day one cycling three thousand miles across the USA established by mosquitoes already oh
so many mosquitoes today we're riding from Miami Beach to West Palm Beach
and it's our first ride day Anything could happen we'll look good though
I'm ready are you ready we've made some adjustments to Justin's bike in the form of
this flag feeling really good maybe we should have had some more time in Miami
before we were leaving we're both pretty jet lagged and haven't been sleeping but
pretty high
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so we're easing into things gently we're starting on a Sunday which means quiet roads we have about
five or six days riding north from Miami before we then head Inland to ride across
this has made our route a little bit longer but very flat at the start which will be nice
to get a feel for how things go how this set up with me carrying lots of bags with Justin's
wheelchair on the back of his bike how that's going to work is a bit of an unknown so a few
easier days to start with is very well we bum the wheelchair goes absolutely crazy on
the back it's attached with ski straps we'll do a future video about the setup that we've got
so far seems all right oh and of course we've got our headwind straight away so begins having
a headwind for the whole way across America I'll try not to moan too much it's not a problem for
justice because he's so low down I get absolutely no draft he's just completely rapid it's really
warm I'm regretting wearing the base layer no matter how beautiful it is but it's told
you base layers are a lie it's true but it does feel nice and looks nice it's very hot
people are so friendly
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15K in 20K in we've been covering some good ground like we're just super super steady luckily it's
been super Shady because the buildings have been on our right hand side we've seen loads
of cyclists we've seen one guy on a moped in full rapper with a bike helmet on which is I don't know
if we're still alive or not Justin I'll be honest are we just seeing things are we hallucinating but
uh overall good start I'm thirsty uh because I've got so much storage oh got a frame bag inside my
bike I don't have any space for bottle cages so Camelback it is which is surprisingly comfortable
uh the hottest days that we're going to be riding are going to be now so it's 30 degrees and quite
humid here in Hawaii in Miami and yeah it seems all right for now I could put Gatorade in it we've
made quite a few turns now despite the direction we're going in it's always a headwind we're doing
some creative routing because halfway through this route there's Fort Lauderdale Airport which
is the trickiest bit there's a big main road that goes through the middle which technically we can
ride on but we don't want to after looking at it on street view so around the houses a little bit
means to an end means we stay safer quieter roads a little bit longer
because I'll return you around
we've already got 1200 pounds oh my God some guy gave us a thousand dollars
no what's his name whoever Randall Wallace is I love you oh my God the video yesterday
the prologue episode went up at 8 00 a.m our time so we haven't had time to check it yet turns out
apparently donations have been coming in for get kids going which is the charity that we're raising
money for during this ride and someone's given a thousand pounds that's amazing thousand dollars so
a thousand pounds at the current exchange rate we stopped at uh Mexican bar we will not be drinking
tequila hands are good maybe I shouldn't have one brand new gloves probably not the
smartest thing to do oh well they'll be fine in a couple of weeks I think the headwind's
got worse chatting yeah it's all good isn't it well some of us have actually trained watch out
car door we're now pretty much halfway through this ride and everything's been excellent haha
after a minute since we stopped for those nachos things have got progressively much
easier in terms of riding because we were going through holiday land but
there was loads of loads of people around not really paying attention on their phones
in traffic loads of cars loads of people walking out in front of you whereas now
sailing the whole truck's three and a half thousand all right yeah Los Angeles 15 55
days we started in Southbridge this morning we're South Beach South Beach Miami [ __ ] and you guys
sorry thank you very much that's really good God bless you oh thank you so much more for
the charity amazing so good what's up so nice to meet you you look at his
videos it's got a link to the charity it says what we're doing every day as
well the nicest guys in the world fifty dollars for the charity you're so nice
perks of a trip like this you can eat absolute terrible food
all right London oh nice I'm from Holland we're cycling to L.A you're what we're cycling to L.A
no way yeah yeah thanks for riding with us this morning it was my pleasure thank you you've
ridden quite far down here Dustin we've done a very bad thing and we've sat here for two hours
just talking to people and now we're late but people are amazing the people are amazing people
are absolutely amazing and for me that's the highlight of the trip of one day call your present
I could make a joke but I feel like it would be offensive
I have absolutely zero proof of this I can't get them on camera I will try
they're a giant giant lizards look at this size
it's like a Komodo dragon it's massive I'm slightly scared Justin foreign
ER beverage than fluorescent blue
nothing to really report except for the lizards been a really long straight Road into a headwind
30 degrees and just along next to golf courses I'm not complaining very nice here but a bit boring
come back so the road Center was closed and we thought we were being clever by just ignoring
that sign the man said that well yeah the man who we just passed said that it's fine it's only
a little bit of gravel he didn't say anything about the sand that the bikes can't go through
so now what do we have to do Francis
we'll just do this I'm leaving my bike see you later I hate Sound I hate gravel but I'm
very happy that I got Francis to push me if I need him to so I think you guys got
a great thought thank you yeah yeah that means a lot but anyway thank you so much I mean you
are missing all the way to L.A yeah throwing the wheelchair behind us I have no reason to be fat
dude