I wish my dad would have been into road trips like you are! Getting him to go somewhere was like pulling teeth. I hope your son enjoys all the great rides and realizes how fortunate he is. You rock!
I’ve been all over the USA and Canada and I still think the view coming down the hill of the skyline is one of the best skyline views in North America.
Freewayjim exiting the tunnel and seeing Pittsburgh from the bridge is maybe a better view or nyc when you get close to jersey city. But this is easily top 5
Cincinnati has one of the most underrated skylines in the US. I love driving through that city. Love the video - keep them coming! Any chance that you'll do Minneapolis/St. Paul?
Retired in Florida now, but lived my first 65 years in Cincinnati. Awesome city. I have made these same drives hundreds of times. Watching this makes me homesick. Thanks for the video.
Having been through downtown Cincinnati on 71 a few times, I've always enjoyed the downtown section with the streets crossing the highway. Looks sharp :) Another fine video, Jim.
Thanks so much for posting this. I have not made this drive in 10 years, I remember coming into Cincinnati at night, it just took my breath away coming down that hill and over the bridge. I have watch this video many times.
Thanks, I'm posting new vids every Monday and Friday. As for The Twin Cities I have no plans to go up there for at least the next couple years, it's just not someplace I have a reason to go to.
Whenever I drive that route going North, the theme from "WKRP in Cincinnati goes through my mind. That skyline has changed dramatically since that show was on the air!
Great video footage, thanks for sharing your video with us. My wife and I were there recently and the traffic was much worse than in your video!!! We were there during the day though
Great vid! I love the music as well. For those who don't know, that's a cover of Barry White's "Family Affair" by Maysa Leak. I'm a big fan of her's.. :)
Are you going to do a video of Interstate 76 East Pennsylvania and Interstate 71 South to Columbus? Or maybe do Interstate 79 North to Erie Pennsylvania. Anyways awesome job on the video and love the music :)
It's funny you point out that the Brent Spence Bridge will "hopefully" be replaced in our lifetime. They're going to start working on a new one sometime this year or next. I can't remember when specifically though.
what I wish I would see in Texas where I live are those standard purple mile markers posted in the median every 2/10 mile that I have noticed on google maps they have them in urban areas in Indiana, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky , Tennessee, and in Missouri, green mile markers (posted every 2/10 mile) are posted on the right and through the entire state in urban and rural areas. Sometimes posted every 1/10 mile in some cities of IN, Kenosha-Racine County WI, It would be fun to count.
coming down that big hill to the bridge provides one of the sexiest skyline pictures u can get in the Midwest or east, whichever you consider cincy to be.
@cochrab Thanks, that sounds like my dad too! My son & I enjoy our trips, we've been doing them since 2005. My wife has no use for these trips but thankfully she's not the type to keep me from doing them.
@drunkinpainter666 Thanks! I have never been to Minny, would love to someday. In the meantime YT user eluko79 has some really nice videos of that area.
The Kentucky side sight of Cincinnati is better but from what I hear, the "Cut in the hill" route has been changed. I loved Cincinnati. It was/is a great place to live and work. It has it's nasty dirty side that I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy to live in, but even those spots add to the over all color of Cincinnati. I will say when I lived there the cops were more likely to pull a black guy over than a white guy and I am white. They were the perfect example of racial profiling at its worst and it was soooo obvious. I hope they've cleaned that up since I left in 01 but I doubt it.
You must be referring to what I like to call "West Cincinnati" which just to be perfectly clear is not an incorporated city/village but just an area that most refer to as "The West Side". One of Cinci's nicer looking neighborhood's is East Cincinnati's "Hyde Park". There just happens to be a Boston neighborhood of the same name where the Neponset river flows.
