Driving Canada to Mexico in 23 hours | [ Part 15 ]

Welcome to episode 15. This is the final episode of my 500 day trip across the Americas. In this episode, I finally head down home to Texas from Alaska. Anxious to get home, I decide to drive non-stop for 22 hours straight and over 1,200 miles to make it home after a year and a half on the road. This is my new buddy Scott and Scott has an amazing bat cave or man caves so to say. And he's got the airplanes, he's got the guns, he's got the animals on the wall. So it's pretty cool and it's an awesome place and I didn't think there was an airplane to ride which you'll see next. But today is a very good day because I'm going to ride an Alaskan bush plane like this one which is this one. I'm pretty freaking excited about this. Then we're going to try to see a glacier. It's going to be really cool. If we see something we can shoot it with this beautiful rifle mounted on it. So fun parking spot for the day. Hangar for airplanes. I'm not going to take a piece of ice from the glacier and eat it because I think that's pretty unique. Ice glacier. Here in Kamloops, Canada I met the most lovely of people. We have Judy and we have Gail who are amazing coworkers. So if you're ever in Kamloops, Canada which is a little off from things but I recommend you stay with them and you'll find them. And if you need any information be sure to shoot me an email and I'll get you to them because you'll have an amazing time. I had Thanksgiving dinner with them and they were so lovely. And so was he. He was lovely too. And if he comes to stay with you you might need Kleenex because we're both tearing up. They're going to make me cry. It's true. So thank you ladies. Today is the first day in three weeks, three and a half weeks that I am actually hot and I've had to lay her down because there's sun. I finally made it south here from North Canada near the border with the U.S. and finally it's warm. Finally there's other bikers. You know everybody's just riding enjoying the day and it's so wonderful to to be warm and hot and not be freezing my ass off like I had the past three and a half weeks. So I'm so happy. The strange and random crap you find on the road is the world's largest cross-country skis here in Canada near Kamloops, a roadside attraction of the Americas. So I'm in Montana coming down from Alaska and it seems quite the opposite. It seems like I just got to Alaska from Montana because the snow has eventually caught up to me. So one thing I learned today is actually this thing called grapple which is not really snow but it's kind of like a very fluffy thingamajig I've never seen before. So I learned something today. Apparently it's pretty good. It's like a snow cone. I'm here with Jessica and her sister and apparently this is the way they walk their dogs in Montana which is ridiculous if you ask me. Welcome to the border with Montana and Wyoming and today is my day of reckoning. Today will either end in glory or it will end in shambles and today I have decided to drive literally from Canada or Montana all the way to Mexico or Texas. So basically it's 1,000 miles, 1,100 miles in less than 24 hours and it's going to be quite a challenge and you're going to see my face what it is now. I'm going to try to document the whole thing. Me going happy to sad to crazy to insane because it's not going to be easy. It's going to be very difficult. So you're going to see the whole process unfold as we speak. So why am I doing this you may ask. Well I think it's quite a suiting way to end such an epic journey on my last 24 hours of this journey in such an epic way. So an epic journey, an epic end, an epic adventure on an epic challenge at the very last day of a thousand miles in less than 24 hours. So no sleep, no caffeine, no luxuries, no heated stuff, no no luxuries, no nothing. Just mind over matter. Just gassed up. I'm going to be documenting on the spot. I'm currently there. Going to go to Mexico. So the journey of a thousand miles in 24 hours begins now. So two hours in having a quick lunch break and not much time to do much. So got to hurry up and keep on going on the road. All right I'm officially into hour seven and a half on the thousand miles in 24 hours. So only seven hours out of 20 hours so far and I can already feel the effects of it. So this is not easy. So after seven hours my my hand is hard it's hard to use because it's gripping for seven hours and my back is kind of hurting and my legs are pretty sore and a lot is a lot is making it very difficult to continue on. So I am now officially into hour 11 of my ridiculous ride. My body is starting to hurt a lot after driving. Two bathroom breaks. Three food breaks. This will be the fourth one. The rough the next uh what is it? 487 miles. Oh man. I'm already developing calluses on my hands from holding the thing so long. The whole the throttle so long and my my hands are are tired. My neck has been potting the wind all day. Welcome to hour 15 of driving non-stop and I am now feeling it. The body is tired. The mind is tired. The arms and the hands are tired. It's very cold now. It's a desert in winter so it's below freezing now. I didn't even think it might be the most difficult five hours of my life or it may not. Who knows? Welcome to hour 18 and I don't even know what to say. I'm tired. Oh man. So if it was easy everybody would do it and again it's not easy not everybody does it. Does this look like 18 hours of non-stop driving? I hope so. I am officially on hour 20 of driving. I have traveled more than 1100 miles and I have 80 miles to go. I can tell you the last 80 miles are the most difficult because I'm running on fumes now and 20 hours of non-stop driving. Insane. What a what a what a great way to end the adventure. Suffering but nonetheless I don't know I couldn't have picked a better ending for it but I gotta head off before I fall asleep. Not really I'm okay and no caffeine. Yeah no caffeine. Mind over matter as they say. All right let's go. So uh in here in Texas and in my trip I find uh what was the name again? Brad. This is Brad. So I find Brad who's starting his trip to South America here in Texas so I've been exchanging information with him giving the tips on what to do what not to do etc etc and uh he's um he's on the KLR as well and it's you know driving a KLR 85,000 miles I I pretty much know how to do the whole thing so I'm trying to help him out. I made it to El Paso. Yeah! 1180 miles later and 20 hours. That was ridiculous. It's now 6 a.m. driving all day for 20 for 20 hours but I made it. El Paso, Texas, USA, New Mexico. Yeah! That's it. I'm back. I did the full circle around the Americas and it's now over. It hasn't sunk in yet.