Travis Crashes and Breaks His Leg: Canada Camping and ADV Riding Trip Gone Wrong

Hello friends. I seriously considered not making this video and just tossing this footage away, but I decided to go ahead and put it together and share it really for two reasons. The first is Chris Crittermoto put together an amazing event, a fundraiser for a very worthy cause, Heads Up Guys, which is a Canadian charity that supports men's mental health. I don't want to take away from that. I want to acknowledge his contribution and what he did and thank him. And I will put the information about Heads Up Guys if you want to contribute in the description below. And two, I put this video together with Travis's permission because it occurred to me that in the situation that we were in, having been in that situation before, as you guys remember with Mike on the Washington BDR, really helped me keep my calm, helped me understand what we needed to do. I just think everybody there did a great job, but for me personally, I just really felt like having had the experience before helped me keep a level head in this situation. And so if in some way by sharing this experience, this emergency situation with you could maybe help somebody else in the future be calmer in a situation like this, know what to do. And again, I'm not saying what we did was perfect, but it did work out. I feel like that's worth sharing. If it could help somebody in the future in some way, maybe as a cautionary tale for you to remember to take your inReach, your satellite communicator, and have first aid gear, or just to know what to do in a situation, or at least what your options are, then I feel like that's worth it. It's valuable. Travis given his full permission to share this video, this footage, his x-rays are in here, all of that. And so I just want to make it clear that the point of this video is not to profit or enrich myself in some way off of my friend's injury. This video is not monetized. If you see an ad, YouTube put it there. I did not. I took them all out. The whole point is to hopefully make this be something that can be an educational experience and help somebody in the same situation in the future. And like I said, acknowledge Chris's contribution and the really great event that he put together and say thank you to him for that. So thank you to all the doctors, first responders, everyone that helped out, that helped us get Travis safe, secure, and get him home. He has had surgery. He's doing well. He's all the way home. You'll see all that in the video, but here is my trip to Canada with Travis and Eddie. And it took kind of an unexpected turn along the way. Thanks for watching. It's September. I'm here with Eddie. There's Trav. And we're headed to Canada because Canada is the place to be. We're headed up for Critter Moto's Get Lost, Find Yourself event, his fundraiser for men's mental health. Eddie and I are going to complete our North American tour. Having ridden all the way to the tip of Baja on Teneres, we're now going to ride up to Canada on Teneres and get it all done. And also Travis coming. We're going to follow Eddie with his ugly, ugly pannier set up and Travis with this beautiful, amazing, spectacular, gorgeous, moist. It causes me to feel moist in a way when I see Trav's luggage set up in a way that this inappropriate. I am fine and perfectly professional. Not a very good travel montage, but that's okay. It's just a lot of riding up the highway in the woods, which, you know, I can do at home. So you've seen it. That's all I'm saying. Hi, I am Critter Moto. I'd like to welcome you to the very first annual Get Lost and Find Yourself event. Your support means the world to me. Thank you. As a small token of my appreciation, I have made for you goody bags. Also included in your goody bag is a waiver. Please sign the waiver so I don't have to kick you out. Don't worry about this. Oh, oh, hello. What's going on guys? Uh, first live stream Tall Man might be coming out to play. Oh, sick. I'm excited. Here it is. Camp Hangover. Side by side. Reunited once again. Oh man, sitting down not on my motorcycle is awesome. No one told me. Who's going to make the first line? It's called a knapsack, but it's in the half sack version. And it's so comfortable. You look like Snuff Daddy. You try just free balling under that thing? Not yet, but it's basically a kilt. I think you look really good, Matt. Thanks, buddy. Eddie's got game. Did you hear that? There's Pete. I see him. Get some action from the action packer. That's like homemade. And he's like trying, and he's like, oh man. As many of you know, I am Critter Moto. I am Chris. Then we're going to go Aaron. Hey, that's Nelson Reed. Oh, no shake hand for you, bud. Oh, am I supposed to shake hands? He tried, but you left him hanging. He's busy. Here we are, day two with the Critter Moto camp out. Great time last night, campfire shenanigans. We had a beautiful pancake breakfast this morning, and now we're headed out to explore the beauty of northern BC and hopefully end up at a place called Telegraph Cove. That's supposed to be awesome and have a great little pub over the water. Eddie is our fearless leader today. We got Trav, we got Eric on the old Norden 901. It's going to be good times all day long, theoretically. So I slept in my tent over there. Trav was in the tent next to me. I think he was like cutting up logs all night. It was super weird. Oh, there was a bear in there. I'm not really sure. There's Critter Moto himself, the ringleader, the kingpin. Riding around like a maniac in camp. Eric is rocking the incredibly stylish exclusive Dork Camp Out license plate frame. So is Eddie. Trav doesn't have one because he hates me. Found some gravel, I think. Okay, we're actually going to get off on some dirt now, it looks like. Oh, oh, oh, I got you, bro. I got you. You all right? Yeah, that wasn't good. Is the bike on you? Bike on you? I know, but is the bike on you? Okay, well, should we move you? Where's it hurt? Where's it hurt? Oh, dude. Yeah, okay. We gotta, yeah, you're, okay. We gotta hit the button. We gotta hit the button. You need to sit down. Trav, I'm gonna hit the button, okay? Trav, your leg is broken, dude. It's in my tank bag. I got mine. Okay, well, we made a pact last time that if something bad happened, we'd actually film it. Trav's leg is probably broken. He went down in this rut. I know we have service at the cloth store, too, so I mean, maybe, uh. Yeah, what is that, 10 miles from here? Maybe we should do that. Call, let's go call 9-1-1. Call 9-1-1. Yeah, but drop a pin here. Okay, I'm gonna cancel it. I'll stay with you, okay? Eddie will call and get you some help. Ambulance is coming in like literally 20 minutes. It took them to get here. That's good. They're hauling ass. What happened? I'll go back to the road. Yeah, I'll go back to the road. They'll know where we're at. Yeah, we're just getting over here. Great, bud. You got it. All downhill from here. Uh, I got very excited about getting his gear back to camp and sent his vest ahead and his wallet and phone were in it. I didn't know that, so I gotta go get them and then I'll take those into town to the hospital where he is for him. It sucks, dude. You're a trooper, hardcore, like badass. I don't know how much more filming we're gonna have, so I'm just gonna say we'll update you on Travis when we have more information. Please send some good well wishes for Trav. He's gonna be in a Canadian hospital for a few days, it sounds like, and, uh, yikes. I don't know what to say. Just thanks. Thanks to all the volunteer firefighters and the paramedics up here. They were here fast. They did a great job and we're just really thankful for those first responders at home and abroad, so thank you all very much. It is the next day. Eddie and I stayed in Campbell River last night because that's where Trav was transported to. They're doing surgery today on Trav and they said it's going to be a day or two recovery time, so Eddie and I are trying to get home today or tomorrow, hopefully today, so I can get a car and come back for Travis. We just made the Nanaimo ferry, like literally pulled up, paid, and they started loading the motorcycles. We got incredibly lucky, otherwise we were gonna have to wait two hours and lose two hours of travel time, but here we are on the ferry. We're headed home. Trav's having surgery today. Weird trip, man. Weird trip, but this motorcycle loading experience is so interesting. I thought I would film it. Trav's in good spirits, but obviously not excited about having surgery on his leg. It's broken in two places. It's really bad. Like, I'll put the I'll put the x-ray in. He sent it to me and told me I could, but damn. But Ed and I are heading out. Anyway, that's the update. By the skin of our teeth. Yeah, literally skin of our teeth. There's... That should not have worked out. Pulling off the ferry. Got a seven-hour ride to get home. Me and Eddie are gonna try to make it today, then I can sleep in my own bed before I turn around in the car and come back and get Trav. I'm gonna post this video up to make money. I'm not gonna monetize it, I don't think. It's just a good educational thing to see what happens with a split second loss of focus, and that's an assumption. I don't actually know why he crashed, and also just what happens in an emergency situation and what what help exists, and I'm not saying what we did is the perfect example of what to do, but it turned out okay. So if it helps somebody in the future make a good decision or have a level head in an emergency situation, then it's worth the effort it took to put this video together and share it with you, but I'm in no way trying to exploit my friend's pain and suffering. Here we go. Welcome to Vancouver, BC. It is now Monday. It is 5 42 pm. Travis got hurt on Saturday, so yesterday, Sunday, Eddie and I rode all the way home, as you saw a part of. You saw us getting off the ferry. I got home about 11 o'clock and then slept, got up this morning, got in the car, and now I'm back here in Vancouver waiting for the ferry to go back over to Nanaimo, drive up to Campbell River. I'm gonna pick up Travis. He may be released tomorrow in the middle of the day, if not the next day for sure, so I'll be there to bring him home. That's the update for the moment, and I'm gonna get you some Trav footage when we get to Trav, but for now, check out the ferry. I've been on three different ferries now, two different trips to the island, and I still don't know which one we're taking back, so it could be a fourth in there for me. I don't know. Joys of adventure, right? It's always an adventure. All right, well, see you on the flip side. Look, look who's alive. You're gonna want, you're gonna want this for posterity footage, yeah. All right, we're gonna get this guy home, but I brought him a Sam Squanch friend, and they look like twins, peas in a pod, peas in a pod. Henry's got competition. That's right, that's Henri. He's his French Canadian cousin. Got Travis some Timmies, because you can't come to Canada without some Timmies, but I'm gonna get out of here in the next few hours and get this guy home. We are sitting in Ben's car. He was kind enough to be a very good friend and come back up to Victoria, or where are we at? Campbell River. Campbell River. Oh, Victoria, or Vancouver Island. Get me after my surgery for my busted ass leg. There it is, all wrapped up so it doesn't get wet. Get the boat, get to the mainland, and then head towards the border. So there's gonna be a lot of convalescing videos. It's a new genre. Yeah, yeah. Convalescence camping. Convalescence. Pornvalescence. Yeah, yeah, only valescence. Yeah, there you go. And then head to Nanaimo, hopefully back on the mainland around five, and home, Trav's house before 11. We'll see. So if we get tired along the way, or if it's just too uncomfortable for Trav back there, we'll get a hotel, whatever. No big, but we're gonna figure it out. We're gonna get the hell off this island, and then our options expand greatly. Getting a ferry is a real pain in the ass sometimes.