Scenic Drive: The Incredible Pacific Coast Highway

Holy smokes. Welcome to Highway 1 California coast. Today's going to be gorgeous. Holy smokes. All right as soon as I remember the name of the state park I'll list it maybe on the video here above. This is gorgeous. Right on Highway 1. It is a windy windy day. Let me put this guy down. And it's supposed to be some type of parking lot or viewing area out here. Holy smokes. Yeah we are not in South Carolina anymore. This is absolutely stunning. Lee Smokes. As soon as I remember the name of this state park, I'll list it maybe on the video here above. This is gorgeous. Right on Highway 1, it is a windy, windy day. Let me put this guy down. And it's supposed to be some type of parking lot or viewing area out here. Holy smokes. Yeah, we are not in South Carolina anymore. This is absolutely stunning. I initially moved to South Carolina from Minnesota for the ocean and all that kind of stuff, and I absolutely love it. Charleston will be in my heart forever. This is definitely crazy. I love the rocks, and I'm fogging up. This is crazy beautiful. All right, what do we got here? Trails. Let's get parked. I can't believe, number one, it is July. Just left the humidity of Charleston to the 113 degrees of Fresno, California, and now I am wearing my backpacking hoodie, light heart gear, amazing equipment, and I'm wearing my liner on my jacket, which is just sheer craziness. Let's take a look around. It's definitely not lost on me that I said this about the Arizona desert and Sonoran and the Mojave Desert with the bike, but I don't know why I would go back home. This is stunning. this is crazy for a minnesota boy uh and i moved to charleston i've been around the ocean for a while now but this is just what an experience and i sat here and watched a uh what i believe is a seal go through the water all right let's continue this is a motorcycle adventure after all highway one is killer let's see what else we can find stunning geez man is everything this crazy beautiful around here absolutely stunning stunning stunning stunning i think of any better adjective Handful of years ago, a little side story, my wife and I were camp hosting in Oregon. Beautiful Mount Hood, Clear Lake, if you're familiar with the Mount Hood area at all. And our plan was to tour Highway 1 and the Oregon coast once we got done with camp hosting. So that was 2020, which ended up being the largest wildfires in Oregon history, I believe. The first and second largest one was at Riverside. A little bit of history there. I'm sure you're just dying to hear. But yeah, we were going to do this whole coast and check it out, and we didn't get a chance. So now we're officially back, checking out the sights, if you will. And it is pretty phenomenal. It's living up to everything it is supposed to be. Cliffs are beautiful. The views are beautiful. The water is beautiful. I'm just kind of running up and down. We got our base camp down there with our van and trailer. So let's see. what else there is i'm sure there's more viewpoints and beauty let's let's have a little adventure today guys let's get after it it's worth saying again it is absolutely blowing my mind that i am not only in my jacket and wind liner uh but in my backpacking hoodie as well we were uh we left south carolina it was high 90s pure humidity just a complete swamp Man, that's gorgeous crossing the country Oklahoma Texas well over a hundred We did the backpacking in Yosemite, seven-day backpacking in Yosemite. We're at elevation, so that was pretty decent. Once we got back down to the van, it was 100-plus in Yosemite Valley. And then in Fresno, to resupply, to come up here, it's 113. Ooh, it's been crazy. I think last night's low was 49, and today's high, I'm not quite sure. I think it was mid-70s. But with this breeze, it is straight cold, and I'm kind of loving it. Ba-dum-bum-bum-bum. What a ride. You California guys, if you live over here, get to ride this a lot or spoiled. A lot of good stuff in the Carolinas, but this is something special. I mean, not all too far from where I'm from in Charleston. Well, South Carolina anyway. They have the Tail of the Dragon, the Back of the Dragon, the Blue Ridge Parkway, all these kinds of things to play around in, which is just a hop, skip and a jump. Kind of motorcycle haven over there. This is pretty cool for sure. A little bit different type of scenery. So darn cool. All right, let's see what we can find. All right, welcome to Stewart's Point, California. It is one of the smallest post offices I've seen, and I grew up in a very small town, Minnesota. I will be intrigued to look at the population. Let's see, I think the general store is closed, but let's go take a look. It's definitely a blind road. I'm just gonna scoot directly across, and it is indeed bad, but they got some good donuts or something in there. Just missed him. All right, let's figure out where the heck we're gonna go. Geez, man, every corner's just crazy. All right, so we're, I'm gonna head back to camp. This has been crazy amazing. I thought Kings Canyon was frickin' phenomenal, and it was. The hikes were pretty crazy. I'll pop a little video up at the top here of Kings Canyon if I can, put it down in the description. Highly recommend it. That national park is beautiful and directly connected to Sequoia. We're going to head back. I'm going to see. I don't do a lot of this. I'm going to see what I can get. I'm still practicing with the old 360 camera. See what this angle looks like or comes out. Leave a comment below. You know, it's right down there. Let me know what you thought of the footage I throw up. Change the angle. Big fan of it. Not a big fan of it. We will look into that. I figured I'd give it a try. Look at that. I hope this comes out. That is just crazy beautiful. We're going to drive right up and over that. to show you our campsite that we got it is pretty awesome really just uh well i mean like most campsites it's a dirt path picnic table and fire ring which is pretty awesome we do missy and i do a lot of boondocking just primitive camping in the van and that's obviously if you know the channel what i like to do what i prefer to do on the on the motorcycle as well matter of fact i'll uh Put a video up here about primitive camping versus campsite. It's very interesting. I highly recommend checking it out. On highway one, we haven't seen a lot of BLM style open land. There's a little bit of it there. If you run up the mountainside here, we kind of wanted the view, so we actually paid for a campsite, which is pretty rare for us, and it is pretty stellar. So when we get there, I'll give you guys a little tour. It comes with a view. Let me throw that out not only does it come with a view like that's not enough the little bitty camp store it's like being backwoods camp store it's the coolest thing ocean cove campground i think you have to check it out uh had a hazy little thing in a can uh so got a little craft beer as well i feel like the carolinas if you're in carolina area and you haven't been to the asheville um sierra nevada brewery check it out man but i'll have a little hazy little thing to come back to and relax and show you this killer campsite man what a fun day this is really cool so much diversity i love the himalayan man i've said it a million times on this freaking channel it is the ultimate beast for me off road you've seen all the adventures if you haven't i highly recommend go back and check with big parts of TransAmerica Trail Smoky 500 Georgia Traverse uh mid-atlantic bdr blah blah tons of them lots of fun craziness my adventure buddy barry and uh This is definitely different. I mean, just for touring, for everything, it's a great adventure bike. Time we get back to South Carolina. We're pushing 11,000. I'm almost there now. What a year that it has been. Gosh, man. Oh, just a lot to reminisce back on one year. All right, let's get back to camp and see if we can open up that hazy IPA. Onward and upward. Oh, craziness. Sheer craziness. Over here is our campground, but we'll get you a little closer view. It's pretty crazy. So let me show you around camp. There's definitely a few other campers here, but it's pretty awesome. I got Draven up on the service stand. I wanted to oil the chain a little bit. That's the Draven Transporter. If you haven't seen yet on the channel, I know it's very windy. That's Eddie Vander, our camper van. And it's crazy. This is not a walk from our campsite. It is not the common area. I'm not just faking a nice campsite. There's the van, and there's that view. It is stunning. We were here all day yesterday, here today, so I can take a ride and chill on Highway 1, which is pretty epic. I want to explore Highway 1 for you guys a little bit more as well. I don't think it can kind of add up because the desert and the Mojave desert, the Sonoran desert, that Jeep trail, the crazy off-road I did outside of Joshua Tree and that crazy sand, testing and beating up that hill. It was one of the funnest things I've ever done. Highway one though. Let's grab that beer. I'm going to sit down and relax a little bit. Yep, it's definitely beer time. After that little blooper reel, obviously it is way too windy to sit and record. So I'm just going to sit here, drink my beer. Look at that. Beautiful scenery. And I will see you on the next ride, guys. Don't forget to hit the like button right there. Come on, you see it's right there. It helps out on this crazy YouTube algorithm and stuff. Hit the like I'd appreciate it, and we'll see you on the next one. You guys have a fantastic night.