The Trees feel alive | 12 Days Behind Bars (The final chapter)

Alright guys, you know I've stayed at some pretty shady places. But I'm going to tell you right now what is going on here. That's blood splatter on the walls. It gets worse. No security and who covers up the people. Alright so I did bring this concern of the room up with Harbor Inn Motel. They are giving me a full refund obviously because I was like what the heck did you put me in last night. It's like I was in a horror flick. But today we are going to go over to the Redwoods. I'm so excited to take you there. I'm so excited to go there. So let's go. Okay so still not over this whole room situation just yet. I mean if they didn't bother to clean up the blood splatter that was on the wall that was easy to see. What else didn't they clean up? Needless to say I didn't sleep well last night. But that's in the past. Let's have a great day today and push past it. Here we go. By far the best cup holder I've ever used. I'll put a link in the description. Alright can we just talk about something real quick. Leaving California is on my list of things that I need to do. But it's so crazy when you travel around and you go to these other places. You meet some of the coolest people and you get a chance to see what good human beings are. Because here in California what I feel and I'm born and raised here so I can pick on this all I want. Everybody's in a rush and therefore they're miserable. Even the lady at Starbucks. Like I waited like 20 minutes for my order. I figured that was a significant amount of time for me to ask can I get an update on my drink. So I asked her if she had an order coming up for Ryan. And she just goes nope. And continues on about her day. I'm like alright. Whatever. So 25 minutes later I finally get my drink. But when I'm traveling around to these other states. I mean there's just some awesome people. People that genuinely love human engagement. It might even be at a slower pace. But I will do a slower pace with somebody who cares versus a rat race and people that just don't give a crap about anybody else. Alright that's my rant. We got about 60 miles to go until we get to Redwood Harley Davidson and hopefully we can get a service done. So let's get on the road. Alright so this is the Redwood State Park. So we're actually already in it. And it's unbelievable as you can see. I thought that that was going to happen after the dealership. But that's not a bad surprise. I did some research. I do not believe. I'll have to double check depending on where we're at if I can fly the drone in here or not. I don't believe we can. Again not a bad way to spend your day. You know just the shadows coming down with the trees is pretty freaking awesome. It literally says we're on Redwood Highway. Alright so the goal for today is to find one of those big huge trees. The tree trunks. And at least grab some still shots. But oh yeah this is very beautiful. Alright guys this is something you have to do and experience. It's a perfect time of day too. I wanted to get out a little earlier but because of the marine layer I was unable to do so. But this works out even better just because the lighting is so perfect. Alright let's enjoy this as we cut through the redwoods. Well I can tell you what. This has been a, as you can imagine, I'm still about 28 miles from the Harley dealership. And you know this marine layer that's coming in, it's actually kind of a cool effect to be honest with you. There is some construction going on but I'm really impressed with the quality of the road. I mean the road is really well paid. It's surprising because we are in California and usually we have jacked up roads over here. But let's get through these 28 miles and hopefully they can get a service done on the Harley. I'm not feeling good about them getting service done today. The doors were locked. I had to call them to open them up. Hello. Are you guys open or? We are actually closed. You are? Alright I can't make this stuff up. I'm at Redwood Harley Davidson trying to get this service done that we've tried for three days now. There's guys inside. The doors were locked. So we gave them a call. They opened up the doors and they came out and said hey this dealership is shutting down for good. I just need somebody to do an oil change so at least the bike has got fresh oil for the rest of this trip. But this sucks. Alright let's figure it out. So I'm trying to figure out how that's even possible. But I guess the plan right now, I've got to get some food. I haven't eaten all day. I also need to get up today's video. So let's go grab something to eat and then figure out the game plan because this kind of messes up the flow here. It's starting to get a little chilly. I think it's just going to get cooler with some more marine layer coming up. I'm going to put on a hoodie. But then we're going to head to where that large redwood tree is and drive through it. So while I was at that dealership, a rider by the name of K-Solo Da Rider, he's done over 100,000 miles on BM8 Engine and Iron Butt Association, finished like first place. Super solid dude. But it was fun exchanging stories with him and meeting him. So K-Solo if you're watching this, it was really great to meet you man. Keep in touch. Well, so the mission today is now going to be to get to San Francisco, if not beyond San Francisco, because we got some extra time. I allotted like four hours for service. You know, the only bummer is that I was supposed to get the 12 day of 12 Days Behind Bars series out while I was waiting for my service to get done. But that changed. Now I will tell you, after meeting K-Solo and talking about the M8 engine, that guy did 11,000 miles on one oil change. No problems. So that guy's an absolute legend. He gave me a little bit of confidence to push this, push the envelope. So maybe we just keep going. The Avenue of Giants. I'm going to take that as a clue that this is probably where I need to be. So there's like nobody out here today. It's beautiful. Let's take a look. Let's take our time to take a look at this. I mean, boom, that just looks amazing. That's a photograph. Oh, we're stopping. We're stopping. You guys are going to do it with me for sure. That is a forever moment right there. Like no doubt. That is a banger. Highly convinced. I'm super excited about this. Stay here for a minute. I mean, do you see that bead of light down there? This is like one of those inspirational pictures, you know, where they have an inspirational type of quote on it. Oh, I can't wait to edit these. Okay, so as you guys probably took note of, I lasted all of, I don't know, 45 seconds into this road before I had to stop. Something tells me I'm going to be doing that quite a bit. But this is amazing. So you guys can check out the photos that I took here over on my Instagram page. But man, I see myself stopping a lot more. I don't know how long this loop is, but I don't care. And I'm definitely going to have to do all the touristy things. Like I got to drive through that big old tree that they have. I don't know where that's at. So you could take a really bad day and take a ride right through here. And that bad day is all but gone. I promise you that. This is a legit tree house. So what's absolutely great about this experience is that it just runs right alongside the 101. So you know, it might take you a little bit longer, obviously, because of the speeds and you're going to be stopping, but you're still heading in that right direction. I mean, there's no way you could hit all the cool places in one pass. But even if you just want to just cruise straight through, you know, you really just want to take your time and enjoy it. So now it was recommended by a local that I take you guys down the Juan. So the 101 becomes the Juan. And that takes you down towards Fort Bragg. It's a twisty windy road that opens up right to the ocean, which should be pretty awesome. So let's crush these miles and get this B-Roll going. That view coming out from that last turn. Absolutely epic. Loved it. I hoped it looked as good on camera as it did through the visor, because it was amazing. Totally worth it. So pretty much my GPS says I'm not making it to San Francisco, but I would like to crush maybe another 100 miles. Folks, I'm going to go ahead and call it right here. And until next time, you guys ride safe, you be safe, and I'll catch you on the next one.