Change of plans. |S6-E40|
This guy wants to do a little contest with me Careful dude! Oh, what a ride Yoh Good morning Internet, it is 10:50, 10:55 in the morning and welcome back to the channel Now you're probably thinking.. 10:55 why are you so late? Well something happened in the last episode Well yesterday. That's also why there wasn't a proper ending to the video. What happened was that my helmet camera which I use the most. It crashed or the SD card crashed By now I know why that happened and also I know how to then recover all your footage so Yeah, yesterday around 2 pm, I noticed that it said an SD error and I lost all of the footage of the entire episode so I spent an hour on the side of the road trying to figure it out In the end I decided to keep on riding so I'm now in Nosara which was my plan destination and then I worked until after midnight last night to try and work it out and to recover all the files And then now this morning.. so this morning it ran through the whole night and I recovered most of it but still something was missing so I wanted to run it again. I think I've recovered everything but
Yeah, so that's why it's now 11 o'clock. I'm quickly gonna go, I don't know if I'll make it to what I was wanting to go today so maybe I'll have to change my plan and stay somewhere else but that kind of depends on how the day is going and how quickly or how slowly I'm going so without further ado I'll quickly show you on the map where I am and um.. yeah where I'm planning to go or where I might end up And but um.. we'll see and then I'm quickly gonna go. Um so anyway by now so I know what the issue was and I know how to recover all my files so it was also a learning curve and this is the type of stuff it well I have so many difficulties with filming, with equipment that breaks with files that I lose with audio that isn't working but I always try to salvage it so that you don't notice anything of it and usually I manage you know to use other footage that I shot in that day or use audio from another camera or I usually manage to fix it without you noticing anything but this time.. ah, it was a nightmare and I thought oh no, I lost everything, everything but um.. got everything back So that's good and now I know that.. what to do when.. if it happens again but I also know now why it happened so anyway.. too much talking. Uh, let's get the map out. Okay, so in the last video I went from
Paquera. I went down this way, I cut across from the jungle, rode along the coast on the beach I crossed a lot of rivers, la di da.. and then I ended up here in Nosara, which where I'm now. And well, my plan was to cut across the jungle here and then ride towards the famous Volcano Arenal which is over here But I don't know if I'll still make it because I'm leaving so late now if I don't go.. can go all the way there. I don't have another option than to ride to Liberia and that all has to do with my border crossing with Nicaragua which is a whole different story but anyway let's hope that I'll make it to a Volcano Arenal See Alaska has a little friend 450X CRF. Everybody rides Hondas here I took my mirrors off last night. I almost never do that but I had to
park on the street so that's a bit like eh.. let me just take them off just in case Vámonos! Let's go So to.. uh Volcano Arenal where I'm planning to go is at 240 kilometers Which doesn't sound like a lot but.. .. A big part of the.. of my planned route. When I want to cut across, I think that's going to be uh I think that road is going to take me quite a while, so let's see. It's now uh.. 11:20 So I'll see uh..
.. How we get on today This guy wants to do a little contest with me What's he riding? Oh, it's Honda as well Careful dude! Oh, the roads are so dusty around here. The last ride as well I did besides desperately trying to retrieve my last Go Pro footage, I also cleaned my air filter yesterday. Well, I'll clean it.. it's a paper air filter so.. There's only so much cleaning you can do about it but at least I cleaned the air box and everything Still trying to race me.. Bad boy Yeah, yeah, yeah I can't really do that. I don't have the exhaust for that Bye Uh, this is some Costa Rican back road. Oh, oh I missed it Let's go here Up there This is also the right time of the year to ride here. Still in the dry season
You know where I'm actually riding.. is right on these uh.. kind of hilltops You can't really see it because of the trees but I am kind of riding on the what do you call it? Crest Of uh.. .. Of these hills or mountains or whatever I call them. See I can still see the.. the Pacific just behind that's a little ridge
It's probably fair to say that Costa Rica is one of the most developed if not the most developed country of Central America. A lot of American dollars floating around here But it's just awesome that besides really nice maintained asphalt roads there is still plenty of This type of stuff around for uh.. off-road riding The locals might be disagreeing maybe they would like to see this to be asphalt too but actually It's pretty cool Practice my hill climbs Here you get a bit of an idea of the area that I'm riding through Just crossing straight through the mountains here Oh Where do I go? I'm wrong. Suddenly, I look down and I'm riding in the middle of nowhere. So somewhere I took a wrong turn but strange because I didn't.. well, I didn't really see another turn.. I think Yeah back on track. Can't believe I missed this turn but anyway, I was too enthusiastic Oh I'm struggling, I'm really struggling. I just had a couple of uh.. nasty hill climbs
And then I dropped Alaska. It was just really silly and uh.. but like right on the middle of a hill climb I didn't catch it on camera. And well, then I was too busy to get myself out of that situation But uh.. it took a lot of energy, I have to admit and uh I'm doing this on midday, it's like one o'clock, it's super hot and uh Yeah It just took a lot of energy so I'll see how it goes now Um..
See another hill climb No, this is fine I think it's about 15 kilometers to a paved road and then I have to decide what I'm gonna do If I'm gonna make a loop still all the way to uh.. Arenal To the volcano but that's still then 200 kilometers or whether I go to Liberia So yeah I mean and you can see, I'm hardly making any progress because I started with what 240 kilometers so I did 25 kilometers and it's one o'clock in the afternoon. That's ridiculous, so yeah Let's see how I feel when I reach the paved road Now that I'm riding again, I'm cooling down a little bit. I'm trying to drink lots of water But I'm a little bit overheated at the moment I didn't even take a picture of Alaska on her side Some people do entire photo shoots with their fallen bikes but I usually forget it because I'm too focused on getting the motorbike back up. Oh wow, oh the view is incredible. Maybe I can.. .. See it from here See these hill climbs are no problem because it's just a normal dirt but those other ones were so super rocky and full of loose stuff Oh, see I'm on top of the hill though. There's some telecommunication
Look at that view. Yoh Incredible right? Some people just live here, right on the top.. unbelievable. Aye So you can see from my face how red I am. How hard I've been working. Oh.. madness Ah and it's always with moments like that and I got stuck there on that hill by myself Should have taken the camera out but I don't know sometimes I'm just struggling on my own And I was considering.. shall I go back? You know, I'm sorry.. I'm not feeling good it's too hot
And I don't know what.. what is coming. Maybe it's getting worse, I don't know. Shall I go back? And it's back another 20 kilometers and then all the way around It's like then you have to make that decision like am I gonna push on Even though this hill is beating me or do I go back? Oh the tower is already here Didn't see that coming. Ah that's how these people get here so.. so easily. I knew it, there had to be another way. Oh okay, I gotta say.. it was all worth it. My intense struggle, my red overheated face I think.. it was all worth it. Look at this view. I can see the ocean from here Still and I'm quite far away. How amazing is that?
Oh what a ride Yoh What a ride today, what a ride. I don't know what else to say So I'm still looking a little bit overheated, I think but anyway I'm now at the cross point Where I have to decide where I'm gonna go and well, actually I've already decided um.. It's still 193 kilometers to Arenal, that means that I did just over 40 kilometers in three hours So there's no way I'm gonna make that today so I'm gonna go to Liberia which is on the sign there Yeah, I don't have another choice. I really want to do a loop via Arenal but if I can't make it today then it's just not possible and that all has to do with my border crossing into Nicaragua My next country. To get into Nicaragua and do the border crossing properly I had to already fill in some stuff online like a week ago. I had to register and I had to tell them when I was
going to enter Nicaragua, where I was going to enter Nicaragua and I had to book a PCR test in Liberia So I had to do all that in advance uh.. which makes it yeah, normally I don't plan this type of stuff So I'm always free to change my plans like now, I would just change my plans and nothing you know Wouldn't even have to change much but now I have this set date when I have to cross into Nicaragua Sorry, it's super loud here. Um.. so yeah that means that, I just don't have time to do the loop to see that Volcano Arenal because then yeah.. I don't know my registration for the border crossing messes up and maybe it's not a problem but you know these border crossings uh.. in Central America, they're quite tricky and they're not so easy They're not easy if you have all the right papers so if I then have something which is slightly off I think they're gonna make my life very difficult so it's better to kind of do everything exactly how it's supposed to be then you have the least problems. Um.. so yeah shame, shame I would have
loved to see that volcano but it is what it is. The journey must go on Let's get this show on the road On to Liberia we go Already almost crossing the border to Nicaragua I am in Liberia Hostel Pura Vida Think they have.. room Hello! This, I like! A woman on a motorcycle! Reservation? - I don't have.. do you have space? So I made it to a hostel. Um.. I'm glad I made it here, but yeah the technical problems are kind of snowballing that's usually how it goes, one thing goes wrong and then Everything.. everything else goes wrong so besides my SD card problems which I solved But I also broke one of my almost brand new Go Pro Hero 10s. It's not working properly anymore it's
Well, I can't use it anymore. It's pretty much broken. I'm not sure what happened there and on top of that today, I also broke my laptop. So yeah.. that's kind of the score of my visiting Costa Rica Which it.. it's part of it. I mean it's not the first time I'm breaking anything Usually I don't really talk about this, I just solve all my problems like all the technical problems and try to solve them behind the scenes so I don't have to bother you with that but yeah sometimes it does affect my travels. Now I have to source a new camera Um.. I have to yeah get my laptop fixed or get another one. But I'm going to try to do that
in Nicaragua. I have to cross the border. Um.. so yeah I'm going to do the Covid test And then tomorrow if yeah, when I get the the result then I have to cross the border as I tried to explain before. So that means I'm gonna enter Nicaragua.. hopefully with a broken laptop and Yeah let's see, I can't travel very far without my laptop because I need it to transfer my footage to my external hard drives and do my editing and all of that. So I'll.. I'll see, I can.. I can do one more ride definitely, film everything and then I'll probably have to ride quite quickly to Managua to the capital to get my laptop sorted because without it yeah I.. I can't do what I do I can't do editing, I can't do nothing, I can't transfer anyway.. that's why I don't bother you with this type of stuff because you really don't want to hear this but uh yeah I'll just have to fix all of this. It's part of uh.. part of doing this and yeah all this technology it's great but it's also
relatively fragile and yeah motorcycle adventure travel is sometimes a little bit rough and then you break stuff but anyway I'll fix it. Um.. that was it for today, I really hope you like this video if you did please give me a big thumbs up. Subscribe down below and then I'll see you in the next video
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