Blood Road Page #3

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provide GPS maps and local

knowledge and information.

Where we can camp,

what rivers we can go across.

I'm gonna assist them

as a guide,

and also with navigation.

(PEOPLE CHUCKLE)

DUVALL:
Yeah. Explaining to

the ladies about the trail,

honestly, I was a bit skeptical.

I've been riding up and down.

There are tough places.

No one's ever taken a bike

and done the full thing

from start to finish.

RUSCH:
First off, the

mileage is off the charts.

We are attempting to ride

more than 1200 miles

of unknown terrain.

It should take

about three weeks.

And to top it all off,

we're trying to find

a more than

40-year-old crash site

in the middle

of the dense jungle.

DUVALL:
The site was already excavated.

It's a large area to search,

a lot of jungle.

There'd be

a very small possibility

of any evidence of

the actual crash itself.

The idea is,

you know, we'll have

these guys

in a small support rig

that we'll meet

at certain points along the way.

DUVALL:
That's gonna take planning.

RUSCH:
We're gonna sit down with...

There's places

your bicycle can go

that they won't be able to.

There'll be leap frogs.

In between those places,

we need to be

totally self-sufficient

for bike maintenance,

whatever might

come our way, so...

Yeah, there'll be

some leap-frogging.

We have a little work to do

to actually look

at your whole route

and make a master plan

for the weeks ahead.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

RUSCH:
Yeah, easier. Yeah.

We can grind down

the shoe a little bit.

The watts down here.

All right.

Zero watts right now.

And then this screen over here's

got my little map on there.

RUSCH:
My experience as a

professional athlete, you know.

Get from point A to B

as fast as humanly possible.

And this is a little different.

So for this ride,

we're a team, okay?

We are a team.

I will always be beside you.

Okay.

RUSCH:
I'm riding with a picture

of my father in my backpack.

And before

we started our journey,

I really wanted

to share with Huyen

that my reason

for being here is for him.

It's not really about me.

It's to honor his memory.

So I wanted to bring her in

and really help her

understand why I'm here.

Ready? Okay.

NGUYEN:
(IN VIETNAMESE) In the past,

I would imagine a U.S. soldier

dropping bombs

to kill my compatriots.

I had never thought of

her father

in the photograph

as an actual person.

I thought that he was

just one of war's victims.

Just like Rebecca's family.

RUSCH:
After years of preparation,

I'm nervous.

I don't know what

we're gonna find out there,

or whether or not we'll even

find my father's crash site.

(MUSIC PLAYING)

NARRATOR:
The Ho Chi Minh Trail

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