So great to see you out. 6 weeks is a big chunk of time. Stay positive and strong over the winter months. You can use this extra time to work on fitness, navigation skills. riding skills, route planning, gear selection, mental strength, etc. Turn a negative into a positive. Hope you make it to Australia one day. Great Tenere roads here.
So great to see the progress you're making. Lets hope the world is in a better place come spring as well - everything is looking up, even though winter is coming ;-)
Great news 👍 Kenneth out of the Hospital 👏👏 I am so happy for you guys 😁 with your positive thinking , even in hard day and to have dreams for further bike trips you are a example for everybody 👍👍👏 Flowers 💐 for Pia and for Kenneth 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
This is a fantastic moment! You are now at the end of a problem and at the beginning of rebuilding your dream of an amazing adventure. So happy to see you both together with no tubes and not in hospital. It’s time to live a lot! ❤️
It is awesome to see Kenneth out of the hospital and looking good! I look forward to seeing you both continue to heal and go into the next season of your lives.
Glad you are feeling better. Hang in there! I am also a T700 traveler and am planning a big trip next year. Maybe we will cross paths! In the meantime, take care and recover!
@@RidetheBean From San Diego, CA to Lisbon, Portugal. Very ambitious! I am still trying to decide which way around I should go. Planning for departure around April or May.
May be it is a tiny apartment. But I think it is a good place to relax and make a good recovery. And if the gods will, you are hit the road soon. Learn from the past but look forward and put your energy inyour dream. 🤘😉👍
Happy to see you going up, and getting the feet 🦶 standing again from the recovering, soon you guys will see the light as we know in Scandinavia we only have this cold dark months so let’s wait for the 2021 🌞 and the trip will be on again and everything will work great 👍🏼 hurra 🥳 till er ni kommer att klara allt som alltid
Thank you 😊 yeah the winter months in Scandinavia is hard. It’s dark when you go out in the morning and dark when you come home. Can’t wait for spring again 😝
Shit does happen but leaving the hospital is great news! A nice, small appartment. What luxury! I know, I'd rather be in my tent too. It's really nice to see you're both improving and looking healthy. From Kelowna, B.C. and still smiling. Gordon
My heart goes out to you two. I myself am planning on starting an adventure next spring, so seeing what happened so early on your trip was so hard to watch. Watching the recovery process, seeing your attitude and perseverance, I just know that you guys will make a great come back next year. Just remember that this isn't forever, and one day, this will all be a distant memory! 😁
late but congrats and hope youre still doing well. hope youre keeping your spirits up. the mental health is also a heavy burden on top of the pain. keep strong and keep your head up even in the darkest times.
Thank. you.😊 Right now the mental part is 100 times worse than the physical, but I only have two options. To keep going or not to. So I just have to grid my teeth and try my best 😛
Wow, big steps on the road to recovery! For sure the apartment looks like a great place to continue recovery. Wanted to know if Pia is working again, or concentrating on her own recovery, without work. Slow and steady wins this race....best to you both!!
Yeah it is great to be out :) the apartment is ok. It’s warmer than our tent at lest 😝 Pia has been going to physical therapy and is healing up pretty well. She starts work in the middle of December again.
@@RidetheBean Great news on you both, and I'm happy that Pia can start work again soon! I's awesome to be able to depend on family during times of need, but it's also awesome to not be dependent! Heal well!!
Only six weeks in hospital after such a bad accident. Kenneth is a super strong dude! Hopefully your recovery will have you both on two wheels very soon. Love from Great Britain. 🇬🇧
It's the cup of coffee your system needed to start working again! The day you get out of the hospital feels like you won something and in a way you have! After an ordeal like nearly dying you see life a little bit different. Have a fast recovery and you'll be on the trail again.
The apartment looks very comfortable and a good place to finish up the healing. The next riding season is coming soon. BTW: Am I the only person that thinks Ride the Bean reminds me of the saying Flick the Bean? LOL! Does that have any meaning to those of you in Europe and Scandinavia? Maybe my mind is just a wee bit dirty.
😂😂 well flicking the bean gives a good feeling, and that is what ride the bean wants to do as well. So in a way I guess you can say they have a similar goal 😂 The saying is known here but we are not native English speakers so it’s not something everyone knows I think.
@@RidetheBean 😜 I always find cross cultural things interesting. Yup, good feelings for both. Definite agreement. As always, wishing you both the best and looking forward to the next video.
godt å se dæ ut fra sukehuset :) er vell noen uker siden no? :P kommer selv ned til bartebyen fra hammerfest 13.des, skal bli godt å se sivilisasjonen igjen :P
@@RidetheBean kjempe bra d da :) blir ikke lenge til dere er på syklene igjen da :P tok med nutty bean til jobb her oppe. ble en slager, så blir vell flere som bestiller vil æ tru :P Takk :P
Hi Ken & Pia- When I first found your “ crash” video a few weeks ago it was several weeks after the actual event happened. As I mentioned then, your story touched me enough and motivated me to finally reply on RU-vid. I was very worried for your future then and am amazed and ecstatic for your return to ( reasonably) good health. For many the idea of purposely making yourself homeless to pursue a dream then having to backtrack for any reason ( let alone a near fatal accident) would do them in mentally. I’m sure you are having some of this but you guys appear to have it conquered and getting ready for a reset/restart. Great going. Also I want to point out that you guys are one of the very few RU-vidrs who takes the time to answer almost every post. That’s lots of work and much appreciated And thanks for being progressive enough to learn and speak English too. You guys and Itchy Boots and Kinga make great videos that I as an English only Canadian would be missing out on, if you hadn’t put in that effort. Thanks again. Bob from Canada
Hey Bob! I remember your comment to the last video 🙂 Thanks for checking in again 😛 The way back has been tough but it has gone relatively fast. Making ourselves homeless was a huge decision, but I felt really good about it when we set off up north. Who knew we would come back in an ambulance plain instead of on the bikes? It has not been easy, but I think it has been harder on Pia than on me. She has felt a huge responsibility and I have relied on her for a long time now. I can't express how much I appreciate her. For me the mental part has not really been an issue. I was scared shitless when I was in intensive care, but after I came to myself Ive felt pretty ok. I just want to get back on the bike. We do spend a lot of time replying to comments, but it is really nice to hear all of you guys' stories. We learn a lot from it and it helps us put things into perspective. at some point we won't be able to reply to everyone, but we will for as long as possible. We grew up in Norway and learn English as a second language from 1st grade. And we actually speak more English to each other than we do Norwegian. So it just feels natural 😛 We also love Kinga ind Noraly. They are huge inspirations to us 🙂
I’m sure your mother is happy to see you out of the hospital but wants to beat you over the head if you get on a motorcycle again. Just get healthy and strong again. You may find the transition back to normalcy a slower process. Good luck to you and Pia in this difficult time. I wish you both the very best.
😂 I think you are right about that 😝 It will be a transition now where I just have to try to stay out of my own head and focus on what I need to do to get back on track . Thank you 😊
I have just watched the first video of your accident. After watching the next video after the accident, I felt so terrible for Kenneth and you that I could not bear to watch the other videos. So, here I am at the latest video and I can tell you two that I am so happy that Kenneth is out of the hospital and that both of you are doing well in your new apartment. I send my best wishes and I look forward to the day that you can ride your motorbikes together again. Take care!
Looking much better now that all the 'Borg implants ', are removed. Apartment perfect. Like when you pack the bike, light is right, or less is more. Team Bean back together again and the planning for the trip can recommence in earnest. Getting closer. Happy travels
It was great to finally be out and good to have a place to stay over the winter. The hospital refused to let me go if I was to stay in a tent so we had to find an apartment 😝
Hey Kenneth i know exactly how you feel leaving the hodpital. I did a gastric bypass in september last year and due to complications i hade to get another big surgery and i hade to stay in hospital for 2 months. when i finally was well enough to go home i felt very strrange bcuz i was 100 % well yet and i hade to have nurses come to my home to give me an iv with that gave me food everyday. I was a bit scared of going home bcuz in hospital i hade the help just outside the door when i felt bad or something happend. At home i hade to call the nurse and might have to wait for hours before i got help. Much love from sweden. ❤️❤️❤️
Yeah it is a strange feeling. Being in hospital is boring, but you get used to it. And you know that you are taken care of if anything happens. But when you leave that safety is not there so you need to just you thinking and expectations. It took me a few days to get used to not being woken up at 3 every night to take a blood sample. 😝
Congrats on your quicker than expected recovery. Hang in there and keep up the positive spirit. I too love motorcycling adventures, accumulating an average of 20,000 km a year and I've experienced long stays in hospitals due to various mishaps (mostly in sports). So I can understand to some degree what you are going through. Such mixed feelings, wanting to ride again asap, enduring the pain of you injuries and forced to wait until your body and mind reset. Some humble advice, don't be in a rush, take your time, put absolutely everything else aside for now and focus on your good fortune and your healing. My goodness, your injuries were extreme, yet your overcoming them with amazing success, and you have a great partner who is loving and supportive. You are lucky. You are both amazing! Keep it up, and take a deep breath, put up your feet, relax, get better, and chill with your lovely lady.
Thank you! It was great to finally get out! 20k km a year is a good average 😛 I think your advise is pretty good. I have to try and follow it even though I feel restless.
Glad to see you back on your feet again, man! I will allow myself to give you and nice Pia an advice now. For what I've seen in your videos, it becomes utterly clear that you both need proper off-road training. Don't get me wrong, this accident could have happened to the most experienced rider, simply because the freaking trench was invisible. A sudden obstacle that came to completely wash out the joy of riding. That's part of life... My point here is that more than a struggle the whole adventure riding should be a blast... There is a skill set that is required when riding off road and has to do with adopting a certain body position in different situations. That will allow you to go across rough terrain with ease and control. Your bike, though perhaps one of the most compact in the adventure category, is by no means a light one, certainly not compared to a typical enduro bike. To learn good body position I would suggest trial classes, and / or some enduro ones as well, they are fun and - most importantly - you will be taught proper dynamic body balance; a second nature that has to be built up progressively (bottom up, instead of top down...). Anyway, just an advice. As concerning your videos, I think they really are pretty awesome.
You are right. We do need more training. We have had a lot of it through the summer, but we always need more. If we get the chance without breaking g our bank account we would get more classes. But we'll have to wait for spring anyway now 😒
Congratulations Kenneth on leaving hospital. Don't worry about the strange feeling you had when you left, I felt exactly the same when I left hospital after 3 months, it's quite weird.
This video gave me immense pleasure. It's so good to see you out of the hospital at last Ken, and even Pia seems a lot less stressed now. I am a bit confused about the logistic though. I thought you guys were already in your hometown and would go back to your home. Why are you having to rent an apartment? Ciao, Marco.
We sold our homes and quit our jobs to leave for our big trip. The plan was to start up north in August, Then Pia had to finish her work and we wanted to leave our home town again in November. But because of this accident that did not happen. So we had to rent a place to stay through winter because the hospital refused to let me go if I was staying in a tent like we had planned originally.
I’m so pleased to see you out of the hospital and looking a hell of a lot better Kenneth. You’ve both been through an incredibly stressful and difficult ordeal. Now that you are in your cosy little place you can relax and concentrate on getting better. Best wishes and love from Scotland 🙏🏻😎🏴
never fight the wind, angle the sails and use it as momentum... sounds better not translated ;) but it think the idea is still the same. good to see you both of you getting better
Great to see you walking out of the hospital and moving into your apartment! By Spring both of you will be able to ride “Bonnie & Clyde” and start your new trip! Glad you are feeling better. Stay safe and maybe this worldwide conundrum will be gone soon.
Nice to see you out man! Do you have any idea, or plan, on when to start the trip next year? As soon as possible? Didn't you originally postpone it to the autumn due to avvoiding rainseason further south? :)
We will have to wait until the snow melts Whitehall usually is in May. So likely the trip can start mid may. We did move the start because of that, so now the whole timeline needs to change. We will probably spend more time in Europe first and wait to cross into africa until the end of the rain season. We have gotten so many offers from people all around Europe to come and stay for a night and we would love to take people up on that offer 😛
Ken, you are looking so much better and healthier compared to 2 videos before. And your voice is also clear again. So, team RideTheBean is back on their feets and prepared for a cold Norwegian winter. All the best, you both deserved it.
@Ride the Bean Finish healing up and when you get ready, your trip will still be there. I have had to end one of my rides in the hospital with a lengthy recovery (had to learn to walk again) after a motorcycle injury in Ecuador. All the pain and bad stuff eventually becomes a distant memory, and life goes on.
@@RidetheBean < I injured myself on side of a mountain, buddy had to get me back down the hill. Then we got on the bikes and rode 5 1/2 hours back in to Quito (broken left knee) I had to sit on seat entire way, then I fell one more time 1/2 block from where we rented the bikes from(Ecuador Freedom Bike Tours), I got back on in extreme pain (like a 10 on the pain scale) and rode on in. They had to get me off the bike and carry me in. We checked the bikes back in and I then went to the ER about 10 hrs after I broke my knee. I had to shift bike with my heel, pulling up on pants leg. I stayed in ER for 26 hrs (cheaper than an admission they said) They confirmed knee break, then I flew commercial airline home with a wheelchair porter moving me around the Houston and Dallas airports. My wife met me in Dallas with pain meds. I ended up losing my upshift muscle in left leg (called a fastciomety ?) it died, and was black by surgery time. I had 56 staples in leg. I had to learn how to walk again with no muscle there. I have ridden over 100,000 miles since this happened in 2015. Pics are pretty gnarly. I have ridden Baja California, up to Alaska from Texas, and way deep in to mainland Mexico. More Mexico and another ride to Alaska with some friends in 2021.
I have also had a quadruple bypass heart surgery with a valve fix (literally someone cut into my heart on purpose) then I received a pacemaker that fully supports 1/4 of my heart due to an electrical issue with my heart. This all happened in 2018. I was back on the bike in about 3 1/2 months. Was about 4 1/2 months with the leg injury.
Great to see you both looking so well! Love your little apt! Put those wine glasses to use, set up a little Christmas tree and some blinky lights and snuggle in! :)
Those wine glasses are in rotation 😝 we don’t really enjoy Christmas that much, but we’ll light some candles and enjoy some nice music or piece and quiet 😛
Great to see you looking so well and having a warm home for the winter. I've just lately got home myself from hospital after recovering from Covid so I know how good it feels. Stay safe and I look forward to your next video.
I'm so glad to hear that you are finally cured (or at least almost cured). Also, will you be able to work as the coffee thing you worked before? I feel like it shouldn't really be a probem with your exxperience?
Yeah I am definitely on the right track physically now 🙂 I would like to work with coffee, but the place I used to work went bankrupt during the summer lockdowns. So I will soon need to find a temporary job that I can be at until may when the roads are clear again.
Kenneth, great to see you leaving hospital, you're looking so much better. Pia, that must have been such a tough time for you, I guess your professional knowledge would be a help, but that wouldn't make it any easier. I hope your back injury is healing well too. Very best wishes to you both and lets hope 2021 is a great year for you and everyone else.
Hang in there Kenneth. It s not unusual to feel confused, even depressed after what you ve been through, but just take one day at a time and heal both physically and mentally. You re young, strong, have a beautiful supportive woman by your side and many exciting years ahead of you. All the best to you both. Cheers. John
AMAZING news Ken!! And you look so much better too. Xmas will be a bit more special now for you and Pia. Stay strong and keep it up, you're doing great!! 👍👍
Wish I could have been there to help you move! Then you could have made me a cup of coffee. Anyway, such good news that the abscess has drained and you're feeling better. A major step to recovery.
