I may have found Americas best Motorcycle ride... 🇺🇸 | S1E52

My journey 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 across Asia and down to Australia. New Zealand's southern most drivable point will mark the end of my journey. I'm calling it the big spiral and this is act three across North America. Oh man it was so cold last night. I need to get a warming sleeping bag. But let me just finish my breakfast and I'll pack up and we'll get going. All right, all packed up. Let's go. Let's go look at some pictographs. Oh, I see ducks. Oh, they're in a line. Oh, it's so cute. Oh, they need some uh pond though, don't they? All right, right turn. All right, so we're in Nine Mile Canyon and it's famous for its petroglyphs. So we're going to check out a few of those. And then after that I've got like a pretty cool route out planned. Uh, so it should be a good day. Oh, it was a cold night but it's a beautiful day. It's really nice out today. It's beautiful rocks. All right, um, according to my map maybe somewhere coming up. I feel like they could be anywhere, you know. Well, if there's a parking lot there's got to be a pictograph, right? Oh, I can park up right next to the trail. All right, let's have a look-see. So according to my map this is just labeled first site. So I don't know if that means first site along the road or it's the first one they found. Just looking towards the wall here. Oh, I see already, I think. I think? They look like maybe just water marks, but. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. Check this out. All right, well, I don't want to touch them, but I'm sure you can see them. But yeah, there's some kind of animal here. Animal, um, there's a horned sheep there. Big horned sheep, something like that. So in the past I've done some rock climbing and I've learned about what they call varnish. So if you look at the rock, so this, this rock here has next to no varnish on it and this has a lot of varnish on it. Uh, so basically if you chip away that varnish, then you get what the original rock looks like. So that's how they were making the They were kind of chipping away the top surface, uh, to create these images and varnish is just like a weathering. So I think it's mostly from the sun and things like this. So, oh, and then I see something else. This, this looks very authentic here. You know, it's kind of annoying that people do this. Blaze, don't do that. Yeah. There's even a sign here saying don't mess with art guys. Don't, don't add your own. All right, let's keep going along the road. Uh, I know there's a really famous one that was featured in national geographic magazine, uh, called the great hunt. I know they definitely get a lot more impressive than what we just saw. Oh, pipes you can look through. So the pipe is going to show you exactly where it is in the wall. That's cool. All right. I'll, I'll find them and then I'll use my zoom to show you. All right. See what we can see. Okay. I don't. Oh, up there. How did it get all the way up there? Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. Let me get my zoom. I hope you can see that. I think you can, but yeah, there's a coyote with a bunch of stars around it. Okay. And then there's another pipe here. Oh, maybe that's just for smaller people. It's probably just for smaller people. Yeah. Points the same one. Oh, so cool. So that one is really actually, well, there's a ledge there, you know, pretty, pretty precarious position to, to make some art. Okay. Let's keep going. This is actually, I'm, I'm kind of enjoying this. This is cool. He just went up to the greenery. I'm not sure if they were actual farmers or not, but they wouldn't have places to store grain. You're really up there. It's tubes pointing that way. All right. Let's see what I can see. Oh, there's a spider web on the end. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Let me see if I can get a shot through the tube for you. Maybe it was hard to see in the tube, but you can kind of see that white thing in the cliff with the hole in it. That would be the greenery. Wow. It's really up there. So why would they put it up there at such an inaccessible point? Well, from my understanding, the problem is that food was scarce here and you'd have roving groups of bandits just going around stealing stuff. So they would put it all the way up there to make it difficult to get to. And yeah, that's pretty difficult. I'm not sure if I'd even attempt to try to get up there, but anyways, it's yeah, it's super fascinating, isn't it? Like what a way to live crazy place to live. Beautiful place to live. All right. Let's have a look. So apparently there are over a thousand sites containing images in this Canyon, and then there's over 10,000 images. And then apparently it could be up to 10 times more because they haven't explored the whole thing. It's the most dense place in North America for petroglyphs, which I believe because I'm literally, I just drive down the road and I'm seeing them. I'm like, okay, there's, there's stuff here. It's crazy to think that long before Europeans were here, there were humans here with their own culture, their own way of living, making images out here and kind of sharing stories on, on rock walls. So, but anyways, I think we're at the site here. Um, where is it? Oh, there it is. Oh, wow. Look at that. It's a little hard to see that shadow, but yeah. So yeah, you got a guy on the right with a bow and arrow and then again in the middle and then lots of bighorn sheep, I presume. So I wonder how they carved this. Cause it's quite high off the ground, but there is a bit of a ledge there, but all the way to the right would have been difficult to do that, that hunter with the bow and arrow. It's possible that the ground level may have been right under it before, and it got washed out by, by the river or whatever, but yeah. Hello. How are you? Ah, enjoying all the pictographs. Oh yeah. Just getting started. We kind of drove to the end here and we're going to go the way back. Yeah. On the way back. What a beautiful day. Yeah. It's amazing. Canyon this. Yeah. Did you see the panel here? Yeah, I did. Yeah. How far of a walk is it? No, it's just right there. Oh yeah. Yeah. Right there. Yeah. But yeah, I stopped at most of them today and uh, yeah, they're all pretty cool. Pretty. What, what was the most impressive to you? Uh, well, I don't know. Maybe this one. This is like the most famous one. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're going to check it out for a few hours, so thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy. All right. Where are you headed to now? Uh, I was going to keep going up the canyon and kind of explore a little bit. Oh, okay. Yeah. I'm sure there's more up there. I Yeah. Like we're, there's not even signs. There's just like a bunch of them sitting around just on the wall. You're like, Oh, if you just keep an eye out, you'll find them. Yeah. Enjoy your day. So scientists think that these pictograms were created over a time range of around 300 years, about a thousand years ago. Oh yeah. Here we go. Gravel. So that's long before any Europeans came over. And, but yeah, it's really cool. I just find it so fascinating to see all these, you know, evidence of ancient peoples, uh, from a thousand years ago, years ago, they were walking and living in this canyon. And, uh, now a thousand years later, here I am riding my motorcycle, going around looking at the art they created. It's just pretty cool. I think. Yeah. I'm not sure many of us will create something that will last a thousand years that people will come to look at, you know, like it's, it's pretty cool. I wonder if the people back then that were making this art thought this like, Oh, I I'm, I'm going to tell the story. And then people a thousand years from now are going to come to have a look at what I'm depicting. You know, like I've been feeling this may be not the case, but anyways, uh, this canyon just got even better. I think like, like I'm not sure of any other place in the world. That's like this, like the kind of canyons with Mesa's and all that stuff like that Utah has really unique. I had a great place to ride a motorbike. So I think I'm going to climb out of the canyon here with the route I've selected lost mule. Okay. I have to see that sign. Jerry Pendleton lost his meal. Okay. I've never seen a lost meal sign. All right. Well, I have an image of the sign now. So if I find it, I'll, I'll give Jerry a call. I guess it's really important to Jerry. All right. Time to climb out of the canyon. Cool. Oh, it's just down there. All right. I think I'm at the top now. Oh, it's really flat up here. Okay. It's really flat, but maybe I'm going back down into that canyon there. That's cool. Well, the horses, this one is a lot wider. It looks like roads get a little rougher. What? All right. Well, that puts an end to that plan. All right. Well, I think I know of another way I can take. I just got to backtrack a little bit back to the canyon and then we'll take a left. and it's actually looking really good. So hopefully it all works out. There's so many drawings there. Okay. It's going to stop. It's so cool in here. Yeah. There's this whole other section of the road. That's like nobody comes here because it's gravel. But look at this. Like, what is this? I have no idea, but it's just there and it's awesome. And some of these are so high up. What an amazing place. Yeah. I'm just off the main road now and not many people are coming here, but those ancient people, well, they definitely did. So it's just so fascinating just to drive down the road and you see like this art that someone a thousand years ago spent a lot of time and it's beautiful here. Look at this. Oh, wow. I'm really high. I thought it was climbing for a while. Oh my God. Geez. Hi. Hi. Today. Oh man. That nine mile Canyon is seriously one of the coolest places I've been so far in the trip. Probably one of the coolest places I've ever been in my life. Okay. The paved section was pretty cool and seeing all the petroglyphs and all that. Very cool. But then I got onto the other part that I think it's called dry Creek maybe. And I just had this little double track going through this crazy Canyon. And I just felt, it felt so special. I felt so lucky riding through there. So cool. Seriously. Oh man. I was just like, this is one of the coolest places I've ever been. Oh, Utah, Utah is so awesome. Oh, and then, yeah, the, the petroglyphs are so cool. And they're so they're everywhere. The fact that there's like at least 10,000 of them scattered throughout the area, like those ancient people were busy over those 300 years. That's for sure. But anyways, oh yeah. I, I, I love these red rock Canyons. They are so awesome. And they're just so cool. They're just so cool. I, what can I say? I can't say enough about them, but anyways, let's go to the map and I'm going to show you. Cause I, I, I, I, I covered like half the state I think, or maybe a little less, but I, I, I made some good distance. So let's have a look at the map. All right. So we've got the map here and I started all the way over in Wendover and just followed the highway through the salt flat. And yeah, I remember going around, around this mountain here and, uh, kept going, kept going, kept going. And I went over here and this way. Oh no. No, I didn't screw that. Yeah. I went this way. Uh, and then through this road that is a toll road, but the lady let me through, which is very nice of her. And then went to Riverton and you have Riverton. That's where the up house is. And then I had like a quick stop at, um, in and out. And then I think I just hopped into the highway like this and six lane highway. That was pretty intense going this way, this way, this way. Okay. I don't want to screw this up. And then, yeah, got off the big highway, got into a little highway, um, something like that. And then I just don't want to screw this up because it's quite complicated. Uh, one like this and this, this, and then I, I hopped. So near Colton, I hopped off the highway and then got onto some gravel. And then I got onto this nine mile road. I think I camped all the way over there and my ranch. And then I went up here to do, and then I did end up going a little further past this turnoff and yeah, just, uh, had a look up there, but then this part here is the most amazing motorcycle ride you'll ever do. Like, it's so cool. And then you actually have to climb out of there. So I ended up climbing up and that was really fun. And yeah, came out like this and what did I do? Go like this, this, this, this, this to Wellington. That's where I am now. If you have a motorcycle, do that loop. It is so good. It is so good. Um, but anyways, uh, this is the awkward part again. Uh, if you would like to subscribe, there's a button, button down below. Uh, I'd love it. I'd love it if you did. Um, but of course it's optional. Of course it's optional, but anyways, uh, thank you so much for watching the video. I hope you liked it. And, uh, if, if you would like to watch the next one, uh, I would be very happy if you did. Uh, so anyways, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.