A Drive Across DESOLATE WYOMING - Cheyenne To Cody
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- We drove across Wyoming, starting in Cheyenne and ending the drive on the other side of the state, Cody. Huge, sweeping plains changed into towering mountains. Absolutely beautiful country.
Cities/towns driven through:
Cheyenne
Casper
Shoshoni
Thermoplolis
Meeteetse
Cody
Music:
"Stellar Wind"
Unicorn Heads
I live in Wyoming. It's unique and beautiful. Different landscapes from prairies to breathtaking mountains.
And your annual salary is $15,000 and my annual salary $160,000 and I live in Half Moon Bay in Northern California.
Hi
Please go through my Song of Wyoming. It's about land, people and culture of Wyoming. I am sure you will like it.
@@FastJumpinJackFlash seriously? Rude.
i am really sorry for you.
@@murrayterry834 sorry for me living in Wyoming?
I was born in Cody/Wapiti. I love my home state. Amazing, beautiful place to live away from so many people.
A real misnomer on how desolate that country is. Its beautiful. Pure virgin land
I think it’s a tongue-in-cheek title as many of them are. Designed to pique your interest and get clicks ;)
I lived in Wyoming for a while and it’s one of my favorites. Big wide open beautiful country.
Wyoming isn't desolate. Now we do have some deserts, but wild life does abound in all the glorious a ray of colors.
Desolate sounds so negative.
Even in winter, grasslands have multiple colors.
Here in southwest Nebraska you'll find light and dark greens, orange-reds, and browns.
I believe it was Willa Cather who wrote anyone can love the mountains. It takes a soul to love the prairie.
The landscape, though desolate, is breathtaking. In Wyoming, Humanity is interspersed, but Nature dominates. (What you're doing must, in some ways, be exhausting. We're all the more grateful.)
Perfect interpretation, David.
I love the drive through Wind River Canyon
Really like these recent trips around Wyoming, this is beautiful state and amazing small towns or cities Really not keen on the big city’s such as New York, Chicago, LA, etc amazing as they are. This is the true America, I bet the locals are super friendly. Wonderful scenery, what’s not to like in this amazing part of the USA.
Absolutely agree.
My Niece lived in Laramie. So beautiful
I'm moving to Gillette next week with my family, and it's wonderful there.
Born and raised in Cheyenne. I won't ever leave. There's a reason it's called wyHOMEing 💜
Thanks for the video. I'm most likely going to move to Cheyenne in 3 months. I'm glad to see videos and even drone footage.
Thank you for sharing your road trip. The scenery there in Wyoming is beautiful.
More amazing footage and good music. I get to see through your eyes parts of the US that I have never visited.
Thank you, Alan.
Never let your tank get below 1/2 in Wyoming.
I always stop in Chugwater - between Cheyenne and Douglas - for a bowl of their amazing local chili. One of America's essential roadside food stops!
What!? You didn't stop in Chugwater for the ice cream? I can't count how many milkshakes I've enjoyed in Chugwater!
You made it to my town! I just drove from Cody, through Thermopolis and Shoshoni yesterday to visit Castle Gardens. I made a video of the drive through the Wind River Canyon going the other way. Is uploading now! Trivia: that big reddish building you passed in Shoshoni (was on your left) is the former C.H. King building, built by Charles Henry King, former president Ford's paternal grandfather!
Interesting!
We live there too, great little town.
I was born and raised 50 miles east of Cody (Greybull area) and live in NE Wyoming now. I still get over there fairly frequently
Thank you from Fort Collins, Colorado. I LOVE 💗 WYOMING.
I love that alot of Wyomingites still have American flags on buildings and even some still on their houses. So rare these alphabet days
Wyoming is anything but desolate. ;)
Its inevitable to watch the rural & small towns of America through your fantastic channel before going to bed. It’s night here at Manipur , India ( it’s small state in north east India , next to Myanmar & China side. We actually don’t look like mainland Indians 😃😃 , but we are very much Indian from the heart 😄
Thank you for watching!! :)
Can’t help but think how brave the pioneers were. Imagine !
Just even imagine traveling by horse that distance. Even today one would be so dependent on your car not breaking down or running out of gas. There are so many long stretches without anything. Imagine the same mid winter and or at night.
They made of stern stuff way more than we are. We are just a very watered down version of what once was.
Highly 'diluted'....
Thanks for sharing. It's interesting " visiting" places far away. Greetings from Australia.
Thank you for watching, Richard! Australian Siri guides me on my journeys, btw. You'll hear me talk to her in some videos. Some of your fellow Aussies love it! :)
Wyoming is NOT desolate.
But, Chicago sure was the 18 weeks I spent there.
We made the same drive this past June. We’re moving to Cheyenne from California. BIL lives in Cody.
Love the wide open spaces.
Wow, lucky u. Wish I could leave ca.
@@Lalunabreeze
Thanks man, we made the move the end of March and love it.
We know the winters are brutal and we also have lived in the area before.
Glad I found this channel. Watched 2 videos so far and I'm hooked. Liked the music in this one. Very chill vibe👍
I'm glad you're here, Edson.
And we love Wyoming the way it is, desolation and all!!! Oh, and we have really big scary bears!!!😉😂
It’s one of my favorite things about it.
Wow much more diverse landscape than I thought
Definitely. You go from flat plains to massive mountains quick.
Proof that there is beauty in desolation.
I googled the towns u drove thru. Shoshini had an instragrammable section of their downtown that was the definition of forlorn. Thermopolis I would have wanted to stop at for the hot springs. Cody looks interesting, ditto the whole part of Wyoming you drove thru. We visited Devil's Tower, which was fantastic, in northeastern Wyoming in June when we were in South Dakota but you're a long ways away from that now. Yellowstone is worth all the hype if you've never been. Keep on truckin'.
Thank you, Bill. :)
Thermopolis also has a excellent museum with very impressive fossil collection! I love my state I'll miss it the real estate is to much though
You didn't do meeteetse my home years ago seattle wa niw
We did that one from Denver to Jackson Hole for a long ski weekend February 2021, freedom.
Ain’t that funny.. some people travel to Denver for skiing and you being from there go somewhere else lol it’s like me who’s never been to Disney land and it’s 15 min from my house lol
Next time you run the 25 stop in chug water at the little soda fountain. It is really a nice place it is owned by The prairie homestead they also have you tube channel 🤩 love your travels.
I will do that. :)
I grew up near Chugwater, and drove through many times on the way to Cheyenne. Stopping for a milkshake at the soda fountain is a routine I still follow to this day! Oddly, I haven't stopped since the Prairie Homestead bought it, even though I watch her videos. I hope to stop and meet her one day!
I went from new York through wyoming to San Francisco by greyhound back in the 70s, what an amazing journey. We stopped for 4:52 breakfast in Cheyenne. I'll never forget what an amazing country the US is.....
Been there done that, more times then I like to think about. I live in Cheyenne. The drive from Cheyenne to Casper isn't so bad. But then it's off to Shoshone and that part is not so good. After Shoshone its not so bad. Just don't do it in the winter time.
It doesn't look desolate at all! A drive on smooth, well-kept roads through a still beautiful 😍 landscape. They must be doing something right
This is my kind of trip. Driving through the west where aren’t many people. But the ones you meet are good people. I love WY.
IMO, you took the less scenic route. I think the route Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Riverton, Shoshoni is more interesting. More mountains and more varied scenery. According to Google maps this route is 22 minutes longer on a 6+ hour drive.
You're absolutely right, George! The route you mentioned is far more beautiful! I-25 is the fastest way from point A to point B, but it's also the reason they used the word "Desolate" in the video title! The same can be said for most of of I-80: the interstate highways through Wyoming are certainly not the scenic route!
Did you happen to tour Warren AFB yesterday ?
Hi Lord Spoda
Wow! Thanks.
I too am travelling vicariously! You are translating my Song of Wyoming into your wonderful wandering. In my last comment I posted you six lines of the song out of twenty four lines total.
All the best!👍
Did y'all drop in on Chugwater and get a prairie pie? If not you should've!!!
I've done desolate drives across Nebraska, Kansas, & Colorado looking for abandoned farmhouses & barns, for photographic reasons. Perhaps Wyoming should be next.....
Yep, this is what it looks like.
Almost certain the best part of the drive was from Casper to Shoshone
Will be doing that route in a few weeks' time !! Denver to Cheyenne, Casper, Cody, Yellowstone, Rexburg, Hailey, Boise, Bend, Eugene, Oregon Coast, Medford, Ukiah and onto SFO to fly back to the UK YIPPEEE !!!
That's a great trip!
Thank you for the negative publicity, hope it keeps people away. This is Wy greatest treasure, miles and miles of nothing and no one.
Didn't see any negative publicity in this video. And we live here.
You are absolutely right there sir!
Went through Wyoming 22yrs ago on the Greyhound going from Denver to San Francisco. Beautiful.
Beautiful ♥️ scenery 👍😄 nice 👍 adventure 🦋☘️🌞 enjoying fr jamaica 🇯🇲🏖️🌞😎
I love Wyoming
I live in Southern Montana and love Wyoming and driving through it. A very beautiful State and the people are nice.
Very cool, I've unfortunately never been there..
I’m a life long wyomingite and have lived in Cheyenne and Gillette. I absolutely love our small towns ❤️ but not much for opportunities in the state and nothing for kids to do. If your a diehard Republican this is the state for you. The state is years behind other places in the country and lots of old money here. Most people here are pretty closed minded and not progressive in their thinking or way of life. While I love Wyoming for its beauty and small town feel it’s hard to live here when you don’t fit into the Republican box ☹️
I’ve lived in wyoming all over Wyoming by my entire lives fe and although it is a republican state I find most places woolen here are pretty open minded and excepting of most people I am a lesbian in an interracial marriage and have been supported with open arms by everyone even the old timers so we will have to agree to disagree
I’m so n my way!!! I live in NY…. These leftist fascists are getting more and more crazy by the day!
You're not alone, Kate. The politics and economy drove me out of Wyoming after forty-five years.
I came up Republican, like all of my family and nearly everyone else in the state, but I don't even recognize the party any more. The Republican party has been taken over by vicious hatreds. I still visit Wyoming, but I avoid interacting with people. My mom is about the only person I want to see when I go back to Wyoming. Now I spend my visits in the places where nobody else goes: the Wind Rivers, the Sweetwater Rocks and Adobe Town.
Hi guys, absolutely love your videos to parts of the USA we don’t think about. All the best for your travels…. Davy , Glasgow (Scotland)
Thank you, Davy. I'm glad you're watching.
I camped overnight to see the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. The road back to Cheyenne was bumper to bumper traffic for hours when thousands of people broke camp and headed south all at the same time.
I did that in southern illinois, what a nightmare traffic was for hundreds of miles. and luckily the weather worked out, 20 miles over they got cloud cover in Carbondale. Luck of the draw. I'd recommend everyone see a total eclipse at least once in their lives, next one is in april 2024 in the US
We had a million people in and around Casper! It was a big deal.
I went from Cheyenne to glendo. 2 30 in the morning. Bumper to bumper going north in the middle of the night. I've never seen Wyoming like that. I that video is still on you tube. Going back people were stopped on the interstate getting out of their cars and jogging.
You should try the grasslands north of Glenrock/Douglas next time.
I remember that traffic too! we waited near Torrington, and got on the road toward Denver around four in the morning, thinking that traffic would have subsided by then. But traffic on I-25 was still crawling southward all the way from Cheyenne to Denver, even the next morning after the eclipse!
I had invited some thirty or so friends to stay at our ranch to watch the eclipse. Most of them left that evening, right after the eclipse, and I don't even want to imagine the traffic they experienced!
Just Beautiful! Nothing I like better than driving through “Fly Over County”‼️😘
I love Cody and anywhere north of New Castle ..more trees .beautiful scenery ..living out of Cheyenne and driving to Green River is the longest driest drive ever ..
Cody is beautiful. I flew my drone over the city today. It looks amazing from the air.
I-80 from Cheyenne to Green River/ Rock Springs is super super busy with semi traffic! I think they outnumber cars and trucks.
@@joejohnson5115 to many semis 🚛! Its the same on I25 ..
shoshoni looks just like arizona
Cool music!
Wyoming is beautiful! I have only seen a portion of the state and want to see more. I would also say that the downtown centers of the towns you drove through were thriving! A very good sign.
I love your adventures but this one is amazing with the beautiful landscape
Thank you, Maria!
This is spectacular 🤩 the landscape is breathtaking. Great job young man 👍 And per usual the background soundtrack is perfect
Thank you for the kind words. :)
You should have stopped at the hot springs in Thermopolis. We love going there in the cooler months..
AI future video.
Remember a 1977 Bus approaching Cheyenne,Wyoming! Lotsa wooden small cowboy houses and then WHAM,The Capitol Dome +Indians fighting for the tourists outside of the Bus Station. Not one of my longer layovers back then.
If I were a TH-camr and had to look for an alias name I would choose "LORD SODA" as my pseudonym because I love all kinds of lemonades like Cola ( no matter if its Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola ), Fanta, Sprite and Mountain Dew just to name a few.
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Sounds reasonable.
I've made this drive. There is a wonderful Retro Motel in Riverton, the Paintbrush Motel. It is charming, squeaky clean and a perfect step back in time. Another great retro is The Rocket in Custer, S.D.
Yep them rocks in the begining is chugwater where I live.
Amazing scenic countryside!
Most people are under the impression that Wyoming is all tall, majestic mountains. Yes, you do have the Tetons, Yellowstone and Devil's Tower, but most of Wyoming looks more like Kansas and eastern Colorado. Desolate is right.
I want to live there on a big plot of land
I,ve been enjoying your channel for some time now , just checking out some of your older videos , with no narriation , I would have passed on them back then , your new ones with info are much better . I've driven through Wyoming , miles and miles of nothing but mile and miles .😎
Thanks for a great video. I really like the frequent American flags flying too. Wish we were as patriotic here in Australia! This is a part of America I loved from the time I was a little girl growing up in a city on the other side of the world, & read the Mary O'Hara trilogy of the Goose Bar Ranch.
Thank you, Jenny!
I always thought I'd like to live in the middle of Wyoming, without another soul in sight.
Then I stood at Panorama Point in the wind, with the nearest visible place easily over 5 miles away.
If you go to Yellowstone and are staying in Cody you need to leave the park at the northeast entrance once and take highway 212 to 296 and take that to 120 on your way back to Cody. Highway 296 (also known as the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway) is a must. It is one of the most beautiful drives you will ever take.
Northeast entrance is still closed from the flooding
Yeah, we noticed that.
@@seant1133 That sucks, it is an amazing drive.
Love how they cut out the rock
Thanks Mr. Spoda... another day of virtual travel around "State- sides' Have a safe.. driving and vlogging. always...😊
Thank you, Adnil. :)
If you're going to spend any time in Cody I recommend the museum
We went. It was awesome.
If you stay in Meeteetse long enough, you can see the towns Family Tree…which is a Flag Pole right beside the post office! 😂🤣
A lot of open land, love it. Wyoming was always one of my fav US States, hate the crowds, love nature and history ❤. 😊
Used to haul cattle out of Montana and down that corridor to Kansas!!! In the early 90 s!!
Wow!
Loved this video. Been to most of WY & the route you took. Spent 2 summers in WY all over the state in ‘71 & ‘73. Took my boys back in ‘86. Stayed in Gillette several weeks. Met my good friend Connie there & still friends.
Spent 3 weeks in Casper & a week on Casper Mt. They took us to Yellowstone., went back in ‘86 with hubby & kids.
Was a week in Lander, Rawlings & Kimball NE. Everyone was great. Drove across the mts at Ten Sleep to Worland for a week & kids took us to Thermop hot springs. Saratoga also has a hot springs, Hobo Pool.
Never made it to Cody, turned & went across the mts via Shell (beautiful drive) to Ranchester on way to Billings MT. I visited Jackson Hole before it became a “celeb” center. It was just another unique town.
Wish you’d have done audio. WY & MT are beautiful states & most friendly people. Took my laundry to laundromat & someone had taken my clothes & put in washer so they could use the washer. Never happen in the south - they’d steal your clothes first!
Wish you’d have made it to the Tetons. Our drive from Casper to Lander was uneventful (except Hell’s Half Acre) until we topped a hill & saw the Tetons for the first time. They just “appeared” & looked so majestic! You also missed Teapot Dome & the river that runs uphill. Lander has the “sinks” of the Popo Aggie (Poposia) River. Also Hellfighters with John Wayne was filmed there.
Also they have ghost towns: Atlantic City & South Pass City. FYI: WY was the first state to have a woman governor & first female judge.
Thank you for the comment. I enjoyed reading it. :)
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I absolutely love Wyoming! Nice video! So what was your final antelope tally?
LOL, I think we saw three.
awesome i felt like Jesse James just looking at the scenery your doing a beyond excellant job on your video cross country series
Wow, thank you. You just made my day! :)
I lived in Wyoming, you never got off the pavement, I could put you on many county roads unpaved, south of Casper that would make a good video.
Yep. The back road to power river from Casper is fantastic.
kinda reminds me of the road from Reno Nevada to Las Vegas Nevada -nothing there maybe a little more on
your drive though.
I love the barren, wide open road - there is just something about it....
Somehow, your video doesn't capture the nature of the drive you made! As you experienced, that desolate landscape goes on and on for hours as you drive across the state.
It's a shame you drove through both Chugwater and Shoshoni on this trip, and you didn't stop for ice cream! Wyoming people make it a habit to stop for ice cream when they drive through Chugwater, Shoshoni and Farson, which have similarly quaint creameries.
wonderful..just saw more of wyoming than ever before..
I moved to Wyoming about 5 years ago. I love it out here!! If you can handle the winters, it's beautiful country!
Purdy country
Another great road trip video! I see that road construction is still going on in Casper. It was like that last year in August when I drove through there.
Right!!? We were there this past April and saw it then as well. It seems never-ending! :)
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip It IS never-ending.
Yep. Lol. We have 4. seasons here. And one is constrution because most things cant be worked on in winter we will most likly have snow by or right after Halloween.
That drive looks very nice!,try it in winter time, I live in cody and that drive can get really bad i minutes!
Howdy my favourite channel !
I'm from Wyoming and have lived here for 50 years. I had to turn the volume all the way down because that musical score couldn't be more dijointed from the actual video or the feel of what Wyoming is like.
What a beautiful state!
Wyoming is NOT desolate. It is naked. And it is spectacular.
That was my mothers black truck on the block after pizza on the run the Laramie 1500
I've made this drive. Nice if you enjoy no people around. Peaceful and the parts were beautiful!
I'd prolly fall asleep driving cross this state.
i love wild western movies. wyoming is like old west that i saw in western movies. love to watch from pakistan.😊
Look at all the skid marks on the highway of those who feel asleep or were bored to near death and woke up in time to save their lives.
Beautiful.
Any video from Casper to Midwest to Reno Junction to Gillette?
I used to live in Worland.....i was renting for 18 months and drove thru Wind River Canyon many times.....now we own 4 acres in Wyoming......its a beautiful state
I've been to Worland a couple times. It's nice!