 yeah here we go yeah that's my girl that's my girl we're gonna ride bikes together for like a hundred yards that was a fun little ride so good to see you guys man let me give you an awkward bike yeah yeah be safe out there we'll see you down the road bye Mira all right it is time for the Tahoe twirl we are setting out today from Dom's front door in Truckee California and we are gonna be heading down to Reno Nevada which is about 50 miles away we're gonna do a bit of uphill but mostly downhill it is going to be much hotter in Reno almost a hundred degrees Fahrenheit so we have packed our stringiest of string bikinis and remember this is a bike packing route so 90% of this entire loop-de-loop is off-road and that makes us happy if you're new to my channel please like and subscribe it helps me immensely and if you're feeling generous please consider supporting my patreon I will link that below all right it's part of time really nice being out here slowly the ride has gone from fun single-track trails that I know to sort of pleasant fire roads in the middle of this like weird pastoral alpine landscape and it's pretty hard to believe that we're on the way to Reno I'm sure a lot of you can relate to this but if you eat a lot of cliff bars power bars any type of bar you get sick of them after a while but when you're really starving and hungry there's nothing like a cliff bar we are not sponsored by cliff bar by the way file this under things you should pay attention to our route has just directed us right to a river we started checking things zooming in and out it's like yeah it looks like we have to go across this river oh yeah I figure since I'm in a river with freezing cold water I might as well fill up some water and I have a new toy I usually use iodine I've used iodine all my life to purify but today I'm gonna try my new toy it's one of these sterry pens and it just blasts like UV light into the water kills all the bacteria and you're good to go so you just dip it in there it turns on its own and then you wait for this light to turn solid green and you got purified water sounds kind of like hocus pocus to me I hope it works I'm a little out of practice and I realized just now that I left my other camera up there when we were eating cliff bars because I've never done this before so I'm gonna run back figure it might be faster to run it wasn't too far away this is ridiculous I can't believe I forgot my camera okay this isn't good oh there is my camera there it is and I talked to this nice guy right here and he's gonna drive me back down to where I was oh thank you so much I appreciate it oh yeah okay are we allowed to be on the road okay good awesome yeah that was awesome see sometimes when you make mistakes in life you get to meet cool people like that guy Gary he said his wife has been on this land for generations I made it back here we go all right dry land we are heading up our first sustained uphill it's a pretty good one we're at about 6500 feet right now probably gonna top out at 7,000 and on the bike packing comm website they give this route an 8 out of a 10 in difficulty and I think mainly because of the elevation change on this entire route in 190 miles we're gonna go up 19,000 feet which is quite a bit we're also gonna go down 19,000 feet so that's awesome there's a lot of Wild West history in this area we just came upon a sign right here says the California Gold Rush dramatically changed overland transportation in the American West entrepreneurs built a vast network of new roads used by stage and freight companies to service the new mining communities this is all back in the 1850s this was a Hennis pass road let's say Hennis pass right here we just dropped a lot of elevation and it is way hotter down here we are fully in the desert and we saw this creek and we're like yeah we're jumping in oh yeah that's cold yeah there are sometimes on a bike ride when it's totally worth riding in wet chamois right now is one of them because we we didn't want to offend the children so we left our chamois on have a good one everybody bye bye hey slow down we have just sat down here in Verdi, Nevada we're in Nevada now we started the day off in Truckee which is California and it is time for lunch and we are starving it's so good it's worth the cold headache to just suck this down we're gonna get a cold headache you have a headache yeah I do usually drink Pepsi or coke basically my coke and soda consumption is limited to hot days of bike touring that's it yeah me too Dom I don't feel so good how you feeling bud definitely surpassed my weekly allowance of grease and saturated fat the problem with stopping midday at a restaurant when you're on a bike tour is that you're starving and you eat too much and then you don't want to get back on your bike when you when you do get back on your bike you're like in slow motion we have just rolled into downtown Reno and there is some Burning Man art here one of my favorite installations it's the words that spell out believe and Dom you were here a week ago what was going on yeah we could go this whole plaza was filled with maybe three or four thousand people for a Black Lives Matter vigil and it's pretty cool to see the all the signage and stuff is persisted and what better sculpture to have to back a protest or a vigil like that it's pretty amazing because we've all got to believe a little bit yeah and I remember when this believe sculpture was out in the middle of the playa at Burning Man it was definitely my favorite people are climbing all over it looks beautiful it's sunrise and sunset hi my name is Jamie I am sitting in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement I'm not from Reno but I came here three weeks ago today is day 21 in order to participate in nonviolent civil disobedience which is the most sustainable form of change I've been sitting here every afternoon till evening since providing chalk and paper and people bring down their own signs now it's gone from three signs to perhaps 125 hundreds of messages and chalk people love Reno they love northern Nevada and they really seem to support each other all walks of life one gentleman insisted I take a nickel donation that's all that he had it was pretty fantastic I have experienced nothing but love in sitting here and people wanting a better world so you're giving people free water to water and fruit wow that is so cool this flag the rainbow flag is lgbt qia plus the this one is a transgender flag it's blue pink white pink blue and this one here is pink purple and blue which is the bisexual flag and I bought them on Amazon and we wrote Black Lives Matter on them because well no matter what we support Black Lives Matter in that too originally I was gonna try to make the trans flag but yeah but I love colors too much I can't resist leaving them alone throwing all those colors yeah this is really powerful and I'm glad that it's here permanently and I'm glad that these these people are here guarding it and curating it and inspiring people to write their own messages and just like Dom said it's time for us all to believe but more than just believing it's time for us to take action what can we do to make this world a more equitable place the time is now the time was a long time ago which means the time is really now don't why aren't we camping because we found something better in the name of the vagabond in ladies and gentlemen I cannot recommend it highly enough it's $30 maybe even $40 cheaper than everywhere else in Reno on this COVID Saturday yeah we got a hotel we're in Reno we were cruising around we're like you know what let's get ourselves a hotel so we carried all of our camping equipment just for fun today was practiced tomorrow we're gonna camp maybe who knows a wilderness hotel tomorrow wilderness hotel who knows if we'll camp this is an adventure there's no rules we're gonna do what we want and it's you know beds are always a good thing and I can charge my drone batteries and I know you love that