mad at each other. Know that you're going to wake up and you're still going to be together. You're going to work it out somehow. And how long have you been married? 13 years. 13 years. 17 together. I'd like to present you guys with our fire badge. I'm going to talk to the fire department. That's so cool. Check this out. We're going to put this on our panniers. I love it. Thank you so much, my friend. That's so cool. That's our first patch of the ride. That was really fun. Our new buddy Ken is a good guy. He'd been sitting out there all morning in the parking lot waiting for us. And we gave him a little bit of advice on YouTube. He wants to start a YouTube channel. So I said to him just start doing it. Start creating. Doesn't matter if it's total junk. It'll get better and better and better and better. I always tell people I've never made the perfect video. I'm constantly trying to improve and get better and better. And here's a road. Don't want to get hit by a car. Talking and camera-ing can be dangerous. Now we're about 10 miles away from Grand Rapids to meet some more YouTube friends. The woman's name I've been in contact with is Deepsea. I think that's how you say it. We'll see. Should be exciting. They said they're going to buy us tacos. So I'm definitely excited about that. My pannier is still hanging on. I don't think I would trust it like on a bumpy dirt path. But for right now, luckily, this path has been smooth. And I need to get this fixed. Because I don't want it to fall off someday with my drone and computer in it. All right, on Seward Avenue. How's it going? Nice to meet you in real life. Nice to meet you. What's your name? Sandeep. Sandeep. They say there's a good taco place here. Is that right? It is a good taco place. Gluten-free. Gluten-free. I like this menu, my friends. Look at this. Oh, yes. I'll take some burritos, tacos, tortas, salad, tamales, and quesadillas. England style. Oh, look at that. I love it. We're sitting here having a great lunch. Getting to know our new friends. Baby pictures start flying around. We don't have any baby photos. Can we show them? YouTube videos. This guy knows us really well. He's like, we just had tacos. Now it's time for ice cream. And what is it called? It's called Love's Ice Cream. Look at that. Love's Ice Cream. It's perfect. Look. Salt and Caramel. Brownie Expedition. And it says it's grass-fed dairy ice cream. Look at that. Look how pretty this presentation is. That is amazing. Oh, man. We are in heaven. Cheers, everybody. Ice cream cheers. Allie, what is this? This is a gift. This is their Grayswit bangles. Yeah. Yeah, they're bangles. From Sandeep and Dipty. This morning I was in touch with his wife on Instagram. Told her that I had a little bit of problems with my bag. And he went and we got some screws. We're going to see if we can fix my bag. So here we are, the bag in question. Sandeep went to a bike shop. Brought three different sizes of screws. And one of them worked. I asked you, so... Won't be equal to stick... I am sometimes, but... You know, like how do you guys make it work? You're in a different country. You're, you know... Yeah, I think that's what makes it work. That is what... Right. Because we are so dependent on each other. Because we don't have anybody else around us. Yeah. She can't just be angry at me and just go back to her mom's place. She says that we are arranged marriage. I'm not sure you know about that. The whole concept of it. But in arranged marriage, you tend to take things... We consider it a commitment. We consider it a commitment. So we tend to take it easy. Like, oh, she's going to stay with me. You take the other person for granted. Yeah, granted is the right word to say, I guess. So don't take them for granted. You mean this, right? And you have a baby together. Oh, yes. Now it becomes even stronger. And how... What advice would you give your... We'll be the first thing you tell your baby about love. When that time comes and maybe it's her first boyfriend. Oh, man. Yeah, it's her first relationship and she's having a hard time. I think it shouldn't be... For me, in a relationship, you shouldn't be selfish. You shouldn't really be honest and respect the other person. For me, these are the three main things. Yeah, if the person... Yeah, if the person is not respected towards her, I'd probably kick his butt. What's something special or nice you do to surprise one another? Together? Yeah. Look together. Look together. We bite together. Doing things together, I guess. This is the power of social media. She wrote us last night on Instagram. We started chatting. We started writing this morning and I'm like, oh, we're going to be a little bit late because my bag broke. She's like, no problem. My husband's going to bring you some tools and we're going to fix it. Here we are. Fix the bike. Fix the bike. I know. That was a surprise. We have new friends at Grand Rapids. This is amazing. We're in some sort of a wildlife park here in Saranac, a teeny little town. And it's toward the end of the day and we decided to stop and play with animals. This evening was just another one of those end of the days. We were cruising around looking for a spot to sleep for the night and just randomly turned down a road. Saw the signs, Nature Park. And yeah, you never know what you're going to find when you just take those random turns. This place turned out to be really beautiful and perfect. But we wouldn't have found it just looking on Google for a campground. Does it remind you of a Robert Frost poem? And I took the road less traveled by. And it made all the difference. And then we got arrested. Guess what? Michigan is really humid, which means that we're really sticky, which means that we need to jump in some water. Oh, perfect. This Nature Park has its own river. Oh yeah. Get in that water. Oh, this does feel good. This is like the perfect temperature. Those rivers and lakes in the west were just like straight snow runoff. They were freezing. I like the temperature of the rivers out in the Midwest. Two, three. I'm going to come out there and check on you all. Allie, what's on the menu for tonight? Here we have fitness spread, famous in Germany. We have a fine and well-aged cheddar cheese from the world's largest cheese wheel in Wisconsin. Nice. These M&Ms are from Merriamon, Nebraska. We bought these for James and his friends. James is a little kid that like showed us to the river and we were playing around. We bought these for his friends and we went back to the park to give them to him and they were all gone. So James, this is for you. Oh yeah, look at this. This is essentially the candy burrito right here. I'm very excited about it. I like the crunch. Above our tent all night, there were little sparks of fireflies. It was like our own little set of shooting stars. Goodbye, beautiful bird park. You ready? One, two, three, go. Little bunny rabbit. Hello, good morning. We've got ourselves a nice bike path to start the day and we're going to ride our bikes. Let's see, around 70 miles. We'll end up wherever we end up. We have no idea. This ain't Rackbri anymore. There's no pie ladies. But we're loving it. It's a beautiful morning and we're about 800 miles from New York City. This is pretty interesting back here. Of course, Michigan, Detroit. It's where a lot of cars were made and still are made and we're riding right past. It looks like a bumper factory. Never seen anything like this before. We do not have car manufacturing in Colorado. If young Ryan knew how amazing older Ryan's life would be, I think young Ryan would give me this older Ryan. Such a huge high five right now. He'd say, good job, bud. Good job, bud, for creating this beautiful life. And man, I feel so fortunate right now. Life is beautiful. Our little love bug is looking so cozy on the back of Ali's bike. He's been a trooper. He's been through mud and rain and heat and humidity. He's always got a smile. Thank you, Sarge, for our little mascot. We love him. Another thing I really love about these rail trails is that you can talk to each other really easily. You're side by side all day. And you would think after two months of being side by side all day, every day, 24 hours a day, we'd be sick of talking to each other, but we seem to always find something to talk about. It's pretty astonishing, really. Have we gotten sick of each other? Nope. Not really. Well, I mean, sometimes we're sick of each other, but we get over it. Yeah. We've been looking for the perfect bench to have our lunch and we found it. This one, thanks to Janet and John. We have a banana, some avocados, root beer and a Sprite, tortillas, Nutella. This whole spread costs us about $3, so that's also awesome. Yeah, it's very cheap. The Midwest is a lot cheaper than Oregon, Washington, all those places. There's something really incredible about a fizzy drink on a hot day. Oh, God, it's good. This is some trail gourmet right here. Perfectly ripened avocado, aged cheese, and some wheat-free black bread, which is still soft and delicious and it's so good. It's the end. We're back on roads. It's a sad moment. It is a sad moment. We've enjoyed this Amazonian journey through Michigan. Thank you, Fred Meyer, for this trail. It was beautiful and also here's a fun fact. It was named after the Fred Meyer Grocery Magnate. That's right. Fred Meyer himself funded the creation of this spare trail so you can eat all your Fred Meyer cream puffs and then burn them off right here. That's right. Come on, Allie. Oh, that feels good. Everybody's excited for beans. Hey, scream if you want to eat beans. She wants beans. Big time. All right, Allie. It's about 9 p.m. And we have hidden ourselves in the far corner of this park. It's on a Frisbee golf course. But I think we're good. I think we're good. What do you think? I have the hiccups. You have the hiccups. Okay. But we are right next to a river. We're right next to this beautiful river. But we are also definitely on the Frisbee golf course. So hopefully nobody's still playing Frisbee golf because here we go. I don't know what whole number we are. Maybe we're number 18. But yeah, this is, we've got a great spot here. It's right on the river. It's just a little, you know, illegal. It's fine.