Yellowstone NATIONAL PARK: Bison Tried to attack my motorcycle | EP 3

Yeah, this is why you come out here the Yellowstone look at this how incredible is that so close All right, so last night I decided to get a hotel room because it's been like three four days just camping out So yeah, every about four days five days We try to get a hotel just to kind of shower clean stuff and get things organized And yeah, luckily we have very nice parking today It's not too difficult to bring stuff in and out But sometimes there's hotels where you got to go in the second floor You have to carry all the boxes because all my camera gear all my laptop is here. So yeah fortunate We got a first floor today because it's not fun doing that. Yeah every day Basically, it's taking bags on taking bags off and you know, it's it's hard It's really it's really physically difficult to just do it every single day Do the straps do the things carry the boxes and that's just a difficulty of a motorcycle trip around the world Yeah, it just it's such a mental mind game to just Keep convincing yourself to keep doing it and that the pain is worth it and it's all gonna be okay But yeah There's the times that you just wish you had an RV or a mobile home and you could just walk in walk out be nicely Showered all the time have everything super easy for you. Just park anywhere you want. But no got to do it on the motorcycle So, I don't know. I'm starting to think RV sounds really nice these days, but You know, the motorcycle is adventurous. It's unique It makes the trip cheaper as well But it definitely connects you with the road and the experience a little better than RV camp So, all right, we're gonna pack up the bike here and hopefully have the Yellowstone National Park today Hey, we just finished gassing up and in total for both of us It's $21 and we did 4.5 gallons, which is kind of nice car would be about three times that much. So Pretty cool. I love driving a bike. It's one of the reasons you drive a bike even though it's just a pain in the ass to Always be putting your stuff on and off and taking and that's just this whole thing. Yellowstone National Park. Here we come Look at this beautiful road the Yellowstone. So if some of you're wondering how I entertain myself on the road endless hours well, I basically Just listen to music a lot of the time What's cool about the communicators? I'm using there's semi communicators I can actually share the music with anybody in this case grace back there But most of the time we each play our own music actually But yeah, basically I sometimes listen to the news I usually do it my NPR Listening list my global BBC global news podcast as well. I check out the local stock market news I did trending stuff. So yeah, I basically I keep myself busy Listening to stuff and thinking about life and just enjoying the moment hours and hours a day I'm sitting here on the motorcycle is basically like sitting at an office So I'm not doing something if I'm not answering emails if I'm not Thinking about how to progress business how to do videos shooting something I'm basically just wasting a lot of time Basically some guy wanted to have a big mansion and he started building his house like absolute crazy and that's what developed Basically, it's not really structurally sound. It's a private. He doesn't give anybody any tours basically, it was just his dream to have a big tall house and Yeah, it's kind of interesting, huh I welcome the Yellowstone National Park currently here waiting around because we're trying to find a campsite and Reservations are usually booked up to six months in advance. But luckily sometimes there's first-come first-served and that's what we're in line for right now It's a bit complicated. But yeah, it's America's busiest park. It's the world's very first National Park and this year They're celebrating a hundred years. I mean 150 years of being open, which is super cool So everybody is out here trying to experience and enjoy National Park only complaint so far is that it seems to be very confusing Yeah, it's a little disorganized here people yelling around people not where they're supposed to be it's uh, yeah, it's kind of Experience a mama bear black bear come in here with her kids. So they're here. I am more concerned about Anything That would attract anything In the car in the bear box and so what seemed like an attorney which was actually about half hour 45 minutes almost It feels like How long was it half an hour? So after half an hour finally got camping It was the almost the only spot left so very rare that you can walk in and first-come first-served campsite Obviously reservations is the way to do it now. They changed the whole system. So there we got very very lucky Basically, it's not first-come first-served. It's the fact that there was an open reservation and Park ranger basically made the reservation which you got to do online But I've heard that it's up to six months of a reservation before You come here because it can get very very busy So I've got a crappy little campsite for $34 and that is gonna be the evening for us So welcome to lunch currently at the general store of Yellowstone and Had to buy a bunch of random crap to eat because there's nothing around this National Park On the menu today we have salt and pepper chips with turkey cheese wrap Grace has a red bull Yeah, very very common piece of food item Hydration and food break off we go how close that Buffalo is to the road I mean, this is why everybody stops and tries to take pictures and it's just a bit of a nightmare But yeah, look how close nature is that's absolutely amazing that the Bison's right there and there's a grizzly bear right over there And he's walking straight towards it What's gonna happen? So definitely one of the best feelings after a long day of riding and super super hot weather is taking boots off Finally getting some freedom from the feet because man these motorcycle boots, although they're incredibly protective And if a motorcycle falls on them, these are the boots you want to have on your feet and your ankles They do not breathe well at all. So yeah, it is a it's very stuffy in there And you know, these boots are brand new I've had them for maybe two weeks now But any boot really starts smelling after about two three weeks and that's what's starting to happen with these But that happens any boot honestly just cuz it's just if you're always sweating it just starts adding up so anyway, best part of the evening is arriving making my home for the night and Taking my boots off. Oh, what a relief. So nice. Well, here we are camp. It's beautiful. It's amazing and people always ask me So, how are you feeding yourself? How are you eating? Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do today. What's for dinner? So first of all, whenever I heat water up I use this thing called a jet boil jet boil basically in about a minute and a half almost two minutes It heats up a whole thing of water and I can use that water for dehydrated food. I can use it for What is tonight's dinner, which is this ramen dried ramen? Luckily, I do have a sandwich though. So I'm probably a sandwich as well beef jerky So that's what's for dinner on the menu So this is really an essential thing for camping because you can always use hot water if you're out in a dangerous situation You can boil water from a river to make it drinkable and you can cook warm food on it every time So really this this thing is really a lifesaver. So definitely recommend it Also, you always want to have some sort of flashlight thing going on Because light is very important so I usually just carry one or two or three different light sources some of the light sources are actually the camera light that I Have and that I use and some of the light sources are for the headlamps so today we're gonna start a fire as well because it's gonna be super super cold outside and You see behind me. We got the fire pit. I got my little Galleries are getting my throat All right, as I was saying, so today we're gonna make a campfire because it's gonna be very very cold out tonight. And yeah, so one way to start a fire is through these little fire starters that you see here and basically, they're doused in flammable something and they just basically light up gels or you can use some sort of camp fuel or Man I'm so tired. This is kindling for your fire. You can basically break logs together You can make a little thing and I'll show you today how I like to make fires I personally like the teepee one You put a lot of kindling smaller pieces of wood on the very bottom and then use bigger logs So that kind of ignites the bottom and it kind of works its way up And you also have the other technique that you do like a brick house Basically, it's just two logs next to each other and that's also very good, especially in very high wind situations This is definitely my go-to for sure So those are some of the techniques I use for campfire making and I always love having a fire when I'm camping because it boosts Your morale it keeps you warm and it's just something kind of fun and rustic and very caveman to do So I really enjoy kind of just living off the land and just trying to survive So it's really kind of really big moral booster and kind of this experience that I really really enjoy So it brings you back to your roots of what you know being a humans all about just so I'm gonna go make my dinner And that's gonna be the end of my day. So I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow So welcome to 7 a.m. It is freezing out here it is probably like 48 degrees Fahrenheit It's pretty darn cold, especially while driving a motorcycle We put up the camp and now we are about to go check out the morning Experience of Yellowstone and I remember this temperature last because January of this year. I was in East Europe Traveling in the winter if you can imagine I haven't posted those videos because I just haven't edited them and I was still on my break But you'll get those videos hopefully soon on YouTube But I feel the windchill factor now and basically I am reminded of how miserable I was for about two months traveling through the crazy countries of East Europe Pita grips, which is very nice, which I did not have and man I would have killed Killed to have these things called hippo hands These hippo hands basically protect you from the wind wind chill the cold the rain and man I would have loved to have had these in January But man, my hands were so cold so often because I was getting on the bike getting off the bike I was stopping to take pictures These things would have saved my butt. So I really wish I would have had him before but anyway They were super nice to send me out some some of their hippo hands to try and I am a huge fan Yeah, this is why you come out here the Yellowstone. Look at this How incredible is that? So close check it out. We got a little geyser over here. Beautiful Grace is changing her battery for her GoPro And this is actually a little loop that you can actually drive through which is very convenient because we do not like Getting off the bike because these motorcycle boots are not meant For hiking and for long walks, so it's kind of nice to have this tourist site very close. Look at this guys beautiful sulfur Mountain is what it looks like very cool Ah Taking a quick break to enjoy this gorgeous view and also the Sun is finally hitting us directly So it's nice to finally warm up a little bit because it is cold. Whoo It's now about 53 degrees Fahrenheit so a little bit of Sun goes a long way and that's the thing most people don't think about when you're driving a motorcycle is It looks very nice. Very romantic Reality is it's very very cold with the wind chill So definitely got layers on but the Sun is always your best friend. Yellowstone is really a special park there's just so much to see it's so vast and there's just So much beauty around so all over Yellowstone There's all these little stores and it's little general stores, which is kind of nice and convenience and they got gas and they got Sandwiches, which is what's for breakfast today. It is a cranberry chicken salad on nine grain bread Yeah, there's a lot of bread not a lot of salad in there but Only real good thing available around here I currently made it to the Old Faithful and we're waiting for it to explode It usually goes about every hour or so It used to be very constant but that's changed over the years and I am NOT the only one that is waiting to see this There's a huge amount of people on that It's quite the popular tourist attraction I like to call it the Disneyland of National Park attractions Well, this is the old Yellowstone Inn This is a hotel that is there in the very center of the park and what's very interesting about it is obviously the decor is Very beautiful, but there is a little crows or birds nest up there that many many years ago There used to be like a band or an orchestra that would be playing and you'd hear it as soon as you walked into the building Super cool super historic and it's hundreds of years old this place. So it's super awesome