Oh u Wu? You been all over Texas have you? I didn't think so. Beaches, piney woods, hardwood forests, mountains, deserts, the Texas Hill Country? The caves and cave art? The bat colony in Austin? Close minded little people live sad lives. I don't feel sorry for you though because you CHOOSE to.
+Tom Swinburn the beaches are dirty though. and the 'mountains' and deserts are brown and dry as fuck. I lived in Texas for 8 years and none of it was special
i heard if you cross texas on i10 and youre with a friend and you two arent at each others throats by the end, that friendship will last forever.... and thats what the trip is like....
Made this drive over 100 times, so relaxing driving to El Paso and back to San Antonio/Austin, always have the stereo rockin, awesome song selection, brings back lots memories
Back when the speed limit was 55, people still drove 80 or even more, on this route. You rarely saw any cops, and back then, almost no traffic either. The last time I drove that route was from Junction to Balmorea, on my way to Alpine. Great trip, but it's like being on an alien planet out there! And you're right, you must take plenty of water especially if traveling in summer. I don't know how many people are familiar with this part of Texas, but if you get stranded in summer time, you will not survive without plenty of water. It is extremely HOT! At least during the day, then at night it's downright cold!
On top of that there's very poor cell reception along that stretch. I had to make that drive when I relocated from Texas to New Mexico. A freight truck in front of me crashed into a freight truck in front of him because he fell asleep at the wheel. It took forever to get any kind of reception and when we finally did no one knew which mile marker we had passed...that's the other thing people, pay attention to your mile markers because there is literally nothing else out there to guide you.
Maybe the exit numbers could help you because they correspond to the mile markers. However, there is only one exit for probably every 10-15 miles on this interstate.
@@wallj8720 Yeah I was going to say that too. I know they drove 80+ out here between Junction and Sonora Tx when the speed limit was 55 because I was there. And that highway was a two lane back then. My car would do 105 mph, and that's how fast I was going when a cop came from the other direction, also hauling ass. I thought, oh no this is gonna be a big fat ticket! But as he approached, he just waved and kept going. That's just how it was back then, out here anyway. They didn't care, we're a very long way from Washington D.C., the cops here couldn't care less what the Federal speed limit was.
I took I-10 many times on the way to and from El Paso. It's one of the most enjoyable trips when the weather is like it is in the video. Listening to music as loud as I wanted and enjoying the panoramic view of the landscape. Thanks for sharing your video.
The scenery is rather beautiful. I really like these flat top hills. Also that place is huge, I can't even imagine so many miles with no villages or small towns.
I drove through here back in the Fall of 2013 after I left the Marine Corps. I was stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC and my home is in San Diego, CA. It was fun driving 90 mph and pass several DPS units without the fear of getting pulled over. Thanks for the memories Jim.
As you might tell by my youtube ID, I live in Hawaii (29 years straight!) and have driven I-10 round trip THREE times between LA and Houston to visit family in Houston. I really LOVE this entire route across 3 and 3/4 states stopping at Motel 6s in Benson, Az and Sonora, Tx (their accommodations are perfect for those simply driving thru. It is very relaxing to drive especially at 80 and 75 mph, only traffic issues (if any at all) are thru El Paso and Phoenix and first 90 miles between LA and San Bernardino. It completely breaks up the jet lag from Honolulu. And FREEWAYJIM, your videos are truly AWESOME!!!!!
I was born and raised in this part of the world. Made this drive literally hundreds of times while working in the oil and gas industry. About 45 miles from Ft. Stockton you passed a very well known natural monument known to as Squaw Teat Mountain. Thanks for sharing. All lot of great memories we’re made along this highway.
Freewayjim oh for sure, I live in South Carolina and can say the southeastern highways are super boring drives, though Tennessee and NC near the mountains are quite nice
Freewayjim around where in SC is your wife from? I've lived my whole life in Greenville but I'm moving to Oregon for college again at the end of the year, probably gonna stay there
I love that trip, Ozona,and Junction are nice little Oases with Davy Crockett stories. You can take an interesting side trip and cross the Pecos at Sheffield. It's a long way but there's also Fort Stockton and Van Horn to break it up too!. I'm on the east coast ,if I could just close my eyes and get to the west side of San Antonio it would be perfect. Thanks for the great music.!
Excellent looking video and an absolutely amazing ride. That was fun. The scenery was breathtaking and everything looked great. The music was the best. Definitely added a lot to the video. Thanx for posting this.
That's a long one! But not as long as Houston to Knoxville, TN. Me and my family did that on June 4th of this year. It was 940 Miles and took us 18 hours.
I like your ride-alongs and your choice of music. We were coming back from Alpine, Texas a couple of winters ago, headed for Fredericksburg, towing a 38 foot fifthwheel. We found out why the ST trailer tires are limited to 65 MPH. Blew one about 40 miles outside of Junction, ripping the j-panel off the kitchen slide and shredding the underbelly fabric above the tire. Ya gotta love West Texas.
Thank you so much for putting this together. So bummed I didn't get to see this in daylight, during my 2nd drive through here. No major highlights; just a pretty drive that dispells the common perception of Texas being a flat and a bit of a featureless landscape.
FreewayBrent Thanks, that's kind of how I saw it going through (great minds think alike) it certainly is more interesting than the hum-drum rural drives in the east and midwest.
Freewayjim True boring that you can find in the East is I-81 between the I-70 Jct. and PA 581. That's about 65 miles, and in the east, that's pretty far.
I appreciate the effort that you put in making your videos. The cleanliness of your windshield makes it for a smooth viewing. This video was very relaxing. Thank you.
I love this video! It's true, there are stretches between Junction and Ozona that are less than interesting, but that makes the scenic spots all the more rewarding! One of my favorite parts of driving through West Texas is the gradually climbing elevation, and passing through the rock cuts. Once you're in the Pecos River area, it's like driving in a bowl with all the surrounding hills. Thanks so much for sharing this! Also, I love the song selection!
Very nice videos. I like the part of the road where this video cuts off onto El Paso. I like the mountain country desert it becomes and also the windfarms on the way.
Love youre videos man, just wanted to say thanks, they are great quality, and I LOVE to see parts of the world, I don't know why but I love travelling videos
I have to say - i really love this channel...!! Whenever i visit somewhere I would do a roadtrip to see how the locals live. Also - you're taste in music is spectacular...! I'm streaming this to the big TV in the lounge, pretending i'm in a convertible, with the first song from little river band really loud... Freedom of the road
I stumbled across your Houston video and thought, oh wow, he is taking almost my exact route out of Houston! I'm traveling from Pecos to Houston and back to Pecos next week. The Galleria area of Houston. I've been traveling this route for 7 years now. Alone! Yes, your mind does wonder..... Great videos!
That piece of 1973 map at the beginning brought back memories. My family used to take this route fairly often in the early 1970s when I-10 was still under construction, so there were lots of detours and lots of heavy machinery - an exciting show for a little kid!
I adore Texas...always have. I was raised in Southern OK. We went across the state line often. I've gone from Corpus Christi to Dalhart in the panhandle as well as El Paso to Shreveport, LA. Very diverse land AND some of the nicest people there are. Incidentally, I've always found Georgians to be terrific, too!
Great video! Takes me back to many a road trip I did in South Africa. My Dad was a road engineer in SA back in the 1950's and 60's, and he studied the freeways in the USA, brought that design and layout back to SA, so the freeways there look exactly like this, rock cuttings and all. Even the surrounding territory looks similar. Only difference is you guys drive on the wrong side of the road!
thank you so much for this video. I love driving through west texas and have not been able to recently. Please put up more west tex videos if you got em!
I’ve driven this drive many times going to big bend and Guadalupe mountains I like how it goes from the karst topography of the hill country to the mountains
And that was just 81 miles of it. LOL.. It just keeps going and going and going! We have some land near Sonora, Tx. I love going out there on a weekend to just relax, shoot the guns, look at the stars at night and enjoy the complete silence.
TheSolarcatcher That's west Texas for ya! East Texas is flat with beaches, farms, and Pine trees. Talk about boring compared to this, but we do what we can in East Texas.
This reminds me of driving I-90 from Sioux Falls, SD to Rapid City,SD which I did twice in 2008 and 2010. Over 340 miles between the two towns. I drove 80mph the whole time too. This scenery reminds me of that. Very long....lol! Enjoy all your videos. Greetings from Knoxville,TN!!
Nice video. I drove from Houston - Phoenix with my cousin & a friend, and three puppies in a 2016 Buick Verano, in one sitting. I love the drive, if the people you are with are good people.
Another excellent video! And yes, I can see where you would get some kind of redemption from the views on this road. Having run I-10 from Jacksonville to Marianna quite a bit (and once to Pensacola) I can concur on the 'boring' part.
Good video! Drove this route recently from San Antonio to Van Horn. I really enjoyed it, especially the big sky country out in Van Horn, but you're right: be sure to gas up, and load up on plenty of water and munchies.
Thank you, believe it or not, I-70 from Green River to Salina in Utah is much more desolate than this route, there is a sign that says "Next Service 106 Miles"
Nice to see this. I like it. I note that as you continue, and near the border into NM, it seemed to me- in recall at least (been a while) that it is almost like you drop off one plate and down down down to another. In any case, I enjoy the wide open spaces and that is a pretty damn good stretch of it. :)
Your videos always kick ass! Regardless of where you film. You give a lot of geographical insight on places a lot of people cant travel to because of work/relationship demands....
Driving through west Texas is much different than driving through, say, Colorado. Everything in Texas is on a much grander scale. I really enjoyed watching the transition from the desert to the hill country going eastbound here.
Great video Freewayjim, perfect soundtrack for a road trip. I enjoyed all 15 mins. By the way, you're right about there being more boring drives in the midwest. I-70 from Salina KS to the KS/CO state line is better driven at night.
Pretty scenery! I don't get a chance to head out west very often (never had a reason to really). I agree with you though, people may talk smack about how boring western Texas is, but this particular stretch of I-10 is a lot more interesting than say I-10 in some parts of Mississippi where you can't see anything because trees line the road on either side for hundreds of miles. Nice video.
To Infiniti, And Beyond Much of Germany and Belgium are like that as well. Endless lines of trees (often just about 100 ft wide, not even an actual forest), so you have no connection to the landscape you're driving through. Quite boring.
European Roads That's probably to reduce the amount of traffic noise that residents who live next to the autoroute/ autobahn hear from the traffic. But you're right, it does make it boring.
It’s amazing to me that the state of Texas doesn’t have more gas stations, rest stops and medical centers along this stretch of interstate. This would be a nightmare of a place to have a medical emergency.
I just watched this, I remember driving this back in 1990 going to California and stopped in Las Cruces, NM for the night. I think it was a Motel 6, interesting thing, the following year, 1991, in traveling back east, stopped in Las Cruces again, same hotel and same clerk who remembered me traveling the year before. But yeah this drive in Texas, spots I called the 100 miles of nothing. Speed back then was 65, but I drove like 75 to get through it. Thanks for recording a memory I have of that time.
I lived in SW Montana for a few years so I got to know what "Big Sky" country was all about. 1-10 in West Texas, especially the further west you are, reminds me a bit of 1-94 in Eastern Montana. I'd love to make the drive from Houston to El Paso one day.
3:33 is so true. That was near torture I am sure. 12:00, you went BarbiePoleDancer! But I do want to graze in those pastures at some point, just not in the summer. My wool is too much for that heat.
I was thinking the same thing about what you said around 9:50 .How the 1800s were like .Also the guys who did the rock cuts when the road was being built.Great Ride Jim!
always love your videos man! whenever i drive around my home state of michigan im pretty thankful we dont have any stretches (of freeway at least) that are very boring for very long (and i guess i mean more like the stretches you describe in other midwestern states, i get to see this most often myself in rural indiana and illinois and i rarely dislike a road trip but there is not much to enjoy out there for me)
+zzomtceo Thank you...I beg to differ, I-10 in Texas beats the hell out of driving I-94 or I-96 across Michigan, which is a very boring state outside the cities IMO. The rural Midwest is painfully boring IMO.
Freewayjim Well, this stretch of I-10 does look good I think, but I-94 or 96 differs in my opinion from roads such as Chicago to St Louis in the more tolerable amount of time for which it stays boring. I guess I cannot really say 96 far from cities is too interesting, but I do enjoy 94 for the most part. Anyhow, I have gotten to see much less of our freeway systems than you so far so I cannot comment from very many perspectives on this, and I can't really argue on this it's pretty opinion based. Anyways, keep up the great vids!
Also the more beautiful roads in my opinion other than the Detroit area freeways which I enjoy but may not be too relatively impressive, are those in the northern parts of the state. Unfortunately there is no main destination for people to reach by traveling through there, especially some more obscure roads, so few people get to see the roads up there.
+zzomtceo I have not been to Northern Michigan yet but in general I am just not a fan of relatively flat, tree lined Interstates. I have a video coming out of I-80 across Nevada coming in January, it's very desolate for 411 miles but it is also very interesting through desert and mountains, even the Salt Flats in Utah are an interesting drive. Yes some is opinion and preference I suppose but once you've driven out west, you get spoiled, lol.
I'll be driving to CA in mid December so will be driving this route from Houston. Spending 1st night in Ft. Stockton. I'm looking forward to it! It sure beats the view in Houston!
@@brettsoyars4341 Not really, the next two videos I filmed were from the El Paso area and have no connection to this one. I did do a "Middle of Nowhere II" from Wyoming in 2016 (the following year). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Haj-K_7Utiw.html
7:36 that exit you took I remember there use to be a convenient store & RV park on the other side of the interstate. I stopped there to get something to drink a few times. This was back in 2004. & I'm not sure what year it was that they shut down.
as long as there are curves, hills, some greenery ... twist and turns...i'm fine with 4 or 5 hundred miles of nothing ... but if it's a straight line with only a hill cresting over so you can see the next 100 miles of straight road ... i would freak. I think you and the other travelers showed what that is like somewhere on Interstate 80 in Utah... i can barely handle 20 miles of straight road out here in California before going bonkers. Yes, I did see "thing" hahahaha... Oh and splattered bug on the windshield ... yes, annoying...especially when they are juicy with pollen. i can imagine the southern states where the bugs seem to be straight out of prehistoric time periods.. As usual, thanks for the ride!
Very nice! My dream is to go to New Orleans, find the 10- take the 10 west to Santa Monica, CA! Have wanted to do that more since a friend passed earlier this year and all- nice ride! Gives me an idea of what the open areas of Texas are like! Very nice ride through Texas- and yeah, interesting rock cuts- very nice ride- and a good soundtrack too!
I also drove from Nashville,TN (where I used to live until recently) to Denver, CO in two days. Went thru Kansas and that felt like forever too! Talk about the Great Plains! Lol! But it was interesting. That stretch along I-70 was long for sure!
+shannon hagen I drove that route you mentioned on my way home from this trip, and you are correct, except that once you come down out of the Rockies, it's kind of a letdown, lol!
Hey Jim, great video. I actually work out here, in Monahans, in the oilfield. That ride really has some majestic views. The problem is, it's just so boring. I know the two statements seem to not go together, but in this case they do. I can't even drive to San Antonio on my days off because that drive just kills me. So I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere until I take a week off every month and a half and fly out of Midland. Love your videos.
@@Freewayjim Yes, we did. And that was a two lane back then. But we didn't do 80, we did whatever the car was capable of, usually 90-105 or so. If you did see a cop coming the opposite direction, he would just wave and go on. I never got stopped for speeding out there, everyone did it. But keep in mind, back in the '70's, there was almost nobody on that highway. We were young, we didn't even think about crashing, or breaking down and being stranded out there. We drove all the way to Big Bend in the summer of '76 for vacation. It was about 110 deg. out, and of course no cell phone, no way to get help, and pretty much no people anywhere. Yet we weren't worried. Seems weird to think about it now.
Going from Nebraska into Colorado was my first time seeing one of those time zone change signs as well because of going from the central time zone into the mountain time zone.
During the 1970's this part of i10 was under construction. The speed was 55 mph. The detour was on us 290 from Sheffield to outside of Sonora. It was a two lane road which made it way up an escarpement to get to the Edward's Plateau.
Took I-10 from Junction to Stockton in spring 2014, while on my way to Colorado. Unfortunately, the visibility was not that great due to fog and what seemed to be dust as well until I got well north of Stockton, close to Pecos. Sunny weather would've made the drive less dreary. Thanks for the video!
During the last minutes, I noticed the centerline doing a strobe like reverse direction optical illusion. It reminds me of watching spoked wheels under flourescent lighting. Cool effect.
I've driven this route going to Odessa , nothing but hills after San Antonio . Truckers take advantage of the downhills drop so get out of the way , but man it's amazing drive!
I've been on I-10 west of there, where I-20 W ends into it, and that's also in the middle of nowhere. I think my sister's been on one of those long boring stretches in the Midwest, I-70 through Kansas.
Having an 80mph speed limit would be fun, but I wonder what the Texas heat would do to the car for that long of a drive at that speed. Imagine someone booking it at 100+ with those temperatures, the car would probably have some overheating issues. Great video as always. You need to come back to Pittsburgh and film, all of the tunnels have undergone renovations!
blue06lt Thank you, my car seemed fine, we stopped every couple hours for drinks and bathroom breaks.....would love to come back to Pittsburgh at some point.
I think the most bland drive is I-16 to savannah Ga! I hate that stretch of road I'd take this over that ANY DAY😊 BTW I'm doing I-70 in September along with Trailridge road! You're such an inspiration ! Keeps up the videos!
I say: Either I-59 from Slidell, LA, to Tuscaloosa, AL, I-20 from Monroe, LA to Tuscaloosa, AL, or I-55 to I-20 to I-59 from Hammond, LA to Tuscaloosa, AL
I drove from Atlanta to Los Angeles last year and the stretch between Waskom, Texas to El Paso (well, Anthony on the NM-TX borderline) is a 12-13 hour haul! I spent the night in Dallas and El Paso, so I guess that doesn't count
Oh, thank YOU! I enjoy your videos. Am riding with you through the river gorge between North Carolina and Tennessee right now. Lovely! :-) Edited to add: Here's the link, if anyone is interested. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ibNQWZB7dEA.html
Well, the scenery is better than I-20 in west Texas. The rock cuts remind me of I-65 in Kentucky and Tennessee. And no, I never could drive through Texas in a day. Drove through on two occasions and had to stop on both trips. Nope and nope.
+PelicanGuy Just drove through West Texas from El Paso to Fort Worth on the way back to Michigan from Phoenix. I have to agree with this. There is absolutely nothing out that way.
I thought all the "nothingness" existed on the Florida's Turnpike from Fort Pierce to Orlando, the 76 miles of Alligator Alley or all of Ontario 417 from the Quebec-Ontario provincial line to Ottawa from my own travels. I did not notice a single convenience store at any interchange while you filmed.
luvcarsgay You are correct, there was not one that I recall during that stretch. We did stop at Exit 400 before filming this and it had quite a few establishments.
done I-10 Houston all the way to I-10 California a total of 6 times already back and forth... Very relaxing especially when it's 6 am in the morning and the entire road to yourself...
yup 880 miles, that's just over 1300 km, about the same length between Winnipeg and Edmonton. I do that all the time in a single day. Should be do-able for me I'm thinking in Texas :-D It can't be worse than Saskatchewan. One of my favourite things to do on long road trips is to listen to audio plays of westerns in the car. Seems like it would be fitting in Texas.
We drove from the Emerald Coast of Florida clear out to Santa Monica this past December. I watched this video before we left, but it admittedly doesn't capture the true wide open spaces out there and the interesting landscape. And yes, there are definitely sections of highway duller than this, I-80 across Pennsylvania comes to mind. If it wasn't Christmas season when we went, "It's a Long Way There" would have absolutely been on my playlist. Anyone notice the near total lack of billboards in the video?
Hard to capture everything in a "Sampler" type of video, I'd agree there is more to the ride than this, I generally don't ddo multi-hour rides on video though, unless it's something really interesting, and even then, I'll rarely do it.
Im from San Antonio and have been living in the Philippines since 2014, god how i miss the roads there cz the people here do not know how to drive at all they are always taking up two lanes and cutting you off and doing u turns right in front of me. I wish my wife here would say lets go live in san antonio, texas. Thanks for the video freewayjim looking forward to more.......
I went on a Boy Scout trip from Austin to Balmorhea back in the 90's. The speed limit was 65 yet my scout master was driving 80 the whole way. I would love to see signs posted "No Speed Limit/Trucks 85" on this stretch with a suggested speed of 85.
I-10 in Texas is like where East meets West because it is in the middle of the country where there are plains and it starts to get dryer or greener depending on what direction you're going through.
While I had driven that paticular stretch in the video a few times eastbound, until last week I had never driven from Houston to New Mexico. I did it in 2 days, because I stopped in Junction to camp. I found it to be a scenic and fun drive but after 7 hours of driving from Junction to Las Cruces I was ready to be off the road. I also drove back eastbound from Fort Stockton to Sonora at night in a hard rain. That was not fun, I had to slow down to 65 to keep from hydroplaning in parts of the drive.
Thanks for the extended ride, Jim. I don't remember this area being so green, though, but, I guess the desert areas got some of the rain that flooded East Texas and Oklahoma in May. Also, I noticed that this video, including the text and highway signs that you overlaid, is a bit blurry; more so at the beginning than it is towards the end.
***** I did not notice that at all, I will say the lighting is not idea but I was up close and personal with the footage while making this and if it was blurry I would not not gone through the effort of making the video. Did you view it in 1080p?
Freewayjim Wow, I just watched it again and the blurriness was not there. When I watched it the first time, I went back to the beginning and watched a few seconds here and there, just to check on it, and the blurriness was more prevalent at the beginning than at the end. It must have been some weirdness from RU-vid then. Oh, and I have my computer set for 720p at RU-vid as 1080p slows down the video sometimes.
*****la I hear on the 720p, sometimes I do that too...glad you got to see it w/o the blurriness, trust me, I'm very particular about that sort of thing, thanks for letting me know.
Freewayjim Just a FYI, I find that of all devices, the Playstation 4 RU-vid App does the BEST quality job for playing RU-vid videos, much better than a PC, iPad, Roku, Chromecast, or Apple TV (I have all of the above). It's the only device that gives absolute ROCK SOLID 1080p60 fps performance that is perfectly genlocked (synced) to a TV monitor at 59.94Hz without even the slightest hick-up, judder, or v-sync tear (all of those drive me crazy). Road videos look noticeably better on that platform than any other. When you do long road trip videos what do you listen to in the car? I find that I don't mind long drives but I absolutely fill up my ipad with audiobooks from audible and tons of podcasts, then I don't mind a long drive. My limit for a day is about 13 hours though (The distance between Winnipeg & Calgary), any longer and I go a big bug-eyed (I'll never make the mistake of driving to Edmonton in a single day again).
