day number nine cycling across the USA from Miami to La today's ride Quincy to Bonifay going through
Chattahoochee I think the cogs have changed again we're crossing to a different time zone
well so we had daylight savings and then a different time zone eastern time to Central
time I think so now we've got the hour back that we lost yeah once we started getting
used to it as well and we're still jet lagged and we're still jet lagged I don't think I am
jet lagged anymore we wake up at 5am every day wait we're not in Bear Country yet are we oh yeah
yeah y'all are in Bear Country
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knowledge not to kill a bear but to use ultrasonic sounds that we can't hear to
scare the birds but I did tell you that was a bear in the tree you didn't believe me
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on the road again had some amazing bear repelling tips from the Expo art reception
she also told us that our ride today looking at the route will be very good quiet back
roads there's maybe some Wildlife Justin I keep hearing stuff rustling the bushes
Vice for alligators was just if you see one in the middle
of the road go around it what's the other option
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but it always goes too far
I can feel the child wobble yeah and I'll just have an image of it going like this
before when you're going quick yeah and then me just [ __ ] somersaulted I think a wheelchair
has ever gone as fast as your one before here they've got America's number one snooze don't
know what it's noose is but I know it involves a camel number one they got large and regular and
it causes mouth cancer it's 9 46 in the morning isn't that weird how things happened yesterday
it was the first time I Googled because I knew we might have a problem with dogs in Texas so
I Googled what do you do if you get chased by a dog on a bicycle and today we've been chased by
so many dogs after the eight days of nothing at all some of them were quite small and some of
them were also quite fat so they weren't about threatening but there was one like big uh Great
Dane what's it called German Shepherd I don't really want to have to deal with a German Shepherd
by doing what well they just realized I was the pack leader you're going to adopt them and then
we can have loads of dogs the pheromones that just wafted my odor towards them and then they
were like oh yeah we can't touch that they ran away in the other direction so if any of you
guys ride bikes and live in Texas we would value any information or tactics that we could use to
um stop dogs from chasing us because apparently it's more of an issue at night but we'll probably
still encounter some looking at the map on commute here you can see we're avoiding this yellow Main
Road pretty much all day if my camera decides to focus but it should mean we stay on the nice bits
all day right to the end where we're staying just at a Crossroads in the middle of nowhere unless we
win the Powerball oh did you enter no you probably won't win then I'll run it like this and so what
the problem is you can only turn wherever the wheel will go because then it hits your legs
because I'm putting my wheelchair on the back of it my turning cycle is
terrible the longest vehicle on the road we're going to California yeah
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we've stopped because it's very hot you'll be pleased to know I thought we'd do an update
Justin's arm we've done absolutely nothing to fix I've been using alcohol on it every day what this
has done is form a huge callus and now it's really hard and now you can't get injured there at all
if a dog tries to attack us I can just do this yeah like one of those
dog training guys it's like one of those arms that they wear
a nice peaceful Road that one says enlarged I was just thinking I think we we are really tired now
and we're laughing at lots of stuff that isn't actually funny these videos are getting worse
[Laughter] you're we think we're funny so that's all that matters we're gonna be like in two months
I'm really confused why is it 10 30
in the morning still we left at eight we've been riding what feels like hours why is it only 10 30.
I think we have crossed through our time zone we changed another time zone or have we just gone mad
all the way from Miami yeah
all the way to California oh my god oh y'all leave y'all sign my wall I noticed everywhere
and what I do I'll be right back okay the boneless chicken breast sandwich please the old ribs good
yeah my name is Laurita they call me ReRe thank you so much I'm so happy to have a place for shots
thank you I'll tell you what what's your number and then I can give you okay yeah
yeah give me a call you probably take them on them bikes about 40 minutes maybe I see you
buff though you probably got away more smooth since you can ride that bike he gonna make
you eat some fries in the house I got yours on the way thank you so much man thank you
so much cupcake my name coach beer cold Spears c-o-e spell amazing this is your place yes sir
Spears Cafe we're in Marianna Florida me and my wife we worked together we
got one of the World Famous Burgers and good old-fashioned mullet fish and good
old-fashioned food on Amazing Roots an amazing rib amazing deep fried reels
thank you all so much thank you for coming by it's really really special
very excited I wish y'all very good luck too thank
you and you ride the bicycle yeah so I've got loads of bags on it yeah and
we put all of our stuff all our cloves all our water everything in the bags
yeah thank you so much yes sir yes sir so good to meet you be careful we're gonna stay in touch
every day text me where y'all located at I want to be a part of this oh you are if you want to
join us for the rest of the ride you can give me a tote I have an inkling this is faster than you
yeah so good to meet you man I really didn't want to leave that place once again this trip delivers
amazing food amazing people Spears Cafe hit them up if you're in the area now we have got 40K to go
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we thought we would have one last stop on the road so we stopped at Dollar General giving it
a second chance because the first time we stopped at a Dollar General turned out to be interesting
it hasn't redeemed itself at all no did you have fun in there not particularly there was
there was just don't really know what I can say there's lots of things that we can't say
on YouTube about this place we'll just leave it at that I'm sure the store itself is a
lovely place in certain locations I cannot tell you how much money I would pay to go
back to Spears Cafe right now you can still rent DVDs I don't really want to touch that
I really have nothing redeeming to say about this this is what I've got to say
about now about 5k uh my rear tire is Holding On by a thread I don't really know what's happened
I think I tied something on to the tail fin badly and it's been rubbing and all over one side I'll
put a picture here it's all like rubbed it down to the carcass so it's not holding air anymore
not ideal to already have gone through a tire uh luckily I got three spares so I can use one of
those whether I can get it to seat again there's another question so I'll probably have to Chuck an
inner tube in which means using some of our spares a little bit annoying but not the end of the world
last little push now you feeling good what day is this nine I don't know but we've done it a lot of
our minds are just completely gone by the end of every day yeah I've got no idea what we're talking
about now I've come from where did we start off today I just keep on saying Miami [Music]