I sure do like that Sandhills country in northern and north/west Nebraska. Sweet loping hills that run forever, and your music was very appropriate to the rhythms of that country.
Being British, I find these videos of the USA absolutely fascinating… some of the rural areas of rundown towns is eye opening…. Great viewing…🇬🇧🇺🇸..👏👏👍
Small (pop 2500) town kid now 71 years young grew up in eastern Nebraska and while different than Sandhills makes my heart feel good. My music appreciation professor from college would love the music. Very well done. I’m not sure our current population but one side or the other of 3 million. You should get 2 million likes EASY.
Don't get me wrong, I DO enjoy Rapid City. It's a neat historical place. But, I also really like that you capture all this footage of small towns around the country that most people have never heard of. I've always been fascinated with life in small towns, particularly in the south and west where everything is more spread out in comparison to places on the east coast. Small gas stations, quirky thrift stores, local restaurants, layout of the residential areas, just the whole atmosphere of small town life is much more appealing to me really. It always seems like people are more laid back and down-to-earth in small towns too, in places where everybody knows you by your first name. Never been particularly interested in the hustle and bustle of big cities/metro areas. I just started following this channel, not sure if this is what you do for a job or not but it'd be the absolute dream for me to do stuff like this. Dig the music too. It's nice to zone out and get lost in these videos whenever I get time. Keep doing what you're doing! I'm enjoying the content!
Joe & Nic, have been watching a few of your recent videos and came across this one. A great video and great music to drive by. I am from Melbourne, Australia and have not been to the States but have driven over many miles of open road like this here in the "outback". I see deer jumping the fence just like kangaroos over here. And the surprise was the bull bar on the truck which is mandatory over here out back. Keep posting these videos as they give us non travellers (now for me ) a view of a world less known!! safe travels!!
Just found your channel a few days ago and boy am I hooked 🙂 Love your love of history and the simplicity of your videos, very classy. Also your choice of background music was excellent. I’m a new subscriber and look forward to riding along with you. Be safe and Godspeed.
Thanks for providing extra views of the romping deer before entering Gordon, Nebraska. The Badlands are blanch, haunting, yet enticing. Hope you'll pause in Rapid City to do a separate video. As always, I was along.
Nice Drive thru peaceful quiet Landscape . I like the Toes at 7 : 12 , best part of Video . I have been to North Platte a couple times , Scouts Rest . Thanks for taking Us along .
It better be in good running order. In the Sandhills you are, literally, HUNDREDS of miles from a service station. Breakdown out there, you are in serious trouble.
If I travel to South Dakota I like to drive hwy 281. Not much to see, mostly small towns. The foothills are nice. Seems like South Dakota has more visible wildlife than we do here in Nebraska. Good music by the way.
Hey Lord Sparta, love your videos. It would be cool if you did a best of episode or even a whole series. Like best small town, best city, best food etc.
It'd be cool if you had a map overlay along the journey as you reached each region. It would help us tag along and find these cool places on google maps incase your viewers wanted to visit these places too!
What beautiful countryside. It must have been a great drive. Great music on this video too by the way. One of the best for sure. Please can you tell me who it is?
Thank you, Graham. The music is from a band called Unicorn Heads. The name of the song is "Light Expanse". It took me over an hour to find the right song. As soon as this one started, I knew it was the one. :)
August 2020 Red Power Roundup was in Huron, went up through Mitchell (corn palace was uninspiring) out 14 to Wall Drug and Mt Rushmore. I was between Lemmon and Valentine a couple times 12 years ago. Enjoyed both.
That was a mesmerizing drive. As a Southerner, I grew up very close to a swamp and have always been surrounded by trees and foliage and greenery in the states I've lived in. Those wide-open, treeless spaces are a bit unsettling in a way I can't quite describe. Something about the exposure, I guess. Still, it's beautiful in a very different way. And I LOVED that music. Who is that?
I love the open spaces, I started driving truck in 2002 and talked about North Platte, Laramie, or Montana after my first trip west thst summer. Busted my knee, lost my job in july, couldn't find another paying over $10 in northwest Pennsylvania in 2010, so I got online and was headed for North Dakota to hook up with a harvester by the middle of August. Corn came off early that year, so we were sent back from central Kansas and cut loose the second week of October. I headed toward North Platte, knowing a few guys from the area, and ended up down in the Republican River valley instead. I was told I'd get used to driving forever to go nowhere, and that came somewhere between Valentine and Stapleton. 60 days on the high plains and it already felt more like home than Pennsylvania and Ohio ever had.
@@KatiTheButcher / I can see that. There's almost a loss of any perspective. On the hand, I can see someone coming to the Deep South from the Plains or the desert Southwest and feeling almost swallowed up or smothered by a wall of trees and greenery.
Very cool video. Did you know the area around Hyannis is one of the richest in America? Few people many giant land owners with extreme net worth! If you go to Rushmore go before they open by say a half hour there will be nobody in the lot. And things will open by the time you walk around and get some great video!
Fun memories: I took highway 83 north from Texas to North Dakota. You clearly didn't, but the country was familiar to me. If you're in Rapid City, a nearby small town worth checking out is Lead: very steep old gold-mining town, now a center of particle research. Nearby Central City is tiny, but also very cool. I don't care for Deadwood, but that's my own bias. Touring Needles Highway and Iron Mountain Highway would also be fun, just not if the Sturgis rally is going on (starts next weekend, I think). I live in the North Dakota Badlands. I'll concede that the South Dakota version is more impressive, but ours have their own unique charm.
Lord Spoda you’ll have to check out spearfish as well! The canyon is beautiful. The waterfalls, the mountains, the creek… it’s spectacular. I love living here. Grew up on the plains, near the Nebraska border in SD, but spearfish will always be home for me.
@@KatiTheButcher Nothing wrong with small town/rural living. as long as you can get what you need nearby like medical services and groceries., car repairs etc, .
As one of general left-progressive sentiments I cannot deny that urban snobbery is at least somewhat real. Mainly because I grew up in North Platte and shared a faint echo of that ala Platte valley vs Sandhills people. Yet no one from any part of Nebraska or the Northern plains can deny that the beauty of The Sandhills in that crucial window between April and July easily rivals that of the Rockies or either seashore
Many of your videos show depressed, depressing small towns and cities [i.e. Texarcana]. It's so nice to see a beautiful part of th country with a healthy economy. I hope this region doesn't get overrun by mobs of West Coast Leftists hell-bent on re-creating what they left behind.
As a very recent retiree, I'm looking to relocate from the East Coast to this very area, mostly for the isolation it offers. But trust me, I'm no Leftist! Not by a long shot! 👍
