Can I handle such a massive ride? | S1E16

Oh, I guess that's why they're flashing lights. My journey around the planet begins at North America's most northern drivable point. The plan is to ride through Canada and America before crossing over to Europe. From there, I'll make my way through the Middle East and Asia. After island hopping through Indonesia, it'll be Australia and finally, New Zealand. The end of my journey will be marked by the southernmost point of the South Island. I'm calling it the Big Spiral, and this is act two to an Alaskan beginning. Good morning. Today, we're going north, really north. It's gonna be a massive drive today and tomorrow. Let me show you on the map. I put my map away, but I can give you this digital version. So I'm in Stewart right now, and I need to get up to the Yukon. And I can't do it in one day, it's just too far. So I'm gonna head here, which is Telegraph Creek. So I have to head up by the highway, and then to Telegraph Creek, which isn't optimal, but I'll explain why on the bike. I'm not sure how far we'll get since it's such a big distance, but we'll just play it by ear and see how we go. All right, and on our way out from Stewart. And another crew rolling in. So I hadn't actually planned to go to Telegraph Creek. Basically, things got complicated. So I noticed that it's gonna rain tomorrow, like 30 mil. And I thought, well, there's no need to suffer. Like, it's gonna be nice the day after, so I may as well get a hotel. No need to camp and ride in the rain, right? And then I think everybody else had the same idea. So all the hotels are completely booked up, presumably because of the rain. And there's not a lot on this highway towards the Yukon. Basically, the only town is Dease Lake, really. But there's one kind of offshoot, Telegraph Creek. It's actually kind of a cool, like, old mining town. Like, all the buildings are quite old there and stuff. So I was kind of poking around, and oh, in Telegraph Creek, there's a place to stay for two nights. And so I thought, well, may as well go check out Telegraph Creek, and then while it's raining, just spend it working, so. But it is a fair bit off the beaten path, a fair bit. I think it adds at least an hour or two to my ride, and then it's gonna be another hour or two to get back to the main highway, because it's kind of a dead-end route. But now that I'm going, I'm kind of curious to see what it's like there, so. Goodbye, Bear Glacier. Wonder why that guy was flashing his lights. Oh, Black Bear. I guess that's why they were flashing lights. Hello, Bear. That one is not afraid. Usually they run away, but he's so used to vehicles. It's better if they're scared, just safer for them. So my navigation, it says Cassier Highway, and yeah, that's the highway I'm on. And it's quite popular, because it's, well, it's just so beautiful. Roadwork, harsh and dust. Very gravelly here. And at the very bottom, a metal floored bridge. What's more sketchy, the gravel or the bridge? Maybe the metal. Feels really odd. Feels like you got a flat tire or something. On the other side, another group of cars ready to go. Yeah, the light is so reddish orange. It's usually what you see when there's smoke in the air. Oh, it's raining. Well, how about that? Just pulled over. I think those weird colors is this massive thunder cloud coming over. I think I must've just missed that rain over there. This may be the preamble for the rain tomorrow. But yeah, it's so dark, it feels like it's, the sun's about to set, but it's just a giant cloud. Arriving in Deas Lake. Check this out. Still 120 kilometers to go. It's a long day. Back to the dirt. It's starting to rain. I hope this road doesn't get too sketchy. The hard pack is slippery. Maybe the gravel's better. Well, it's raining pretty good now, but it should be temporary. It looks light over there. I'm assuming the shiny bits are slippery. Well, the road's wet again, but it's pretty. Hello? Oh, hello. Hi, here for the next couple of nights? Yeah, two nights. Two nights. Yeah, tonight and the next night. Yeah, yeah. I'm Eric, by the way. Hi, Eric. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Yeah, well, come on in. I'll show you the room. Oh, it's an amazing ride in here. Yeah. Yeah, it's really good, yeah. We're supposed to get a lot of rain here, you know that? Yeah. Yeah, so I'm a little worried about the ride out. It will be very, yeah. It'll be sketchy? Yeah. I don't think you'll get out for a few days, maybe. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, crap. Well, I might have to book another night then. Yeah, I know, you'll have to see. We're supposed to get more rain than we've gotten like in a year. Oh, really? Yeah, when it rains like that, the road gets really. Yeah, already on the way in, it was a little bit wet, closer to. Well, that by far was the longest motorcycle ride I've ever done. Not that I've done a lot of motorcycle riding, but that was, it was over 500 kilometers, which I think is pretty respectful. Definitely tired now, but I also think it was totally worth it because this place I'm staying is totally awesome. Let me show you. This is the bedroom and well, it's all very nicely decorated, very rustic, but I think the best part might be the view. So anyways, that's that for this video. If you want to hit that button down below, well, it's actually free to do. It doesn't cost anything, but yeah, if you want to do it, go for it. And if you don't, that's fine too. Maybe I'll see you in the next video. All right, thanks, bye.