it's day 18 cycling across the USA from Miami to LA or to raise money for the fantastic cause get
kids going exclamation mark today we're riding from Morgan City to New Iberia and Justin isn't
very well which I'm not surprised about because he spent yesterday riding all day being spread
in the face with mud yeah who would have thought swallowing miscellaneous Road substances would
have a bad effect on your body I think some of it was living none of it was living unless it's
on a bacterial level looking forward to another 90k I'm sneezing a lot my throat is hurting my
ears are hurting it's not photosynthesia not but look it up in fact don't look it up just
comment randomly where you think it is let's go ride bikes why are we shaking hands again
that's not going anywhere
starting off today on a high we forgot that it was a Sunday because we don't
know what day of the week it is anymore which means quieter roads we're also on
this pretty cool Old Bridge alongside a much bigger scarier looking Bridge full of cars
result Band of Brothers has been deployed the old tuberson and we are flying
I think we're okay we've got a puncture not a very nice road to stop on
so we got a puncher Justin's bike this time front wheel again uh we're riding on some really
big roads which are super clean but on the edge where we have to ride it's just loads of [ __ ]
so we're prone to punches unfortunately not tubeless on Justin's bikes and we've got to
put a new inner tube in and then we'll repair the old one when we get to our
stop the good thing about when we get punches is that we always seem to do it in the safest places
luckily we do have a very wide shoulder and we're across the road from a church we're a very lovely
lady just stopped and offered us assistance did she say she was going to send the boys right
boys already yeah she was going to send the boys over maybe the boys at the church have got a
tubeless pump and ceiling oh can you imagine yeah but as I said very safe road we're going to see
lots of lovely vehicles we love cycling Francis is very good at changing tires doesn't even need
to use any Tire levers you're already done yeah pump action Francis also just while we're doing
this I'm going to point something out look those timelines the pump action Francis comes with the
tan lines as well I mean if it didn't why would anyone want to buy it you could get a blank one
you paint it yourself it could be a cop oh maybe it is oh amazing yeah which engineer now yeah yeah
so nobody hit y'all thank you so much thank you we're going to Los Angeles cycling yeah
let's try and uh try and raise money to get equipment for people so they can do exactly the
same thing okay your shoes are really shiny yeah I know people don't want to find this right right
thank you
we've stopped in the nicest place in the world there's a guy called Chad that's about to come
out uh who just gave us a hundred dollars and his friends that already spoke to you outside here
insisted on buying us stuff the food that they have here is only available every other Sunday
there's a Coke some sweets for us uh some fruit has a little bit of extra and then
we've got like some barbecue but I've got you some rice and potato salad because they
just said we had to have it thank you so far today is exactly the opposite of yesterday
's goes right to it barbecue time it's a pretty good barbecue there for what you got Francis is
Judy nice to meet you oh look I gotta tell you he was doing all the work I don't know what you were
doing along the road I saw you gliding and boy he's cranking me thank you so much man yep yeah
y'all gonna have a good ride it ain't gonna be a five minute journey through Franklin because
I'm going in you're going to see Arlington Plantation on the right well you're going
to take a picture do you want to make good time or do you want to have pretty scenery
and take pictures if you want to make time stay on Highway 9. because when you get to Franklin
you're gonna get the New Iberia all of that and you're gonna meet people like you men around here
and before long you're going to say why were we going to Los Angeles just stop here we had
my phone was ringing a minute ago I'll get back to him but they could do fire me I'm the boss don't
be scared to knock on doors in south Louisiana you need help good morning good morning one hour later
um Wendell and Robin arrive so just to explain what's happened everything was going so well
we've had an accident with the equipment which cannot be repaired by the side of the road because
of the way I fasten the tail fin on which is my rear pannier rack to my seat post this morning it
came loose from pulling Justin with the tow rope the tail fin fell on my rear Mech bent the Mac
bent the hanger and broke itself which is actually a replaceable part but I don't have that here with
me so we're kind of stuck at the gas station until we figure out how we're going to progress
as always we will come up with a solution
it's just a shame this day was going so well and now isn't
yeah 34 miles away which is obviously a shortcut a short car Journey
um but it's complicated because of how big you guys are yeah it's it's like truck only truck
truck owners hey nice to meet you too that is your closest um option for like getting getting help
man like Jimmy Wilson another road Angel but I'm a little surprise gift as well I'm gonna try and
get you something but no you don't have to give me that too late so this is gonna be for you no
no no no it's a little we're not taking no for an answer like you've rescued us completely here
so just that's not yes thank you I got a sister live over there give me excuse to go vent man I
I used to work in Angola Africa and uh I work with a ton of Brits up there the poor Portuguese
had this big English dog dumbasses because we like smart from Miami to L.A oh my God
to raise money for charity okay well why you gave me the money because no no because you you've got
this trip back on track if you really have a problem with it pay it forwards to them yeah
it's part of this the street right
thank you so much no problem have an amazing Thanksgiving
I don't need a Taco Bell for Thanksgiving yeah
appetite squeeze then you go to the gas station to get yourself some food that would make you
feel better because you haven't got a regular stomach at the moment I did vodka got myself a
load of nice water because you love the sugary things I got you a treat because they had
plant-based jerky well I'm a big fan of jerky so I wanted you to experience what
that was like I'm enjoying a plant-based version got you some alertness caffeine
pills and then I I felt like I needed to have like some protein or something
healthy and the healthiest thing that I could see was Big Mama's Pickled Sausage
and pass me the bin please
many hours later for the last few hours I've been sat on the floor here
tinkering with my bike and bags trying to get everything working again so we can continue
riding and I think I've cracked it it's a bit of a budge but it's definitely working and I think
I might even be able to run the bags back on my bike tomorrow if everything is working the way I
think it is then we can ride for three more days before meeting our friends Lou and Rob who are
going to help us change trailer to something we can ride which will be stable two wheels
and then everything from that point onwards will go smoothly if I don't upload a video tomorrow
everything has gone wrong so hopefully see you then