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00:00Expedition Overland's Pan American Series is presented by General Tire. Anywhere is possible.
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02:18But today we got big priorities. We're leaving early. Surgery. Those docs are ready for surgery. I've been watching them
02:27this morning. They're mentally preparing for what they have to do today.
02:55The finca had been just what we needed.
03:03So we just got off the boat coming back from the finca for our launch. And the docs are going
03:09to go up and get prepped for the surgery this morning. And Clay and I and Toby are running up
03:13there as well.
03:15We're going to come back with rigs and pick up packs and the last few guys and then get going
03:19on our day.
03:21Days like this have a way of making you feel alive.
03:33This is the surgical lounge.
03:36This is pre-op. We got music and AC and we're going to lower our body temperature to about 10
03:41degrees.
03:43Hashtag, worst Mayan ever.
03:45We mean that with love. Because you're like one of us.
03:47You're like one of us Wilmer. That's it.
03:50You have to have thick skin Wilmer.
03:52Oh, this is good. All my stuff is right here.
04:01Nobody in here.
04:02Everybody has to leave. Everybody, everybody, everybody has to leave.
04:09She even knows. She's like looking right at me.
04:11You're the luckiest Mayan ever.
04:13You missed my hug earlier.
04:15Oh, she gave you a hug, huh?
04:17She gave me a hug.
04:19110 over 70.
04:21Yeah, if we were to do this in the United States, it would be months of diagnosis and monitoring and
04:27CT scans and ultrasounds and tens of thousands of dollars in the operating room.
04:33We're coming down here and we're doing it for plane tickets and some gasoline and a ride, so it's pretty
04:38cool.
04:41There's no room for mistakes today. We have to get this right.
04:46We're prepping the truck so we get all the bags stowed away.
04:48We've got room for passengers and room for a patient if we were to need one in Rufio's setup so
04:53that that's possible.
04:54So we're just doing some quick sorting and we're going to start shuffling bags so those two vehicles, both the
04:58four-runners are empty.
04:59So that if we've got to make a quick move, we're ready to do so.
05:03And inside of Rufio, it's been designed so that the storage has dual function so that the boxes work as
05:10a personnel transport for somebody that need to be transported to, say, a hospital.
05:15So we've moved all the bags out of those areas so that those doctors give us a sign that we've
05:19got to get to a hospital somewhere soon that they can't take care of in the clinic.
05:22We're ready for the entire team to roll. We've got seats and seatbelts for every member of the team and
05:26we'd be able to get out and get her to a hospital.
05:29To occupy the kids in the village and keep them from the open-air surgery windows, Griff fires up some
05:34technology.
05:38Even kids dig 4x4s.
06:08Tell her we're going to take her friend away from her.
06:11Okay.
06:15You can tell them I've operated on over 3,000 children.
06:18So I know how to take care of children, but we're going to number up and she'll be good.
06:29No problem.
06:30Okay.
06:31Tell her it's going to hurt when I number up.
06:34But then she'll be good.
06:34I got it.
06:35Okay.
06:36I got it.
06:37I got it.
06:40I got it.
06:44So these guys are about ready to cut here.
06:47Hey guys, who have those eight gloves?
06:50It's kind of intense for me.
06:51I've never seen this before, but they know exactly what they're doing.
06:54This little girl is pretty brave.
06:56They're right here.
06:58And, um...
06:59Dr. Juice, do you still want to?
07:00Yeah, he's one pair of eight.
07:02We're about to go.
07:03So give me an eight and a half.
07:04I'm just standing by watching and learning.
07:07I'm trying to help out wherever I can.
07:08Yeah.
07:10Yeah.
07:24See f-sh-sh-sh …
07:27Yeah.
07:29Mhm.
07:57And she needs to let us know for her.
08:04She's not feeling anything, she just knows we're back here doing something.
08:10But she also knows she's going to lose her friend, which is motivating her healing.
08:16The nice thing to be able to be send us her pathology, because it's one of those weird neurological
08:22tumors or something, but we just don't have that, so we do the best we can.
08:27It's really kind of grown into the skin, makes you think it's more of a skin-based tumor.
08:34And what we're trying to do is just, you know, go from known to unknown, lift this up, see
08:40if it has a stalk anywhere close to midline that we would want to tie off.
08:47In the heat of surgery, Doc is calm and collected, something he learned from his childhood.
08:55I was a kid, I was 10, 11 years old, we were in Beirut.
08:58And my dad taught us before we went, if I tell you to do something, you never question it.
09:02You do it immediately.
09:03So we go downstairs, and there's the rest of the folks from the tour downstairs.
09:07And dad says, everybody outside, we've got a bus waiting.
09:11And there wasn't enough room for everyone.
09:13My dad and mom had to follow in a chase car.
09:16We get into Damascus.
09:17We go up this area into the airport, and they cut the chain link off the fence.
09:21They cut the chain off the fence, and we actually drive out on the tarmac, and there's a 737 waiting.
09:26And we start getting on the 737, and it was so crowded that my brother and I stood in the
09:30aisle when it took off.
09:32But I remember looking out the window, and you could see off in the distance as we were climbing out,
09:38buses lined up as far as I could see.
09:42And my dad goes, you see that?
09:44And I said, yes, sir.
09:45And he said, those people were told to leave at the same time we were, but they waited.
09:51They wanted to see what was going to happen.
09:53He said, I've always taught you, you're responsible for all your actions.
09:56You know, he goes, but he goes, you're also responsible for your inactions.
10:02Because of their inaction, they're going to be stuck.
10:05I never forgot that.
10:07No plan.
10:08He says, you know, everyone says you're responsible for your actions.
10:12And what you do, he said, but you're also responsible for what you don't do.
10:16Hence why we're here.
10:18A word of advice all of us need to heed.
10:21Mayan tough.
10:23Mayan tough.
10:24That's what they need to put on Tacoma.
10:30In fact, it's like the underside of your skin.
10:33But a lot of it's attached to, which makes me think it's a skin-based tumor arising from...
10:40The surgery is going well.
10:42The tension starts to lift as the tumor is cut from its source.
10:52So they got the tumor out, which was very successful.
10:56So now they're just finishing up the sutures, putting those skin flaps back together.
11:01So they're making her look good.
11:03And she's a beautiful little girl.
11:05She's super strong.
11:06She hasn't cried yet through this whole thing.
11:09I think she's going to be fine.
11:10Yeah, yeah.
11:11How cool is that?
11:12We did so good.
11:13Move in, okay?
11:15All good.
11:20That was worth it right there, man.
11:21Absolutely.
11:22It may come back, but if it's a slow-growing thing, it will take another 10, 15 years.
11:29Sure.
11:29Or even longer.
11:31I mean, it could be 20 years and then she may have a little lump and then she's old enough
11:34to just drive into a hospital and probably take it out again.
11:39Yeah.
11:39Or we just bring you back here?
11:42Yeah.
11:42We'll be back.
11:50All right.
11:51That was good, guys.
11:53She's a beautiful girl.
11:58We're done.
12:01In Mayan tough fashion, she walks back to her home with her family.
12:04I went good.
12:06It was just like most of the things we encounter.
12:09You make do with what you have.
12:12The patient was wonderful.
12:13We have a great team.
12:15Everyone pulls together.
12:17We recognize what we have.
12:19We utilize what we have and we're able to take a pretty large tumor out of this girl's
12:22back.
12:23I think it's going to make a big difference for her.
12:26So instead of walking around with a deformity, you're going to have a little girl with a thin
12:29scar on her back and she'll go on and be a normal kid.
12:32Anytime you can make somebody's life better, it's a plus.
12:37In two days, she'll be able to run around like a normal kid.
12:40Eight days, take the sutures out.
12:42That's what we're here for.
12:43It's not about us.
12:45It's about making a dent.
12:47And we do.
12:48Every time we come, we make a dent.
12:50We saw 60 people yesterday at least.
12:5360 people.
12:54Today we did a surgery.
12:55Full on surgery.
12:57Not something small.
12:58Pretty big.
13:00We dewormed a whole village.
13:02Well, three.
13:03I guess it's three villages that came.
13:05So we dewormed three villages.
13:07Saw them.
13:08Dental.
13:09Medical.
13:10And they appreciate it.
13:11That's why we come back.
13:16We didn't talk much on the way out.
13:19We all just sat in awe of the day.
13:29What incredible people.
13:31What a beautiful country.
13:33Guatemala will forever have a special place in all of our hearts.
14:02Team 5 has a plane to catch in El Salvador.
14:04So we hit the road and moved south toward the border.
14:08In the morning, Doc, Keith and Hammer organized a few classes for us.
14:13Designed to help us in the coming months of travel ahead.
14:16Today, since we've got our Special Forces boys for just a little while longer,
14:21we've asked them to teach us some skill sets that are fun and cool.
14:27And things that they also think that we need to know in the event of emergencies.
14:32It'll be fun.
14:33I haven't done any of this stuff, so.
14:36It'll be interesting to see how many bruises I end up with after this.
14:39Yeah.
14:40They were threatening to throw bags over our head and stuff is in the bag.
14:42I'm surprised they didn't rip us out of our tents last night.
14:45Yeah, me too.
14:45You're going to get taken.
14:46You know you're going to get taken.
14:49Don't fight it unless you know you can take it.
14:51So the best thing to do is play the game for yourself.
14:55And if you're going to get taken, get taken your way.
14:57What you want to do is this.
14:59Push your wrists together as tight as you can and you give it to them, the death tape.
15:04If there's any space between, you will not be able to get out.
15:08So, let's see how strong you are.
15:11So I come to you and I'm like, hey dude, give me your wrists.
15:15Take your fingers, flare them out.
15:18Exactly, just like that.
15:20My daughter, my daughter, you force her 20th birthday 50 times around 50.
15:27She wanted 50.
15:28Third hit she got through.
15:30Wait, 50 tapes around?
15:3250 wraps.
15:35Okay.
15:36Now I'm going to show it without it on.
15:39This is the technique.
15:40Okay guys?
15:41You're like this.
15:42Get a good base.
15:43Make a fist.
15:46What are you going to do to go like this?
15:51Boom.
15:52And you're going to bring it in as hard as you can to your chest.
15:54You want to punch yourself in the chest, but you want to go through.
15:58It's like a punch.
15:58We don't punch somebody.
15:59You punch through them.
16:04So, you understand it's not that strong.
16:08You can do your leg.
16:09Even if they do up here, it doesn't matter.
16:12Technique.
16:13Okay.
16:14You're standing like this.
16:15The idea is really fast.
16:18Boom.
16:18As far as you can.
16:19Straight down.
16:20Back straight.
16:21It's physics.
16:23There you go.
16:25Not a bad trick.
16:26Hopefully you'll never need it.
16:27I'm telling you this works.
16:30These guys are a true wealth of knowledge, and I could have sat through this stuff for days.
16:37They went on to show us lock picking, dead driver drills, etc.
16:42Pull up.
16:43Pin your body back.
16:44Kick that leg down and over aggressively.
16:47Get that thing down in there, and then hop up in the center, and then move over and control that
16:51vehicle.
16:52And you're not looking the entire time, you're looking straight ahead.
16:57Thank you very much.
16:58Have a nice day.
16:59As we pack our camp up to move to the border, back up in Montana, Rhonda and Rochelle are also
17:05packing for the Rally Asia des Gazelles rally in Morocco.
17:11I think so.
17:12Yeah, I think so.
17:17I swear, no matter how many times we thought through this rally, and how we can check as little as
17:21possible to be super efficient when we're doing the plane travel, it doesn't change the fact that you need what
17:29you need.
17:31So, I think we're coming to the conclusion, we're just bringing a whole lot of crap again, because we have
17:36no choice.
17:39It would really suck to be out there, have your car raked down, and the one thing you didn't bring
17:44just because you didn't have space would be the very thing that would have helped you finish the race or
17:48be kicked out.
17:49Yeah.
17:49I've learned that you always go over with two air compressors to Morocco.
17:53I spent half a day once just filling up other teams' tires because all the air compressors broke.
17:58And you also make friends that way.
17:59It's true.
18:00It's good to have friends at the rally.
18:02We only need one toe strap.
18:03We didn't even use one last year.
18:05In the race, you should have almost never used this.
18:09Yep.
18:10You'll find many of the other teams, if someone's stuck, want to help, and they just take one of these
18:14recovery straps and hook it to their bumper and hook it to the bumper of another vehicle and try to
18:18yank them out.
18:19I think we saved a few lives last year, making everybody stop and move away from the situation.
18:26And then we swept these under their tires.
18:29These beautiful Max Trax.
18:30Just nice and easy.
18:32Max Trax got them right out.
18:33We made them a ramp, and then they just used them.
18:35Yeah.
18:36And there's really not much you can winch to.
18:37So as you can see by the love on these, these we used last year.
18:42And they're still good to go.
18:44This was really cool.
18:45Brad McCarthy from Max Trax actually made these white ones specifically for us.
18:50We auctioned off a few last year for our campaign of one in four in Voice Today and just racing
18:55to bring awareness to sexual abuse.
18:57White's kind of our campaign color.
18:59But these are the only ones that I have left, and I hope they last.
19:05Some women like to wear jewelry, and I like to wear compasses.
19:11And they're all labeled for their different personalities, because don't be fooled.
19:15They all look alike, but they're not.
19:16This is what it looks like in the rally.
19:18This is your assignment for the day.
19:20You're either given a latitude and a longitude, or you're given a distance and a specific heading.
19:28And the other little key behind it is usually if you have a high kilometers total,
19:33that means you're not going to be going through necessarily as aggressive terrain,
19:36but you are going longer distances.
19:39Or if you have a distance that's shorter for the day or between checkpoints,
19:44it's because you're going to be going through more aggressive territory.
19:47I think we should do.
19:49It's okay.
19:50We were hoping to have less bags to check at the airlines, but we...
19:54Hopefully we just have...
19:54That's alright.
19:55We'll just have 12.
19:58We put it in our bag last year.
20:00Maybe we can make it.
20:00We did.
20:01Scott did, actually.
20:02Oh, Scott.
20:03Where's Scott?
20:04We need him.
20:05Okay.
20:06Okay, it's going.
20:07Currently we are at the Guatemalan-El Salvador border, getting ready to head in.
20:12The boys are just getting prepared for surrendering some of the Guatemalan import process,
20:16and then we're going to get headed over through the gates back over there to head in.
20:22The border experience has been really smooth.
20:26It's been no problems, just doing some customary paperwork.
20:30And it seems like right now, going into El Salvador, that the paperwork requirements are even less.
20:36So it looks like they're just pretty much waving us through.
20:39Everything's going exactly as we knew it would, which is a little bit slow, but that's all part of the
20:43process.
20:45We plan on about three hours for border crossing.
20:47If we average three all the way across our eight border crossings from the States down to Panama, then we're
20:52going to be doing good.
20:53We're exactly two hours into this border crossing right now.
20:57We'll get out of here in the next 10, 15 minutes.
20:58We're ahead of schedule.
20:59We're going to get into San Salvador for the night, have a nice dinner,
21:02and say goodbye to our good friends from Team 5.
21:05They're flying out tomorrow, and we're going to continue heading south to Panama.
21:17We rally into the night to get to our set-up accommodations and stage the Team 5 guys for their
21:22flights in the morning.
21:24I'm a little sad we can't go with you.
21:26I can't have them too. It would be awesome.
21:29You guys are rad. I'm excited about this. This is one of the best, coolest things I think I've ever
21:32done.
21:33Sweet.
21:33I think I'm a little bit spoiled on the overall end, having my first experience in this car.
21:38So, yeah, we're going to go drop these guys at the airport, and then we're on with our adventures.
21:44This has been one of the highlights of our trip.
21:47We're in San Salvador, which is one of the highest murder rates in the world,
21:53and the reason they're that way is because back in the 80s and 90s,
21:56there was kind of a big insurgency war here, and a lot of guys fled to the United States of
22:00Mexico,
22:01and they learned the gang culture there in prisons and on the streets,
22:04and what they did is they learned those skills, and they came back here,
22:07and they used that to start taking over neighborhoods and run drugs and get money in their own country.
22:11They recruit these kids fairly young, and often the entrance exam is murder to be a part of MS-13.
22:18So, as they're cruising through the country, it's giving them the safety brief on how to not stop in cities
22:23or villages,
22:24how to not give somebody the opportunity to make a call ahead to where they can be ambushed or taken
22:30advantage of.
22:31The biggest thing we're trying to do is we're trying to make this convoy look like a hard target,
22:35and not a target of opportunity.
22:38We give them the guidance to be on the lookout for heavily tattooed teenage and young 20s males,
22:44because they are the major threat while they're in country here, so they're going to move on as a hard
22:49target and get out of this country safely.
22:52San Salvador is a pretty rough place. As many as four out of 100 people will be murdered here.
22:58Within the 20 kilometers between San Salvador and the airport, we went through three crime scenes and drove by a
23:04dead man in the street.
23:07Alright, well we're here at the airport in El Salvador, saying goodbye to the Team 5 guys.
23:14It was a ton of fun hanging out with them, a ton of fun hanging in the Mayan villages with
23:18them.
23:19So, we'll say goodbye and then we'll move on.
23:22Love you Team 5, that was beautiful.
23:25Had such a good time, learned so much, and I think it's really going to be impactful for us on
23:29this trip.
23:30Oh, so you're going to take shotgun, I see. I see how we play.
23:35Alright, here's your camera back.
24:09We'll see you next time.
24:30Bye.
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