well good morning story chasers i am still in san francisco california it's where i left you
in the last video we're starting this video out with scott and i traveling down south somewhere
we're not sure where just yet we have to figure that whole thing out i think we're just gonna
stay somewhere off of the freeway tonight and then i don't know we'll figure it out tomorrow we don't
always know where we're going we have a general idea but right now weather has been a little bit
crazy
we found out that our escaper friend peter was in the ridgecrest california area on blm land and
asked if we could join him instead of staying off of the highway like we thought we might on the way
down south thankfully peter said yes because he saved our lives later on that week we arrived that
evening just before dusk and then the next day we decided to charge up our rad mini e-bikes with the
jackery power station and solar panels and head out to trona pentacles it's a 16.1 mile ride
out on a back country dirt road no big deal on an e-bike right wrong we cut ourselves into some big
big trouble along the way and didn't even realize it until we were on our way back we ate lunch i
packed my backpack that serves as my water with the camelbak packed one protein bar first mistake
pack the cell phone and bike maintenance tools in case we needed it along the way
it's getting a little bit more technical here with the rocks and the bumps
my hands are going i'm already 16 miles to toronto pinnacles and we're at 7.6 miles right now
we're at 10.1 miles now six more miles to go i'm doing good my legs are fine i'm actually on pedal
assist two or three which helps on these hills but it's my hands that actually are hurting the grass
so we have to watch out for these rocks and also the deeper sand
there's some of those pentacles note to self don't wear contacts doing this it dries them out
i should have worn my prescription sunglasses
yeah i'm showing like a half a mile left
we've gone 15.7 miles all right here we go pedal assist five on this one
oh oh my god look at that
we made it
oh now we gotta go downhill a little bit
all right hey yes oh my god look at that that's incredible i could probably go faster
but i don't want to wipe out somewhere going too fast you know if i do fall
you can hear my brakes squeaking and we're gonna have to climb this hill
which means more juice taken out of the batteries
i was hoping to do pedals it's all the way back i ain't gonna lie
okay we're walking over this
look at this there's a real track that goes through here
okay guys we made it over to toronto pinnacles
16.1 miles out here it's so beautiful
i did all of that on the ride mini so let's see we've gone 16.5 miles so i got a little ways to
go a magical place out here the trona pinnacles are a unique geological feature in the california
desert conservation area the unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tough aspires some
as high as 140 feet rising from the bed of the searles dry lake basin the pinnacles vary in size
and shape from short and squat to tall and thin and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate
tuffa i'm not sure if i'm saying that right but that's how i'm pronouncing it the pinnacles are
recognizable in more than a dozen hit movies over 30 film projects a year are shot along the
tough of pinnacles including backdrops for car commercials sci-fi movies and television series
such as battlestar galactica star trek the final frontier disney's dinosaur trespassers lost in
space and planet of the apes even lady gaga shot her stupid love 2020 single at trona pinnacles
sun is so bright
you gonna try to ride all the way up there no heck new
all right we gotta get it lowered i'm in a higher gear
it does doesn't it
hey crew
okay so back to the disaster waiting to happen on the way out to trona pinnacles i used one bar
of battery life for 16.1 miles and that was using pedal assist on one to three throughout the ride
we did have to air down the tires a little bit since there was lots of deep sand and rocks along
the way you'd think it wouldn't be a problem going back on that battery and should have some juice
left over however little did we know that that was not the case our second mistake was not bringing
enough food and water we both were so exhausted from the ride and the sun that we had little
energy left about halfway into the ride back which made us use more pedal assist then we ran out of
water it was 87 degrees that day and full sun then the worst we completely ran out of battery power
with about six to seven more miles to go it's not easy pedaling a 67 pound bike through sand and
rock so we started walking and the sun was going down fast with no energy no water i was completely
done well we have to hurry up and get back before it gets dark i think it'll take us about another
hour and a half to get back and sunsets and well about that time so we gotta get a move on it
it's getting to be nighttime sun is setting and then we're pooped we've got about
let's see i can't even think right now seven more miles to go eight more miles only halfway there
which sucks because i have one bar left on my battery i hope i may get there on this battery
because walking this many miles is gonna suck especially in the dark
i'm so slow and burnt out right now i have no energy
your back hurts bad
guys this was a effing disaster so peter i go from peter who's up here um he actually picked
me up scott's still walking so we're going to pick him up washington road it's dark we still
have like six miles left there was just no way so peter came and got us thank you peter hey guys
oh yeah i made it back we made it back that was the worst thing i've ever experienced in my whole
life my whole body hurts my everything hurts my shoulders hurt my neck hurts
i just took some ibuprofen i need to eat and get some food in me i have zero energy
and some water i'm so thankful for peter
oh my god had he not come out i don't know what would happen it's dark it's now what time is it
it's 6 30 and that's with him coming to pick us up i mean it would have been 10 o'clock by the
time i got back probably i literally ditched the bike off on the side of the road until i
saw peter i was just gonna walk because the bike 67 pounds what a stupid stupid mistake
one that could have ended not so greatly all right i gotta go eat figure something out
my body hurts bad i need to clean up all i want to do is lay down in bed
come here dude come come up where's lily there's her where's lily come on dudes are getting lily
hey
your belly hurt
you okay baby
okay lily well guys we're headed out early um lily still is not feeling well
it's the next morning and her stomach is still bothering her she's doing the down dog so
um we're gonna head on to palm desert which is about a two and a half hour drive away from where
we're at and we have a thousand trills reservation okay baby um she's not holding in half a mile
of course i've tried usually what happens when she does this is all just with cold food
for 24 hours that usually does the trick but she's not even holding down water and
her stomach still seems to be bothering her and she's super lethargic so there's a couple of vca
hospitals along the way and my goal is hopefully to get to palm desert hopefully she'll feel better
sometimes these things just take time you know i try not to stress too much about it
but i want to make sure i'm near vca hospital where we're going to be at in palm desert in case
they have to keep her overnight so that's where we're headed right now i just hope my girl is okay
i feel bad for her she was up and down all night long neither of us slept
just doing that down dog position all right just a quick update i'm about an hour
and five minutes out from palm desert it's been fairly uneventful i did actually stop and get
lily some pepcid and for her body weight i can give her a quarter of a 20 milligram
pill it's anywhere between 0.25 to 0.5 milligrams per pound of body weight uh so i got it down her
throat her poor little tongue is dry so far so good she's had the pill on her body for about
35 to 40 minutes now and she hasn't thrown it up by noon today it'll be like 24 hours
since she hasn't been feeling well she was okay yesterday morning and she ate yesterday morning
but all the stuff that she threw up yesterday in the afternoon was her morning food so
it just was sitting in her stomach like a rock all right so far lily's doing all right
she's just been sleeping but she's starting to shake again a little bit right now i don't know
if it's because she's cold i turned the ac off she looked like she was gonna throw up a moment ago
hoping she doesn't but scott's in the grocery store right now picking up some a few little
groceries i needed some chicken breasts and some chicken legs to make um some shredded chicken for
her and rice and then also make electrolyte fluid for her which is the bone broth so that's what
we're gonna do hopefully she can eat it i feel so bad for her lily okay baby let's see she's shaking
you doing better pumpkin is lily doing better yes i think she's doing better is she feeling better
she ate some chicken broth only because i forced her to we used this little syringe here
you know what i did don't you and i just fill it up with chicken broth and i give it to her because
she won't eat it on her own will you sorry but so far she's had pepcid the chicken broth a little
bit of chicken and sweet potato and she's doing okay she hasn't thrown it up that's a good sign
oh
we've got paint better scott's gonna fix my wheels because they were all messed up
when they did the tires some were at home depot getting all of our supplies okay guys
we're at the thousand trails we're walking fast there's like there's something going on