Are road trips a thing over there? While it's entirely possible to drive from Shanghai to London (give or take a couple ferries), I don't see much about euro-trips. And having been to a fair amount of eastern Europe and some of western Europe, it's rather pretty, if a bit crowded. Gimme the deets.
A very common thing here in northern europe is to drive south through germany into the alps, and then furter south into france, italy, croatia, etc. It's very nice feeling to cross into country after country, though I gotta say I wish I could feel the feeling of driving vast distances all within the same country.
steffeeH, that's one thing that makes me wish I lived in US. A whole continent with the same language, same culture, free to move wherever you wish. Yes, it's possible to do that in Europe but in many situations you will need to learn local language and that alone can be very difficult.
Saw my house in this one. I drive this route to California twice a year, and am even doing it tomorrow for a friends wedding. I love that pass going through Arizona along the virgin river. Saw mountain goats in there once a few years ago. If anyone ever takes this route down 15, I recommend the hotels in St. George. Nice quiet and clean.
That was one of my favorite parts of this drive - driving through Zion NP, then through St. George and NW Arizona toward Las Vegas - spectacular scenery, ending with staying the night in Vegas!
We used to visit Vegas twice a year from our home in Orem (almost saw my house from the freeway) and I love the Virgin River gorge. St. George is such a nice place to stay. Good food everywhere too. UT has a pretty incredible concentration of national parks all really close to each other.
Watching this road trip I realized that today marks 3 years of the day that you were there in Los Angeles and also marks one year of the day I met your channel. You have made me get to know the United States in more detail and your videos have motivated me to create a long-term life project in that country. I love your content and I wish the best for you. Hopefully one day you will tell us more about your life in a future video. Greetings from Coquimbo, Chile.
Thank you for sharing this with the world. You went to my home, my heart, my soul. Again thank you so much for sharing your trip with all of us. Peace.
Thank you! I'm glad that you appreciate it. I loved doing this road trip a lot, and I would love to do it again one day. I did do a drive earlier this month through California, Nevada, and Utah again, which I will upload at some point.
You may not have realized this, but when you were in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California you were running roughly parallel to some major Union Pacific Railroad subdivisions. You paralleled the UPRR (Montana Sub) from about Idaho Falls ID to Pocatello ID. The (Pocatello Sub) from Pocatello ID to McCammon ID. The (Ogden Sub) from McCammon ID to Ogden UT. The (Salt Lake Sub) from Ogden UT to Salt Lake City UT. The (Provo Sub) from Salt Lake City UT to Provo UT. The (Sharp Sub) from Provo UT to Lynndyl UT. The (Lynndyl Sub) from Lynndyl UT to Milford UT. The (Caliente Sub) from Milford UT to Las Vegas NV. The (Cima Sub) from Las Vegas NV to Yermo CA. The (Los Angeles Sub) from Yermo CA to Daggett CA. The (Los Angeles Sub) will merge into the BNSF (Needles Sub) in Daggett CA then into Barstow CA. From Barstow CA, the BNSF Subdivision will be the (Cajon Sub) into San Bernardino CA and the UPRR (Mojave Sub) from Victorville CA to San Bernardino CA. You will then roughly parallel the UPRR (Alhambra Sub) from San Bernardino CA to downtown Los Angeles CA.
Loved this. I watched you drive through Idaho Falls to Salt Lake, I used to do that drive every other weekend. I've since moved to Texas for an internship and really miss the mountains and beautiful landscapes. Nothing but pavement and endless suburbia here in Dallas :(
Went on a business trip with my dad to Rapid City SD when I was a kid. Spent a few days after driving around through the Black Hills. What a beautiful corner of the country. To this day I remember the hills and valleys, trees, grass, streams and rivers. Caves, gold mines, etc. I'd like to go back now that I'm older and visit more of the old mining towns.
I was a kid when my dad took us across the U.S. to California, passing through the Rapid City/Mt. Rushmore area as well. That was also a big reason why I decided to do this trip.
I have more trips coming up in the next few months, but it may be a while before I can do a west coast trip again. I do want to do a west coast trip, so I will do it at some point.
So cool! Love your videos, and the quality of them! I really enjoy videos like this, and traveling/driving! I'm from Idaho Falls, ID, and was excited to see you pass through my home town, and through Blackfoot and Pocatello! I have a few friends who are studying at Idaho State University, and frequently make the drive to Pocatello. So I'm happy to see it in a video like this! I lived in Moscow, ID for awhile, and highly recommend checking out the northern part of the state! The scenery along I-90 from Montana to Coeur d'Alene, and US-95 between Sandpoint to Lewiston is absolutely gorgeous! Also, not as much semi-arid desert as southern Idaho, haha. 😂 Hope you enjoyed your time in Eastern Idaho! Best wishes, from Idaho Falls!
Thank you! This trip and my southwest road trip that I just uploaded a couple of weeks back were my two favorite road trips. I also passed through southern ID when I did my drive from DC to Seattle. I'd love to come back to that part of the country again.
@@imsorry3678 Yeah, right! I was on the edge of my seat when he drove through those miles and miles of warfare in the fields next to the road! Give me a break, only the cities with a sorry attempt at a Democrat utopia are dangerous.
Looks like someone stopped to get coffee at 13th Street before heading across the country this morning. Love these videos. Great content to have on in the background, providing a de facto geography lesson.
Thank you. Yes, I stopped for coffee. I had snacks already as I was at a Walmart just before this video began (I was actually leaving the Walmart parking lot when I started this video).
If you ever wanted to know what it would be like to drive faster than a commercial airliner can fly - watch the interstate portions of this at 2X speed.
Wow I drove along a major part of this route in June 2017, moving from Wisconsin to California. During that trip I visited Badland and Yellowstone, too. Thanks for this video bringing up a lot of good memories.
Thanks. I loved doing this drive more than an other drive that I've done to date. Maybe it's for nostalgia as my family drove almost this same route when we drove from NY to CA when I was a kid. I'd love to do this drive again just to get better video.
The roads in the Teton area, especially Yellowstone Park are really cool. Beartooth Highway is a really amazing drive as well. Love going to this area and have been trying to every year now
I had considered seeing the eclipse in Teton, but when I found out how many people were expected to be there, I decided to just see it in Nebraska instead.
@@unclecoolie Yeah; there was a ton of people there, but worth the effort to finding a place. I talked up some ladies with the Forrest Services the day before, and they saved me a spot near their tent. Btw; what kind of camera are you using for the Timelapse?
Thank you! I had another similar trip planned this summer, but thanks to COVID... I hope to do more next year, and I plan to spend more time sight-seeing along the way than what I did even in this video.
I also genuinely recommend that you could take a mid-western road trip that goes through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, you could visit the city of Chicago of Illinois, Wisconsin, and you can do a huge drive through Minnesota! I live in Minnesota of the United States of America and I genuinely think that it is a phenomenal state that should really be a destination. There are tons of wilderness and wildlife, especially if you go up north to Duluth of Minnesota and then to International Falls and Bemidji of Minnesota. You could really enjoy a full Minnesotan trip or even a mid-western trip! I truly recommend it not only because I live there but because it is a nice place that many disregard visiting. (: You should make a trip that goes from Virginia to Miami of Florida. Florida is a vast place with tons of swamp and scenery. I think Miami would be a phenomenal place to visit as it is a popular place in Florida! It would be a phenomenal drive and I think that would be my suggestion. Another suggestion I have is that you could drive to Texas! It is another amazing place and maybe driving to Houston or San Antonio would be a nice place to drive and because Texas is a place that I do not think you have made a video on and for Florida, visiting Miami could be a phenomenal experience that I truly recommend. (: Thank you for reading this if you do decide to read them and your videos are phenomenal so continue enjoying your passion and making a difference by doing this.
Thank you! It just so happens that I am planning a New York-California trip next month, and I plan to go through Ohio, Indiana, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. I also plan to travel through many of the areas that I did in this video, mainly because I want to record the spectacular areas of these states with the better camera that I have, and because I loved doing this drive so much that I'm willing to do much of again. I already have a trip between Virginia to Miami that is part of my East Coast Road Trip video. That video ends in Key West, and I did virtually the entire drive down to Miami on I-95, bypassing downtown. Because of that, I may do another drive down there, this time taking a side road such as US-1 or similar instead of just being on the interstate all the time.
This is my favorite dash cam trip video on RU-vid I Loved South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California Love you UncleCoolie I would like a reply
That was one of my favorite parts of this trip was seeing the sun rise on the mountains ahead. That flashing Gold Strike billboard at 4:56:25 on the left, I could still see in my rear view mirror while going up the mountains at 4:58:50 - some 20 miles away.
Awesome! Love your videos & thank you for your doing this. I'm sure you enjoyed making them as much as us watching them - Love the way you have overlaid the State, route graphics and directions...really nice touch my friend!! You should have a lot more subs;-)
Thank you very much! This drive was the first part of my 6-day, 4,400-mile drive that I did from Omaha to Santa Monica, back to Omaha, and I loved this part of the drive the most. I've since started using a different camera that records the GPS information, and I've been recording my latest trips in real-time as well.
Wonderful video, for the well done and for those extraordinary landscapes, especially those of the Southwest and the Rocky Mountains. I love your country, in part thanks to your videos. I have downloaded some of them and I have divided them into chapters of half an hour, to be able to see them on the television. It is as if I had traveled comfortably through the US. And if you allow me some suggestions, I think that when you go through the most emblematic places should lower the speed of the video a bit if possible, for example in Bad Lands, Zion National park, etc. and also when it stops at some of those more beautiful places I think I should interject a brief panoramic view of the place (at normal speed, of course) or some photo; It is frustrating to know that you are a few meters from the Colorado Canyon or the Devil's Tower and not see anything. By the way, you say you make the trips in rented cars, how do you get the camera so fast in the car? Thank you very much for your videos and keep traveling.
Thank you for your feedback. Unfortunately, this video was recorded in time-lapse, so there's no way to slow it down. Also, I took additional video while I was at many of these parks. You can find them on my channel. I have video from Custer SP, Mt. Rushmore, Badlands, Devils Tower, Yellowstone/Grand Teton, Bryce Canyon and Zion NPs, and these are all in 4K.
I agree, and I wonder the same thing. If I could convince my wife, I'd move to one of those states. Wyoming and South Dakota don't even have state income tax, too.
HI Uncle. I just have a small suggestion. Why-not merge this video, with the first part of the LA to New York video, and end that video when you come back to Nebraska. What fit perfectly with the date and time, as it follows the dates in August.
I have thought about doing that, since this was the whole trip that I did from Omaha to Santa Monica back to Omaha - 4,400-miles over six days. I plan to upload a hyperlapse version of this video at some point, so I may just make this trip its own video as well.
I drove a car (Nissan Altima) that got great gas-mileage and a tank of gas easily lasted 500 miles, so I only had to stop a couple of times each day. I'd assume that you'll have to stop for gas at least 5-6 times for your trip.
Having traveled in NW Wyoming several times when I was a traveling salesman I found that if you want to go from Worland to Cody it is faster to go on US 20 AWAY from Cody till you get to highway 431. Go west on that to highway 120, then take 120 toward Cody. The only town you have to slow down for is Meeteetse. The landscape is also more desolate if you like that sort of thing.
@@unclecoolie There is a parking area partway through which has a view of some spectacular desolate badlands. I don't know if it can be visible from your dash camera, but it would be worth the stop.
@@richardthomas5362 I have a little handheld Sony camera that I use for just such occasions, such as the videos that I took of the parks that I stopped at in this video. I also use my smartphone, so I'm covered. 😊
I’m in Bellevue NE...curious why you took I29 to I90 to go to LA? Taking I80 East is much faster...you add at least an extra 5 to 6 hours just by going up to I90 and the dropping back down south later on. Anyway I’ve driven the first part of your video about 10 times but I continue on I90 through Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and then to central Washington state...great drive, highly recommend it.
Thanks. I drove up through SD because I wanted to see the parks in the SW corner of the state, and I decided to drive up through the SW MN corner really just so that I could check MN off of my list of states that I've never driven in before. Overall, I loved doing this road trip about as much as any that I've done, and I would love to do it again at some point.
@@adamfroehlig3195 oil industry, 2nd biggest producer after texas (at least before fracking idk now). Wyoming will probably surpass vermont one of these days (weird to think of an eastern state as the least populated), but vermont is actually fairly dense compared to many other states. Realistically northern Canada is far sparser than Alaska, although really most of both are entirely empty for hundreds of miles in any direction aside from a small town of maybe hundreds occasionally.
My wife still feels that way. Lol. If I had to drive frequently, I would probably hate it. But this trip was the first major trip in years for me, and I had never done a drive out west. So this was fun for me.
Great video. I've been on many of those Utah roads. If you drive through southern Utah again, please consider driving on Utah Highway 12 from Bryce Canyon to Torrey, near Capitol Reef NP. Probably the most spectacular drive in the southwest.
Thanks. I loved this whole drive, but especially the driving through southern Utah. I had planned to do the whole UT-12 drive originally, but I shortened it when I decided to do the drive through Zion instead. I'd love to come back and explore that area some more. I've even thought about doing most of this entire drive again at some point.
I drove from Seattle to Atlanta and Atlanta to Seattle for fun. I did this trip on July 2019 i know very far, the complete trip distance was 5450 miles it was long trip .
@@unclecoolie you got there when morning Rush hour was happening, it's just a good feeling to know that you're actually somewhere after driving for miles through nothing just to drive 100 something miles through urban city
@@poshmalosh14 The one thing I remembered was driving through Salt Lake City and remembering that the speed limit on the interstate never dropped below 70 MPH. Here in Virginia, the maximum speed anywhere in the Commonwealth is 70 MPH!
I live on the Wasatch front too, love that the speed limit is 70mph. Clock seems off, though. No way the sun was just rising at 9am thru Brigham City in August. Should have been something like 6:30am
Look at the video at the mountains ahead starting from around 4:57:45 for about the next minute, and you can see the sun hitting the apices and then slowly lightin up the rest of the mountains.
Amazing video. It is your first but it isn't the first I found. I quite enjoyed the rainstorm in Iowa's and South Dakota. I was astounded at all the mountains in western south Dakota. You went from there into Wyoming. You seem to know a few shortcuts known to few. I presume you left Santa Monica in a short time. For your next video. I've been watching travel vids for several months. Several rail drivers in Bulgaria have posted real time vids from the train cab. The are two real good ones from Montenegro. Since you like travel vids you might enjoy them. There are also tons from England and Scandinavia These drivers have shown must of their countries to the world and I'm sure have promoted tourism. I'll save my other comments for your other videos.
Yeah, I was only in Santa Monica for about 15-20 minutes. I want to do train videos eventually. There are great ones from overseas, especially Norway, but not many from the U.S.
I agree. A very underrated area, along with eastern Wyoming. Given the current state of affairs in the world today, this is a nice part of the country to live in.
It's where I started my CA-NY video, but I simply drove back to Omaha. The CA-NY video is a compilation of several trips, including the trip back to Omaha of this trip. I just thought it worked better breaking this trip in two and putting making a compilation video for the CA-NY. Overall, though, I enjoyed this drive (NE-CA) more than any other that I've done, and I'd love to do it again.
You drove on the highway that passes around my hometown! If you ever go through Plymouth County in Iowa again, stop by Bob's Drive In in Le Mars. They've got some seriously good grub! I also find it hilarious that you included Seney, Iowa as a town you passed by, too. Seney is not a town, it is quite literally a village.
Strange detour through northwest Iowa, you could have stayed on 29 through Sioux City, to Sioux Falls to 90 and saved an hour. Also, it's a shame about that dashboard reflection. I'd suggest putting down dark felt or a towel in the future.
I drove up into Luverne, MN because I had never driven in MN before. I agree about the glare from the dashboard. I started putting dark clothes/towels on the dash in Las Vegas after realizing the glare.
Mr. Unclecoolie, are you only making these videos for the sake of driving? I've been enjoying them very much. You drove to California, and drove back on the very same day. Howe are your hemorroids, LOL? And besides, are you planning on making any more of these videos? If so, how about the south coast, New Orleans, Florida and such.
Thanks! I started doing these videos because last year I had the chance to do major drives, and because I couldn't find decent time-lapse videos here on RU-vid (either the image quality was bad or the speed was way too fast), and for years I've been flying coast-to-coast but never have I had the chance to do all the driving that I did in 2017. Because I'm getting so much support for these videos, I'm going to do more. I plan a big trip or two late this spring, early summer. I'm still working out the details, but I want to drive up into Canada, or maybe down into Florida.
I usually rent, such as in this video: I rented a Nissan Altima from Omaha Eppley Field and drove it to Santa Monica then back to Omaha (the Santa Monica-to-Omaha video is the first part of my California to New York video).
How is it feel to drive for 15 hours straight? Is the time correct? 10p.m, but the sun still shining? Anyway, I really enjoy the ride.. beautiful scenery, so calming..
I loved it, actually. I don't get to do this very often. The time shown is in eastern time only, so 1 hour ahead of the times shown before central SD; 2 hours ahead of the times shown from central SD to the AZ border; and 3 hours ahead of the times shown after that.
Thanks. I drove a 2017 Nissan Altima that I rented from Omaha's Eppley Field airport. I stayed in hotels/motels each night of this trip. I'd love to go camping with my family if we go back out there, though.
When you do these speeded up ones, can you not speed it up past 2 times? It gets bit jerky n is hard to watch. When you do it real time, I speed it up 2x n it's really nice to sit n watch the entire thing. Though when it's jerky like this, it's hard to stay with it.
@@unclecoolie Yeh would've been better. I regularly go back to watch them, but I"m only interested in the real time ones because I can two times speed them n it's very smooth n still nice to have running on the other monitor while I work to music. :)
You can do it in 2 days if you do the shortest route (I-80 to I-76 to I-70 to I-15), but this route that I took took 3.5 days. It was well worth it though.
I can't help but wonder how fast a car would actually need to be capable of to match a time-elapse video. It would be an interesting tidbit. Not that I would want to go this fast!
Really cool that you were able to visit several National Parks on this trip. How many National Parks have you been to? I've only been to Acadia, Olympic, Mt. Rainier, Yosemite, Shenandoah and Haelakala on Maui. Been to Muir Woods National Monument
This was my favorite drive of all long road trips that I've done. Do date, I've visited Badlands, Biscayne, Bryce Canyons, Everglades, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Redwood, Shenandoah, Wind Cave, Yellowstone, and Zion National Parks - most of which were done on this drive.
I recorded this with my first action camera - the Mobius Action Camera - which doesn't record GPS. I've thought about doing at least part of this drive again at some point because I really loved this drive.
