Biking Across America (part 3)

We are riding this three-seater bike across America and living in our vans along the way. Our 3,000 mile route started in Oceanside, California and ends at the Atlantic Ocean in Annapolis, Maryland. We've been pedaling east for seven days now and so far we've made it 618 of the 3,000 miles. We only have a little over a month to complete the journey so our goal has So far we haven't quite hit our daily goal but we've had a ton of fun and we've established a pretty good routine. Ladies ride in the mornings, guys ride in the afternoons, we find a cozy spot to park our vans together at night, then we do it all again. We're a little sore but very happy with how smoothly things have been going until this week. In solidarity we ride. The fun continues Things have kind of started going downhill and not the fun kind of downhill. We have to call the guys. Blood just started dripping on the ground. This is the first time that my body has ever let me down during one of these physical challenges. Good morning. It is day eight of biking across America and last night we camped somewhere just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona which means that we are now 20 percent of the way across the country. Turns out running a business and biking across America is a lot of work. Love you. Love you. Bye. It's a beautiful day to ride a Trandom across the USA. Who's ready to bike? I'm ready. Safety first. Not my favorite but at least there's a huge shoulder and there's two lanes and most polite people get over or at least slow down or neither. Well girls just got our first flat tire. Yeah thanks for checking. All right. Thank you. You too. Have a good one. We have to call the guys. We can't fix it. So I have one spare tube. It's a total blowout mate. Of a new one. Bloody blowout. Bloody blowout. How did this happen? This is from Ragbri. Oh my gosh. Hey how you doing? Um we've been better. We're gonna need a spare tire. Okay you got a flat? Well technically we got two flats. I'm on the way. Just add this to the list of the million reasons why I love this crew. We're hot. We're tired. We're on the side of a highway. We have a flat tire. Rick and the girls show up. We're having a dance party. They're switching the tire out like it's nothing and everybody's happy. Good job girls. All right we're gonna try to make up some time. Okay new plan for the morning. I'm going to head 25 minutes backwards into Flagstaff to pick up three more inner tubes because we just used our last one and I believe that's two flat tires in the last two days. So I think these extra inner tubes are going to turn out to be pretty important and for the next week we're pretty much going to be in the middle of nowhere. Oh there's always something going on back there. It feels like we've just descended into the Grand Canyon. Gorgeous. Got them. Okay before I leave town I have one more stop that I think will bring the whole team a little extra joy today. I'm not really sure how we ended up in this situation but I just took a photo with a complete stranger wearing his hat and it smelled weird. Oh we're back on the road. We're ending the day with a big long climb. Bigger and longer than it looks. I think this is literally 10 pounds worth of Taco Bell burritos. Also before a couple months ago I had not been to Taco Bell in 15 years and so if you think a 10 pound bag of Taco Bell burritos is gross, I hear you. But you haven't tried their fiesta potato burrito. All right Jeff and Nate is back in the kitchen ready to warm up 10 pounds of burritos for the team. What a beautiful sight. Oh my god you're here. These burritos came all the way from Flagstaff. Oh my gosh how did you know? Are you ready for this? I guess what you could put on this burrito? Tofu? French fries. No. Nate you have no idea. I feel like I'm gonna cry. This is the most tired I've been. It was such a big day. It was such a big day. The first half was like so good and then we got the flat and then it got hot and it just felt like a grind. Churning and burning. Y'all crushed it. My legs were burning in the van just driving up some of those hills. Thank you. And we almost got hit by a boat. You did. It's always these old dudes pulling something with their truck. Just get over yourself. Slow down and get over. Give me some space. I love you. I love you. I'm glad you didn't die today. Me too. I'll make it on the bike. Yeah. Enjoy lunch. You deserve a break. We'll take the big day tomorrow. I think I'm also sunburned. Kara there's somebody that wants your Taco Bell. Oh my gosh. Later boys. Take two. Well this is a first. I just got a nosebleed out of nowhere. I was going to the bathroom and blood just started dripping on the ground. Just add it to the list. All right mates. It's time to drive. The downhill does. The dads are back. Y'all did the hard work. We rode until it was dark and then we got off the bike. There was a standoff. What? Yeah. Some guy had a gun, was shooting all around and 20 cop cars went past us. It was crazy. We never saw the guy with the gun, but we saw the cop cars. Cheers. To not getting run over by a truck carrying a boat, to not getting abducted by a crazy shooter guy, and to biking over a hundred miles today. Rick and Beck, back before they had kids, hiked the Appalachian Trail. Their go-to meal on the trail was stove top stuffing and instant mashed potatoes. So tonight, for the first time, we are trying their go-to Appalachian Trail meal. Don't you worry. I got these instant mashed potatoes all lock. I got lunch and dinner from you today. And stir. Wow. You were so talented. These might be a little watery. Don't get ahead of yourself. Yes. I did in fact, chop green onions. I didn't know you were going to put all in one bowl and make it so pretty. I set a very low bar in this relationship. It's the thought that counts. We'll see if it lives up to the hype, Rick and Beck. Oh, it totally does. The potatoes at the bottom are really hot. Sorry. Do I even need to say it? I think it's pretty clear by now that Nate and I love AG1. And we've been drinking it ever since we discovered it over three years ago. During our normal life, we always try to get our daily dose of AG1. But on this trip, I've been even more adamant about not missing a day and having our AG1 first thing in the morning. So whether we're living the good life in Bora Bora, which feels like a lifetime ago, or living out of our van and biking across the U.S., we don't go anywhere without our AG1. Trust me. You can ask anyone we've ever traveled with. They will confirm. Go ahead. Ask them. Just in case you've never heard of AG1, which would be very impressive, I'll quickly fill you in. Just one scoop of this stuff, mixed with a little water, contains 75 high-quality, clean, whole-food-sourced ingredients, which somehow feels harder and harder to find these days. Which means this one simple, convenient drink contains tons of vitamins and minerals, which support your immunity. There are pre and probiotics, which are great for digestion and overall gut health. And maybe most importantly for this trip, for us, there are adaptogens, superfoods, and antioxidants that help promote our metabolism, our energy levels, and recovery. Which we could all use some help on on this trip. I don't think there is a more convenient way to get all of this goodness in your body at once. And for us, AG1 is a no-brainer. And if you haven't tried it yet, I have great news. If you use our link in the description below, you can get our special offer. Your first purchase will include the jar, plus they're throwing in five of these travel packs for free, and a free bottle of their D3K2 drops, which we also take every day. I hope you love it as much as we do. Link below. Good morning. It's day nine. If all goes as planned today, we should cross into our third state. Y'all do a big day. If you do 60 miles again, you get to cross the state line. But if you only do 50, then we get to cross the state line. No. Okay, before we get on the bikes, in the comments, let me know, are you a everything bagel with gross chives and onions or cinnamon rolls? That's not fair. You're not like, chives and everything bagel. Like, it's delicious. If you're like, chives and everything bagel, you're gonna make people vote for you. We've done this before, and I think I won. Says who? I felt like they were just way more salty comments than sweet, you know what I'm saying? All right, if you want me to shave my mustache, leave a comment, sweet breakfast. Oh my gosh, my legs are sore. World's largest co-talker exhibit and a burger king. Hey, hey, look who's here. I also got a Coca-Cola. It was a crazy day. All rules are out the window. I'm eating a Whopper. I have six Taco Bell burritos in the fridge. Oh, and I got a cookie. How's the ride been? Easy as. Ain't no thing. Got here in no time. I feel like an animal right now. I'm dirty. I'm hairy. I'm scarfing down my food so we can get back on the road. This has to be one of, if not the most unique Burger King in the world. It's a combination of a museum and Burger King. So you can get a Whopper and learn about the Navajo co-talkers. So during World War II, the Japanese were deciphering all of the U.S. codes. So we had no way to communicate and be able to strategically plan attacks without the Japanese knowing. Enter the Navajo co-talkers, which were a group of Navajo who slightly altered their native language and then they were able to communicate back and forth and the Japanese were never able to decipher it. So they allowed the U.S. military to communicate in secret, which was a huge key to us winning the war. I never knew any of this had happened and I learned it at a Burger King. All right, I've done some reading. This is all making a little more sense now. The father of the owner of this Burger King was in Japan during World War II as one of the co-talkers. So cool! These views are awesome! How cool is this? Definitely my favorite road of the whole trip so far. Frog formations everywhere. I'm looking to see where Carrie is on Find My right now and from the satellite image, it literally looks like they're on the moon. Arizona, Arizona, Arizona, Arizona, Arizona, Arizona, Arizona, Arizona, Arizona, Utah! It's just so mind-blowing to me that we started in Oceanside, California and used our legs to get to Utah. Bodies are amazing. Hi! You know it was an easy day when I'm doing handstands at the end of our shift. Turns out we just descended the 2,000 feet that we climbed yesterday. Feeling great today! In honor of being in a new state, I thought I would bust out the new chamois. I think I might have gotten it one size too small though. I'll order it off Amazon before I can try it on. I'm pretty sure your husband has one of these. Man, you look amazing! That's what it was all about, bringing joy to the people. Oh, I need a lot of sunscreen. Now it's a trendsetter! In solidarity, we ride. Whoa, we're going too fast with the aerodynamics. Oh my gosh! Colorado! All right, today it truly feels like we're biking across America, just in scenery that never experienced in day-to-day life in the middle of nowhere. For some reason, we're getting more attention today. Today we decided if we die out here, we die like real men, wearing onesie spandex. Oh my gosh, the guys are no doubt getting the best part of the trip so far. This road is insane! It does not get much better than this. Biking across America, riding through Monument Valley, being goofy with friends. I feel like this is going to be one of the days I remember most from the trip. We hit a top speed of 44 miles an hour yesterday. In these spandex, we might be able to break it. If we wreck right now, I'm going to lose a lot of skin. I think it's important as a grader to de-emphasize the importance on virality because we seldom go viral. Our career... Too good! I think we got a sign for it. Quiet, quiet, he's going to say something. I'm pretty tired. I guess I'll go home now. This is actually the exact mile marker where that scene took place. Okie dokie, the girls just got to the little town of Bluff and if all goes smoothly, the dad should meet us here. I texted Nate and asked if he thought they would make it all the way here tonight and his reply was for sure. So they're obviously feeling confident in their cute matching outfits. And with that being said, we're going swimming. We're going swimming with Evie. Three, two, one. So it's day nine of this whole adventure and it is so much colder than the last river. I'm a little embarrassed to say it's also day nine of not showering. We've had two swims. I showered today. We swam in the Pacific Ocean on day one and we took a dip in the Colorado River on day three. And now we're swimming in the same one on day nine. That's right. I think some soap needs to be involved. A donkey! I bet we hit 50. I saw 53.2. A new high speed record! That actually felt a little out of control. That was scary. Rick is the only person I would trust to be in the front of a tram going 53 miles an hour with me on the back. No shame. Just doing it all. I feel so much better. The town that we're riding through is called Mexican Hat and this rock right up here is where it gets its name. I don't feel as gross as I thought I would after literally not using soap for nine days but it still feels good to be clean. That was ridiculous. We were just sitting here minding our own business and the front tire, the bike had been sitting here for 10 minutes by itself and then we just hear like ssss. We barely have any service. I don't know if this call is going to go through and we're stuck on the side of the road. The bike just got its second flat tire and we ran out of tubes. The google fly wireless subscriber you have called is not available. Kind of kidding. We are stuck on the side of the road as you guessed it. We're about 12 miles before Bluff. We're gonna go rescue the dads. Nate is going to be so jealous of my river shower. Even with two flat tires, this is still the best day of the trip. The triangle formation is complete. Look at this campsite. Good morning. I think we may have found one of the most beautiful campsites in the entire U.S. last night. It's like a miniature version of Monument Valley that we were riding our bikes through yesterday except you can camp anywhere for free. This place is stunning. I think we were meant to pop our second tire where we did because otherwise we would have been way past this place. Good luck. Love you. Thanks mate. I love you. See you in Anus. I think it's a naff. All right the girls are off. It is now 10 a.m. which means we have about eight and a half hours of daylight left. The goal today was to do 80 miles to Cortez which the mileage really shouldn't be an issue but with the elevation I'd say there's a good chance we're falling short of our goal again today but everything will be fine as long as we can make it to Cortez without popping another tire because we have no more spare tubes and the closest bike shop is 80 miles from here. Well we just made it to the city of bluff again. Yesterday we drove the vans here. It was very satisfying driving up those hills knowing that the guys were going to be riding the bike behind us but we all know how that went. So we just finished what they were supposed to do yesterday. We're feeling good. Is that their good side? Yeah. As we were laying in bed last night Kara told me that I needed to take a dip in the river this morning. Oh it like hurts it's so cold. I'm counting that as shower number two. 34 miles like it's nothing. Ladies! Strike again. Have fun boys. Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Utah, Colorado. I honestly did not know that we were at the border until just now. We're back in my favorite state. I'm like half dressed compared to yesterday. I feel like the only thing I'm missing is a big gold chain around my neck and a cigarette. All right girls just drove to the town of Cortez Colorado. Guys are shortly behind us and we're having a little bit of a admin day. First we went to Walmart. We bought all of their spare tubes which was only five just in case. Of course I got some snacks. How could I resist this and these and these? Now we're at the laundry mat and while my clothes are being washed the van needs a lot of help. Let's just say I need to do a full deep cleanse of this whole place. Honestly this is the least I've wanted to get on the bike in a long time. Something about taking a shower and then eating a big lunch and it being really hot outside and it only takes about 15 minutes of sweating and then you're back into it. I think it's dead. Ew. Gross. Frankie was hanging out in here last night and laid on the bed for a minute and went your blanket smells like a fart. It's part of the inspiration for this admin day. I got a side cramp from lunch. Hey. Hey. Hello. What the heck are you doing? You know her? Oh my god. What? So those two bikers that we just passed are the first two bikers that we've passed on this entire trip and it just so happened that they're friends of Rick's from Leadville. What are the chances? We made it to the big city. Cortez. Oh wow. Looking good. So we just realized that on that ride we crossed the Colorado border and didn't even realize it and apparently the girls have a tradition of doing handstands on the border so we decided since we all missed it we'll just have a competition here in the parking lot. I literally thought my hand was going to start bleeding. Way to go Evie. Good morning. So after doing handstands in the parking lot yesterday the guys rode another 10 miles. Unfortunately we couldn't find any free places to camp so we ended up here which I'm going to call a top secret location because technically let's just say we've gotten in trouble for filming in places like this before. So let's let's blur this out in this. So we're just in the van and we are not using the for any type of extra content just to make that clear. Gonna end this little section of the video here and we will see you on the outside. Good morning. Ride at over 7,000 feet elevation and all the trees are starting to turn as weather could not be any more perfect. Well I have been debating this ever since I got off the bike yesterday and all morning and I've decided that I am not going to get on the bike today. So if you followed any of our previous bike series when we rode across Iowa during rag bri, Beck hurt her knee and that took her out of riding and then last year when we were riding the Tuscany trail Kara hurt her knee and that took her out of riding. Kara said her knee wasn't right for three months after Tuscany trail and yesterday randomly midway through the ride I started feeling some weird pain in my left knee and I decided I'd just push through and finish out the day and then last night when I got off the bike it really started to swell and I took ibuprofen, I took turmeric pills, I've been putting this CBD icy hot stuff on it just anything I could do to reduce the swelling and unfortunately my knee just still doesn't feel right. I'm not in an excruciating amount of pain but I'm thinking about the longevity of the bike trip. We still have almost three weeks ahead of us and I feel like if I can just maybe get a day of rest on this knee it won't turn into a bigger problem. With that said it is way harder than I would have thought it would be to sit out a ride. I feel like I'm letting the team down. I tend not to be as emotional as Kara so there are no tears yet but I kind of feel like that version of Kara crying on the inside right now. You got this girls! Wow it is beautiful today. These mountains with the golden trees. Evie, thank you. Appreciate you. Don't do too good so they still want to ride with me. Good luck. Thanks buddy. Thank you Evie. This feels so wrong. Nate's knee was hurting so now I'm back here with the dads. I'm a downhill dad. I'm a downhill dude. All right well we're in such different places emotionally. This morning's ride was so good. Like Colorado is just it's full of extremes. The mountains were high. The oxygen levels were low but that downhill at the end was so satisfying. We're on the side of this busy horrible highway and we found out that the chain is bent so now mom, Beck has came back with some tools and we're gonna try and fix it. We were like 30 minutes in and yeah it sucks. I'm walking around Walmart shopping instead of riding a bike. That's almost more dangerous than riding a bike. More traffic here. We should get these. I think we should get those. I'm not in the best mood for biking right now. I honestly did not even think we'd need this tool. Miss didn't bring it. Well believe it or not I would rather be on the bike but I figured if I'm gonna have a day off I might as well make the most of it. I'm trying to be positive. I'm honestly so sad I'm not on the bike. I think I'm actually just eating my sorrows away. Like like that yeah. No on the other side. Yeah over there. All right now it's time. We were feeling a little down with the chain. Probably took a 30 minutes to an hour off the day but Aaron gave us some energy. Thanks buddy. Be safe. All right. So I backtracked into Durango to find a new chain for the bike just so we have a backup of everything and walking down this main street just reminded me that this is where we finished the Colorado Trail. Such good memories here. Nate's knee very conveniently hurt on the one day. That the shoulder is less than a foot wide and we have 70 mile an hour traffic going right beside us. There they are. Uh oh. I think it's just dusty and brick. Oh no. What happened? Oh my gosh I'm feeling even worse now. Two people on a three-seater bike. It's the most depressing thing I've ever seen. I will get on right now and ride without a chamois. Honestly it's fine. We definitely miss your momentum flats and downhill but it's not it's you know it's a little bit harder but it's not like killing us really. So rest up the knee. We feel bad that you I know you want to be out here and I and I know the knee must be really bothering you for you to not be out here so take it easy for a day. Is Rick telling the truth? How is it with two people? We're not the downhill dads without you. That's so true. We are not. But on the uphills I can't say there's much of a difference. All right we found an epic camp spot for the night. I'm going to try to get a good night of sleep and hopefully I can ride in the morning. It's like a roller coaster right now. Like one minute it feels totally fine and the next minute I step up a step and I feel this like weird pain inside of it. We'll see. Happy when you're running straight to you. Happy when you're running straight to you. You are so strong and amazing. Happy when you're running straight to you. Wow. I love your candles. I'm sorry they're dripping everywhere. Yay! Best run ever. I can't believe it. I'll do that. Jesse and Sarah do not enjoy public praise at all but I'm going to give it to them anyway. For the last 365 days they have not missed a single day of running. That means every day as we've been biking across America, either before or after they've been on the bike, they've ran at least a mile. Today is 365. Today is a big day for two reasons. Not only are we hitting the highest point on this entire ride, Wolf Creek Pass, at almost 11,000 feet, but we are also crossing the 1,000 mile mark. And you may be wondering why are we riding together in the van? This normally doesn't happen. Evie was nice enough to take the morning shift with the other girls this morning and the plan this afternoon is for me to get back on the bike. Kara is going to follow in the van. If my knee holds up I'll ride the whole afternoon and if not Kara will get on the bike and set it up for me. I'm just going to be on call ready to go but I also might get the whole day off. Or you might have to ride the whole day. Or I might have to ride up the highest point of the entire journey. One extreme or the other. Okay so we've just pulled over on the side of the highway right at the 1,000 mile mark of the trip. Which makes us officially a third of the way through this journey. We're building a little finish line and we're going to celebrate as the girls come across. We just celebrate it like that was the finish line. But I feel like that's the key to these big adventures. You have to celebrate little moments along the way. Thank you for getting us over mile 1,000. Nice work. And the MVP. Yeah. This is to help get me up Wolf Creek Pass. I have never been so excited to put on a chamois. It only got taken away from me for one day and I already missed it so much. But I'm gonna have to do a little. Let's go. I'll see you at the top. Wish me luck. Thanks Evie. I'm here if you need me. Yep get ready. Don't push it. Get ready. Okay. You got this dude. Three two one. Bye dad. Here we go. Up up and up. All right right off the bat the knee is feeling good and we have over 3,000 feet of climbing in the next nine miles to reach the highest point on the entire trip. Let's go girls. Man these trees are too good. We could not be passing through Colorado at a more perfect time. It's bad when you're taking deep breaths and there's a dead animal on the side of the road. I just feel so good to be back on the bike. That's the road right up there. It goes back in there and comes up and it climbs around. Let's go. Oh man this is a big big uphill but man is it beautiful. I love Colorado. If you look right down the middle of this valley where those lakes are that's where the guys got on the bike. We're about halfway up. The knee is feeling good. Brick and Dusty are feeling good. I've taken so many deep inhales in the last hour. We got this. How we going? Feeling good baby. Okay we'll go to the next spot. You might miss us. This is the best day ever. Yay. Oh man that was so encouraging. They've only gone a couple miles but Nate was in great shape, great spirit and I get the day off and I get the day off. The girls have officially driven to the top of the pass and now we just wait for the dads. All right we thought we'd give the girls a good laugh. It is absolutely freezing up here and we're about to strip down to ride the final 150 feet to meet them. There they are. Are they all three stripped down? Yeah. We did it. On the ride across America. Outfit change. We're in a few more clothes than you were when you got here. And I'm absolutely freezing. They're nuts. They are nuts. We're nuts. This whole thing is nuts. This whole thing is nuts. Okay back down we go. We're gonna head to camp and hope they make it to us before turning into icicles. It's so cold and we're going so fast. The speed limit's 35. 49. 49. We're breaking the speed limit. A tunnel? What in the world? This is epic. It's so beautiful. It's uh it's raining. I don't even care. I'm so happy to be back on the bike. It's so cold. Are you okay? It was so cold. I'm so proud of you. Somehow it is day 12 and I am just now making my signature van dish. Google Care's Famous... We are a little over a thousand miles in. The goal was to do a hundred miles a day. Which means that technically we're about 200 miles behind schedule. Technically. But I think this was anticipated. Today was the first day where I was thinking about oh this is gonna end. And I was sad about it. I really did think it would be harder than it is. It's not easy, but I was a little nervous that we were way in over our heads. The fact that we have made it to the peak of the entire trip, and we're feeling good. It's probably kept us busier than I thought. It's not necessarily this just like, absolute physical slog. Like I was scared that our bodies would be breaking down by now, but I feel like we're getting stronger as a group, and so I think physically we'll be fine. I have had both my best day and my worst day all in the last three or four days. Yeah. I could not believe that I rode all the way up the mountain. Beck is a true MVP being in the front of the girls every single day. Because I go in the front sometimes for the guys, and it's like twice as tiring just to be in the front controlling that whole bike. I think she's the number one person who's like holding all of this together. She's gonna be ready to crush some climbs tomorrow. Yeah, I am. First third of the trip was great. Hopefully the next two thirds can live up to it. I gotta go use the public restroom. I need to put a shirt on. That's the problem with these. You have to take off all your clothes. Yeah, I don't have a pocket for my phone now. This one actually has a pocket. Nice. Still prioritizing safety. Nipple coverage. I don't usually bike across America, but when I do, I ride a Trandem. Hello. Hey. Oh, hello. How are you doing? Bye. Oh my gosh, look at that dog. Whoop. Kara has asked me to film a teaser for the next video, but I don't know what's gonna happen. So if you wanna watch our old videos and get caught up. Click the playlist. Is that what it's supposed to do? Yeah. We have no idea what's gonna happen next. Here's a quick preview of the next episode. And this is when Kara stopped having fun on the bike trip. You kind of know before I do what's about to happen. What? Thanks for watching.