 Skip an amber. Can't thank you enough. This is hard to leave you You're very very dear friends, and I really really appreciate it. I love you buddy We're starting our day on a really lovely bike path. It's coming out of Hood River and heading us eastward towards the Dells it's a really beautiful stretch. We're looking out on the Columbia River and It's a perfect day for riding sunny blue skies We have traded lush green forest for Golden fields of grass. It's probably 20 degrees warmer out here. I'm guessing mid-80s right now Really excited because I've never seen this part of Oregon My first time my eyes are ever seeing this My eyes are happy It's very slight, but you can see the fields of wheat just blowing in the wind It's really cool What a great Sunday to be with Ali riding bikes in the middle of nowhere Once again skip comes through with a really beautiful route Wow Just moments ago. I was talking about how skip sent us on the best route ever Problem is you have to pay attention to the route all these small roads are easy to get lost and now we're way off route The Sun is gonna set this sucks We have to backtrack like an hour And it's beautiful road, but we're ready We're ready to be done and if we can just if we could fly where we need to be it's five miles that way But there's a river in the way and this road that we're on right here ends All right, we're back on route closing as bad as we thought But now we're on a steep gravel road Oh, man, it's a really good thing the Sun say stays out late here We need every bit of that sunshine Ali's being a good sport Oh, welcome to bike touring At least we're lost in paradise. Look at how beautiful this is Yeah, it's river we made it Ali is getting into the water We are both very sticky. This is the end of our first hot bay We figure a little bit of cold river water is the medicine we need. Hi, Ali There's nothing like a little bit of cold water to rejuvenate the soul and take the stank off What do you mean for breakfast? I'm eating my lucky beans and now it is time for camp cooking with Ryan. I'm going to make a Mexican crepe All you need is a corn tortilla and Nutella and you've got yourself a Mexican crepe That's pretty much the best way to start the day before we set off today. We're checking out the maps We're essentially creating our route every day. We're not following some preset across America bike path. So every morning we Navigate we figure things out and uh, we hope for the best, right? Yeah, it's cool. Our friends are giving us recommendations and So far they've been really good. No flatties. No crashes. No windies. No No getting losties like yesterday's We're going to put some sage here for protection while we ride. I love it That's for me. Thank you I love the smell of sage and it brings back a lot of nostalgic memories For my first outward bound trip when I was 16 years old I've never seen sage before until we went into the the canyons of utah There is a lot of wheat out here I don't think I've ever seen so much wheat in my life. This is a lot of gluten And ali is gluten intolerant so Hopefully she is okay Is the mic picking this up? You can hear these big power lines just crackling Let's get out of here America I'm a big fan of small-town america and having little picnics outside of small-town american grocery stores I've got an apple which is surprisingly delicious and fresh and crispy And some film up cheese Oregon born and raised and made whenever I get a chance I try to eat local food and I bought a ziploc bag full of peanuts covered in chocolate And don't worry mom. I also got an apple to be somewhat healthy When you burn a lot of calories you can eat whatever you want Your teeth might fall out at the end of the ride but Whatever Going up a big mountain ali needs a little pick me up Today has been a bit of a slog Lots of headwind as you can tell by The windmills there's lots of wind in this area And quite a bit of uphill I was talking to ali and I was like, you know the first two weeks of this ride of Are really going to train us for the rest of the ride. We didn't train all that much Before coming out here Now we're training which is good We're getting on-site training and we're hoping to get to a town called condon And we really hope they have an awesome mexican restaurant, which I know is a pipe dream, but You can always dream I want some enchiladas We made it. Oh my god How you feeling? um I feel a little roughed up Got some pretty serious menstrual cramps and it's a it's a tough way to ride Yeah, and we've been on our bikes for nine hours into lots of headwind into quite a bit of hills. So You're uh, you're a champ. We're steps away from a town. We're gonna eat some serious food Whatever that food is look at this place. So cool condon diners at it. We have a market closed We've been dreaming about food all day and we thought we'd get here. There'd be some sort of a diner And they're all closed this town's kind of shut down. It's a really cute town looks charming But the hotel's even close So it's snicker bars for dinner. Yeah, I think it's probably gassy. So Okay, so it's what's for dinner Authentic oestero maker You got some onions what flavor do you want? Do you need a kinder egg? Ice cream sandwiches are my comfort food. It's the best What did you get? What did you do? $30 worth of gas station food that was kind of expensive really at 30 bucks. Yeah Since we're adults we're allowed to eat ice cream dessert first We can do what we want. Is it dinner time? Yep, look at this gourmet dinner We got green chips green chips bean dip queso tortillas It looks like art because it is art. We have beans. We have queso We have the guacamole chips and we have chalula all in one. It's like a crunchy gordita. They sell a Taco Bell We're camping at the county fairgrounds. This is only a town of like what you say 500 people tea little town Here we go with our little romantic monday evening picnic