FINAL DAYS IN INDIA - Himalayas Motorcycle Adventure Ep7

It's the home stretch of a 14-day high-altitude motorcycle ride through the Himalayas. To complete our loop we leave the beautiful Spiti Valley with a long ride ahead. It'll take two days to get back to Manali where we started this whole adventure. This has been hard riding this morning. We stopped 90 kms from this place. This was the most challenging thing I've ever ridden but I'm in the very back. I cannot keep up with everybody today and I almost ached like three times. One time very very seriously. Just get the wiggles. Riding through there's just huge huge rocks in the water that you can't see necessarily or you'll come around like a blind turn and go straight down and it's just rocks rocks. But uh our average speed is way down. I'm not even trying to keep up with people. Maybe for safety if I fall so they can see me fall but it's just the pace. Pace is crazy. These guys are all nuts. If you're watching this and you're with the group you guys you you're nuts. This sucks and has been something that has been consistent the whole trip. Like every town we drive through just all over the place. Garbage gets dumped in the river. Not like hey here's a bottle here's a can. Just cans of it. Cans like anywhere you throw garbage in a bin the bins go in the river. It's just it's crazy the amount of ----. Oh here's their recycling program though. If it's not straight into the river I do enjoy a good old plastic fire. It's the green way to do it. Rain's coming down now so this is going in a ziploc bag and going in the camera bag. I'm not even really that worried about the rain I just feel like I'm due to fall when the rivers are crossing. I got my stuff on. Oh yours that's all waterproof? Yeah I'm all waterproof. Look how waterproof you are. Look at this I'm like a little Zimbabwe. Okay Zimbabwe. It looks like we're in New Zealand or Scotland or something. I did not expect it to start getting green like this. Waterfalls. This is awesome. Just going nice and slow. You could probably pass me on a nice 12 speed. That's fine by me though. Jeez it's all just soup right now. I'm going through after everybody fluffs it up. Wash these wheels off. Yeah maybe I should just let this run for when I inevitably fall up here. Oh my god. I like my position right now. I don't have anybody right behind me. I have a car but like I'm not getting pushed by any of the bikes. Oh I hope this doesn't hurt. This is called reverse the secret right now. I'm putting it out there that I'm gonna fall today. So I'm gonna fall. I don't think you're supposed to do negative thoughts though. Okay now it really feels like I don't know Scotland. At least this is my experience there. Mountains. Green. Mossy brown. Mossy green. And lots of rain. Oh yeah and I'm freezing now. Check this out. Asphalt. Woo. We love it. Oh this is a good feeling. Okay a little bit of rain. Oh my god. That was one of the most miserably long but still fun days of motorcycle riding that I've ever done. It's definitely in the top five at least. I mean just freezing. Everybody's ecstatic somehow. Nobody. I can't even talk right now. I'm so cold. Nobody wrecked today which is awesome. We had a couple slide rounds but like just amazing that nobody got hurt. That was the most extreme stuff I've ever written in. It's good to be here. Really good. Cold beers are deserved. Don't worry you're at floor four now. One more step and you're in four. Only three more. Think of the view we're gonna get. It's gonna be worth it. Oh first one in the shower. Hold on. Which one do you want? Flip a coin. You go in there. Oh you get the big one? What? That is... They're the same size beds. They're both two twins put together. Wait. Improvement over yesterday right? Oh yeah. No room tour today because this is the room tour. Ah. Let's get this fired up. Hopefully it doesn't start an electric fire. The pressure's nothing crazy in here. I think it's more bucket showers. Just what you want. Nothing new to see here but this is great. Nothing like after being freezing cold and drawing a nice warm bath. You ready for your last day riding or what? I am. I'm drying out my gear from yesterday's luxury ride. A rest day. It's pretty interesting but today is supposed to be a regular nice ride. Nothing dangerous. We're going to be on what they call tarmac. We call an asphalt road and tarmac means there's pieces missing on it. That's the only way that I can have a tarmac definition. Pieces missing with cars in your lane. People passing on both sides even though it says you're only supposed to pass on a certain side. That's tarmac. Around every turn your light flashes in front of your face. Indeed it is the final day of riding here. We're heading from Keylong back to Manali. Back to the lap of luxury in Manali and just based on faces around the dinner table last night people are beat. This is perfect timing for the trip. Really last day was like the pinnacle of it. Now we just have nice winding roads through the mountains. It's going to be a beautiful day still. Take me home country roads. Oh my gosh. Did you see that guy over there? I know he's just coming in. Dude so you made it through all the boulders and everything all the wet yesterday and almost got taken out by a guy on a bike. But you know the problem like he did beep but there's other 1200 guys beeping as well going around the truck so you just you know. He was so close to you too. So I had to video one. Oh you did? I can't wait to see his face he's like you know. Oh my god I need that video too. Yeah dude he was a foot away from you. That guy came close. And how about the guy that did the u-turn right in front of us? That was like scary. That was crazy. And then you lost some of your tassels as well. That's okay. All this it's dry out and we have nice pavement. That still happens here. Chappy. Oh here Chappy boy got this running. Himalayan. Himalayan? Apparently Himalayan is the correct way to pronounce that. I don't know if they're taking the piss. So sad this might be our last checkpoint. They do love their checkpoints here. It's beautiful today. I'm so glad I did that. I would have taken a little blizzard or something but yeah look look it's coming. I swear. Go go go go go go go go go. There's no time to slow down. We gotta keep going. Go go go. Woo! This is straight up diabolical. Look how ridiculous that is. You gotta get down there. What the f**k is this? Perfect. Back to rock and sketchy. At least it's a fast dock. You don't roll down this mountain. You just fall straight to it. Bob we gotta go. We gotta pick up the pace bro. That makes you hold on to your handlebars. Thanks bro. Got a big old military convoy up here. It's supposed to be all nice roads today. We're almost through. I love that we're just outboying our way through this. This is ridiculous. Don't sweat it dude. Nobody's going anywhere. This is called patience right now. There's a shortcut down but it's not a good one. Hopefully this is our last case Indian traffic jam. Just like that it loosened up. Nice. Yeah I thought it was tarmac all day. This is not tarmac. At this point though this sh** is easy. Look at this left turn. Come on. How do you do on those trucks? You know when you take this whole group as a whole, this is what we do. I did too. Thank you. That's what you need. That's what you need. Peak performance. You gotta feed it. Oh my god. Whoa. Okay. Oh. Over a thousand kilometers later our motorcycle trip through the Himalayas of northern India absolutely lived up to the adventure that was promised. We spent most of our days racing as fast as possible next to the edge of cliffs while overtaking trucks through clouds of diesel exhaust and gravel dust. When we thought the terrain couldn't get more difficult, it always would. It was motorcycle Valhalla. When we fell, and fall we did, our riders would brush themselves off, hop right back on the proverbial horse. More selfishly, I got to explore part of a country I'd never visited before and share that experience with my dad. We kicked off his 70th birthday visiting one of the wonders of the world on a trip that he joined completely on a whim. At the risk of sounding like a high school AP English teacher searching for meaning where the author intended none, there's something to be learned through an experience like this. My takeaway? The more you're willing to risk, the richer the reward. Put even more simply, if you're down for a few cold bucket showers, you might see some pretty mountains. Thanks for watching. Right out of my life like it never even happened. I'll miss her. We survived. Right here. Yeah. This is actually the best it felt like we're done.