Hailstorm does NOT like driving through Mexico - Raptor Baja Run pt1

Haley, I like that shirt. Tequila kills the boredom. All right, guys, I got some news. The guys over at Texas Raptor Runs reached out and said, Hey, we are doing one of our Baja runs in Raptors coming up. We've got open slots. You should join. And it just sounded like too good of a trip to miss out on. So we have the truck loaded to the brim. Haley and I, as well as our friend, Jerry are going to jump in this thing. Today, the plan is we are driving down to the U.S.-Mexico border down at Calexico. And then tomorrow we start a nine day adventure through all of Baja, driving primarily off-road. I think a lot of it is on the Baja 1000 course. We're going to get down there. Baja, here we come. I'm going to bring you guys along as well. Well, when Trent sold it to me, he didn't left out a lot of information. I didn't realize we'd be driving through Mexico. I don't know why. I thought like, it was not the Mexico trips I thought. There's no margaritas on the beach with, I don't know, at a resort. Well, let me get this straight. When he said we're going to go on a Baja Raptor run to the bottom of Baja, California, you didn't think there'd be driving involved? I thought it was going to be a leisurely cruise. To be honest with you, I didn't think we would be doing what we're going to be doing. I get that I sold it as fish tacos and cervezas on the beach, and that will be part of it, but we're driving through Mexico. Yeah. I mean, I didn't get a full grasp of the trip. Okay. So today is our first true dirt day. Basically yesterday we rallied a good 400 miles down highway, which was like the tightest, windiest road. This is maybe like the worst possible situation of highway passing I've ever had in lots of days. It was an exhausting day, but today we've got a shorter day, all off road, all in the sand and Mexican desert. And this is finally like the realization that this is what we're here for. All right. So we just stopped at this tight little parking area, actually tight road coming in here. It's like, if you're ever going to get Mexican pinstriping, it's from here. But we are now hiking up some cave that has some paintings in it. I was advised not to wear flip-flops, but I always wear flip-flops. Come on. I hike everywhere in the back country when we're flying in Idaho and flip-flops. This could not be that much worse. And I immediately feel like by saying that, that's like famous last words. They're looking for the fountain of youth and they found these stories. They found these and they asked who made those. And they said, we don't know. They've been here since before we were here. They have the horn things. Six fingers have appeared in art. It's been in other places around the world as well. Oh, and a lot of them are split half black, half red, and they always have like their hands up. How much of this we're looking at is part of the actual Baja 1500? All of this, like everything you can see here, that, that entire road up and over the mountains is all race course. And that's, that's what we were on. Yeah. There's still 75, 80 miles that way before pavement again. What do we got going? You set up a perfect lunch thing. Working my butt off making sandwiches. So our setup in here is that we have this little Amazon 12 volt fridge. Problem is on top of the seat, it doesn't open very far, but what we're using, I've got the little anchor power supply that's charging off the truck at all times, and that is what's powering that. So the fridge is always powered. Yep. Oh, you know, Trey covers all the breakfasts and dinners, but we're on our own for lunches. So that's how we carry the food. Haley, you should own a deli. She actually makes the best sandwiches ever. And Magnetico. What's the plan boss, man? So today we're going to La Paz, which is like 250 miles south of Loretta, where we're at today. We're taking a road I haven't taken before, but it's pretty excited to see something new. And it should be fun. Trey has a camera crew that follows each one of his events and films the whole thing and makes a video about it. And they're running off ahead of us. So we kind of do this little, like we stopped for a pee slash beer break, camera crew runs ahead, then we'll drive past where they are. Then we do another break. So it's kind of nice because it's not too much like iron manning, like hold your bladder. We're just going. Um, it kind of runs at a pace that is a much more enjoyable one because we aren't racing here. We're just here for fun. You done? Yeah. I don't know. After your five, six, seven, eight, I'm starting to dance. Did you really? How many seconds? A couple. Per second? As much as my competitive brain will let me. So that was pretty rad. We took this route that Trey has not yet done, which was over a relatively rocky pass, which, you know, obviously we'd all rather just be heroes out in these like sandy roads, but some of the time that's not what you get. So we went over this pass behind me and had no idea that once we crested right there, that it would be the Sea of Cortez right behind us. So it was kind of like that. Ah, like kind of reveal moment. That was really rad. So I guess we're taking dirt pretty much all the way to La Paz. So from here, we will work our way down to the coast and then along the edge. I'm sure someone's going to comment on it. Um, I got a tennis elbow. I've been battling for like a year. So, uh, had a, a PRP injection. I've done cortisone in the past. I've been basically trying to get over this thing for a year. And I'm at the point that I realized I got to take it more seriously. So I'm wearing the band all the time and trying not to do anything too strenuous on it in hopes that I can get away without needing surgery, which is kind of the next step. What we're using right now is Onyx off-road, which I know I've talked about in a million of my videos in the past. I use it all the time, mostly for land ownership, but from an off-road perspective, I guess they just added Baja and it's still like right now you can't currently download Onyx in Mexico, but you can still do all the regular stuff once you have it downloaded of downloading all the offline maps. So I've got the entire peninsula cause obviously we're offline right now and I have all the trails, but they have all the trails mapped, everything. You can also record your tracks, like what I've been doing this whole way down for you to relive them or send them to a friend, but they have this new feature where you can actually do route builders where like, if I was showing you, like I just did it at home, you literally like tap on points on the trail and the trail will latch the whole thing, you can share it with your friends and then it live updates between phones. It's like super off-road stuff. Yeah. And obviously down here they don't have land ownership figured out, right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if they have that, but up in the United States, once we're there, we'll show you, show you who owns everything. Yeah. And like the, the, this course we loaded, we're running a lot of slick Baja 1000 course and we just imported the GPX and it came right across. Cool. And the other thing, so what we've been doing in the truck, cause obviously all our trucks have carplay, wireless carplay. I've just got the Onyx. It loads it on the screen. Yeah. It's up on the screen. Yeah. With the satellite view. So you can see when all the turns are coming up and I've got all your pins. So it's like absolutely crucial. I will admit that Trent had a great idea on how to run the trails by resetting the odometers and calling out hazards based on the odometers. So I'm taking that idea. I don't know how you haven't done that. I don't know. I've never thought of it. I think I'm more irritated that you figured it out and I didn't think about it and anything else. All right. We are just getting locked and loaded in La Paz. I guess we're heading to Las Pariles, should be a pretty cool mountain pass that we have today and then hopefully some beach time, which we're excited about. We came all the way, oh, blowfish in the foot. Ow, dude. Those are not soccer balls. No, don't step on that, dude. Should hang one of these from your truck. Hey, go ahead. I got other danglers. That's what I mean. Yeah. All right, guys. Welcome to Los Pariles. We're now officially the farthest southern most portion of our trip. 1,800 miles from home. It has been quite an adventure. I think it's probably the coolest way that we can possibly do this kind of trip. And Trey, not to keep driving this home, but I'm just going to say it throughout a cool idea with the whole using our trip meters to remind us of mile markers for marking, you know, hazards. It works pretty good. The one, uh, kind of variable there is that everyone has different tire sizes. That's where you brought up the GPS, GPS, and then going back to Onyx. And I hate to keep driving this home, but Onyx, you know, I guess I didn't officially say it, but they are sponsoring this video. So thank you to Onyx, but that was my way of doing it. Yeah. And that works really well. So yeah, every time I would just go in and start and record a new track on Onyx and the same thing you'd reset your GPS. And then we're like on the dot. You could say mile marker 18.2. There's a hazard of this or that because tire size changes everything. Like this is a 35 truck or 37 and mine's the same way. And even though I recalibrated, it's still not, it's not quite right. So anyway, uh, again, huge shout out and thank you to the guys over at Onyx for really anything that you do outdoors, whether it's like motorcycle, four by four desert trucks, flying Onyx is a, an awesome way to do it. That too is really rad. There's a lot to be said about that. And again, I'm saying this authentically because I've been using it for years and I really am grateful to Onyx for sponsoring this one. And also I'm grateful for you guys sticking around to this point in the video. It sounds like we have a lot more in store. And even though I'm wrapping this up right now, we're only halfway through it. We're, we have to go all the way home. We still have a waterfall tomorrow, some crazy waterfall we're going to. We're also doing a thing that I am super stoked on that you do versus the other guys. We're giving back to the community. So we have some stuff to bring to the kids at local schools, but I'm going to wrap this video up. So make sure you stay tuned to the next one. Thank you guys for sticking around till now. You guys know the drill. Like this video. If you do subscribe, if you haven't, I mean, come on, less than 50% of you guys that are watching this are subscribed. It's not that I look at the analytics, but sometimes I do. Again, I'm not going to pressure you into that. I get it just, but if you get a chance, hit the subscribe button, hit the like and stick around to the next one. You guys know the drill. Smash that like button. Smash that mango. What are these? There's all sugar in that. They're healthy. There's nothing healthy about mixing mangoes. The first ingredient is sugar. Mangoes are like four down. Ingredients is sugar.