So, okay, where you going we're going to baja all right, dude good, two weeks have fun talk to me about your morning. What you have to do this morning i had to wake up. I had to move the trailer i had to unload the bike. I had to get coffee get coffee.

I had to get insurance with ryan berman. I had to eat breakfast and i had to take and now uh it's time to go. Oh and hold it hyper steady, that's what you should concentrate on all right and then we're now recording yeah - and this is me if you want to like speak into it. The the microphone is on the back of this screen.

Okay, you can turn it so now. Just for the record, i'm now recording your camera. Yeah recording me: yes got it got it now, i'm not recording your camera. Recording me: okay, showtime, let's go in the summer of 2006, i was riding a big bmw r1150r in the rain in new hampshire.

When i got a flat, a flat on a motorcycle in the rain is a grade c emergency, but miraculously i was within riding distance of a motorcycle shop. When i noticed the tire was getting low now because of the horrible new england weather, a new hampshire, motorcycle shop can only stay open about four or five months a year. Nobody really rides past october up there, so the guys who owned the shop they'd go on these motorcycle adventures all over the world during the off season when they couldn't keep the shop open. So i told one of the owners that my first motorcycle adventure had been in austria and then i'd ridden through the alps of switzerland and italy to which the owner replied.

The alps are nice, so i asked him okay. Well, what's your favorite? What's the best place you've been and without hesitation, he just said baja, then he motioned to a little room in the back of the shop. A little gallery filled with photos from multiple motorcycle trips down the baja peninsula and that's how this dream was born. This baja dream: okay, i'm actually not gon na get to see him.

Okay, i'll stop at the stop sign here, stop recording right now. I have, in my soul a very childlike and deep love of mexico. I love it so much. I especially love traveling through mexico.

Overland, as opposed to flying to some final destination, this was my first overland trip now we're led to believe, mostly because of hollywood movies and documentaries, that mexico is nothing but cartels and murder. But when we're drawn to things when i'm drawn to something or to a place, wow i've just got to go. I don't need to know why i just have to go. I basically spent my life squirreling resources and spending them on adventure, and the best adventures are always a little a little scary.

I just discovered this good thing. I pulled over. Well, it's a good thing. I pulled over that's gasoline in there.

I was supposed to use these, but i was lazy and used these, so i had to use three times as many of these, which took as long as it would have taken to use. The proper thing always use the right tool. Five years after this mexico adventure on another mexican adventure, i read this book called the hero with a thousand faces. This is where the term the hero's journey comes from, and the hero's journey is a process that each of us is invited into in order to reach our potential all cultures.

All human cultures have stories that follow the phases of the hero's journey, navajo legends, star wars, african or polynesian folk tales, harry potter, maverick in top gun. All of our myths have the same basic journey for the hero in hollywood, they call it the formula. I look at the hero's journey as an itinerary for adventure. Adventures have certain meaningful events in common, but the point of adventure is that it's an opportunity to test your potential or maybe rise to your potential or maybe rise to near your potential.

This is heaven man. I got up to 60 on this stuff scary, though my rack came unbolted and unbolted right here, i'm the only one here and there's soldiers and hummers and machine guns like on the road on the way in it's just they're right there they're here to protect us. This guy's younger than me. I can't believe this, the guys who told me about baja the first guys who ever told me about baja.

Are these guys. I went to their shop and got a flat tire fixed in the rain once and the end of the adventure is called the ultimate boon and that's when you return from your adventure with something that will benefit your people. Boon means thing that is helpful. Here we go, the spirited man feels compelled to embark on a hero's journey, however small it may seem to others and when he does it right, he experiences the phases of the hero's journey in pursuit of his best self two years after this in 2011 neve - and I, along with our friend john, returned to baja and rode the entire peninsula, mostly off-road to attend ryan berman's wedding ryan.

You remember filmed me crossing the border in 2009. He also wrote this book a few weeks ago in 2021 neve, and i took our little kids on a trip so that we may begin to cultivate within them the essential human penchant for adventure, so that these kids may one day, god willing deliver, unto their people. The ultimate boon you.