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(engine humming)

- [Man] What are we doing? - [Man] I don't know.

- [Man] Yeah go check what's up.

Tanner, what's going on?

- [Tanner] It dead ends up there.

- [Man] No, we can't go that way?

- [Man] What did they say to you about this road right here?

- [Man] I didn't ask them for directions to Seattle.

- [Man] I think we're lost.

("Golden Age" by Dan Luke and the Raid)

♪ Feeling ashamed ♪

♪ Play like Texas Hold 'Em ♪

♪ I was taken to be tamed ♪

♪ Loss my sense of motion ♪

♪ Up up and away ♪

♪ I'm flirting with the golden age ♪

♪ Keep me at bay ♪

♪ The hunters won't be hunted ♪

♪ We got no where to stay ♪

♪ Yeah have to keep on running ♪

♪ Don't fall on your face ♪

♪ Keep dancing with the golden age ♪

- We started the Soldiers of Destiny in 2008ish,

summer winter 2008, like that period is when we decided

on animal helmets and we were never

gonna take ourselves seriously ever.

You're an adult riding a scooter with a latex animal mask

stretched over your helmet.

How can you possibly take yourself seriously?

We all started riding together and going

on longer and longer rides,

it got more and more ridiculous.

The idea to ride across the country

was definitely not our idea that we came up with.

There's an existing ride called the Cannonball Run.

- He brought up this thing that happens every couple years

where people ride long distances

and it's kind of an unsanctioned group of idiots

that decided they're going to do this endurance race.

- I went home and immediately started checking it out

and it had been going on since 2004

and it was every two years they would ride

from one end of the country to the other.

I had no idea where it was gonna go

because we don't have any choice or control over where it starts and ends.

- Justin sent me a text with just a single link

to the Cannonball and I looked at it

and told Justin he was crazy.

- Barnes, Barnes sent us a Google Maps image

of a starting point

and you could see the bar that my wife was working at

in the background of the picture.

(soft music)

- Everybody being just as ridiculous as each other

and always trying to one up each other

and being super ridiculous, they all said yes.

- And I was like that's crazy, I'm in.

- That's it, let's just go for it.

- And I'm like I'm in, I'm in, let's do this, let's do this.

- I'm like yeah, I'm down.

- I was like oh, you guys are actually doing this?

Add me to the group like I'm in.

- Somehow I got roped into it.

- It wasn't too crazy of an idea

until we actually started really getting into it

and then realized how much of an undertaking it would be.

- What's the worst that could happen?

Well, bad stuff, but we just went for it.

(upbeat music)

(surf music)

- It was July in Jacksonville, Florida.

- Our gear was showing up, our bikes were showing up,

our riders were showing up,

it was like a giant, shitty summer camp meet and greet

and all these things were flying in

from all over the country.

We had an entire bedroom of our house

just filled with Amazon packages.

We were still putting shit together.

Garage was running 24 hours a day pretty much.

- [Man] Thanks for making your home our new clubhouse.

(laughing)

- Yeah, S-O-D J-A-X baby!

- So the one thing on this ride that was the most

instrumental piece of the puzzle

was our Sena headsets.

These are amazing pieces of technology

and they are so powerful

and I can't say enough about these things.

- [Man] Barnes, did you turn your camera on?

- But when you're putting them together

make sure you read the instructions.

- Hold the button down and it'll say like

pairing, pairing, pairing and then you hold it down

and it'll say pairing.

- It's already paired.

- Hey, listen! - I'm listening.

- Hold your button down,

hold your button down for six seconds,

it'll say pairing mode.

Hold your button down for six seconds,

it'll say pairing mode.

When his says pairing mode you tap your button again.

I'm starting to get angry.

(laughing) (engines revving)

Teams of three, teams of three.

(fireworks exploding)

- [Man] We watched the fireworks on the Fourth of July, we stayed out way too late.

(sirens wailing)

(dance music)

- The night before I had my own little moment of coming to Jesus where I wasn't sure

I was gonna be able to do it,

I wasn't sure the bike was gonna be ready, I was in charge of the equipment,

I had no time, I had no money.

- People didn't think we were going to ever make it.

Nobody's ever done a cross country ride

on a Zuma successfully and so here we are,

125 CC's, 40 miles an hour, 3700 miles, 11 days.

- I hope to God this bike does not die.

(garage door closing)

(upbeat music)

- So when we get to the starting line, we're all sitting around.

Everybody is nervous as hell.

- I was so nervous and anxious.

Like this is two years, more than two years of my life.

This is thousands of hours of countless nights

of me not being able to sleep

because I'm so stressed out about thinking

that I feel responsible for everybody.

If anybody gets hurt it's gonna feel like

I'm never gonna be able to let it go.

If we don't finish,

I feel like I'm gonna let everybody down

that we had hyped this plan up.

- We don't know what's gonna happen,

we don't know how this is gonna go,

we don't know whether we're gonna make it, we're not,

and I knew this was coming but I was trying so hard

to delay it but we were probably five minutes away

from putting our jackets on

and riding away from our friends.

I'm getting choked up thinking about it now.

I went running in, I went running to everybody

or by everybody in the lobby who's having a nice breakfast

on the beach in the morning

and just immediately went into that lobby bathroom

with no door lock and just puked.

- Justin's in the bathroom throwing up,

Daddy is scooting around doing circles

with his loud ass exhaust.

(engine revving)

The girls are giving teary goodbyes

to Barnes when he's not throwing up and Joe.

Ron is hugging Katie and it's this tearful,

joyous kind of occasion.

(upbeat music)

I still couldn't even barely speak.

I was so anxious and nervous

that I was, it was just too much

and I knew that I was just gonna start crying

so we said goodbye to everybody

and it was the cameras were on

and everybody was honking and it was like this is happening.

(horns honking)

There's no escaping any of what's about to come.

It was completely on me.

(engines revving)

(lyrics drowned out by bikes)

♪ And I'll forget you anyway ♪

- Drive away, I'm on the comm systems

trying to choke out a thank you to everybody

for trusting me and doing this with me.

Not 10 minutes later, breakdown.

- [Big Daddy] I had noticed my bike

just spewing oil on the side.

- We all stopped and we're sitting around

trying to figure out what the hell Daddy did to his bike.

- Well, I didn't think it was gonna be me.

(laughing)

I really didn't think I was gonna be the first one

to break down but it just so happens I was I guess.

- So we got about 11 miles before we had our first stop to wait for some idiot.

- Everyone else was like blowing past us

and I'm like great, we're already the laughing stock

of this entire race.

- Clean.

(laughing)

- Fuckers.

- We just look like such losers.

- Watching all the rest of the riders go by,

honking, beeping, waving,

we were the laughing stock of the entire Cannonball,

that's for sure.

- Luckily it was just me being an idiot,

I got anxious and put to much oil in her.

I spent like three days painting everything on my bike

and I wanted it to look super fresh.

Three days of hard work, done.

- It was all back to normal.

Bickering started, laughing started

and it was like okay, this is exactly what we've done

for weeks and months at a time back in Seattle

for the last eight years and now we're just in Florida

and it's no different and we have 10 hours we thought

of riding to go.

(twangy music)

♪ Run down motel ♪

♪ End of the block ♪

♪ Came all this way now ♪

♪ You're too scared to knock ♪

♪ Good times leaving you ♪

♪ Last train pulling through ♪

And we just went and rode all the way through Georgia,

dead armadillos everywhere, it stunk like a carnival.

- The bugs were huge and kept hitting us in the face.

(squeegee squeaking)

- It is the hottest, most insanely humid shit hole

that I have ever been through.

- It was one thing after, we barely got to get comfortable

on the first day, it was hang up after hang up

and they were just being thrown at us all day.

Somebody ran out of gas, a belt broke,

somebody hit their kill switch on accident,

actually I did and thought I broke down.

We got crazy rain, lighting.

- Whoa!

- We got separated a couple times,

this was like one of our first big breaks

in communication and I'm trying to tell everybody to stop

and everybody just rode off down the road.

- It was like watching a slinky try and go down the road.

We got pulled out in front

and somebody's like ah, shit man,

forgot my oil, I forgot this,

it was just a complete catastrophic departure.

♪ Can't take this feeling ♪

♪ Can't take this feeling ♪

- About five hours in, which is pretty much the most

that I've ever been on a scooter at one time,

five hours in I'm actually falling asleep.

- There was nothing, there was no turns,

there was no hills, it was just flat, shitty roads

and you're just sitting there like

(scooter engine humming)

for fucking eight hours.

- There was a moment where I was just like

if this is what every day is gonna be like I'm gonna die.

- We have to do this how many more times

for how many more days?

That was the worst feeling.

I don't know if anybody else felt that.

(engines revving)

(horns honking)

- Yeah baby!

- End of that day I was like if this is how it's gonna be

for 11 days, I'm just gonna hop off at the next stop

'cause this is fucking crazy.

The daunting task of we still have a lot more to go,

this is just the first stop,

this seems like it's going to be

the worst decision of my life.

- Every scenario that we thought could've gone wrong

short of somebody crashing happened on the first day.

- When we started this thing

part of our crowdsourcing was

if we hit a certain amount of goal

we had these challenges that we were all gonna do.

- Eight riders, eight challenges, 11 days,

the penalty if you decide

that you do not wanna do your challenge

or you fail at it you have the following consequences,

you have the choice of either shaving one eyebrow

or you have to cut your hair into a cul de sac

and that means shaving the top of your head

but leaving the rest of the hair present.

- And we just drew a challenge out of a hat

and my challenge was the unhappy camper

and I had to sleep outside.

(soft piano music)

I basically slept with my eyes just barely open

so I could see and I would hear footsteps coming

and would just, don't say anything, don't move

and maybe they'll leave you alone

and a couple times I saw the footsteps stop

and then they'd just keep going.

And I was like yes, thank you,

thank you for leaving me alone.

I don't wanna talk to anybody tonight.

I maybe slept an hour, maybe.

My alarm went off at five

and I was like it's morning.

Got up, went into the room, grabbed my stuff,

filled up my Camelback and shook everybody awake

because I had no patience at that point.

Like get up, we're leaving, we're leaving on time today.

- [Justin] Starting.

(engine revving)

We were supposed to be out of here at,

I don't have a watch on, at six o'clock.

It's already close to a quarter after.

- Good morning.

(chattering)

- [Justin] BD is, I don't know what you're doing.

- Changing shoes, bro.

- I wanted to get on the road like a half hour ago.

I was ready at a quarter to six, like on my bike.

- [Justin] Like we were supposed to.

- You don't have to keep talking about it.

If we're not on time, we're not on time.

- [Paul] Well we just need to talk about

what the term means and like we were up

at a quarter to five in our room.

- [Man] That's fine.

- You were up way too early, bro.

- Managing expectations was a huge part of the trip

and one of the hardest parts for me was to be patient.

I'm not a very patient person at all.

We need to have expectations of if we're having

a conversation and we say a certain time

we need to at least try to adhere to that time.

- Paul was just always pissed about people not being on time

so you get that sense right away,

it's like, okay, well this guy's got something he's dealing with.

- Dealing with people like Joe

who also likes to talk back a bit,

in the morning was tough.

- Yeah, so kick stands up doesn't really matter

unless it's like, if you're not down here

for the fucking meeting at 5:30...

- [Paul] Exactly, but we need to have those conversations the night before.

- And then we're eating and then I had to poop.

- I told Paul on day two in the morning,

I said just leave, go.

You don't have to sit here and piss and moan about how we're not on time,

just leave if you wanna leave.

I was not happy.

- So I kind of saw Paul's frustrations and stuff

but in my eyes I was just like we need to set a time

and stick to it as close as we can because these people,

I know how hard it is to wrangle eight different guys

better than anybody and it's just not something that happens

no matter what you do.

- When you get a bunch of guys together like us

it's like five dogs in the same room,

there's gonna be some barking going on.

- Not having that kind of cadence

or that kind of system or even knowledge

of how each of us work together

let alone how we're gonna survive together,

none of that stuff had been gelled yet,

none of that had been forged.

It was the dumbest day of the entire trip

because we were not happy

and nothing was clicking I don't think

how we envisioned it clicking.

- [Justin] Next stop, Nashville.

Peace.

("Moving Particles" by Sensations' Fix)

(lyrics muffled)

♪ So I'll take my walk ♪

♪ Mile after mile ♪

♪ All I can see is the blue and the rain ♪

♪ For the home team ♪

- So as we're going down Highland

it opens up to this beautiful view of South Carolina

and just the beautiful lush forest and curvy roads

and we're full throttle going downhill.

Exhilarating, this is day two and I'm like man,

if this is how the whole ride is gonna be

this is gonna be the most amazing thing.

- Big Daddy pooped his pants.

That's a highlight for me for sure of that day.

(laughing)

- Yeah, hey, I asked for a bathroom stop, man,

it just didn't come.

And then it did and I pooped my pants.

- [Interviewer] Do you remember...

- Did he take his pants off all the way for that?

- Yeah, I left those babies.

- [Interviewer] You already planned for it?

- Bear in the woods, dude, throw those out.

- Yeah, I'm surprised Big Daddy didn't poop his pants more.

I think that he was prone to pooping his pants

and I'm happy it happened so early on the trip.

- This is when, could we just get all the lights off

and get that silhouette and I'll just be like I shit myself.

(laughing)

- Everybody's excited because this is the day

that we're finally gonna see some turns, some curves,

some really exciting roads and the road

as far as we were concerned, the one that we had been talking about

since we saw where we were going.

- Just growing up I heard about it riding motorcycles

and stuff so I was pumped that I was finally

gonna get to do it.

- And it was the Tail of the Dragon.

- Tail of the Dragon, yeah. - Tail of the Dragon.

- We were supposed to be going on some road called Tail of the Dragon.

- It was 318 turns in 11 miles.

- 318 turns in 11 miles.

- 318 turns in 11 miles.

- It's 100 and something turns or something like that.

- Doesn't really need an introduction outside of

it's supposed to be America's greatest motorcycle road.

("This Is My World" by Esterly feat. Austin Jenckes)

- Yeah, I feel like the Tail of the Dragon

might have been the most over-hyped part of the whole trip.

♪ This is my world ♪

(engines revving)

♪ Oh, you took a wrong turn ♪

♪ Now you're stuck in my world ♪

♪ Trust me, this is gonna hurt ♪

♪ Fire it up, and watch it burn ♪

Everything's so snappy and that's the kind of riding

I really like to do.

- I get it, it's cool but like...

- Kind of like in Jurassic Park,

it's super forested, you have these sweeping turns.

- [Man] I'm riding by and if you look at me

I'm all tense and intent and I'm completely focused

on the road and what I'm doing.

- I was loving it and I made sure I hung back

further than everybody so I just had a ton of room

to just really rip through there and push it,

take it to the limit.

♪ This is my world ♪

♪ Oh, you took a wrong turn ♪

♪ Now you're stuck in my world ♪

♪ Trust me, this is gonna hurt ♪

♪ Fire it up, and watch it burn ♪

♪ This is my world ♪

- Oh my God!

That was out of control!

- Are you kidding me?

(chattering)

- You were wrong, you were wrong!

- No, that was fucking insane!

("Hometeam" by Chris King & The Gutterballs) ♪ Ain't no cheating way ♪

♪ The home team ♪

- It turns out that on the Tail

we had to have passed this person a minute,

two minutes maybe before.

Somebody went off the road on a bike

and it was a man and his daughter

and it was an accident, like a really, really bad accident.

- It's one of those things that happen. What we do is dangerous.

We do everything we can to mitigate the danger,

you can protect as much against,

but if it's your turn, that's it.

- That was a super humbling, grounding moment

where it was, this is fun, we're having a lot of fun

but this could end in a heartbeat for one of us.

- Dane radio's us and is like dudes,

there's a storm, a heavy storm coming.

- I felt like I got hit with a paintball.

Like a raindrop just hit my arm

and we were at a stop sign.

We're doing 40, this is gonna leave welts or something, this is gonna suck.

- Everybody on the intercom system,

and I was leading 'cause I had the maps,

everybody's like just go man,

we're just gonna ride through it.

We're already delayed, let's just ride through it, let's go, let's go.

Something felt different, it was like nope,

this doesn't look,

the rain cloud is coming at us way too fast.

You can actually see the curtain of rain in front of us

and I saw a barn right off the road.

We hadn't seen anything for like four hours before that.

Immediately pulled off and it was like somebody

just started dumping buckets of water.

(rain pouring)

- We got out of that literally seconds before that hit.

- Look how blistered and sunburned I am

and look what's going on behind me,

the drastic weather changes in a matter of hours.

- We all decide that this rainstorm

is the perfect time for me to do my challenge

which is the bikini scooter wash.

("Sexy" by Bensound)

So I don't know if you're familiar with a women's bikini.

If you're a woman then you're familiar with it

but if you're a man you've probably never put one on.

You don't understand that the front is really, really narrow

so in order for me to be able to keep everything contained

I had to wear the bikini bottom backwards.

I wheel out Elliot's scooter into the rain,

torrential downpour and I forgot

I didn't have any washing materials, no soap,

no brushes, nothing.

So I used the best thing I had, my genitals.

(laughing)

- We're supposed to be on the road a long fucking time ago

and I don't understand how people,

I don't know what they're doing, I honestly don't.

It's super frustrating.

- We got a way late start that morning.

I was pretty frustrated but I think that

just how certain days came together

you couldn't really control getting mad at it that day.

- Anybody else want a spot of coffee before I throw it out?

- So Ron's bike...

- My bike is a lot like me.

It's big, it's dumb and it tries too hard to be cool.

It's not very nimble, it's not very agile.

- Not safe, not safe at all.

- It's a 2005 Honda Reflex

that's lived in Florida most of its life.

You can imagine what the condition of those bolts were like.

- The skeleton he had put together for this thing

the day we left was these pegs that went through

the midrail of the bike where the front tire is

so every time he hit a bump the front tire would hit the peg.

- Big Daddy and Ron and stuff dealt with Ron's bike.

What a disaster.

- I'm just sitting there having to hacksaw

this friggin' foot peg off.

- Cut a giant section out of my homemade highway bars

which would've eventually killed me.

- Hey Ron, you should take a knife to your tire.

(laughing)

- We had taken a really good look at my bike and decided the back tire had to be changed

and there was no way I could keep going on with it.

- Because he was on a bigger bike and could catch up to us,

I'm gonna hold back and wait for a shop to open

and get this tire swapped and I'll catch up with you guys.

- And here it was, two days into it,

so many blood, sweat and tears already,

it was tough, it was really tough.

- It's gonna work out, man.

- [Man] Be safe - I will.

- [Man] Drive safe, man.

- We rode away thinking Ron's going back.

He's gonna maybe swap his tire and go back to Florida,

he's close enough that he's gonna go back.

- [Man] Drive safe!

- Man, I really hope that we reconnect.

I hope the splintering off doesn't turn into something

that we can't control.

Like somebody's going home.

It was a weird feeling but I kept feeling

whenever we separated somebody,

there was a good chance they might not

come back into the fold.

- Big Daddy had a spider bite

and he wanted to go see his doctor in Nashville.

- I wanted to get it checked out

before we went any further

just in case something was going on.

My side was swelling up and getting all crazy.

(engine revving)

No, dude, I don't know, they just said it was a bug bite and they gave me some meds

and were like don't drink too much

and I just kind of tossed 'em

and was like that's not gonna happen.

(laughing)

(chattering)

- It just ripped?

- Oh yeah, blew the crotch out of 'em again, man.

Look at this.

Just opened it up.

Woo, I am burning up, dude.

There's no room in this seat for this stuff anymore.

Yeah, I'm gonna live they just gave me some antibiotics

and stuff, I got my ear cleaned out, that was crazy.

There was like a Skittle in there.

(laughing)

She said I probably should go back to the doctor

in like three days but oh well.

- Pulled up to this gas station,

we knew we had this stretch.

Dane, this poor driver is telling us,

guys, there's some serious weather coming in.

- [Man] Where are we? - This is us right here then.

(mumbling)

(chattering)

- And we all have shields.

Do you have a shield you can pull out of the van?

So if we do get hail you're not getting paintballed

and bleeding and spaced.

It looks like it's gonna continue to get bad

or get worse or just stay like it is for a long time.

So we can stand around here and waste a bunch of time

and still end up going through it

or we can still be more than three hours behind

or we can just put a shield on and try to endure it.

- We were like let's just ride through it.

- And there was gonna be nothing around.

There was gonna be no gas station,

there was gonna be no emergency options for us to pull over

if it is as bad as we think it might be.

- It doesn't seem like it's gonna be that bad

but there's this one corner that we turned

and all of a sudden the sky is just black

and at that point we knew it was too late to turn back

so we just went for it.

- I just remember coming up a hill and just seeing lightning in the way distance

and hearing the thunder and the wind

and you see the trees flapping.

It was the craziest riding experience I've ever been in

weather wise for sure.

- Crap was in the road, giant puddles or whatever,

and we're just being blown all over the place by the wind.

(upbeat music)

- I know it's pretty dangerous,

we're cruising, we're still full blast

and I see these little,

you guys remember those little bumps in the road?

- There were turtles on the road, big turtles.

Where the fuck did the turtles come from?

We're talking like turtles!

And why are they in the road and where did they come from?

- There's just turtles in the road

and we're like dodging turtles and you're dodging sticks,

you're dodging little creeks of water, it was crazy.

- Through a bunch of turtles,

it wasn't like a turtle, there were many turtles.

- It was very, very wet for a very long time.

- [Man] Keep twisting.

(laughing)

Keep going.

(chattering)

- [Man] Elliot's are bad.

- [Man] Like a thousand year old egg.

- [Man] I got like little raisins here.

- Dude, there's water in the shoe.

- And somebody remembered, it was like Paul,

how is your Tamagotchi pet?

'Cause Paul's challenge was he had to keep one of those little pocket pets alive

for the duration of the trip.

- It's waterproof ability, not great.

I opened my pocket and it was no longer alive.

It was like well,

somebody's getting their head shaved tonight.

- It's dead.

- I'm not happy about this.

- He was so excited because he thought

it was going to be so easy.

- I really hope I'm not the only one to lose my challenge.

- This makes me very scared for my own challenge.

- Yeah, I'm shaving a cul de sac, I can hide it with a hat.

At least I look like a normal person in a cul de sac

with a hat on.

This is not cool.

Hey, here's the funny thing is that I never knew

how to work it and it has been not alive this entire time.

There's like a screen before you start the animal

that just has a bunny and then you get to choose

a different animal and I keep showing people the bunny

and then every gas stop bringing it out.

- And that's when we basically learned that Paul's a liar

and he had been cheating.

Never really showed us that the Tamagotchi was ever alive

and just basically told us the instructions were in Chinese

and I never could read them so I never turned it on

so it's never actually been alive.

- The buttons don't even make sense.

- Just because he lied to us for three days

I feel like something else should happen to him.

(soft music)

- Made it back to the hotel,

first thing I saw when I looked up

was two male butts pressed against the window.

(laughing)

So at least my friends were waiting for me.

Went inside, drank a bunch of whiskey,

Paul got his head shaved.

- I got to shave him a cul de sac in his head.

It's probably the most amazing feeling ever

is shaving the part of somebody's head that is

supposed to have all the hair.

- [Man] I really want a sexy tuft though.

- [Man] Oh my God.

- [Man] Go deeper in the back, guys.

You need to go deeper.

- The deal is cul de sac, it's not cul de sac and tuft.

(laughing)

Get rid of that fucking tuft.

- [Man] The tuft makes it.

- [Man] I was into it and then I saw it.

- [Man] I need to get one side right here.

- It's fucking uneven.

You went way more on this side than you did that side.

- [Interviewer] Tell us a little bit about how you're feeling about the challenge.

- How am I supposed to feel, dude?

My friends are idiots and they did this to me.

I have to embrace it.

I'm not okay with it yet, I just have to be.

What are my options, dude, what are my actual options?

Look at me, what are my options?

Look at me, dude.

Look at my head.

What are my options?

This is me, dude, now.

This is awful, dude.

But I'm gonna live with it.

("The Death of Mr. Jones" by The Dames)

- Jackson, Missouri to Nevada, Missouri.

Not Nevada, Nevada, Missouri.

- We went to Nevada.

- Joe had to wear a ghillie suit for the whole day.

320 something miles of this snow camo sheep dog ghillie suit

which is a sniper suit for anybody that doesn't know what a ghillie suit is.

He looked so dumb.

- The ghillie suit really wasn't my best day.

- And it was a constant funny, like,

whenever I was feeling down about anything

I looked at my mirror and see Joe

blasting this ghillie suit back and he looked so ridiculous.

- Joe is in his ghillie suit and he looks ridiculous

and all of a sudden he comes over the comms,

guys, my bike broke down.

- Probably my belt, just like dead. - [Man] Oh okay.

- Yeah, you didn't see smoke, did you? - [Man] No.

- And it turns out by the time we get there

he's already got his whole bike taken apart

and he's sitting there and can't figure out

what's wrong with it.

- I had all the stuff laid out. Was checking my belt, checking my transition,

and nothing was wrong.

So Barnes and I push him up this hill with our feet

on the back of his scooter on his muffler

and then he coasts down into the gas station,

puts gas in, problem solved.

- And lo and behold,

much to my embarrassment I found out

that I basically just ran out of gas.

♪ All right ♪

- We took a long, long grind across a really flat state.

It was just get the miles in, get the miles in,

get the miles in.

- Big Daddy's challenge was to stop at every McDonald's

that we passed, if we could see it he had to stop at it.

- I was not looking forward to this at all.

I kept trying to get out of it before we left.

- Fuck all you guys.

- [Man] Even when we thought of this

we thought it was gonna be a funny thing

but we're already so annoyed by how many stops we've been having to make unplanned

that this just gonna take so long.

(upbeat music)

- So we're somewhere in Missouri

or I have no idea what state we were actually in

and we were all drafting

and doing some Blue Angels type stuff.

And I'm standing up on my bike with my fly open

so I can cool off, it was so terribly hot.

- We're going along and I was talking

to my girlfriend Melissa on the phone.

- I have no idea what happened

but I heard a loud bang and I saw sparks right next to me

and oh my God.

- Suddenly, my back tire stopped.

- I see blue smoke, boom, the bike explodes in front of me.

It just ducks, twists and then Paul

goes flying off the road.

- The first thing I thought about was don't touch my brakes,

that was first, definitely don't touch my brakes

and I don't wanna go down and take my buddies out.

I just aimed for the soft grass

knowing I was gonna go down.

- At any moment now you're just waiting for the end over end over end

and Paul like Supermanning off into the distance.

- And luckily my clutch actually exploded

and the tire broke free when I was in the grass

and I was able to ride it out.

- [Man] And everybody on the comms are going nuts!

They're like, he's riding it out,

he's riding it out, oh my God,

I can't believe he's riding it out!

- As soon as I turn around I just drop my bike

and run over to Paul and hug him

because I can't believe that dude is still alive

and up and walking and like holy shit, that was insane.

- Did the belt just jam?

- Yikes.

- Holy, that scared me to freaking death.

- I was on the phone.

(laughing)

- [Man] Who were you on the phone with? - With my girlfriend.

- [Man] Oh no!

- [Man] Call her quick.

- [Man] Hold on a second, I'm gonna die. - Yeah, I was like I have to go.

She's going, "what's happening, what's happening, "what's happening?"

I'm like I gotta go.

Everything just fucking rocked.

- [Man] I thought you were down, man. - [Man] I thought you blew a tire.

- I thought you blew a tire too. - I thought I did too.

(tool drilling)

- [Man] Did you say you saw fluid?

- [Man] There's fluid dripping.

- And as the cover comes off it's just a mess.

- That middle one's out already.

That's not good.

Oh, torque diverter, look at that.

- It's spaghetti and shards of metal everywhere.

- [Man] Shit man.

How does that even happen?

- [Man] It's too hot.

- Look at this, this is the thing the belt sits in

and I've never seen anything like this before.

This is insane.

- This whole thing's destroyed.

- Yup.

- What happened is a bolt came loose

and it caught right there, you can see that,

and it just locked it up.

So this is what spins with the rear tire

and that's what caused that breakdown

and this is essentially what ended the ride for that bike.

- It broke the casting. - [Man] Yeah.

- And that seal, you cannot put that back into a bike.

- No.

- Thankfully we had another one on our support vehicle

that we were able to swap a few parts

and get Paul going again.

- Let's get it off, let's strip down the parts that it needs

off of this bike and get that bike running

so we can at least...

- It needs three arm bolts,

it needs the header bolt.

- [Man] Let's pull it off.

- By the time we got to this accident

we already cannibalized a lot of this bike

that was supposed to be a backup bike

and now we're taking basically its legs.

The whole transmission is gonna go,

the clutch and everything has to go into the bike

that Paul was using for the ride.

- God damn it.

(grunting)

Fucking ranked that thing.

(tools buzzing)

- One thing that was pretty important to me

was how everybody reacted.

It was very, very heartwarming

to have people that care about you so much

and I think that I'd do the same for anybody.

But it was definitely, I felt like my brothers

were there for me then.

- [Man] Big Daddy.

- He could not have planned this day any better if he wanted to.

We saw like three McDonald's.

- And then four hours go by

we didn't pass a single God damn McDonald's.

- Come on, 350 miles, 12 hours on the road

and the man passed four McDonald's, are you kidding me?

- Alright, double cheese, here we go.

- [Man] Double cheese? - Well yeah.

- [Man] You got more than you needed to.

- I'm just hungry, guys.

This is the first McDonald's we've seen since we left.

I didn't eat lunch 'cause I thought I was just

gonna be pounding freaking burgers.

I hate McDonald's so much.

These things are just terrible.

I mean they're go-to's.

But they're still shitty.

I actually feel pretty lucky right now.

This is only the second one I've had to do

so I might be coming out ahead on this one, boys.

- We roll into Lincoln,

right as we came into town there's McDonald's,

so me and Ron stop, I grab a burger.

We kind of came in one side of town,

our hotel's on the other,

then we waited for him at the McDonald's

that was across the street from our hotel

hoping he was gonna pass it so he'd fail his challenge

and we could shave his head.

- [Man] Uh oh. - [Man] Uh oh!

(shouting)

- When I realized he was at McDonald's

Big Daddy just, you just saw him die

just a little bit on the inside.

(laughing)

- Might as well end it on a high note, boys.

God dang Happy Meal done.

So I pulled in, grabbed a Happy Meal

and ended where at least I got a toy at the end.

Should've got that extra pickle, man.

- And we were thinking about our challenges

and this was my favorite point of the challenges

because Elliot goes wait,

when am I supposed to do my challenge?

- My challenge was to hug 100 people in a day

which sounded kind of daunting

but I was like I can do it,

you hit a Walmart, you hit a bar, you hit whatever.

I wasn't that worried about it

but I thought my challenge was on day eight.

For some reason.

- All of us kind of looked at each other like

your challenge is day three, man, you didn't do it.

Looks like we're shaving another head tonight.

(clippers buzzing)

- [Man] No!

- [Man] There he goes!

- No.

- [Man] Oh my God, looking good.

- [Man] Oh my goodness.

- This is the most satisfying thing

I've fucking ever done in my entire life.

- Paul, let me see your do in this too.

No, Paul, Paul, I'm trusting you, dude.

You know where the part's at.

I'm trusting you, dude.

It's so painful seeing all of you watch.

- [Man] Let's see the back!

- [Man] Unbelievable. - [Man] Do a little twist.

(laughing)

- [Man] That is a solid line!

- [Man] Lined him up real good there, dude!

(chattering)

- Oh yeah, dude.

It's not bad.

(upbeat music)

- After day two I was like Elliot's definitely the airhead.

- All this work that Elliot did before the ride,

he didn't tighten down a single God damn bolt.

- Again, like I really don't work on my scooter that much

and we're going into this ride,

I was like oh yeah, I gotta do a couple things.

All the other guys are busy, I can figure it out.

- He just put thing in there and hand tightened it together.

- I think I lost four or five bolts from my bike.

- Forgetting to bolt his bike back together,

that was just genius.

- He was like dudes, dudes, my bike sounds loud.

And I'm right next to him and I look over

and I can see his O2 sensor has popped out.

Unfortunately we actually had to stop and fix

Elliot's scooter again.

- We're ripping along, all of a sudden my bike dies

and I'm oh great, probably blew a belt.

Derek is pretty good at ripping things apart,

comes over with the impact driver and it's off,

take it apart, he's like no dude, your belt's fine.

- What happened?

- I think it's the final drive, dude.

- [Man] What?

- I guess we're not making that two o'clock lunch.

- Well we either gotta Frankenstein two bikes together.

If we can't do that then we have to figure out

a way to trailer it 'cause we only have room

for one bike over there, so

we gotta figure it out.

(engine starting)

- [Man] What happened? - No idea.

I think he hit the kill switch.

- When he stops and everybody stops

we start it up and we try it first

before we start ripping things apart.

- Get on it, ride it, it's all good.

Look down and like guys, I have something to admit.

I hit my kill switch.

(laughing)

Maybe it was the kill switch.

- [Man] Next time this happens and you pull off,

try to start it.

- Ah, damn it.

I already felt bad enough about my bolts rattling out,

I'm flying off and now.

They never let me live that shit down, never.

(adventurous music)

(chattering)

- [Man] They want us to stop right here.

Slow down guys, on the right.

Oh perfect.

- [Man] Oh fuck, look to the right.

- [Man] Whoa! - [Man] Damn!

- [Man] Holy shit. - [Man] Come on.

- [Man] Shit! - [Man] Dude, whoa!

- [Man] This is the Badlands, boys.

- [Man] Whoa!

- Look over and it's just like, boom.

Like this crazy, crazy landscape.

(wind blowing)

- It was almost overwhelming though.

How many amazing panoramic vistas

can you see of the American west?

What was nice was seeing things that our country

is known for like monuments and cool, exciting things

because we didn't see shit for two days straight

and then we saw things that had elevation

and things that had some kind of uniqueness to them.

- Should I stop this car and ask?

- [Man] What?

- [Man] If it's dirt all the way to the next town.

- I had found a shortcut.

I was like let's go this way.

Or not a shortcut, but I found a back road.

And me and Barnes looked at it at our first gas stop,

we decided yeah, that's the way we're gonna go,

so we punched in the GPS

and once we hit the point of no return

we just see the road turns to dirt and gravel and everything

and we see a sign and it's like dirt road, 27 miles.

- [Paul] When should we head out?

- [Joe] Yeah, I like surprises, right?

- [Paul] Alright guys, time to make moves.

- And it was awesome.

(upbeat music)

- [Justin] We're stupid, boys.

- [Paul] Yes we are.

(lyrics muffled)

(engines revving)

(horn honking)

- The whole day was great leading up to it,

saw Badlands, saw Black Hills, saw Mount Rushmore

and then we just hit this point where

we got like 70 miles of just straight highway.

- It was actually kind of terrifying.

I think that was the part of that day

that we knew we had a ton of riding to do still

and we just had to bite the bullet and do it.

- We're literally getting our faces sandblasted.

(slow music)

♪ Oh, I think I need you ♪

♪ Here in my darkest night ♪

- [Man] We may have to look at Daddy's bike.

- [Man] I guarantee we need to look at his bike.

- Yeah, that was bad for me, dude.

But I was going like 10 miles an hour under everybody

so I'm gonna draft the van and it was just no good.

- For some reason Big Daddy and I

seem to have the slow bikes.

- That was kind of the point where my bike,

I felt like was starting to tell me

she's getting a little tired.

I couldn't figure it out, didn't know what it was. Eventually pulled over.

(tools drilling)

- [Man] Blown, boys.

- We got it back up and it started running

a little bit better but I've had it for four years

and put 20,000 miles on it

and she's starting to feel it.

- We changed two belts that day.

- It was established that Barnes and I

were going to be the mechanics on this trip

because everybody else couldn't tighten their bolts,

they put too much oil in,

they were inept with the mechanics of it.

- It's testy.

(mumbling)

- Technically that's three for me.

One on the other bike and one when I had my mishap

and this.

(mumbling)

- So I kept thinking that my bike's running crappy

and it's gonna blow up at any given moment

and we had a couple of near misses with some other people

like a belt here and a belt there

and I'm like God, this bike is probably gonna die.

I also had this sketchy mechanic do the work in Florida

so I'm like at any moment now this thing's

just gonna go belly up on me.

- [Man] Joe's engine light just popped on.

- [Man] Who's? - [Man] Joe's.

- [Man] His what?

- [Man] His engine light popped on.

(laughing)

- Hey yours actually came off.

I've never blown a belt like that.

♪ Won't you tell me your name ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm feeling so far away ♪

♪ And it's time ♪

♪ Oh it's time ♪

- [Elliot] Wa, guys, hold on.

- [Man] What?

- [Elliot] I just died and I didn't hit the kill switch.

- [Man] Are you sure? - And again, my bike just dies.

- [Man] At least we found a spot to break down in.

- [Man] Yeah, I'll walk it up there, don't worry about it.

- [Man] I'll push you, I'll push you.

- We're just ripping down this dirt road

for like two hours, I don't even know how long it was

but I guess at some point

my battery terminal had come loose.

(mumbling)

(laughing)

- [Man] Dag gone!

- Loose terminal, baby!

- It's sometimes the most obvious thing.

(upbeat rock music)

- [Man] Oh dude!

Oh shit!

(laughing)

(screaming)

(chattering)

- The whole day it was up, up, up, down, down, down,

up, up, up, down, was that the Cascades we were going through?

- [Man] No, no, no, that was Sawtooth.

- But to be there in that time, in that place,

with these people and have something like that

put on display for no reason, it just doesn't make sense.

- At some point during the pre-process

Justin was like hey, do you wanna be part

of these challenges that we're doing?

And I'm thinking like, I don't have a whole perspective

of the fact that I'm so outside of this group

but I was like well yeah, I'm gonna be there,

I might as well do one of these challenges.

- And the next day was Jesse's challenge

and it was First Blood.

Jesse had to live as Rambo for an entire day.

He had to talk in only Rambo lines,

he had to dress as Rambo, he had to live as Rambo.

- Two people already got their heads shaved in the worst way

and so I'm thinking oh no, these guys aren't messing around.

- See Rambo?

(laughing)

(drumming)

- I don't even know if the sun was up

but I'm working on my bike,

I look over and there's John Rambo staring at me.

- A 300 plus ride today so probably about 10 to 12 hours

of him acting like John Rambo

which Jesse vowed last night when he was drinking

that he was gonna beat this challenge

by just not talking all day.

He's a kid so he probably has no idea

what John Rambo's character is

or has ever even seen First Blood or any of the movies.

So it's gonna be interesting.

He's gonna be really quiet

or he's gonna have a cul de sac or a missing eyebrow

by the end of the night.

- Well he's quietly honoring his options over there

as John Rambo.

I think he'll crack. I think we'll have another half shaved head.

(laughing)

- Rambo didn't say a word to anyone.

He was Rambo.

- Mute, 'cause he doesn't wanna break character.

And that was damn funny.

- He's already full John Rambo, method acting.

He's not responding to anybody.

The only acknowledgements he's giving us is grunt.

I'm really excited.

We're gonna try so hard to get him off of that.

- [Man] He's gonna hate everyone by the end of the day.

- I think rubbed real dirt on himself. He didn't have makeup.

- [Man] It's grease from somebody's bike.

- It's grease? - [Man] Yeah.

- Oh, that's even better.

- Everybody was just like you're gonna get your head shaved.

We're gonna get you.

You gotta pick an eyebrow or you gotta get a cul de sac.

Neither of which I wanted.

- But every once in a while,

Rambo would come over the comm systems

and be like, "he's dead, you're all dead."

- Halfway through the day

I would go to Dane and be like,

"I got you, gimme the gun."

And then I'd get the gun and sneak up on everybody

and shoot 'em.

- He had this gun that he was carrying

and we were climbing another mountain pass somewhere

and his scooter was new and kind of faster than ours

so he would pull up next to us with his Nerf gun

and shoot us all.

So I remember being shot in the face

at 50 miles an hour with a dart like what are we doing?

- [Man] He's John Rambo.

- I'm John Rambo.

- [Man] He's done!

(laughing)

- [Big Daddy] I'm impressed, I thought I was taking an eyebrow.

- It was terrible but he owned it.

It was a funny challenge,

I kind of wish it would've been mine.

- [Tanner] Was that the loneliest ride today?

(chattering)

- [Man] The challenge said all day, man.

- Man.

- At this point we all smelled awful.

I hadn't bathed in two or three days.

I ran out of socks like states ago.

- We were a ragged crew at some point, dude.

Everyone's just super haggard.

Two of us, just half our heads buzzed, we looked gnarly.

- It was just, it had been a long trip.

We didn't sleep a lot the whole entire trip.

Pretty exhausted.

We probably didn't get more than

five hours of sleep a night.

So it's wearing on us.

And we didn't eat well.

- Gas station corn dogs for lunch.

- [Man] I wanna get a box of mini corn dogs

and just cook 'em on my engine.

(laughing)

- Who doesn't buy corn dogs at the gas stations?

You have two options, you have biscuits and gravy

or waffles.

- They all had the most terrible biscuits and gravy

and for some reason it took until like day four

for us to realize that this is not a good idea.

- Breakfast biscuit?

(chattering)

(chewing)

- [Man] These dudes ordered everything with pineapple on it.

- We got some bread sticks for you.

- I hate with every fiber of my being pineapple on pizza.

- Pineapple on everything.

(laughing)

- I think I had steak every day.

We were in the heart of cow country

the whole freaking vacation.

I go in, order the T-bone, and it was just shit.

- [Man] That A-1 serves one purpose, shots.

- A-1, I love that stuff.

- [Man] Drinking A-1 is way better

than putting it on a steak.

Try it sometime.

You have to.

- It was just shitty steak, dude.

It was like four year old cow or something, I don't know.

- I'm not gonna eat anything but kale for a month

when I get home.

- I'm from Montana so I was really excited

to see my home state, now I felt like I was done,

I felt like I was already home.

There's a bar there that threw us this party

when we got there and raising money

for the Morgan Foundation

and the bar was attached to an MMA gym

which was like the most Montana thing ever.

- [Man] If you wanna jump in let me know.

- That's a maybe.

- [Man] That's a definitely yes, dude.

It's a matter of who is jumping in.

- I want a cul de sac versus cul de sac.

- And all the dudes were like hey,

you're fighting Paul.

Cul de sac against cul de sac, this is happening.

- [Paul] Elliot, cul de sac versus cul de sac?

He said if you guys wanna jump in the ring

just let me know.

(chattering)

- I haven't been in a fight before.

It was like alright guys, had a shot and a beer

and it was like might as well go for it.

- And we both agreed that we were not gonna hurt each other.

- We're not actually gonna fight each other, are we?

And he was like no, no, let's just give 'em a good show.

(bell ringing)

- Ladies and gentlemen this fight is scheduled

for 12 uncontested rounds.

The winner will keep an eyebrow, the loser.

(bell ringing)

- Punching only.

Fight.

(cheering)

- [Man] Elliot can't see him.

(intense music)

- Man, I'll be the first to admit

when the gloves are on and you're just sparring

with another dude, it's hard to hold back.

- [Man] Punch his lights out, man!

(cheering)

- You hit me really hard a few times.

Rung my bell once, kind of knocked me back

and it's just that moment where your pride takes over

and it's like nope, this is not happening right now.

- I think I might've actually got a couple

of pretty good hits on him.

(mumbling)

- Both our corners back there,

all the dudes are behind us.

They're like dude, you're actually holding your own

out there pretty good.

I was like oh yeah?

I was like maybe I could win this fight.

- Don't go for the face, dude, you don't need pain,

you need throw up.

(bell ringing)

- [Man] Welcome to Montana!

(cheering)

- Just popped him right in the nose.

Just straight in the opening part

and I could definitely tell that he just like,

everything stopped.

(bell ringing)

- He got me good, he got me good.

- You okay, you okay?

(chattering)

- [Man] He's bleeding, he's bleeding.

- I looked down there's just like blood

gushing out of my nose and I was like alright,

first blood, this is time to end it.

- [Man] Elliot, let me get a picture!

(laughing)

- You okay? - Yeah.

- Shaved his head and then I beat him up.

Woo!

No, it had nothing to do with revenge,

it had to do with I realized that we were actually fighting.

- [Woman] You kicked his ass.

- No, I didn't kick his ass,

I hit him one good time really

after he hit me a couple good times.

- I heard that, I heard that.

I fought well but it wasn't good enough.

Paul clocked me a good one.

I got a couple good hits in though.

- [Man] Yeah, you did, you did.

- I hit more than I expected.

- [Man] Good, good.

- But Paul...

- [Man] He got a sneaky one in there. - [Woman] He kicked your ass!

- He came to the, he kicked my ass.

- At this point I had spent probably over 100 hours

building maps, like our turn by turn maps for our GPS unit.

None of this makes sense.

- You had some good sleep though

so at least you have your wits about you.

- None of this makes sense.

None of these intersections look the same

or at least have the same information.

And this day I didn't have one.

I did not have our final day's route.

- It became pretty clear pretty quickly

that Barnes had no idea where we were going.

- Do we need to continue to hammer in

that Barnes didn't have the maps?

- Barnes doesn't tell anybody,

we just wake up, get on our scooters and go.

(engines revving)

- [Man] What are we doing?

- [Man] I don't know.

- [Man] Are we really having a party?

(laughing)

I think we're lost.

- [Man] Yeah, go check what's up.

- [Man] Tanner, what's going on?

- [Man] It dead ends up there.

No, we can't go that way?

- [Big Daddy] No, that road doesn't look like it goes anywhere.

- [Man] Daddy, what did they say to you

about this road right here?

- [Tanner] They said that it's kind of a cool road.

It loops around

and I don't think it necessarily goes anywhere.

I didn't ask them for directions to Seattle.

- [Big Daddy] We're probably dipping down into Richland

and then going up on that highway.

- [Paul] That road doesn't go anywhere, Daddy?

- [Big Daddy] Doesn't look like it.

We should've taken a right when we went straight back there.

- [Man] Oh.

- [Justin] My bad, guys.

- And we get lost four, five, six times,

it doesn't matter.

It was probably closer to eight but who's counting, right?

- Those are the kind of moments I feel like

are actually the trip.

It was a lot of stops and it was a lot of gassing up

and it was a lot of these moments where we were confused

and didn't really know what way to go.

- We finally get our bearings right and we are on the road

and we are coming up over this hill

and there's this hill that drops down out of the city.

- You couldn't even tell what it was.

There was just like a black line

along the side of the road.

- We all look over and there's just a line of scooters

sitting on the side of the road.

- All of our dudes and other people from the city,

other people that thought the story was cool

and the ride was awesome and wanted to just be a part of it

as much as they could and they rode all the way out there

or trailered out there and rode the rest of the way

home with us.

- [Man] Fuck yes!

(screaming)

- [Man] Take my scooter, I'm gonna fucking pass out!

- [Man] Yeah baby!

Oh the pig is here!

(cheering)

- [Man] Holy shit!

- [Man] Oh my God, oh my God.

- [Man] Oh fuck yeah.

- And it was such an awesome feeling,

I think everyone kind of got pretty emotional at that point

like we had done it.

We were home, there's our peeps

and we're getting ready to just celebrate.

- All of us, I'm getting choked up thinking about it,

all of us were like crying in our helmets.

Immediately I just lost it.

- [Man] Alright, should we hit her back up?

(cheering)

(uplifting music)

- We were about 3500 miles into this 3700 mile ride

and finally it hit me that we just crossed the country

on a scooter at 40 miles an hour, insane.

- We've made it so far on these little, tiny bikes.

- I told everybody, I was like do not let any cars pass.

We're going up this mountain slow as hell

and we just split the road, I remember,

all eight of us right in front, just made a wall

and the 30 scooters behind us came in

and did the same thing.

Just wall of scoots, wall of scoots

and behind us just miles of cars

and it was such a conquering feeling

to just stick it to all those fucking people.

- [Man] Not that we have any reason to.

- We didn't have any reason to but we just wanted to, man.

(speakers muffled)

- [Man] What about the smoke bombs and the fireworks?

- [Big Daddy] Elliot, I need that flare!

- [Man] I love how we're rolling up to a ferry terminal.

- [Man] Explosives, the Coast Guard is gonna be there

in five seconds.

- And we just did the classic move

of is this thing lit or not

and as soon as I point it towards my face

just like shoots past my head.

And I'm just glad that my ride could've ended right there.

- [Man] All these people have no idea what's going on.

- [Man] No, came in hot like a bunch of assholes,

it's so rad.

- [Man] Can we go down this? - [Man] We just did.

(chattering)

- [Man] We're doing it, we're doing it.

- [Man] This guy's like come on, man.

(cheering)

- We pulled in, it was like the Beatles

getting off the plane in New York.

Everybody just went absolutely bananas.

(speaker voices muffled)

- And the one guy who had more problems than any of us

on the whole trip when it came to mechanical issues

or anything, Elliot, didn't even get to the water

and dumped his bike.

(laughing)

The last four feet was too much.

- [Elliot] And I didn't care, I just got off the bike,

just let it kind of slide.

Guys, we did it.

(inspiring music)

- [Man] I feel like eight riders took it through

the entire country together.

It was pretty phenomenal.

Whether it's a belt,

somebody's oil is flying out of their bike for some reason

or they ride off the road,

everybody was sticking together.

- Do I wanna go back and do it again? I'm not so sure, we'll see.

It's a traumatic experience.

It was fun, we had a great time, it was awesome

but it was like 11 of the most miserable days of my life.

- After 11 days seeing that coming to an end

and knowing man, I gotta get up tomorrow

and go back to the real world, it was a bummer

and it was sad but it was happy.

It was just a range of emotional feelings that night.

- Obviously we did it because we're idiots

and we thought it'd be cool to ride 3700 miles

at 45 miles an hour.

(cork popping)

(cheering)

(laughing)

- For me this was much more than about the ride.

At the end of the ride, I didn't know this going into it

but at the end of the ride actually becoming a family

was a much bigger part of it

than actually the 3700 miles that we rode.

- We left Fernandina Beach, Florida with 3700 miles

before the finish line.

Went through rain, went through fights,

went through breakdowns, everything that nature had to offer

was thrown at us.

Had a ton of laughs.

(cheering)

(laughing)

We arrived in Mukilteo, Washington as a real family.

("This Is My World" by Esterly feat. Austin Jenckes)

♪ Oh, you took a wrong turn ♪

♪ Now you're stuck in my world ♪

♪ Trust me, this is gonna hurt ♪

♪ Fire it up, and watch it burn ♪

♪ This is my world ♪

("Stories of Me" by Chris King & The Gutterballs)

♪ Sometimes I take a walk down ♪

♪ When I see the weather all of them colors ♪

♪ It reminds me ♪

♪ Down by the river singing whatever will be will ♪

♪ And trouble keeps floating and I'm tired of standing still ♪

♪ These stories of me ♪

♪ Plain as can be ♪

♪ They're shaking ♪

♪ I can't ♪

♪ These stories of me ♪

♪ Plain as can be ♪

♪ They're fading ♪

♪ Faster than the mouth ♪

♪ I know the way I told it ain't the easy one to choose ♪

♪ Still mild minute between the blues ♪

♪ And I ain't got more time to lose ♪

♪ She talk off your head ♪

♪ And you'll know when this conversation's through ♪

♪ I just keep walking around this unfortunate town ♪

♪ Until it winds me back to you ♪

♪ These stories of me ♪

♪ Plain as can be ♪

♪ They're shaking ♪

♪ My hands in the air ♪

♪ These stories of me ♪

♪ Plain as can be ♪

♪ They're fading ♪

♪ Faster than the mountain ♪

♪ I don't mean to be nobody's burden ♪

♪ I'm just so tired of carrying this way ♪

♪ Lord knows I've tried to tame these wild notions ♪

♪ Just keep boarding up like a hole in the gate ♪

♪ These stories of me ♪

♪ Plain as can be ♪

♪ They're shaking ♪

♪ Like hands up the avenue ♪

♪ These stories of me ♪

♪ Plain as can be ♪

♪ We're fading faster than the morning news ♪