Surviving 8 Days on a Tiny Motorbike in Peru

This might be the dumbest thing we've ever done.

You almost died. I hate this road. Oh, my gosh.

Which says a lot because we've done a lot of dumb stuff. We're about to drive these tiny motorbikes a thousand kilometers across Peru. Let me tell you, that is not what these things are built for. Spoiler alert. There are going to be a lot of highs.

Check out these mountains.

And a lot more lows. First crash.

I definitely have a fever.

But one thing's for sure, it's going to be an adventure.

The Monkey Run. Let me explain. Believe it or not, the Monkey Run is an organized event. Kind of. There's a starting line and a finish line, and that's about it. Tomorrow, roughly 40 people will show up at the starting line in a town called Ayacucho, high in the Andes mountains of Peru. Each person is given an unreliable, underpowered, destined to break down vehicle called a monkey bike. My key just broke off in the ignition. And we have a week to make our way to the finish line, which is tucked away deep in the Amazon jungle. Not only is there no designated route.

We keep missing the road. We just don't see it.

There are no rules and zero support. Once we start this adventure, we are completely on our own.

He's pulled the entire carburetor off of Kara's bike.

Oh, and I should probably add, I've never driven a motorcycle in my life. Not to mention a manual one.

Oh, my gosh. I'm doing it. I'm doing it.

But thankfully, we're gonna have a little training day. All the people crazy enough to sign up for this disaster. I mean, adventure. Met up at this random soccer field in Ayacocho to meet each other and our untrusty pile of rattling metal that they call a motorcycle.

I am very much questioning my life decisions right now.

Make the right one.

You signed up to ride a highly inappropriate motorcycle over very large mountains. That's exactly what it feels like I signed up for right now.

Oh, God.

How do you put it in neutral? Neutral. It's in between first and second. So you go all the way down and then. You're not chopped, are you?

I'm doing it.

How do I stop? You don't stop.

Where's the brake?

I just feel like I'm gonna freak out and forget. What? And just be like, ah.

I didn't ask anyone about turning, turning, unturning, unturning, unturning.

It turned. We might go to the Amazon after all.

I was getting worried now that we've.

Kind of figured out the motorcycles. The next challenge is to rig up a way to carry our backpacks on this trip, because the luggage rack left a lot to be desired.

This rack is literally as big as my hand.

Well, I'm still here working on my art project on the back of both.

Of our bikes, but the better riders.

Are actually playing soccer on motorbikes.

Bikes now. Crazy people.

One moment I'm like, I totally got this. And then the next moment, I'm like, what the heck am I doing here? I do not belong here. I can't do this.

Oh, today's the day. We're at the starting line. Everybody's putting the final touches on their bikes, and I'm feeling a lot of emotions right now. I thought yesterday's training day would ease my mind and make me feel better, but I think it did the opposite. It's kind of one of those things, like, the more, you know, the more you have to worry about. I kind of wish I didn't know a few of the things I learned yesterday. We were pretty much told the two biggest things to worry about is the drug cartel.

If we keep driving, that takes you, like, straight into cartel country.

And dogs with rabies. They kind of made it sound like encountering those two things at some point on this trip is inevitable.

It is called the monkey ride. Also, I figure it's a protective layer across my entire body.

You have any final words of wisdom for us?

Nope. Go that way.

Here we go.

That didn't work from the very beginning. She won't even start with the push of the button.

It's gonna be kickstart the whole way.

A thousand kilometers starts.

Smooth start, smooth start. Here we go.

This is either the best idea we've ever had or the worst. I'm not sure. All right. We'll make it to the Amazon in one year at this pace.

All right. We gotta go a little faster. We're never gonna make it.

Buenas. If nothing else, we're bringing a smile to everyone's face.

We pass. Except for that, guys.

Oh, wow.

Sheep.

Buenos dias. Buenos dias. Buenos dias.

We are definitely going to be the last ones rolling into town. Ton.

This is so fun.

You almost died. Oh, my gosh. Wow. My heart is racing for you. Highs and lows. Buenos dias.

She's smashing something with her feet. I have never seen that before.

That lady was smashing potatoes with her feet in a bucket.

What are we doing?

There are no rules on these roads.

They're crushing it.

Look at carapathing people. Dang it. I killed it.

All right, here we go. Got this, Nate.

So much to think about.

Oh, carat.

Finding me.

What are we doing?

I know.

I feel like if we can do this, we can do anything. Oh, my gosh.

Hola.

Okay, turn this off.

Where are you from?

Why are you walking?

Well, I killed it back there and.

Then shot you here.

Smooth entrance. We made it to the first gas station.

Oh, my gosh. I was in, like, survival mode for most of that, I think, but it was fun.

I think this is gonna be great. As long as we don't die.

Gracias.

Yes.

Si.

Cuantos?

Cuantos?

Huyos?

Gracias. Adios. Well, this is just going great so far.

We're celebrating surv the first hour of the drive with a coconut. I can't find my straw. Cheers.

So the goal for today is to make it to a city called Tambo.

Hold on. Did I go through?

It's okay. All right, here we go. Off roading.

Okay.

So as I was saying, we set a pretty easy goal for ourselves, and that's to make it to Tambo. And our stretch goal is a city called San Miguel, which is further past it off road. So if we make it to San Miguel today, we were really good.

I hate this road.

This is amazing. We made it out of the city. We found a big, wide open road with no cars on it. This is beautiful. Everyone is always taking photos. What do you think?

Amazing.

Yeah.

So good.

It already feels like we are in the complete middle of nowhere, and we might be getting a little overconfident because we've already stopped to do a little sightseeing. We saw a sign for ruins. And in addition to the craziest mummy I've ever seen in my life, this is a person.

She still has fingernails.

Well, let's just say it's no Machu Picchu. But what is cool is it feels like we're probably the first western tourists that have ever stopped here. Also, we met a guy in some very elaborate face paint and traditional dress who spent about 15 minutes trying to explain to us something about a tomb.

But definitely the most fun part was the photo shoot. He was very into it. He had all of his poses down. He was the one coming up with the ideas back on the road.

All right, we just passed our first police checkpoint, and they just smiled and waved.

What happened?

First crash. I was coming around this curve, and I don't really know. I think I got nervous that, like, I wasn't giving it enough power. And every time I've done that. It's died. So I was like, I should give it some power. And when I did, I was like, oh, shoot, this is scary. And I think I just, like, freaked out and I hit the clutch instead of the brake and just landed on the sidewalk.

I'm gonna take responsibility for that one.

I made us do a U turn.

Because I wanted to see the center of this town. So hopefully it's worth it. Probably not.

Nice.

Bike.

Won't start.

This is not where I was picturing having our lunch.

I'm so disappointed in myself.

What we do.

Oh, no.

This is a disaster.

So I know nothing about bikes, but one difference between my working bike and Kara's non working bike is that whatever this little thing right here is, it doesn't have any fuel in it on my bike, and it's full on Kara's. So we're gonna see if we can pull it apart and drain it.

We're in the middle of nowhere. What are we supposed to do?

Do we even know if that comes off?

Yeah, it's coming off.

That doesn't seem to be doing anything good.

No.

Oh, my gosh. This is a terrible idea. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Oh, no.

All right, well, nobody light a match.

I know that challenges like this are unavoidable on this adventure. Like, part of this adventure is just the fact that we're gonna run into all these problems, and we have to figure out how to solve them. I just hate that it was me and everything was going so great, and it's only day one. I'm just feeling really helpless right now.

I'm thinking we pulled spark plug out. Seems pretty straightforward.

What does that mean?

The spark plug is spark plug.

This might as well be a spaceship. Oh, no.

Are you okay? Ow, my shin.

Gosh.

Okay, last resort before we go to find help. Wish me luck. Get some speed.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, so close. Round two.

Keep going. Just ride it for a second.

Okay.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, Nate, he's so amazing.

He just stayed so positive the whole time when I was so sad.

Yes, Nate. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

We solved one problem by ourselves. What will we tackle next?

Oh, my gosh. Nate solved that problem. I sat here and pouted and ate potato chips.

Thank you, Nate.

I love you. You're amazing.

Are there tears going on under There was. Okay, we got this. We got this.

Let's go to the square.

So beautiful. It was all worth it to see the square. All right, we're back on the road. We have 40km left until we get to Tambo. And we have two hours left until sunset. Look at these views.

Buenos dias.

We're not the only ones having problems today.

Vamos gusto.

Mucho gusto.

Gusto.

Buenos noches.

He's the cutest thing ever. He just wanted to come talk to us and ask where we were going. Probably thought we were crazy in our monkey suits on this road. I love these people.

We're at almost 13,000ft in elevation. The sun started to set and it it is freezing. This is epic. It's like Evil Knievel on that bike. I can barely keep up.

Hola.

I thought he was stopping us, but he was just telling us to slow down.

Hola, Cara from the future here. It's day five and here's a little spoiler alert.

Nothing has gone as planned. We're in the middle of a slightly stressful situation. Nate's bike is getting worked on by this very nice mechanic. How many mechanics have we seen on this trip?

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You won't regret it. Okay, back to whatever crazy thing we were doing.

We made it.

Keep skin.

Day one, we hit our goal. It's definitely darker than I. I feel like my brain can't even think. I've been so focused. Basically, what I was trying to say is we did it, but it's a lot darker than we were hoping that it would be.

I cannot believe day one, we've already driven in the dark. I went from having never driven a motorcycle before to driving a manual in the mountains by myself in the dark. But we did it. Okay, we're here. And I've made some friends, amigos.

All right, I think this is home, sweet home. Parados.

See?

Okay.

Okay. I think she said to bring her motorcycles inside.

Hello. Hello.

Yeah, I don't think that's gonna work. We're gonna have to go one at a time.

Can do it.

No, no, no.

All right, I'm going to help you lift yours A.

He's so sweet.

Gracias.

Gracias, amigo. Come on.

Oh, you're so sweet.

Gracias.

Gracias, amigo.

Is it hard to get in your pocket?

It's hard to get inside of the monkey suit. 30 SOLAs.

No way.

That's less than 10 USD.

Guys.

You guys. Yeah. Oh, wow. On sweet home.

All you need a bathroom and a bed.

Do you have feeling in your hands?

I do now.

My fingers are so tingly.

Really?

Like my hand. Both of my hands feel asleep.

Could be all the gasoline that's on your fingers.

Oh, yeah.

We did it.

I'm so happy. I think I'm sore just from being tense. Or maybe it's from wrecking twice.

That's the crazy thing is just how much other stuff happened off camera. Cara wrecked again. We got chased by two different dogs. You just can't keep the cameras recording the whole time. But you never know when something crazy is gonna happen.

We learned in our training yesterday that just the sight of a rock.

Although I'm pretty sure I'd fall off my bike trying to, like, get the.

Rock out of my.

Actually, I almost did one time and.

I was like, whoa, what a day.

Look at.

Oh, my gosh. I cannot imagine anything better right now. This adorable little girl is hand cutting potatoes right here.

The stool.

I've only eaten protein bar, and I have a bag of potato chips today. But I've been so stressed that I wasn't even hungry until now. And now I'm like.

See?

Very peru. Peru.

Yeah. He says cusco's cold.

These guys have kept us company during dinner. We've been practicing all of our four Spanish words.

They're not impressed with our sandwich.

Do you know English? No. Oh, no.

That was the worst night of sleep I've ever had. That might be an exaggeration. I've slept in a lot of bad places. Top pie. I've got these bug bites all over my arms. I don't know if you can see those. So those. It's just all night. I think this is the fastest I've ever gotten sick in my life. I went to sleep perfectly fine last night. You know, I'm just sweating.

I definitely have a fever, But I don't really know what to do because I think I could probably ride a bike if I really had to, which would be fine if I just had to push through it today. But we're just going further into the middle of nowhere. So if I get worse, I don't know. I just took some medicine. I don't have a decision to make.

It is so rare for nature this badly. I'm really hoping it's just the altitude and all the dust.

But that isn't really going away on this trip.

Look at this place.

Here you go, honey.

Thanks.

I'm sorry you're sick.

It sucks.

Okay. So I think the medicine got rid of my fever at least momentarily. My head still feels like it's gonna explode, but we're gonna hit the road. There's a town called San Miguel that should be about 30 minutes away. And if nothing else, if this is altitude sickness, that town is 2,000ft lower than this one. So that should help a little bit. And if I'm still feeling good when we make it there, then keep going.

All right, let's see if my bike starts.

Gosh.

I honestly don't even remember how to fit this. Been in neutral.

Not good.

Either. Dang.

Our first mechanic.

Thankfully, Nate was able to jump stride it down a hill. In order for us to drive to this mechanic who wasn't too far away, we could just continue to rely on hills to jump start our bikes. But like, what happens when there's not a hill? I talked Nate into coming mechanic against his will. He feels like we're admitting defeat, But I'm okay with that.

What a start to the morning. Let's pull the entire carburetor off off of Kara's bike. Better here than in the middle of nowhere, I guess.

He looks very confident with all these little pieces. I just automatically trusted him with Everything. We'll see how much he charges us.

But honestly, it's good that we're getting it done here because the next few days are going to be super remote and we might not have access to this stuff moving forward.

Oh, my gosh. It's a miracle.

Hola.

Sorry for screaming.

This road is bumpy.

I can't believe my eyes just driving through this gorgeous canyon. I just hope Nate starts to feel better soon. My bike definitely feels slower than it did yesterday. Not sure if the mechanic did that on purpose. I still trust him though. We're running.

That drive was amazing. I still don't feel great, but I'd much rather feel not great on a tiny motorcycle driving through the beautiful mountains than I would just laying in bed. I'm so glad I got up. I just still could not believe how much of an adventure this has already been. Or a day and a half in.

Muchas gracias.

Yes.

Bon appetit.

So we just rolled into the town of San Miguel and this restaurant was just calling my name. There's a really cute Peruvian woman cooking in the kitchen. I tried to express to her that I would like whatever she has that doesn't include meat.

And this is what we got.

Looks like a lovely. Oh.

We'Ll just eat around it. It's fine. It looks delicious. Seems very healing for Nate right now.

Oh, yum.

I feel like I'm eating our Peruvian grandmother's homemade vegetable soup.

What is happening on the TV over here? I found a chick toe in the bottom of my soup. A lot of mystery things going on in there.

We don't know what this sauce is, but it is delicious.

How is it?

Giant piece of ginger in the soup. And car told me I should chew on it.

Make me better.

It's a lot. He hold immediately.

They were so cute. I think my monkey outfit attracted them. Our lunch for both me and Nate was only 19 soles. Time to get back on the road.

Okay, from here we have an 80 kilometer drive to the town of Pacos. Except we're not really sure it's town.

There's van. Thank you for the honk. Honks are so useful.

Hopefully there is somewhere for us to sleep tonight. I tried to get Nate to stay here and rest and he said no way. Even when he's sick, the man is hard to slow down.

So beautiful. Hola. Goodbye.

Oh, it's raining a little bit. I feel like I'm in like, Narnia right now. We're starting to climb back up and these views are insane. Check out these Mountain. We're turning.

Big turn, not good at narrow turn.

Oh my God. Wow. So good. Zigzagging all the way up.

So we're basically just climbing up switchbacks on a mountain and I'm pretty sure this is the only place that it's raining. Just like right above the switchbacks. I'm sure this is great for my cold.

Definitely.

Hola.

Buenos tardes. Buenos tardes.

Oh gosh.

That was crazy.

Dogs, chickens, pigs. Like a safari. Oh, there's a little tiny bumpy. Oh, I scared him. Hi, gals. Hi, little baby. Hi.

Oh my gosh. The last 50km since lunch has been my favorite part of this whole trip.

Have we already gone 50?

Yeah.

Really?

It's not raining anymore, but the sun's behind the clouds. It's making it a little chilly. So we thought we'd stop in this beautiful valley to put on a layer. We've just been passing cows and families in these little villages. We haven't passed a town since lunch. We've just been zigzagging up the mountain and now we're zigzagging back down and the roads are just like right on the edge of. Scary enough to keep me on my toes, but also enjoyable.

Oh, what a day.

I'm just so happy that you're better. Okay. Back on the road.

We just reached the top of this mountain pass. I checked my phone. We're 13,500ft and it is absolutely freezing right now. We're literally riding in the clouds. It's insane. We're wearing every layer of clothes that we have. We still have about 30km to go. Hopefully it's downhill so it gets warmer.

Look at this view. So I'm pretty sure we're about to work our way down this road. There is a little village that's hiding down there in the clouds. Hopefully that's where we're staying tonight.

I'm hoping it gets warmer as we go down.

These tiny bikes got us to the top of a 13,000ft mountain. This is crazy. Proud of you. You're crushing it.

Thank you. I'm proud of you.

Well, this should be interesting.

Woo.

That was sketchy.

You.

Will you go back and do mine?

Nice work.

Wow.

That was terrifying. I can't believe I have to do yours.

I'm sorry.

It doesn't look steep, but it is. Okay.

You're amazing even when he's sick.

Okay.

Sorry about that.

All right. Thank you so much. I went down, there was another water crossing and I thought I could get across it cuz it wasn't as steep as the other one. I landed on both my knees pretty hard.

Okay, so I'm going to give you a little reenactment of what happened. K got a lot of speed coming through the creek. She hit this lip and then her front tire came off the ground and it just started going like this. Did you do that? Dipped to the concrete.

I don't know.

I look back and Carrie's just laying on the ground like this, which is terrifying.

Wait, is Taco that way?

No, we just return.

Really?

This is like the cocaine jumble. If you keep going this way for like another 100km, State Department website says, do not go here. We will not help you.

Oh, shoot.

It's the cocaine capital of the world. It makes sense why we missed it, cuz it's like backwards.

Now we're going to see if my bike starts.

Oh, no. Oh, my goodness.

Although now we do have to fix the rack, because three wrecks was the maximum amount of falls that it could take.

What makes this suck even more is we didn't even have to go this way. I could cross this thing for nothing. Now we're turning around. I'm fine. I'm just a little shaken up, a little disappointed in myself. My knees hurt and sometimes that just comes out with tears.

Thank you. This is crazy. We've turned around twice now. Three times. Because we keep missing the road. We just don't see it.

Oh, Nate's pulling onto a grassroad right now. No way is this the road.

Road.

We found the road.

Wow, it's gravel. I really hope I'm not driving on a gravel road in the dark soon.

Well, we are driving on gravel switchbacks down a mountain in the dark. Knobbling sounding.

Hola. Buenos noches.

Es possibly.

Or no. See.

She says c. Yeah.

Not 100% convinced that they understand.

Solo English.

Okay, should we go look inside?

This is so crazy. So we got lost. It got dark. This was the town that we were trying to get to, but we didn't realize that it's like four houses and the next town is a long way off, and it's super sketchy driving the motorbikes at night. So we literally just asked some people if we could sleep at their house, and they have been so kind.

Is that a kitty?

Oh, my gosh.

The kitty is so tiny.

All right, I think this is home for the night.

Oh.

What an entrance.

Can I see the kitty?

It's a turtle. Oh, my gosh, it's a dog. Oh, my God.

Oh, my gosh.

It's A gerbil.

It's a guinea pig.

Guinea pig is not a dog.

Well, he's still really cute, and I'm not gonna use it. Gracias.

Wow. We are getting the real experience. Ton.

Is that an iPad? Oh, wow.

There's one bed in here, and there's a lot of lettuce and bananas on it.

Dormimos aki? That's our bed.

Great.

We're sleeping here.

Are we taking a photo?

Oh, there's a filter.

Me llamo cara.

Kara, kara, kara.

Esposo, esposa.

I can't believe this is happening. This is crazy. Donde esta el bano? Ah, el bano.

Uhhuh.

Gracias. Oh, there's a pig. There's a toilet. It looks like it flushes. And then the sink is full of water, so I don't think we have running water. Maybe the shower works.

That was it.

You think it's just that one?

No, no, I think there are tons. Quanto scui?

Single boys.

Ah.

Hi, little guy.

So we've learned that there are five guinea pigs that live here in this casita with us. They're not in a cage, which means there's a chance that one will visit us while we're sleeping.

Comer el cuy.

Aw, they're gonna eat you. Oh, dear.

Guinea pigs are not pets. They are food.

We're gonna feed him. That's better.

This is so crazy to be experiencing. I remember when we were here a few years ago, learning that some families lived with guinea pigs in their house. And sure enough, although I'm not really sure that this is where someone lives, it feels more like the kitchen area. Like there's an entire structure just for the kitchen, and I think that's what.

We'Re sleeping in tonight.

Wow. Grande. There's a giant guinea pig over there in the corner.

You turned on the camera?

You want to say hello?

Hello.

Hello.

Hola.

Como estas? It is time for bed. And these girls are just too darn cute and sweet. I don't have the heart to tell them that we want to go to sleep.

El Salvador.

Yeah.

Chile. China.

Venezuela.

Venezuela. Argentina.

They're having a competition of who knows the most countries. Canada. Canada.

Australia.

Australia.

Oh, good one.

New Zealand.

Hello.

Vanuatu.

Comosiama.

Plata.

Como sayama plata?

You want to say no? Silama soles.

Dollar.

A trade. Soles for a dollar.

Espien.

And she kept the solace.

Okay. The family has insisted that they give us food, even though we told them we have our own food. This fried banana does look Pretty good. Oh wow. That is delicious.

M.

Gracias, gracias.

We each get a plate.

What a night. We are sleeping in there. We've been here for about two hours so far. We've had a dance party, sing karaoke.

This is the weirdest.

I played with guinea pigs and we both practiced a lot of Spanish and English. This is one of those nights that we will not soon Forget.

It is 9:40.

I'm pretty sure we're gonna freeze to death tonight.

For a while we were trying to figure out who lived here and whose bed we were stealing. Then this guy walks in with a cane and a cape who was a shepherd apparently. And I was asked asking my little friend, is this your dad? And she was like, no. And she translated, this person is a stranger. But he was like in there eating with us. They cooked him food.

Maybe it's more common than we originally thought for like random people just to show up at your house.

It made me feel less crazy.

I think this is still completely crazy.

Pulling up on a motorbike and going, hey, can we sleep here? This is one wild. If I have to pee in the middle of the night, I'm going to cry.

Hey, these monkey suits are coming in handy.

Yeah, they are.

It's all a little damp.

This is nice.

Sure. This is going to be great for my cold.

Just us and the guinea pigs.

They're so loud.

It.

What a night. I counted at least six different animals that kept me awake last night, many of which I can still hear this morning. There's been a handful of times in our adventures where I've had to resort to powdered coffee. And I have to say I'm becoming pretty fond of it just means we're doing something awesome. There are about five kids playing on my bike and staring at me currently.

What is life right now? You better not knock my bike over.

Which are good stuff.

You think I'm crazy, don't you?

Maybe I am.

So yesterday when we were weighing the decision of whether or not we should push on in the afternoon yesterday I was feeling way better and felt like.

We had definitely made the right decision.

But this was worst case scenario that.

I was afraid of, which is feeling super sick in the middle of nowhere.

To make it to the next big.

Town that has like a proper hotel and a pharmacy where I can get some medicine. We have to do 150km today. We've only done 100 up to this point and I don't know how I'm gonna ride 150 kilometers in this condition. Also, this morning was super funny. At 5:30 in the morning, it's still completely dark outside. All of a sudden, somebody came busting through the doors, and I was confident that we were about to get robbed. It was our friend from last night. She was coming in to get some food before school, which, fair enough, we were sleeping in the kitchen. All right, I'm really hoping some fresh air wakes me up.

Bike's not starting.

Not had enough coffee for this.

Reminder that we're at over 13,000ft. Feels like I'm climbing on a. Okay, here's good.

I've never seen a chicken chase a butterfly.

Wow.

He got it.

Go, go, go, go, go.

You want me to push it from behind?

No, that wouldn't hurt.

Go, go, go. One. Keep going, keep going. One, two, three. Let go.

Let.

Never ends. Three, two, one, go.

I don't know what he did, but he did it. Okay, let's go.

All right, so the next thing that could go wrong is that we don't have enough gas to get to the next town.

Tns Gasolina Way, I think, up the hill. This is awesome.

I don't know how to say stop.

Thank you for allowing us to stay in your home.

Yes.

That might have had a funny translation.

Oh, day three. Yeah, it's gonna be a good one.

Hi, little piggies. Oh, my gosh.

That's the cutest thing I've ever seen. So we just drove up overlooking the village where we lived last night. And this will give you an idea of how tiny it is. Home sweet home. We see. Stayed right.

There. There's mama. I shared some of my instant coffee with her this morning, and she was buzzing. I didn't think she liked us until this morning. I think it was only the kids who allowed us to stay.

Ready.

In the next episode, I think about.

The worst possible thing just happened. My clutch literally snapped in half. We're literally stuck in the middle of nowhere.

Honestly, if this was day one motorcycle driver Cara, I would have been in the fetal position at the bottom of this mountain crying. Oh, my gosh, this sucks. I'm just mad I can have monkey ride. Who'd have thought?

So?

Yeah, you don't want to miss part two. See you next week.

I feel like when a lot of people see this title and thumbnail, like, riding tiny motorbikes across Peru, they're like, just go be like a normal traveler. You don't have to do crazy things. But this, like, crazy premise of driving a tiny motorcycle across Peru is putting us in these situations where we're having more authentic travel experiences than if we tried to plan something.

Yeah. We would never be like, let's just drive into the dragon village and sleep there. And that's what I love about the monkey run. Like, they literally at the starting line said, don't call us. This is you. We'll be at the beginning, we'll be at the end.

They also don't give you any route. They did kind of point out, like, what area the cartel might be hanging out in.

They did do that.