It was hot... very hot. So please excuse my utterly childish whining about the lack of a GPS. The trip was about to get a LOT better. This is one of those videos that I thought about skipping the upload because I was so negative... but then again, this is the RAWness. It just goes to show, once again, that it's a good idea to PREPARE and TEST your gear before you're out on the road with it. It was this same GPS that nearly led us to our demise!
So ladies and gentlemen, the consensus from my facebook folks (you can join them at www.facebook.com/everideorg) was to upload the Utah Backcountry Discovery Route footage raw. This works for me because there is so much of it... and it's been sitting there for so long... that editing the whole thing was a scary proposition.
My brother and I did a fantastic dual sport motorcycle adventure on the Moab section of the UTBDR on our trusty Kawasaki KLR 650 and Suzuki DR 650. Things went great until I started to have throttle issues. There was a huge storm, we got lost a few times, and ended up nearly dying from lack of gasoline, air in our tires, and especially water.
All right, so we have come around and back and around and back.
We've, uh, we came down this road and now we're going back up it and we stop about every three
miles. Once again, I highly recommend doing this with an actual GPS system
instead of a phone that sucks. My brother's using a BlackBerry.
And basically, he was able to route the map so he knows where to go,
but he can't follow the map real time on his phone. So it's just kind of like,
I mean, this is going to suck if we have to stop at every single turnoff to find out which way to go.
Ah, it's frustrating. It's frustrating because every time we stop,
I think it's probably about 105 degrees out here. And every time we stop,
we sit there and bake for about five minutes as we figure things out.
And it is not pleasant. When we're on the road, it's fine because the wind is blowing nice,
but just sitting there stinks. Anyway, so we're going to be back to the right or left turn here
soon. What does it matter? Well, I mean, we're supposed to take a right of that turn and yet
we're supposed to go five miles back on this road. I don't get it. So lesson learned. The
main thing that you want to bring on this is a real live actual GPS that doesn't suck.
