What's in my ADV Travel Bathroom and First Aid Bag?

In this episode we drink some IPA and chat about, motorcycle trailer maintenance, ADV Cannonball News, what's in Aaron's bathroom, and first aid bags.

Links from this episode:

Example of a motorcycle trailer hub rebuild kit HERE
Boat Ramp video YouTube HERE
Boat Ramp Flashmob video HERE
The Living List Document GOOGLE DOC
PCH Pacific Coast Highway and 101 GPS GPX Files and Google Doc riders guide HERE
Taylor's boating instructional video HERE
Moisture Silica Gel Packets HERE

Transcript

Welcome to the ADV Cannonball podcast where we discuss all things on 2 wheels, the adventure bike cannonball, and other motorcycle-related nonsense. To this episode of ADB Cannonball podcast. My name is Taylor Lawson, and I am your host. And I'm here today with Aaron Pufall. Hey, Aaron.

Morning. How's it going over there? It is, it's gotten a bit chilly here in Stockholm, I have to say. Winter finally caught us.

Oh, no. Yep. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to go with the negative we had snow last week, which is nice, And then it got usually, it gets snowy and then it gets warm and it turns to, you know, brown slush. But this time, it got we had some snow. I don't know.

We had 6 inches or something that much. And then and then it dropped down to like negative 17. It's been negative sorry, it's been negative 8 Celsius and 17 Fahrenheit for the, I don't know, past 3 or 4 days. So it's sticking around as great. I was out driving around today, not on my motorcycle, and it was, it was it was good and slippery, but I got these good Swedish, winter tires on.

So I'm good. Nice. It's I'm in, Victoria today, and it is relentless, the rain. It has rained every single day between here and Washington. It has just rained every single day, and I am ready for winter to be over.

But, I think we're in the throes of it, and it's not going anywhere, anytime soon. Wait a minute. But, Yours is almost over? Like, you're already been you're looking towards the end of this already? It's killing me, man.

My bike is all the way down in Mexico still. I'm actually gonna go rescue it. I have a whole plan to, ex fail, the bike. Now you're gonna take it gonna take seal team 6 in with you or what? Yeah.

We're gonna go get it. We're gonna do we're gonna do what was that movie? Sicario. We're gonna do a Sicario move and get and XP on the bike. Not Sicario 2 because that was that was pretty bad.

But what we're gonna get it out. I'm gonna ride a bit in California, and then I'm actually going to go down to Northern California to get, some building materials for, the Sprinter van conversion. So I'm gonna use that as an excuse to, get back in the bike because it has been tough. It is it is nonstop raining, man. So hang on a second.

Before we jump into that, I wanna, I wanna let you know that I am, I'm ready to crack this beer here. So today, I have an a really cool colorful can, it's bright orange with a totem pole on it with some really sick faces, and it's the Amundsen, Amundsen. And I love the name of this one. It is called it's a New England IPA and it is called Apocalyptic Thunder Juice. Wow.

That sounds like a band name. Yeah. When I was a kid, I went to with my I went to Philadelphia to visit my sister who was at university there, and there were 3 bands, like underground bands that were playing. And one of them was called Electric Love Muffin. One of them was called Testicular Momentum.

And then, Oh my god. I can't there's the like, yeah, that that I don't know. Can't remember the I think spastic rats or something was the third one. But, wow. Yeah.

We're fired up, man. I got I got Vancouver Island Brewing West Coast Trail IPA, which I actually hiked the West Coast Trail with my wife last year. And the image on the front of the can is, a famous spot along the trail called the window. So, here's to the West Coast Trail and all the pools that that do it. Nice.

Excellent. Yeah. I did allude to that. I did actually made that comment in one of our maybe our first podcast. We talked about, we talked about the idea that when you're not on 2 wheels, you do like to take these, these these forced marches, you know, on the trails that people really should be riding on motorcycles, but you choose to walk.

Can't I still can't understand that. But Yeah. Last year was a good year. We did, we did the West Coast Trail, which, is like almost a Canadian pilgrimage. And my wife being American, really, felt that this was a necessity to becoming a citizen, which I disagree with.

So that was tough, actually. And then to show her how hiking should actually be done, later in the year, in October, we hiked the West Highland Way in Scotland, which you basically hike from pub to pub. And so this is more of my alley. That's a great And, yeah, at my age, it's really civilized. It's really social.

It's really organized, a group, called Max Max Adventures, m a x, Adventures. They you say this is the I'm going, and they just arrange everything. And, it's really fantastic, and I highly recommend it. I actually don't recommend the West Coast Trail, unless you are an experienced backpacker. But the West Highland Way is easy peasy.

I did a, I did a a hike like that one time between pubs, but the distances are really short or, like, you know, a city block or 2. Does that qualify? Yeah. That's called a pub crawl. Or you could call the hike, you know.

I'm getting them confused. Yeah. Oh my goodness. They actually had a where's that? Apple I think Annapolis, Maryland.

They had a, a maybe it's I can't remember. It's either Annapolis, Maryland, or London. I can't remember which, but there was a Christmas run, and everybody gets dressed up in Santa suits, and they run from public to public. Santa con or London? Is that is that is that the This is spread all over the world.

Santa con Yeah. Is a is a spreading thing, and, and I and I celebrate it. Maybe it was in both then. Yeah. Yeah.

Fair enough. Alright. We actually have a a a pub crawl here. We have these little, water taxis. There there are these little cute water taxis that are left over from the the, world's fair in Vancouver.

Anyways, and and you can get on, and they will take you to different pubs by by boat. So it's really fun. So if, if you ever make it over this way, in the summer, we can do a a boat pub crawl, which is ironic and and, and awesome. Yeah. That sounds good.

Very good. Are those electric boats? No. They're little tiny diesel, then it's a it has a a pod in the middle, so they're really, maneuverable. They're actually really, really cool little boats.

Cool. Yeah. We'll put that on the list. Let me see. Well, I wish you luck rescuing your motorcycle.

I wanna hear some field notes from that. Like For sure. Going in going in to do the X fill. Alright. Let's see here.

So we've got a few things we wanna talk about today. First of all, didn't you recently do a review? Didn't you do a didn't you read a book by Jim Rogers? Yeah. So the 2 of us were reading.

So I know you're halfway through Elizabeth Beard book Yeah. And you're going to, give a proper review. So I've made it halfway through this book called Investment Biker. It was actually purchased for me by a guy I rode with, a friend of a friend on the Idaho backcountry discovery route. Anyways, and, I'll I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure how people make it through this book, but if you're interested in finances, it is a really good old school, financial elitism kind of book about how rich guys get get richer and the celebration of that, but it is very little to do with biking.

You know, he does go to yeah. He does go to 52 countries over 22 months, but I was halfway through it going, well, when does the cool biking stories happen? But it's really stories about, the celebration of of stock markets and in, you know, investment, in the higher echelon of, of the world. Okay. So it's a bit misleading in the name then because it would make you think that it's more about, yeah, I guess, biking, but the investment biker.

So, basically, well, how old is this guy? I don't know. Does he does he give him that? Yeah. But he was definitely, middle aged during during his trip.

Okay. So he hit the that. He hit the big numbers, and, and then he bought a motorcycle and spent a bunch of time traveling. Yeah. And he hit the numbers during the time when things were in its infancy.

So one of the stories was, I think he was in Austria and they didn't really have a full fledged stock market. They had a stock market, but it wasn't as common as everyone has a 401 k, so on and so forth. It wasn't as infancy stages. So he went there and took advantage of that. It's kind of like, you know, when the railroads were being built, across America, kind of kind of feeling that I had that those days are over.

This doesn't really apply anymore to to to normal people, in this circumstance will never happen again unless it was, you know, 15 years ago when we were talking about Bitcoin. Right. So so, yeah, I I'm I kind of made it halfway through and I and I gave up. But but I'm definitely looking forward to hearing, your your review of, Elspeth Beard book because, I definitely enjoyed that read. Yeah.

And to to be transparent as well, in one of the tours that, that you curated back in, I guess that was 2023 in Colorado, when she came out and rode with us, that was really cool to have her yeah, just to have a personal presentation about where she came from, what she did, her book, and, sort of the the rebirth of her motorcycle experience after she took a bunch of time and did a different, you know, did a different life, you know, maintained her her level of enthusiasm for, for motorcycles. So, yeah, I'll get into that. And I'm gonna be in London in February, and I'm hoping I'm hoping that we have a chance to, to meet up, and I'll have a chance to maybe get a bit more details about where she is and what she's doing now. And, yeah, we'll go from there. Yeah.

And, on that note, I'm actually scheduled to meet with Helgate Peterson, in in a few weeks, in the Seattle area. So we'll both we'll both have those, those interviews on the go. Very nice. Alright. So on a scale of, if you had to give this book out of 5 stars, what would you give this book?

At least the bits you've read. Yeah. From a I I I would as a motorcycle book, it's a 1 or a 2. As a financial elite book, you know, it's probably a 4 or 5 if you like reveling in in in how rich guys got richer. Yeah.

Okay. Fair enough. Alright. Okay. I think we could probably leave that book review there, but thanks for that.

No problem. So let me, just let me Spreading sunshine. Yeah. You just yeah. You just you're just a you're just an effing ray of sunshine.

That's for sure. So the, the next thing I'd like to talk to you about is your Pacific Coast Highway route. So you posted the PCH route on the website. And what do you expect people to do with that? And what what kind of file is that?

What's the route? What what is, give us some feedback on sort of, maybe just talk around why it's there and who might it be useful for? Yeah. Yeah. That's a good question.

So I spent a lot of time on the Coho ferry. The Coho ferry runs between, Port Angeles, Washington and Vancouver Island, and that's a massive route during the summer for motorcyclists, either Canadians going down to to do the Pacific Coast Highway and 101 or people coming up north and wanting to do the North Island 500. I think it's called that. It's a route. It's a it's a very easy ADV route around Vancouver Island, which we should make a note here, that I will I will mention that.

ADV North Island. Okay. I made a note. So we will, talk about 2 in a future podcast. So one of the issues is that I always talk to people.

I'm like, well, what route did you take? Right? Because I'm always interested in people's routing because, you know, this is what I this is what I do. Right? And it's a bit of a dry topic, but this is well, I did a little bit of the Pacific Coast Highway, and I just went on 101.

And I'm like, oh, dude, you're missing all the important motorcycle routes, you're missing all of the motorcycle stops. I'm like, which campsites did you go to? Did you did you camp? Did you stay in cabins? Did you stay in hotels?

So I just felt like seeing as though we do this professionally and, you know, not like I have strong opinions, but Yeah. I don't know about that. I I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but, you know, carry on. Of course not. Of course not.

Is so I put together my historic GPX routes that I've recorded, and I made a Google doc of not turn by turn, but this is where you camp, this is where there's a motorcycle cabin, this is where you have to stop because it's motorcycle holy ground, this is where you go take this this important picture. So I put on the Cannonball website a web page of some of some of our routes by including this route and a Google doc with, you know, laid out for you exactly what to do. Yeah. Because it's a real shame because a lot of these routes, you know, if you just go on a 101, you you don't know it, but if you made a left at that, Bixby Bridge. Yeah.

If you made a if you made a a left right there, you would you would have 5 miles of some of the best motorcycle road around. But if you didn't know that, you would just ride down 101. So, anyways, that's the point of of the GPX route and sharing with the community, to not miss out on those great opportunities. Yeah. Cool.

That's very good. It's interesting you mentioned that, that particular. And the reason I said Bixby Bridge, b I x b y, that was a bridge. It's really a beautiful bridge. If you see most pictures of of, Big Sur, California, that's the one actually in Big Sur.

I think they're Big Sur Water. That's the picture that they have, a line drawing of that as their as their label. Anyway, it's very iconic, beautiful bridge. Mhmm. The big arch in it.

But, yeah, so when I lived in Monterey, California, where actually I met my my Swedish wife, we I had a DR 650 Suzuki, and I used to go ripping down that coastal area. And before the Bixby Bridge, you could take it you could bang a left, and it was a massive amount. You could go just I think it was I think it may have been more than 5 miles, or maybe it just seemed like a lot because I did I was back and forth on that. But it takes you out to what used to be the Old Coast Highway. It's actually called the Old Coast Highway.

Mhmm. And it takes you out through the farm area, beef around behind where the bridge was so you can cross over the the water so far up into the mountain, and it was just, you know, it's just a little, you know, a little a bridge is maybe 30, 40 feet long that crosses that particular body of water. So, but it takes you through 3 or 4 different microclimates. So it takes you up into, like, high desert, dry California, and then it drops you down to this really heavily, the big redwoods, very forested, damp area where there's campsites where people put chairs in the river and, you know, it's river kinda rolling by, and then back out to this high desert, fast, straight running areas, and then it gets up to these meandering fields. And on either side, you've got these and it's one it's one ranch.

Like, you're back there. It's like one massive ranch, and it drops you back out on, down south of Big Sur, but beautiful area. Anyway, bit of an aside. Reminds me back when, yeah, I used to rat run around on my on the on the 6:50 there. That was fun.

Yeah. And it's so important. I also include optional, you know, off pavement routes as well where they aren't super difficult, but they're, like, rarefied air. So I hate taking dirt for the sake of taking dirt, but these dirt roads will take you to an unpaved place that's that's super cool. I also add important stops like, Neptune's net, the rock shop, Josie's hideout, places places like this.

So, you know, holy ground for bikers. And I don't care what kind of bike you're on, you're you're definitely welcome at all these places. And, you know, as we know, I'm a I'm a terrible tourist. I'll just go in and grab a beverage and buy a sticker and, you know, drop off some cannonball stickers. But, nevertheless, I think it's important to, to go to to go check out these places.

Yeah. I agree. It's also nice when someone's been there before you so you don't have to go, wonder where this one goes. So GPS file, download it, and, and follow and check out these spots. Thanks for the, thanks for that tip.

Thanks for sharing that as well. So one of the things that's important to do, I'm gonna segue here into what do you do to keep all of your toys working so that when it's time to actually use them, they function for you. And I know that you mentioned a moment ago about potentially going to rescue your motorcycle, whether you ride it out of there or trailer it out or whatever you do. All kidding aside, you're not wrestling, you just can go pick it up. It's not being held hostage.

The guys who were taking care of you are doing a great job. I know they are. Good guys. Yeah. So when you go down and pick it up, are you gonna take a trailer and maybe I can we can just talk a bit about what you do to, to service your trailer.

I know you recently did that. So maybe you could talk about some of the details there. Yeah. So, you know, I I always feel bad for guys that are on the side of the road. You know, they're, you know, they're doing their one trip a year.

They're no longer really riding, or they wanna, they wanna go to Sturgis, let's say, and, you know, they throw their bikes to a trailer. And it's it's it's bad. You know? There are there's always trailers on the side of the road with with Yeah. With flat tires and and and most importantly, hubs and bearings.

So what I did was every fall, I always wash the trailer, that's obvious, and then I always do a hub and bearing kit, and the reason why I do that is you can go on Amazon and for the same price as buying bearings and, you know, god forbid, you forget exactly which size bearing it is. So I should buy, and I've kept it in my cart, the hub and bearing, and I don't have to seek the bearing. I don't have to, you know, take the the bearing out of the hub. I don't have to clean the hub. It's the same price.

So I I jacked the trailer up. I take the hub off and the bearing. I clean the whole area, and then I put I I pack I pack the bearings with marine grease, the red stuff. Spend the extra $3 on the tub of grease and get the marine stuff. It's less likely to wash out.

It's not as water soluble, as as normal grease. And, that's my biggest tip is get the hub kit, and the hub kit comes with all the bearings. The hub it's already installed with with the inside bearing. You just got popping the the outside bearing. It comes with a new nut.

It comes with a new, cotter pin and it comes with, depending on what system you use, a dust cap, or in my case, a dust cap with, with a service, plug on it, so I can, use the Zerk and I can continue to pack the bearing, as I use the trailer throughout the year. I got a question for you. So what information so if I'm gonna if I'm so I I go out to my motorcycle trailer. By the way, I sold mine. But I go out to my motorcycle trailer, and I look at it, and I go, I think I'm gonna do what Aaron said.

What information do I need to go to the store regardless of what auto store I go to? What information do I need? Do I need the just the axle diameter? What do I need to go before I rock up and get my camera? Have a big brand name trailer.

You can just get the model number and go to that that distributor's website. But like me, what I had to do, that's a great question, is I pull the hub off and I take my, my measuring calipers and you measure the inside diameter of the bearing And you take that information, and you don't go to the store, you go to Amazon, and and you punch that that measurement into, into Amazon, and you order the hub and bearing rebuild kit. And then, once you have it ordered once, you could just keep on ordering it. Right? But that inside diameter of the bearing is is is what is what everything rides on, pun intended.

Because it it it it rides on the race, and then everything else around it has to conform to that. So once you have that that, that diameter, you know, it's it's it's pretty easy, and there's only 2 or 3 sizes, to be honest with you. And, listen, you're buying it from Amazon, and if it doesn't fit, you know, just just send it back. Send it back. So are there special tools you need?

Obviously, if you got a cotter pin, you probably need some needle nose pliers. You need a pair of what what are you looking at here? No. If you need a a giant adjustable crescent wrench, there's a million of videos how to seat a bearing. It's stupid easy.

What I do is I pack my bearings, I assemble it, I seat it, I go for a drive, I come back, and then I have a zerk where I refill the grease again, and then I seat the bearing again, and that's it. I don't have to worry about it again, and then if I do like a big long trip, like, thousands of miles, then when I get home again, I'll just repack the bearing, with, with the Zerk. And you can tell instantly Hold on. If there's ever, if there's any water in there, the the grease will will change color. Okay.

Zerk. So you you throw this you throw this around like everyone should know what a Zerk is. Maybe take a moment to explain to the layman out here such as me. Is this the nipple where you put the you put the, the grease gun on? That's it, man.

That's it. It's the it's the any kind of grease fitting has that, that nipple, and you and you slide the, the grease gun on it, and and it's a new way of doing, trailer bearings, because it fills from the back. So what it does is as you pack more grease into it with a grease gun, it pushes the grease outward. And if there's anything in there, like debris or moisture, it will it will push it out. Alright.

Good. Alright. So, so you wash it. You get the hub and bearing, kit. You replace it.

You use marine grease. What else do you do? Yeah. So I grab a little thing of 3 in 1, you know, any kind of oil, and I grab a little, a little old toothbrush and, I oil up the the locks that I that I use to lock it down, and all the locks around the trailer if if, if you have other locks. And then I also, clean the electrical connectors with the toothbrush and oil.

So that also cleans it, and it also protects it for the season. And that's it for the the electrical part. And if there's any damage, you know, just re re rewrap the the, the wires Yep. If if if they're indeed, you know, looking a bit weathered. And then in my case, I had to replace the piano hinge on the main door.

It was, it was getting a bit rough. I've just bought that for Amazon, and then I also reap I grab a rattle can of 3 in 1 rust paint, and anywhere the frame the frame is, getting tired or the paint is peeling, I just quickly spray that with some, with some rust paint. I grab a little piece of cardboard just just for some simple blocking of the trailer, you know, that's it, and the very last thing I do is I take a dehumidifier and I put it inside the trailer and I let that run several times, and I suck all the moisture out of the out of the plywood, and that just prevents mold and just makes it a more pleasant environment, for the rest of the year. Okay. Good.

Do you put I know what one of the things that, that I've done on boats and I also do in my storage area is I put those I go to, now there's a place here in Sweden called Cartheme, and, you get these packets of crystal, which absorbs water, and then it pulls the moisture in. So it's a moisture capture. Do you drop anything like that in there? Yeah. So yeah.

Those those those work really well, but I'm just cheap, and I have a lot of deep I have a lot of dehumidifiers because I live in the Pacific Northwest. So I just move them around. So it does the exact same thing. Okay. But I just put it in there, and I can I can suck out of that out of that plywood?

I swear, like, 2 gallons of water in a winter. I'll run it, and I'll come back and and empty it. It'll run again in, like, a day. It'll suck a gallon of water from that from that from that environment. It's really amazing.

Alright. Well, that's good. So you got so that pretty much handles it. So you wash it. Just sort of as a recap.

You do this in the fall. So you said you, you give it a wash. You replace it. So the hub and bearing kit, you replace that no matter what? Every year.

Boom. Just new one. I replace that. Depends how many miles I've done. So I'll do it every couple of years for sure.

And then while I'm doing it, I can inspect the condition of the, of the wheels and the tires, and obviously pump the tires up to the proper pressure. But, you know, you have to use your best judgment. But if I go more than 2, 3 years without changing that, you're really rolling the dice to be on to be on the side of the road on a YouTube video. Yeah. That's true.

Back in 2007, I did a, did a series of boating safety videos, and one of them was on trailering. And I when I did the filming of it, this it was called Show Me How Videos. If you wanna have a good laugh, you can go and look up Taylor Lawson Show Me How Videos, and you can check this on YouTube. Yeah. I think the whole the full thing is up there.

But what was the most interesting thing in filming that was, was being at the at the boat ramp for the entire day and watching Mhmm. The things that the things that people do. Insane. Like, the stuff that I think the most interesting one is this guy, like, backed in with a bass boat, and he had it strapped down. He had it strapped down to a really big trailer, which is really heavy.

Mhmm. And he just drove he just he just drove it straight in. And and my god. And it was so the the trailer, the the buoyancy of the vessel was less than the capacity to lift the trailer and float the trailer. So we backed it straight in, and then it just sank, and then the waters came.

I mean, it's just and it's just nonsense like this over and over. I wanna tell you something about what's interesting and made me think about this was, there were a couple of different situations where people were they had almost made it there and then someone who was leaving and then they, the water they left the water in there in the hubs from the year before, and then they were like, oh, we, you know, we put the boat in once a year and pull it out once a year, and we only use it twice a year, and they don't think they have to service it in between. And again, the guy, you know, rusted bearing the entire thing, the wheel just fell right off, and then his out the, the lower unit on his outboard motor, because it happened right when he's pulling when he's hauling out, right in, so the trailer's down, the wheels are, you know, off to the side, the wheel. Terrible. Anyway Oh my goodness.

There's actually 2 YouTube channels, and alls they do, they're film at boat ramps. There's one in Miami, and there's one at Lake Tahoe. Yeah. And this is their this is their business. They go there and they film and they do commentary and then they rate them.

And then every once in a while, they'll do a flash mob and they'll have, like, 50, 60 people come down to the boat ramp, and they'll, like, they'll cheer them on if they nail it, and then there's cheers and stuff. So it's turned into a whole a whole subculture of boat ramps. Oh my god. I gotta see that. You gotta put that link in.

Yeah. That's great. I will do that. I'll put I'll I'll put both in there. I'll put both in there.

Okay. Good. And if you and if it's still available and you can find it, feel free to put one up of, show me how videos, Taylor Lawson. That's embarrassing. Yeah.

So I wanted to say something about trailering that a friend of ours, Steve, did, and he was in the Bahamas, and he had to get this he had his work boat, this really wide, flat bottom work boat that he used to move people around the island, to go pick up this the people who worked on the island for the day. It was like a bus. So he had to get this, but he had to get the trailer from one island to the other. And the trailer, he didn't have a boat big enough to put the trailer on. So here's what he did.

And he and so he backs the trailer in. So he straps the boat on. He gets extra tie downs, and he straps the trailer straps the boat onto the trailer. Mhmm. And then he he backs it into the water as far as the vehicle can go, and then he puts the front wheel down and cranks and cranks the trailer off of the vehicle, pulls the vehicle out, and then takes the takes the now he's got a boat floating with a trailer strapped to the bottom of it.

And then it it was a nice flat day, and he crossed the sound. And then it got to the other side, rolls in the front wheel on the other boat ramp. He rolls in, pulls it up, tractor comes and picks it up, and then pulls him out. So that's how he transported this trailer across the south. Yeah.

I thought it was really clever. Yeah. Clever. It would've made a great YouTube video. My goodness.

I know. Hey, Steve. If you're out there, man. If you if you took a video with us, you gotta send it. Yeah.

Alright. But if you do but if you do take a video, that's a guarantee for it to go sideways. So Exactly. Yeah. It was a smart strategy to not do that.

Yeah. Fair enough. Alright. Let's see. So is there anything else you wanna say about that other than just take care I think I think this goes to taking care of your gear, period.

Check your kit. Make sure your kit's in good shape. You know, it also goes to safety. Right? Who wants it?

You don't wanna be on the side of the road with a broken down you you can't play with your toys and there's potentially it can be dangerous for people around you. It can also be dangerous for yourself and those who are with you. So there's that aspect. If you get hurt, you can't you can't you can't play with your toys if you're hurt. No.

And, also, who wants you know, we have such little time. We have such limited time. Right? And, you know, bearings are such are such an important such an important thing on trailers. I was just trying to find it right now the how much it cost.

No. I can't find it. But it costs nothing. It costs, like, you know, $60 to to service it. You know what it costs to get a tow on the side of the road or try to fix that on the side of the road?

I also keep there's a company called All Balls, All Ball Bearings. And even for my GS, you know, I'll I'll change out my front bearings, on my GS, you know, every few tire changes, and it takes 20 minutes to, to change that bearing. It costs $30. Right? So for the low cost of it, I'm like, just just change the bearings, guys.

You know? Avoid avoid being on the being on the side of the highway or on a motorcycle, you know, avoid a serious accident because, you know, you you didn't change that $20 bearing. Yep. Good point. Alright.

I think we can move on to, another topic, which is it picks up from where we talked about before. We talked a bit about traveling. Oh, we talked a lot about I think we talked a lot about traveling, about preparing for a trip in the particular our particular one, that we spoke about last time was in preparation for the Himalayas trip. We talked about what to pack, how to pack, whether you should rent or potentially ship a motorcycle, and the things that are important to look for. One of the things that we were gonna get to, but at that point in time, I think we were already pushing 2 hours in our conversation.

Yep. I know. Apologize. Apologies for those who endured that. But one of the things that we talked about was your what you have in your travel kit, so your personal travel kit, your toiletry kit.

So let's talk a bit about that. Yeah. So I guess let's talk about what we put it in. So I use a Tumi hanging, bathroom bag. And this is a bit big, but it fits into my panniers on my GS and it fits into my backpack pretty well, and it's perfectly sized.

And, plus, when I go into a strange bathroom, whether it's camping or, you know, a hotel, it stays in the one unit, and I just hang it up, in the bathroom, and it stays in one thing. Especially if you're sharing a bathroom, you're not taking over the counter space. Another thing for packaging it all up. Yeah. Another thing for packaging it all up that I do is I buy I go on Amazon and I buy an assortment of 4 mil, ziplock bags, and I put all my meds or small things, in it, whether it's Q tips or disposable toothbrushes or earplugs or pills.

I put those in small 4 mil Ziploc bags. Alright. That's clever. Yeah. And another thing I get, from Amazon is, we've all seen them, the silica anti moisture packs.

This is important. So I buy a a bag of those, and it lasts 4 years. Just make sure you ziplock closed the bag it comes in in the anti moisture box. And I put one of those in everything. Nothing worse than trying to get an Ibuprofen gel cap that is fused to the one next to it.

So that's, those are the three factors that I use to to pack all the rest of the nonsense, into. So these little is it, like, little packages of these these little and you drop them into even your pill packs or individual packages. You put one of those little anti moisture things. That's cool? Yeah.

You can get a a bag of a 1,000 of them for $10, and it will save you it will save you a headache, for years. Yeah. Especially, you know, there there's a pun there somewhere about having put that in your headache pills, but carry on. What else do you put in there? Oh.

So with just normal stuff, just a normal toothbrush, whatever you use. And I also get mini toothbrushes. I get the brand name. I get the Colgate ones. And, whether you're sitting in the in sitting in the back of the taxi for a 3 hour transfer or something, you can, you can definitely, get in there and clean, clean clean your teeth.

I also pack my deodorant, I pack a little comb, I pack a disposable razor, and you can make fun of me all you want, but I pack, loctane hand cream, the 20% hand cream, the small little travel thing, and that will last me weeks. So, when you get into high elevation or cooler climates, you know, their hand the hand cream is important as as you get old, whether you like to admit it or not. Yeah. I know that's something that's important, especially in drier climates. Yeah.

Good point. Yeah. And while you're in that store, pick up their lip balm. It's fantastic. Nothing worse by day 2, and your lips are a freaking mess because you're riding in high elevation.

I remember checking into the Fairmont in Telluride, and in the hotel rooms, they gave you lip balm. It wasn't very good, but they gave you some. Yeah. Yeah. No.

I remember that. It was such I mean, high altitudes. Right? They say drink water, not not IPA. I'm not sure we listened to that bit so much, but Right.

We did talk about, yeah, it's always the hands are always dry. The high altitudes, it's really important to do that because nothing worse than having cracks on the edge of your fingernails Mhmm. On your skin. Yeah. And it really hurts, like, yeah, it hurts when you're when you're, when you're riding.

And it and and these things don't take up a lot of space. And then I also pack a little thing of Neosporin. If you do really hurt your lips or you get some, infected abrasions, Neosporin will will help that, heal heal quicker. And and another thing I've I've learned to pack is, which I always forget, is a small travel size, but a 100 mils or, 3 ounces of a really good shampoo. Don't cheap out here.

I've learned that having really high quality shampoo will be will be twice as effective. So a little dab in your hand will be twice as effective when you're using it. So this is not a time to cheap out with something cheap. Get a really high quality shampoo. The 3 ounce the 3 ounce bottle will will usually last me a week of traveling.

Nice. Yeah. That's a good point. I think about that. I traveled recently, actually when we went to to Norway and I had this, I had a 100, and I didn't they were they were really watered down, and, yeah, and it didn't last a week.

I had a 100 mil of a body wash and a 100 mil of a shampoo, and neither one of them lasted a week. So Yeah. Yeah. For sure. This is not something to, cheap out on because you're gonna carry more to do the same job.

Yeah. Another thing you should you should carry, I've learned this lesson staying in some bad bad hotel rooms is earplugs. And if you're staying in a room with me, you definitely need earplugs, but that's for another reason, snoring like a like an old man who's drank too much. Yeah. I'm gonna say, yes.

I travel with earplugs as well, and I'll leave it at that. Yeah. Yeah. I was staying in, a great example, I was staying in in Napa, and it was a hotel room, an Airbnb hotel room above a a brew pub, and it was insanely bad. Like, of course, it closes at 2, 3 AM, and you just got off the road, so you're gonna have 1 or 2 beers, and I'm in bed by 11 o'clock.

Right? But, you know, all the rest of the world who who are living their lives in that, but it was one of the worst hotel rooms in the world. And if you don't have earplugs, it's it's, it's a nightmare. Yeah. And for, for people that wear contacts, I've switched to disposable contacts, especially in the dry and dusty climates.

Just, dude, just take them out and throw them away. Just be done with it because when you're when you're on a motorcycle trip, especially, a trip with lots of dust and sand, it's not worth the risk to your eyes to deal with old school contacts. Do you each pack a, like, a pair of glasses as well, Like, reading glasses? I have to. Yeah.

Because, yeah, I have a choice. I can either wear wear glasses to see or, or I can wear contacts to see. And if I wear those, I have to have, reading glasses. Okay. Yeah.

What else what else you got? Yeah. I have a little what I call my hardware kit, a little pair of mini scissors, clippers, nail clippers, and 2 pairs of tweezers. The really fine one, and that's more for, like, operating on yourself. So you've got a, I don't know, a wire sliver or something like that.

So that's more for for a tick or something, and then I have clippers that pull the old man hairs out of your ears, which is super awesome. But that's my little hardware kit. But it has to be small enough that will pass through TSA. Mhmm. Yeah.

Fair enough. And, I know that we've got, I'm I'm looking at the list of things you got here. We're about a third of the way through it. But before we go into any any more details here, maybe it's a good time to, pay some bills, have a commercial break, and we'll come back and see what else you keep in your bag. Registration is now open to the public for the next ADV Cannonball rally.

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And we're back. So, Aaron, why don't you carry on here talking to us about the things that you pack in your personal kit when you're traveling? Yeah. So we'll get to some important stuff in a second, but just really quick, I pack a portable water flosser. I also pack the plastic floss sticks.

I pack about 10, 50 of them. They go in a ziplock bags. I pack a bunch of q tips, which can be helpful besides just cleaning the nasty shit out of your ears. I carry a Alka Seltzer, and they come in packs of 2. And, I usually carry 6 or 7 of those because we're making very poor food choices, usually when we're when we're traveling.

Hold on. Hold on now. I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure that a hot dog wrapped in bacon at a service station does qualify as one of the food groups, if not, 2. Absolutely. Meat mystery meat in tube or form is absolutely a food group.

And dairy? You got a bun? No. Oh my goodness. Yeah.

You're all set. You know? Yeah. And 8 you put ketchup if you put ketchup on it, now now you got 3. You got you got your your your food triangle.

There you go. So the next area. The next few things the next few things I try to get in blister packs, I carry Ibuprofen 400 milligrams. I carry, acetaminophen, and I carry something for my back. So, in Canada, we have Robaxacet.

If you're in Mexico, you can get something with some some codeine in it. If you can get those in blister packs and put those inside the ziplock bags, they'll definitely last longer. I find that if you just have the blister pack naked, you can pierce the the foil in the back of it. So, yeah. And then really importantly, I carry a bunch of antihistamine.

You know, someone goes into anaphylactic shock, or someone may not even know that they're allergic to something because they're eating new foods, they're traveling in a in a in a different environment. So antihistamines is is super important for, for safety. And, also, if you can't get to sleep because you're in a different time zone, you know, you can self medicate with a couple of, Benadryl and knock yourself out, pretty pretty quickly. Yeah. It's actually quite common.

A lot of doctors in the US prescribe Benin Benadryl as a sleep aid. Well, it's funny because if you look carefully, the active ingredient in the Walmart generic Benadryl is the exact same active and sole ingredient in their sleep aid. They just changed the pill from blue to pink, which is which is hilarious and and sad. So be speaking of blue pills, we're gonna get to that? Yeah.

This is very important. Actually, what's funny is that the next thing on my list is altitude sickness, but you can actually take you can take the blue pills, Cialis or, Viagra, and because it alters your blood pressure, can actually help with, altitude sickness. I know that wasn't planned, but it but that is funny. Really? Nice segue.

Yeah. Am I making it may not be the most comfortable thing to sit on a on a bike wrapped to, you know, to a tank all day, but, you know, at least you're watching actual. Feel like you got the flu from altitude. In a pinch, you know. And, so the actual altitude sickness pills to prevent altitude sickness, it is it is prophylactic.

You have to take it beforehand, kinda like, Dramamine for motion sickness. Take your altitude sickness pills beforehand, and actually in in in the heat of the moment, they can also help with the active ingredient in the altitude sickness pills can also help with, with seizures. So, just, when you're traveling in a group, just whatever you're carrying, try to make them as multipurpose as possible. Just as you mentioned with the antihistamine, there are several uses for the active ingredients in the altitude sickness pills. And Diamox was the, was the one that I'd mentioned earlier?

Mhmm. Yeah. For sure. Alright. And I also carry in the same ziplock bag, I carry some alcohol prep pads, and I carry a antiseptic towelette.

You can buy them in bulk, it's bzk antiseptic towelette. So, an alcohol prep pad is a prep pad. It has some antiseptic properties, but if you have something you want to prevent infection, like a bad laceration or a rash or something like that, use an antiseptic towelette because that will remain active on on the wound for a longer period of time, where alcohol is simply a prep, But the alcohol prep pads also are used for, I don't know, let's say you've got a cutter or sliver and you need to pull something out or you need to dig in there with your tweezers, prep all those surfaces, including yourself and the tool with alcohol prep pads. Good tip. I also carry, a bunch of antibiotics, when you're traveling in interesting places or you're just away from home.

There's nothing worse than needing an antibiotic, and you have to go find a doctor, and they're gonna give you whatever they have locally, or it's gonna cost you a fortune if you're in the civilized world. So, just get over it and start carrying this stuff. So, I carry the most general use antibiotic, is amoxicillin. Doctors are going to by the way, when doctors prescribe you antibiotics, they're usually just guessing, unless they're taking a culture, they're sending it to a lab, they're growing it, and then they're bombarding several different cultures with antibiotics, they're also just guessing, but there are some common rules. Amoxicillin is great for minor infected cuts, great for tooth infections.

You know, as we get older, you know, you have that tomahawk stick stuck in your in your bad tooth, and it's getting nasty, you know, so that's a yes. Not not speaking from experience, but anyways, amoxicillin is is one of the most common, common antibiotics. Another one you can get and by the way, they're great to get in Mexico, or places like that. You can just walk up to the counter. You can get big jars of them for, you know, $10 or $5.

Right. Penicillin, invented in Canada, I think. But, anyways, that is for more serious I I would reserve that for more serious things like a bad break or a compound fracture, and you're, like, half a day from somewhere. That's for something more serious, penicillin. If you are stuck somewhere and you have a nasty flu, I travel with a Z pack.

I travel with 1 Z pack. It's a course of 3 super powerful antibiotics. And that is if you are curled up in the fetal position and you have a bad flu, you know, and you're like mainland China, the Z Pak is the way to go for that. It's really powerful. I wouldn't suggest doing it all the time, but anyways.

And then I carry 2 more antibiotics. I carry, if I'm traveling with, with my wife or a female in the group, we carry, Cipro, which is mainly used for UTIs. That's the one antibiotic for some reason, technically can't be taken over from Mexico into the US without a prescription, but whatever. I just I just bring it anyways. No no one's gonna give you a hard time.

They're they're they're they're they're more worried about the key of cocaine rather than the, the one antibiotic for a UTI. Right? So Yeah. So, say you're good taking the Supra then. Fair enough.

Yeah. You know, whatever. And then the last thing and one of the most common, antibiotics that can be used is, for traveler's diarrhea. Now, how do you pronounce it? I don't know.

It's Xifaxan or something. This is expensive. This is about $30 for a course, but it is worth it because the most common problem is, you know, getting that street taco on the side of the road that doesn't have refrigeration or, you know, you're trying out that new doll while you're up in Tibet. Yeah. Treating traveler's diarrhea is is a most is a, is an important thing.

And it's sue it's super inexpensive, but just, but just, travel travel with it. So, when we go to India, could you maybe just throw some extra ones in that bag for me? I I always do. Thanks. And then, one experience that I had, and it never came back, was I was traveling in mainland China, and I had crazy vertigo.

It was insane, man, and it just made the trip so bad. So, I tried to get treatment and no one would see me, and I even had local local handlers, and no one would see me and no one would prescribe me anything in mainland China. So, anyways, it's called Myresalon. Maybe you can try to pronounce that, but it's a blister go ahead. Try.

Myresalon. There you go. It's a blister pack, and it and it treats inner ear infections. And we talk about motorcycling, and it's important. If you have an inner ear infection and you're on a motorcycle, you're in trouble.

So for the cost of the a dollar for a blister pack of this, just get it, throw it a ziplock bag, and forget about it. But if someone in your group has inner inner ear infection, this stuff is magic. I was in in hell, and I took 2 of these pills, and it was like the hand of God came in and cured my illness. It it it was really magical. Good good to hear that.

I actually had, had an issue with that a few years back, and, it was about this splicing of crystals in my ear and Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they did in Sweden, they were like, nope.

Sorry. There's nothing else on offer here. And it yeah. It was it was quite bad. And there's a great there's a great example.

So all those things I just talked about here in the last in the last 5 minutes is I have them at home too. You know what I mean? I'm not gonna go whether I'm in America or Canada, I'm not gonna go to the doctor to to handle something that I that I know how to handle. Anyways, and the last thing I travel with, which I just started traveling, is we found some cold and sinus pills. They're generic, and they're, they're a compound of Ibuprofen and a bunch of stuff, but it's cold and sinus pills.

And, I understand that most cold medicine is is not really effective, but the cold and sinus pills with Ibuprofen and a few other things, I can't pronounce it, are crazy effective. The first sign of a sinus cold, you take these things, and it will get you back on the road. Because because nothing worse than planning this big trip, and you're out there. And because you're traveling and you're not sleeping right or you're dealing with jet lag or you're surrounded by people on airplanes sharing hotel rooms, nothing worse than getting a simple, simple cold and not having something to treat it. So is this is the the actual is it US made or Canada made, Canadian made?

I'm not sure, but we found it here. So it's in Canada. You found it in in Canada. So it's cold and sinus plus with Plus. Ibuprofen.

Yeah. And a few other, few other ingredients I'm not gonna embarrass myself to, to try to pronounce. So I'll put I'll put my whole list, a link in a Google Doc, and I'm gonna create a Google Doc. The next episode, we're going to talk about how I set up my GSA. You're going to talk about how you set up your t seven, and I'm going to talk about my moto camping kit.

So, I'm going to create a living document that we will always update, with all these things. So, all all these different meds and and hardware, we will always keep a living document, for us that we will share on every podcast. How's that? That sounds good. And it also sounds like it's a great spot to, take a break and see what some other interesting people would like to, promote on ADV Cannonball podcast.

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We'll list it on patreon.com. Links are in the show notes. Now back to the riveting podcast in progress. And we're back. So we got a few more items here to finish up on your list, Aaron, and then, we'll touch a bit about your first aid, move into some Cannonball news, and then we'll see where we go from there.

Yeah. Yeah. So the last med I carry is, which is the best, is a stool softener or a, poop stimulant. There are 2 different kinds. You can get a stool softener that takes a day or 2 to get going or you're in a pinch, hey oh, you can, get a stimulant.

So so be prepared that the stimulant works really quick. So be in a situation where you can handle that. So anyway. Alright. So I got a I got a question about the the the stimulant.

How long does it stimulate? Because it's like, you know, you wanna get things sorted then get back on your bike. Is it like, no. No. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

You're you're down for days. No. You're down you're down you're down for an hour or 2 in in my experience. Okay. Fair enough.

Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Good. And then the last thing that we talk about, which I keep in my bathroom bag, is my first aid kit.

So the only thing I carry for a first aid kit besides the tweezers we talked about and the gauze pads sorry, the, the prep pads and, you know, what I would call actual first aid like owies, is I carry a roll of medical tape and I carry a few larger gauze pads and that's really all you're gonna need in a first aid kit when you're riding a motorcycle is and that's gonna that's gonna that's gonna handle any kind of, you know, laceration that you're that you're losing blood is a roll of medical tape and a larger gauze pad. So you can pack it and tape it in. That's it. And that's all you're gonna deal with besides, anything you're gonna, you know, pull out debris out of your skin with your with your tweezers. Right?

And that's it. And then if you're gonna go remote, I would suggest hopping on Ebay and buying a pack of sutures and just carry like 2 or 3 of them. They're tiny, they're super thin, they're in little tiny rip open self sealed bags. They're tiny. They take up no space, but if you're in the middle of of nowhere, if you have your Leatherman that's in your tool bag or in your motorcycle and you have some alcohol prep pads and you have a suture kit, you can get yourself, keep yourself going with any kind of decent laceration.

And let's face it, you're not gonna do a good job. It's gonna make for a really great story, and scars are just super cool. So, you know So hold on a second. Hold on. So a suture kit, you mean you're gonna it's one of these curved needles with the with the thread already on it.

Right. That's it. It's just a little disposable rip open pack, and, you know, you and your buddies are gonna do just as good a job as the as the medicine man shaman that is, you know, up in the mountains. So, in a pinch, you can you can handle handle it yourself, and you know, if you want to practice, you can get some expired ones from eBay and get yourself an orange, and you can practice 1 afternoon with a 6 pack of beer, which is always entertaining. Yeah.

Okay. Well, let's do that next time because I haven't done sutures, and I think that would be interesting to learn because I'm sitting here going, what kind of a knot do you use with those? Okay. Anyway, next time next time we're together, we're gonna do sutures. And remember, if you can't tie knots, tie lots.

Tie a lot. And then Fair enough. If you are a ride leader or if you're going to a place where, I don't know, you're at the risk of getting shot or beat up or something like that, your next level of first aid kit is an IFAC, a, in individual, you know, first aid kit. Right? A trauma kit.

And they're gonna be about the size of an MRE. So, they're gonna be small and you're gonna be in just buy, Rhino Rescue makes a great refill kit. Don't buy the the red bag or the, you know, the mole or whatever it's called, bolt on kit. Just buy the the refill kit. Rhino Rescue is a US based company.

They make, they make a, great one. And the only thing I would add to that is an sp o two device. They're, like, 10 or $15 from Amazon. In that way, you can check, monitor someone's pulse, and you can monitor their, oxygen saturation in their blood. It's a little thing that clips on your finger.

You've seen it a 1000000 times. Yeah. And and that's that's as much data as any layman is going to is going to be able to gather, and then once if you ever need an IFAC or a trauma kit, you're immediately gonna move into getting outside help. So, having that information, is what they're gonna wanna know is the dissolved oxygen and your pulse. So for $15, you might as well carry that.

So yeah. So that's, that's my recommendation as, as first aid goes. Yeah. And just to comment on that, yeah, as you say, at that point in time, you will need professional medical help, and that's good to be able to give that information to them. And I just wanna say on the heels of that, you nor I are doctors.

So we are we are not giving medical advice here. So listen to everything that I have to say. Listen to everything that Aaron says. Take it as gospel. Yeah.

And Yeah. And then in the future, Taylor's giving me the rap sign because, I'm rambling. In the future, let's talk about next episode, let's talk about how I set up my GSA, how you set up your t seven, and then the most controversial topic of all, our moto camp setup and how we pack it, what's in it, what do we do. It's super controversial. It's gonna be awesome.

Oh, yeah. And I know that there's different aspects of this. There's and it really so much of that depends on budget because Mhmm. There are Absolutely. Yeah.

I mean, yeah, amazing. Amazing stuff out there. Alright. So on the, on the heels of that, Let's do cannonball news. Yeah.

Let's go with some cannonball news. Yeah. You got some new sign ups I heard. From Texas, from sergeant Texas, we have Todd, and he's on a Yamaha Super Tenere. And let's mention one more.

We have Randy from Scottsdale, Arizona, and he is on my bike. He is on a, a 12 50 GSA. Is it a triple black? I don't know if he's on a triple black or not. But, that's okay.

They're still good. He's not. Yeah. He's on a he's on a GSA. And I actually wanna change my windshield.

Not to ramble for too long, but I have a I have the the the stock windshield on my, on my triple black, and I saw one with a blacked out windshield, and it looked really badass. So that is on my, that is on my birthday wish list because my birthday's tomorrow. So maybe I'll I'll have a few more IPAs, and I'll get to ordering some really important farcals. Oh, alright. And, happy early birthday.

Thank you. We wanna be the 1st here. So, great. It's it sounds like, you know, from what I've heard and what I know about rallies, rallies usually a lot of people sign up in the in 3 to 4 months before. So there's, like, a 30 day that's, like, that's the closeout window, 30 days, before.

So that that 30 days before, it doesn't really even count. So 3 to 4 months before you hit that 30 day window is when most people go, oh, that's sort of when the planning phase happens. But it's really impressive to see that you've got this many people already signed up, and you are you are pushing 50, 55% capacity right now already in terms of sign up. So that's really it's I think it's fantastic. You get that much interest that early in this.

I'm super excited. I'm super grateful that people, are signing up. It helps me with planning. I have confidence when I book things like the banquet. I order trophies and things like that.

You know, it really gives me purchasing, confidence. And I think because of the breadth of the endeavor, people also need to plan a little bit. So if they wanna do a week long cannonball, plus, you know, they got the bookends to that. Right? They gotta get there and back.

They wanna prep their bike. They may wanna hang out in California afterwards and do some great riding down there. Yeah. I think the nature of it really pushes people to, book early and sort of book off the time in their calendars, early. There's a few people that are retired.

There's a few people that are that are still working. So there's a a wide wide range of people that are signing up, but for sure, I think the nature of this will push people to, sign up early. And I just wanna thank everyone who, yeah, who was doing that. Yeah. Thanks, guys.

Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It definitely will be a great event, and, I can say that having participated in 3 of your boutique white glove curated tours, you really you absolutely hit every every detail is really thoroughly done. So, yeah, I'm I'm excited.

Super excited about that. Yeah. Me too. On the heels of that, thank you very much for yet another, fun chat about things that are motor related for ADV Cannonball, and I look forward to catching up with you during the next one. So you have a great day.

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