NOTE: THE FIRST SONG IS MUTED: Follows I-40 East from Mile 150 to Mile 190 in New Mexico including Albuquerque and Tijeras Canyon. Director's Commentary and FAQ's at the end of the video.
The lighting is perfect for this video. I've been through Albuquerque a couple times, but not since 1991. New Mexico was the first state to increase its speed limit when Congress abolished the national speed limit in 1995.
Jim, I've been watching your videos for a few years now and have enjoyed each one immensely. I've been fortunate to see this country from behind the wheel. Your videos are great trips down memory lane. Thank you for documenting the road taken as your videos have been a bright spot in this sudden and hopefully short lived age of social distancing. We all can't wait to see where you'll go next!
I remember years ago when we came home from San Diego....we drove up that same road in the beginning of this video. That mountain in front...is the largest mountain in New Mexico.... Cool!!!
The mountain range you see in the background are the Sandia Mountains. They have the highest paved road in New Mexico, the road to Sandia Crest (10,678 ft / 3255 m)
Spectacular ride, the entire video was like watching a moving post card, very scenic, unfortunately, the first song was blocked, didn't get any sound until the second track started playing. Fantastic ride Jim!!!
That caught my attention almost immediately, too... The late afternoon sun illuminating the anvil of a distant storm. Reminds me of usual summer weather along the front range in Colorado. Yikes! No Red Balloons! There haven't been many Red Balloons floating over Memorial stadium here either! 😆
I love the bright red colored bridges over I-40. Plus some of the structural steel designs were unique and aesthetically pleasing. That is a lot more than I could say for New York with its ubiquitous drab green or depressing gray highway bridges that all look exactly alike.
Apparently 99 red balloons is muted in my location. "I ran" plays normal. Also, I see a huge thunderstorm anvil just beyond the Sandia mountains. It looks like the storm is around the Cline's Corners location. Also noting US 66: The "Carnuel bypass" wasn't complete until the early 1980's. Beyond Tijeres going east to Moriarty, US 66 went from a 4 lane to a 2 lane and it was upgraded to 4 lanes (mostly on new alignments) in phases from the late 60's onward. The old 2 lane is seen to the right of I-40 around the 7:55 mark.
Stunning video. Love the descent into the city with the Sandias backdrop. Also interesting to see the change in vegetation/greenery as you traverse the canyon. I'm guessing that's a result of the higher elevation and orientation along the eastern slope.
Thanks for sharing when we last went through Albuquerque we made the same stop in Tucumcari but we stayed at Mountain Road RV Park wasn't much to look at but we went out and enjoyed a dinner on Rt 66. Safe travels.
Thank you and your wife Jim for the nice video. I have been following your videos since 2016. I was trying to re live my cross country Trip back home to Illinois from California. Lived there for 2 years and moved back. I did not have a GoPro back then and used my Sony camcorder while driving. It took videos zoomed in or not focused right so I didn't get good video. I left Holbrook az the second day in the morning and drove through AZ NM TX and oaklahoma. I see why they call NM "land of enchantment". Every drive every scene was nice and you get a feel of beauty the state has to offer. I especially like how enchanting it was after leaving the Sandia mountains and see them in the rear view mirror in a distance knowing this will be the last mountains I come across on the Trip.
One of my favorite routes; driven it the same exact direction at night and in the afternoon. Entering Albuquerque on EB I-40 from the west feels like you're looking down upon a miniature toy town replica, until you descend elevation. I recall the music on my radio the last time I passed through there (Oct 3rd or 4th, 2017) was Tom Petty tunes, as news was breaking about him being close to death or dying (Petty's death was sadly later confirmed in between two Petty songs, as I was approaching or passing through Santa Rosa, onto HWY 84). Nice videos, BTW! Subscribed.
Music or not, Jim, this was an outstanding video! It just looks like the scenery speaks for itself! Thanks again! ( I did get a chuckle out of seeing all of the Attorney signs in Albuquerque!)
When my brother and I drove into ABQ from Moriarty, he described Tijeras Canyon as a mini 405 thru Sepulveda Pass, I told him it was just as much fun driving through there. I love Albuquerque!
Despite the muted song at the beginning- nice ride- my aunt was in that area last month for the Hot Air Balloon Festival out there by the way- great ride- looks like NM did a lot of work on those highways with the upgrades- nice ride- looking forward to the one from Oklahoma City! Nice ride- and I have really enjoyed your trip this year!
Lived in ABQ for 10 years - a beautiful underrated city with the best weather of any city I lived in the US. The melting pot of Native American, Latin and multi-cultural population gives this city a distinctive feel with the best food I ever had. Miss ya ABQ.
I travel down to Albuquerque a few times a year from Denver and I like it there. I appreciate the similar Mexican Food to Denver and being Hispanic myself I can see the cultural similarities between the two cities
@@DJR5280 I was in Denver once and C-Springs twice for work while I lived in ABQ. I have travelled extensively throughout the US, but can honestly say that the weather and food in ABQ overrode all other places I visited. When living in San Antonio, the Tex-Mex simply didn't compare to the Hispanic cuisine of NM and ABQ in particular. I even flew from S.A. to ABQ every Sept/October and purchased roasted green Chile to make my Green Chile Cheeseburgers that I missed so much. For the 10 years of living in ABQ, I never had an issue with crime. I'm always surprised to see ABQ in the top 10 cities with high crime rates - maybe, I had blinders on but I simply never saw or experienced it.
@@juicyfruit4378 Yeah the Green Chile battle rages on between Colorado and New Mexico. Both places share common cuisine like having everything " smothered " in green or red chile and green Chile cheeseburgers are amazing. I'll be in Farmington, NM this weekend and I plan on hitting Blake's Lotaburger. I've never ran into an issue with crime in ABQ and I've stayed in some sketchy hotels on Menaul Blvd NE. Only complaint I have with ABQ is how dead the city feels. Many times I've driven down Central in the evening and it's a ghost town
@@DJR5280 I never realized that there was a battle of the Chiles between NM and CO; I was only aware of the battle between the red and green - fun all around so long as it's smothered. I never made it to Farmington, I mainly stayed in the ABQ-Santa Fe Corridor and south to El Paso - I too frequented many Lottaburger and Sonics - always a green chile cheeseburger on the menu. ABQ has an odd sort of downtown which is situated in 3 distinct places: downtown, central Ave between San Mateo to the University and up-downtown Louisiana Blvd and I-40. The downtown core is usually deserted after 18:-00; mainly the skyline area and banks; central from the University to Louisiana is where the mom-pop stores are along with good cuisine. Of course the Uptown is your mall area with many dining/shopping spots. I personally enjoyed Central in the Nob Hill Area to Louisiana Bldvd - Uptown for shopping and the city center (downtown) for the Zoo, old town and turquoise shopping.
@@juicyfruit4378 Well that's good to know about the crime, or lack of experiencing it. I've never been there so all I know about it is what I've read; very high crime. And the show "breaking bad" didn't help the perception of criminal activity there.
Nathan, was taking into account the road construction that's happened since the 40s.... it's now a right turn. (kidding! I stand corrected on the Bugs Bunny quote. :) )
Re: the sunset picture (which is AWESOME by the way) - Just looked at google maps and used Street View to pinpoint the location of the off ramp. In case you were interested, the picture was taken at exit 267.
I-40 eb was one of my old.trucking lanes from.Cali to Oklahoma to 44 back in the old days.y Petes were governed to 62 so I never hit the speeds in the video. Mew Mexico is one of my favorite states
Beautiful drive going west into Albuquerque. Only have been in that direction twice, unfortunately the second time was at night. Looks like you were getting some wind after the mountain pass, though, at least it looked like enough to affect the semis in front of you.
This reminds us when we took our trip up to Washington State back in 2014 to see our auntie in port angeles and we took interstate 40 from interstate 95 to interstate 15. We are from daytona beach, florida. I miss the old days back.
Cool video. It is fun to watch after driving the same route in American Truck Simulator. The game did a good job on Albuquerque but a lot of the grass is missing later on. Still very strange to see the landmarks in a video game and then see how they look in real life after playing the game.
Great video, despite the issue with the first song. I've driven I-40 through Albuquerque on a number of occasions, and have never had any problems going through town. Then again, I'm usually going through at Midday, or on two occasions, late at night. I can second the comment about the exit in the middle of nowhere: between Moriarty and Santa Rosa, there's pretty much nothing-unless you count Clines Corners and a DQ at Exit 234-had a nice banana split there. Looking forward to OKC.
If I-14 is going to be connected between I-25 in Las Cruces New Mexico to Fort Hood Military Facility in Copperas Cove Texas, then NM-14 should be change to either NM-208 or NM-308 to avoid the duplication of the same number within the state, but we have to wait about 30 years from now for the results. There are at least two military facility in southern and southeastern New Mexico, including Holloran Air Force Military Facility near Alamogordo in New Mexico Do desperate need future I-14.
This was perfect timing as I was just in Albuquerque last week. The freeways there are amazing compared to Southern California, all in good condition and very little traffic.
First of all, love your videos! I am wondering if you'd ever considered shooting some footage of Des Moines, IA or Omaha, NE if you are traveling down the I-80 corridor?
Thank you very much, living in Atlanta I've not had a reason to drive the I-80 corridor in that area, never been to Des Moines for that matter, however, I did intend to film in Omaha in 2013 (came up from KC on I-29 before heading west) but got rained out.
The balloons didn't get any air. Your camera is really good. I was impressed how crisp the video was and all the detail from the landscape that came through!
Ugh no wonder people are dissatisfied with YT when we keep getting hit with Copyright claims. Yes I know the artists own the music but I feel that there has to be a better system than just muting the video. Great video BTW.
Wow. Albuquerque seems to care so much about aesthetics on the overpasses it makes me want to live at 1 corner of the city and take the freeway to get to work on the opposite side of the city, so that when it gets inevitably congested there is still something pretty to look at. Would be amazing if you could do I-4 in Orlando FL when the I-4 Ultimate project is done. Near downtown, the double trumpet is replaced with I think a 4 level stack.
I was wondering about copyright issues. Actionkid mutes music that is played when he videos in areas where music is playing. He said that is the reason why.
After the Freewayjim open bumper, we will not hear "99 Red Balloons" by Nena, as the first song is muted due to a copyright claim by Sony Music and it pertains to her 1984 Epic Lp "99 Luftballoons" as the title tune was played in 1983. And we went through Albuquerque when we visited New Mexico, and Susie Tallman lives in Albuquerque and performs children's songs when she goes on the road away from her New Mexico town.
Very nice video! I've never been to Albuquerque before so that was fun. But where is downtown? I never saw a downtown, unless it was those few small buildings on the left? I'm sorry, I'm from Dallas so I'm used to seeing a lot of skyscrapers and other high rises everywhere. Lol
Don't worry you can still listen while the muted part plays! 1:25 in this video is when you reach the speed up. The link at the bottom of this comment is the song, you should be at 1:10 at this video's 1:25 to be in sync. EDIT: Start the music at 0:15 in this video. What I did was I played this video at 0:10, counted to 5, then pressed play on the other video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hIIVK0NgK38.html
I have some older footage of I-35 in the Austin area, nothing that great, a few San Antonio videos and one of I-10 in the middle of nowhere west of SA.
If you haven't done so already, the next time you're in Albuquerque the singing musical road is there on the side Route 66 that you passed. Short, but pretty cool as it plays America the Beautiful!
Got the "bell" notification that you put up a video for one of my favorite chunks of I 40. So I got my coffee and got ready to wind down (I work at night) and watch the video - then I saw the copyright crap and had to wait until you removed "99 Balloons." Jim, the music isn't important. Your selection will only please about 25% of your audience, anyway. It's the video that's important. Besides, if you piss off the U-tube police too often, they will shut you down. That would be a loss. BTW, Santa Rosa has one of the best Best Western's in the US. It's an older building, but the staff is excellent and they spit shine the property. Looking forward to OKY City. Would have loved to see Amarillo, too. Cline's Corners has the best fudge you can find on an interstate. That's enough - I could go on and on. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for the kind words Milton, and you are probably right about the song. We passed through Amarillo in the morning so the bright sun was in our face, would not have made for a very good video, OKC came out pretty nice.
4:02 This is one of my favorite '80s songs to listen. Also, I felt bad about 99 Red Balloons muted due to copyright claim. Picking a right song isn't that hard, right? Finally, I love what I-40 in New Mexico looks like, even the one through Albuquerque and the design of the "Big I".
I don't understand why certain companies don't want free ad/promo. I actually bought a few music introduced to me from your videos, so I can listen offline. Now there is just another music that I will never heard of.
Well done Jim and unfortunately your first song got muted. The song does belong to both American interstate and the German Autobahn. In the German Autobahn you don't want to go left lane hogging that would mean a violation
Jim, for some odd reason, in this video, why was the camera tilted upwards a few times (like 6 times)? I know your wife holds the camera while filming during the 2019 trip.
I don't know what you are talking about, my wife does not "hold" the camera, it is stationery on a trip based in the passneger front seat area and does not move, her sitting there helps brace it if anything. In the first few seconds she was still adjusting it if that's what you mean.
RU-vid has a page/list where you can check the copyright policies of each song, so long as I don't monetize them (the copyright holders do) it's usually all good.
How is it like to drive in america? I never visit the states in my life. The plan was to go next year to new york. But for some reasons i’m not going. I’m from the netherlands. And driving here is not so nice compare what i allways see in your videos. The life quality is good here but driving.. no.. the roads are great but to much traffic.
All I know is driving in America and I'd say overall it's a pretty great experience, some places are more interesting and spectacular than others and some roads are in better condition than others but overall, I think you'd enjoy it.
Nice. We pay much taxes for our roads. Sometimes when you think the road is great they change it. And than you think.. why? Our worst roads here is still beter that the best roads in most countrys. But our country is so small and there live to much people. So tou Don’t have the freedom feeling when your driving. That’s why i like the states. The view and the freedom
