Man vs. Nature: Baja Motorcycle Adventure (Part 3 of 7)
Published July 13, 2021 · 8:09 · 90,682 views
About This Video
Part 3 of the Baja series covers the Texas-to-Arizona leg. Steak and eggs breakfast at the Whistle Stop Cafe somewhere in Texas. Petrified wood station. The American Southwest is the first terrain in the series that pushes back with genuine physical force: heat, distance, isolation, the kind of emptiness that makes a motorcycle feel like a very small thing.
This is the episode where the twelve-year-old footage starts justifying the wait. The desert landscapes have a visual weight that earlier road-and-highway footage lacked, and Van's editing rhythm slows to match the terrain. The man-versus-nature framing could be cliche, but Van earns it by not winning. The nature doesn't yield, and the man adapts. That's the difference between adventure filmmaking and tourism.
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these really nice people let us stay at their house with their dog darling and yaniv stole their nintendo ds
he just leaves the bed on made that's okay they'll get that they'll get that for you you need
that's nice look at mine [Music] [Applause] steak and eggs breakfast at whistle stop cafe somewhere in texas petrified wood station
[Music] oh [Music] make sure everything's [Music] he sat watching in a long time put the clothes in he bent and scooped up the rags in his
arms and piled them on [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] uh we're having lunch in kitty k texas
where the women are beautiful and the men will always help you out pronounce kitty k
pronounced yaniv [Applause] best hamburger i've ever had in my life that ain't no jive best hamburger i've ever had in my life
right there sports grill mexico what's happening oh they really don't know there they go we're in some road rage there's some road rager
flashing his lights at us are they really broken yes oh isn't that funny
i guess we need to do a hard resetting ah don't crash don't crash is he pulling over for us we don't have
any weapons [Music] looks like we gotta do the heart this is when the the truck gets tired at 600 miles it does not like to have its lights on it's true that's the thing okay the you know how to fix it 60.
you have to go 60 miles an hour so scott and matt are nervous that their bikes that they've ridden once
will get stolen from a hotel you need what do you say i think we're totally cool taking up two spots very near the
entrance to the hotel to well-lit parking lot bikes are chained and locked lots of light parking lot
front desk yeah i think it's cool nievers just made me this cup of coffee because he's such a nice guy thank you nevers last night there was a break-in in the parking lot so we had to
bring in all of our stuff and the bikes are safe all right neivers thank you for carrying
the helmet this is the first oil change i've done in this truck okay what'd you put on there i just
installed a very badass black ticket bug deflector
purely for looks right well i think the idea is we want to deflect the bugs
from the windshield and direct it straight at their bike scott's bike basically so i actually offset it slightly so that it would be tilting
slightly to the driver's side go right over the hood into the scott's never been ridden bike
we're driving head on into this wind for hundreds and hundreds of miles and now we're climbing up into the mountains into the wind
look at that wind look at that wind blowing that side over
[Music] arizona yes the wind and the mountains are totally stressing the truck out not to mention me indeed
holy man this is unbelievable i've never seen anything like this it's like a fog of dirt
we're now in a dust storm with what i estimate 40 to 50 mile an hour winds
rise god in third gear wait truck is like barely moving and those two tractor trailer trucks were smashed together man they're gonna close the tie way down
this is drama this is the drama man is man and neve gonna make it when so many others have failed the answer is yes you
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Nintendo DS mentions — gaming device stolen by Yaniv
People Referenced
Yaniv, Scott, Matt, Neivers