The Most Dangerous Place in the World: Baja Motorcycle Adventure (Part 4 of 7)
Published July 16, 2021 · 10:58 · 113,323 views
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Part 4 of the Baja series. The single-word description ("Thwarted") tells you everything about the tone. A dust storm shuts down the highway. Ten wrecks, worse than any snowstorm. Nevada police checkpoint. Neistat goes down in a Las Vegas parking lot, bike sliding on knobbies, miraculously landing on its kickstand. The good-omen logic of motorcycle culture: a small fall early means no big fall later. Hopefully.
The series structure earns its weight here. Four episodes of momentum have built an expectation of forward progress, and Part 4 breaks it. Being thwarted isn't failure. It's the thing that separates adventure from tourism. The episode sits at the midpoint of the seven-part arc, exactly where Joseph Campbell would place the ordeal. Van knows it.
Transcript
okay how about now I got it I got it I got it I got it I got
it this highway is now completely shut down these accents just keep happening because no one sees like it's every
little bit cuz someone's going to just Ram into the back of this trap so this is a traffic jam from all
of the wrecks back there we saw about 10 wrecks worst than any snowstorm I've ever
seen hail survive the dust storm Nevada police checkpoint God knows what they're checking for we're in Las Vegas
[Music] all right so NE just went down in this parking lot in Vegas and here's where he came in you can see his skid marks and
the knobbies gave out right here bike went down right about here foot pegs scraping scraping scraping scraping
scraping KN down miraculously bike lands on its kickand
I don't know you should put up your kickstand when you ride though these are what we call good Omens if you have a little fall in the beginning of a big
ride means you won't have a big fall hopefully um on a big ride basically what it means is that I could have just
broken my wrist like so easily I could have just broken my wrist definitely or even just my finger which or your foot or your leg or anything I mean my
fingers hurt but if that's the outcome of that fall it's like Pur yeah black and blue fingernail then like that's a
great sign yeah you know it matches my boo boo cuz I fell on hard ass concrete hard worst worst pass case scenario
Jesus look at those skid marks okay van just had an accident I tell you these tires on
concrete just do not I've been like so I ordered these motocross boots with ankle protection and they were
supposed to I ordered these ankle boots with Motocross I order I ordered these motocross boots
with ankle protection spent extra money to have them shipped overnight and they didn't come on
time I just fell man I just fell on the street and I hurt my ankle
scratched turn button scratch tank scratch tank no breach um bent gear
shift um bent brake um and that's about it it's time to get
out of Vegas we belong in San Diego that's our truck and guess what was in this parking lot just by coincidence Sam's
bike not actually Sam's bike bye Jessica thank you bye guys have so much fun you're always welcome all right so to be
interesting watch the van wait we know about Vans you can back these things right into them they're fine
I can't think of the line to make fun of your bandana but I really wish I
[Music] could I have a new concern and that is oh my God my foot is reallying hurting from my fall this morning and I don't
know what the problem is my foot's under there right under there
uh like 5 minutes ago you said I'll be fine doesn't look good if I walk on my
the ball on my foot I'm okay but on my heel I'm it's like undoable
[Music] [Music] look swollen right there [Music] [Music] we're 11 miles away from San Diego sun setting over the
Pacific bikes are doing just fine no warning lights total distance 6.1 miles till we're there 2.3 miles 1
mile okay4 miles you're taking a right okay go forward uh
[Music] foot and I would say 2 in We Made It by 2 in Bow that's Sam's I am so s more yeah oh man this
looks good can you fit it right here yeah this hotel is super Swank they didn't even know how to deal with this
issue dude we did it we did it oh my God we did it such a good job what happened okay I've had a pair
of rayb bands for I don't know 2 years and for me sunglasses I always find that the pair
this is too long the story anyway they just got smashed he opened the tailgate chill
[Applause] [Laughter] us [Music] what I told Scott where we were but I told him I wasn't going to answer the phone and I'm not going to help him he just has to find us
anyway warm warmer War armer what's happening good to see you how long have you guys been here we've been uh an hour we walk by here what's
happening no we been here for an hour what happening dude Sam's got a lot of money you'd
think he'd stay in a nicer place don't you think I think it's this way gosh
we've been sleeping on Floors as you know it's like the
Overlook okay wake [Music] up yo nice beard holy how are you man this is Yan nice to meet you [Music]
thanks to the boots that Dean gave me from my birthday I'm walking fine today it's the next
[Music] day so the guy also says to Sam he goes I'd be on this trip been a heartbeat if it was me but I have a wife and two kids
so I'm not going down there anymore I haven't been down in a year and a half Sam goes I have three kids and a wife and he goes do you have a son to take to
take your name on whoa and he was serious dead serious this guy was no so everyone is saying
that it's too dangerous that it's a war zone and we saw army trucks headed down there the whole trip so now we have to [ __ ] reassess
what we're going to do it's the most dangerous place in the world right now and that's beyond my you know it's
beyond my skill set smokes this is this has been a dream of yours for like 6 months now almost
almost longer the dream but the dream is riding dirt bikes and camping out I agree and it was just the metaphor Baja
was the metaphor Baja was just the the spark we needed to get you jerks to agree that was the bit
and now we're here we're going to have just as much fun we're going to do it in California so we're in borders getting maps of Southern California and we
stumbled across the epitome of what we aren't no courage we go we're the reason they're extinct so we can't go to Baja dream of
ours A Dream Deferred and the reason is because of cocaine
don't buy cocaine don't do cocaine because it's a nasty nasty
drug and it destroys people's dreams and um that's what's happened
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Ray-Ban uses — sunglasses smashed during trip
People Referenced
Sam, Scott, Ryan Berman