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- [Clintus] Look at that smile.
That is a kid who's ready to go on a field trip.
So where you going?
- Pleas...uh, Lake Pleasant.
Every time I say Lake Pleasant
I always say Pleasant Park now, from Fortnite.
- [Clintus] From Fortnite, yep.
- I almost said that yesterday.
- [Clintus] You're going to go camp out?
- Yeah.
- [Clintus] Cabins? With your class?
Awesome. So what do you got packed over here?
- So I have a bag full of like two days worth of clothes,
toothbrush and all that.
And Uno.
And then I have a sleeping bag,
but I smashed my pillow on top.
- [Clintus] You'll be able to carry that?
- Yeah. - [Clintus] Yeah? Alright.
- Everyone else is gonna be carrying this
'cause everyone else had to be carrying,
had to have a sleeping bag or,
like three blankets and a sheet.
- [Clintus] Right on.
Alright man, have fun. Bye!
- Bye, stop!
- [Tiffany] See you tomorrow, Bryce!
- Okay.
- [Tiffany] This is tough, this is weird.
- Bye!
- [Tiffany] Love you. - [Bryce] Love you, too.
(water bubbling)
- [Clintus] Drip drop drip drop drip drop drip drop.
Good morning, guys, welcome to the vlog, welcome to Monday.
Start of a new week.
Countdown of the days to Christmas,
what are we at, 14 days to Christmas?
Two weeks, actually today, wow,
Christmas is on a Monday, that's right.
Anyways, I'm getting ready to go upstairs
and do my Twitch stream, I'm gonna cut it short though
because then James is coming over here,
we're gonna load the dirt bikes,
we're gonna head up north to Boulder OHV,
Mike and Tanner are gonna be joining us,
we're gonna be riding some dirt bikes for a couple of hours,
I'm really excited about that.
And then come back here,
Sierra has some shopping to do for another event
that she's got going on, and I have a podcast.
So, yeah, and no Bryce, we're missing Bryce all day.
That's a first, he's in,
there's a guy in there! Holy crap!
(laughing)
That is intense!
- [James] I'm sorry I'm getting distracted,
there's this guy hanging from a helicopter
working on a-- - [Clintus] Electric pole.
- [James] Electric pole thing, it's really intense.
- [Clintus] Holy crap.
Alright, boys and girls, we're here, Boulder OHV.
Is this considered Peoria? I think it's considered Peoria,
the lake, what's the lake address?
- [Mike] That's Peoria.
- Peoria, yeah, we're in Peoria. Peoria, Arizona.
We've got the Swags, with the Hondas,
we've got James with team blue.
Now we've gotta have some multicolor going on
for those of you who are always saying
team blue in the comments section,
of course rocking the Kawi team green.
I'm gonna knock his bike over, oof.
Getting geared up, getting the GoPros ready.
And this is James's first time riding in the desert.
First time in the desert.
- I'm used to riding through the trees,
so this'll be much different.
- Me and Mike both said, "ah, that sounds nice",
and he's like, "I'm excited to ride out here!"
so it's all about where you live and where you're from.
First time in the desert,
first time riding with other people with bikes, right?
- Yeah, my daughter rides, but she's five
so she rides little TT-R50's,
so it'll be nice to actually go
out with some people who know what they're doing.
I'm used to riding with quads, so, it's gonna be cool.
- It's gonna be excited, I'm excited to take him to some
single track, some dirt bike only trails.
Alright guys, another riding video,
and this one, oh man, I love this place to ride.
I love Boulder OHV, it's my favorite place to ride.
It's not to far, 45 minutes, hour tops with the traffic.
Again, this is James's first time out in the desert,
so I wanted to make a good experience,
I didn't want him just to ride, you know,
near my house or something like that
where it's not really awesome,
it's just like, oh, cool, we have a place to ride, you know.
So I have to admit, I really enjoy trail riding,
I like the more technical stuff, you know.
Yeah, you're not going very fast,
it's just not safe to go very fast,
for one, it's not one-way,
so at any one of these turns or hills
there could be a quad or RZR,
another dirt bike coming the opposite direction,
so in my opinion it's just not safe to be
going stupid fast on a trail like this.
Plus, I don't have it memorized,
I haven't ridden this in months, if not years.
And so there could be a boulder
or a fallen tree, fallen cactus,
you know, washed out where it's all sandy,
and, again, it's just not safe to be
blindly hauling butt through this, which I'm fine with,
I like the technical ride, I like the scenery,
so I'm okay with kind of going slower,
especially when you get to the single track,
it's just fun to ride, I don't know I just have fun.
(dirt bike engine)
- You don't wanna stall on the hill.
- [James] Clintus is dispensing his wisdom right now
for us to climb up this hill.
- Yeah, we got a pretty gnarly hill on this trail,
and I'm trying to remember from 10 years ago
if this is the trail that,
there's a big like 20 mile loop that we're going through,
I think this is, this looks right.
But of course I wanna make sure everyone's safe,
and everyone's cool with going on it,
I don't wanna like force anyone to do something
they're not comfortable doing.
I let Tanner be the judge and say
if he gives it thumbs up or thumbs down.
And if he's good to go, I'm gonna let him go first,
that way if it gets hairy we can hop off and help him up.
- I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty nervous about this, too.
- [Mike] I hear ya, brother.
(dirt bike engines)
(laughing)
- [Mike] You got it, come on, come on!
Punch it, punch it, punch it!
Slow down, slow down, whoa!
There it is!
Yeah!
- Now that sucks 'cause now I have to do it.
I can't fail.
(dirt bike motor)
- [James] It's that last little bit up there that, oh no!
Nooooo! Worst spot to stop.
Well, it makes me feel better, though,
'cause when I crash I won't be the only one.
Oh, no he's not, he's backing down.
I don't know what's going on.
- [Clintus] There you go, there you go!
- [James] This is, like, dirt bike's worst nightmare,
killing it on a steep hill.
(engine revs)
Oh, first kick!
Alright.
Aw!
Awww!
- [Clintus] So after Mike's couple of attempts
of trying to go up that hill,
I decided to just say let's turn back around,
go the other way, there's no reason
to force ourselves up the mountain.
James didn't get a chance to do it but
I don't know what his ability is and I don't wanna,
you know, have to risk getting someone hurt
or breaking a bike this far out.
At this point we're a few miles from the trucks.
Also, you waste a lot of energy
when you stall your bike on the hill,
trying to muscle it up, trying to restart it,
and Mike wasted a lot of energy right there,
so he's already at a disadvantage now riding with us,
expelling that much energy, so,
we ended up hooking up into this wash
and just riding this wash for a couple miles,
which is a good time, you know,
kinda get some speeding going.
Obviously it's squirrely, you gotta make sure
you're on the throttle, otherwise you start to kind of
get mushy in the sand and the rocks.
That's the best part about this place,
is there's so much, there's so many
different trails to ride on, right,
you got your really rocky stuff,
you got your really soft soot,
you got this gravel riverbed, you got the single track,
you got just so many different trails.
Then it all eventually goes back
to that main road that we came in on,
which is just flat and wide open.
(dirt bike engines)
So this is where we found the single track,
and I finally got really excited,
because I really love single track.
Now, again, it's technical, you're literally going
through a trail that's been cut out
by motorcycle tires, as you can see,
not a really designated track, though,
these are designated, there are actually signs up
and I think this is trail two, or trail three
or something like that.
But in any case, this is my favorite kind of riding,
it's just technical, you're cutting through cactus, trees,
and I just love it, I don't know why,
just this is literally my favorite stuff to ride,
and unfortunately there's none of this out by my house
so I have to kind of go out and explore,
try to find stuff like this.
I absolutely love it, unfortunately,
James, he caught one of these cactus with his knee,
yeah, his legs were a little to wide
and he clipped on of these chollas
and got barbs in his knee.
He spent the next like 10 minutes
when we got back to the truck,
digging them out of his knee, I felt really bad.
But he did say he wanted something more technical,
and I was like "There's nothing more technical
"than dodging cactus in the desert, bro." (laughs)
So I'm really happy with this ride, like I said,
ending it with some single track like this was just perfect.
The fact that we were all kinda starting
to get tired and fatigued and, you know, aching,
it was dope to be able to just cruise on this thing
before hitting the road.
(dirt bike engine)
Alright, guys, we packed up.
And I have brought James back to his campgrounds.
I have never been here before,
I've lived here, on the west side, my whole life,
and never been to the White Tank regional, like, park.
There's campgrounds, campsite, there's multiple spots.
There's group spots, family spots,
I don't even know, this is awesome, though,
this is my first time here.
I'm glad that I brought him back here
because I wanted to check this out.
There's water and electric, no sewage, which is fine.
But it's awesome, they have little campsites,
and they've got a big trailer, as you can see here.
And so this is pretty cool,
I'm gonna check out their trailer for the first time.
But check this out, they got a magnet
on the side of their truck,
so as they're going across America, bam! Advertising.
Whew, alright, we're back home. I'm back home.
And Tiffany and Sierra just left,
it was like a hi bye situation.
I just took a quick shower, I gotta head upstairs
and hop on the Rageless Roundtable podcast, and do that,
but first I'm gonna chow down on some tamales,
Tiffany picked up from Costco.
Some enchilada sauce and beans, some green onions,
ooh, smells good, I'm excited.
Bryce is doing his field trip, already miss him,
just knowing that he's gone bums me out.
Tiff got the mail, looks like we have some IRS bills,
from 2016, that's awesome, I thought I just paid that
but I guess they still found some more.
And medical bills!
Bills bills bills and more bills.
Always a good time.
Yeah, so, gotta figure that situation out, too.
Alright guys, it's past 10:00 now,
Tiff and Sierra gone upstairs for bed,
I'm actually tired, ready for bed.
I know I've gotta edit the vlog still,
and I got tons of GoPro footage to go through today.
From today's ride, but, I'll do it in the morning.
Also I just found out that I have to
take Sierra to school early,
'cause she has something going on for NJHS,
and I have to have her pick up something for breakfast,
so I gotta get up early to take her to school
and do all that, and I have my call,
so I don't know, it's gonna be a rough morning.
It's gonna be a two cup of coffee morning.
Anyways, thank you so much for watching,
again, be sure to check out The Chick's Life
a link is in the description below
in the cards here as well.
James and Ashley and their kids,
they're doing some awesome things, guys,
like I said they sold their house,
they've living in their fifth wheel,
they're going across the county, seeing the sights
and YouTubing it and it's awesome.
James has got his dirt bike, his daughter's got a dirt bike.
They're good people, they're good people.
They got the Clintus TV seal of approval.
(clicks with tongue)
Tomorrow, like I said, taking Sierra
to school in the morning.
I'm gonna do my livestream like usual,
and then I think I'm taking Sierra to practice,
and Teresa, Tiffany's sister's coming into town,
so Tiffany's gonna go hang out with her and her mom.
And then after practice we'll probably
meet up with them for dinner or something like that,
because Wednesday we have their grandma's funeral.
So that'll be Wednesday with funeral, the viewing,
and they'll be hanging out with all the family
at Meemaw and Papa's house, and I think
Teresa's coming back here to stay the night with us,
and then I take her to the airport
early Thursday morning, I think.
And Thursday we leave for the cabin.
So we got an action-packed week, guys, so stay tuned.
The vlog's gonna be interesting for the next few days.
Thanks for watching, vlog on.
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