I honestly don’t know why I’m fascinated with this. This is just artwork at this point. Just shows the beautiful scenery of the US and the undying wake of the roads and people within it.
Long time no see, finally! And in 4K! You've just doomed someone to spend their entire day watching your video. Greetings from cold Siberia, and hope you're doing well during these hard times.
Thank you! Greetings from the not-as-cold Virginia. I decided to start uploading these in 4K, even though I have to compress the video down to below 128 GB (the original size of this video after I exported it from Final Cut Pro was nearly 300 GB).
I must've had bozos on my mind while I was editng, LOL. I review these videos to try to catch mistakes, but the amount of time that I could spend QC'ing these videos takes way more time than I have. The unfortunate part of about doing these trips in wintertime is the short daylight times. I will say that this will be my last major road trip done in wintertime for a while. I just prefer spring/summertime instead.
I watched Washington D.C. to Seattle dozens of time. It often keeps running on my second screen while I work. The fact that you chose a route between the cities once again makes me so happy! Thank you very much for filming, producing the video, hence sharing your trip with us. I will leave this for tomorrow and watch it over the next two days.
Oh, thank you! I chose this trip only because I had to go to Seattle for business, and I wound up having a free day that Friday (1/21) to fly back to DC, but I decided to skip the flight and get a rental car to drive back instead. Except for having issues with my windshield wiper fluid freezing in Minneapolis and having to deal with a dirty windshield for much of the rest of the trip, it went rather well.
@@unclecoolie Most people I know would rather take the bus instead of driving 10 minutes in the snow. All respect to you for going coast to coast under these conditions. I'll start watching now :)
9:02:32, near this time range... the first 2/3 of these bridges connect the two sides of Oakmont Country club... famous golf course in western PA, northeast of downtown Pittsburgh, host of 8 US Opens. I was born and raised in western PA (currently working in NYC) and golfaholic, familiar with all the counties from Allegheny to Bedford. Super cool to re-live driving routes that you're familiar with. Fabulous content.
Wow, cool. Thanks! I'd only been to western PA once before, and that was the only time I visited downtown Pittsburgh when I interviewed for a job in the spooky PPG building (I didn't get, LOL).
The camera that I have has a temperature sensor, but I could never get it to work inside a car (unless I have the sensor inside the car, which would be pointless), so I just started tracking the temperature readouts from the display above the steering wheel, about every 15-30 minutes. The temperatures were changing rapidly up and down while I was driving through the Rockies, too.
It bottomed out at -13 just outside Minneapolis. It froze the windshield wiper fluid, which made things rather frustrating for the first several hours of that day's drive.
This was another magnificent video Sir! Thank you very much for sharing. A beautiful and hard country to drive during winter time! Again, thank you very much. Greetings from Athens Greece Europe.
Definitely looking forward to the real-time videos for this trip. I loved watching your original DC to Seattle trip because you passed through my hometown of St Louis!
I will be uploading them next, starting in about 2-3 weeks for the first part. The routing of this is very different from my DC-WA trip. I stayed in the northern most states, which was interesting because of being January. It was downright frigid in eastern North Dakota and into Minnesota and Wisconsin. The temperatures were so cold that the windshield wiper fluid froze, and I had no way to clear the windshield during the drive while driving through Wisconsin. I had to stop several times, sometimes along the freeway, to clean the windshield. Not fun.
This dropped the same day I wrapped up re-watching the original DC-to-Seattle video. Can't wait to sink into this one and thanks as always for posting your trips!
@@unclecoolie Once you get past the I-82 junction in Ellensburg, and with the exception of the ending at the corner of 17th and Constitution - the beginning of the 2018 trip - it's an entirely different ride!
@@MarkL0360 Yes! I wanted to avoid doing the same route as the first time, especially since that one was longer. Plus, I had never been to North Dakota and Michigan, and now I've checked those states off the list of states that I've never been to. The only one left in the lower 48 is Vermont, which I hope to see maybe this summer.
5:49:02 If you’re like me I bet it felt super awesome to walk outside into air this cold and exhale super thick clouds from your mouth. Coldest I’ve ever experienced is -4°F (-20°C) just a week ago Saturday morning and when I went outside it felt so nice after a warm and boring winter that I didn’t want to go back inside until the temperature went above zero. It was awesome to watch my hands steaming so much, my mouth producing such thick clouds, the air shaking so violently with the window cracked open, and the interesting frost formations forming on my window when I cracked the window open
That was the coldest since January 1994 when It got to -32F at my house. We had a mercury thermometer showing that at our house in West Virginia. The bank in town officially registered the temperature as -28F. One thing I've noticed is that, as the temperature drops further below 0F, it doesn't really feel any colder, but the amount of steam emanating from your body increases. That morning in 1994, I remember a big blast of steam when I opened the front door.
58:45 Is Spokane Skyline (I'll comment when I get to major cities in the video) 1:37:47 Missoula, MT 2:42:06 Billings MT 3:12:46 Miles City MT 4:03:03 Bismarck ND 4:44:20 Fargo ND 5:22:37 St. Cloud MN 6:49:41 Janesville WI 6:55:43 Rockford IL Area 7:03:41 Elgin IL 7:07:05 Chicago IL Area
Thank You This is one of the most fantastic things I've seen on Internet TH-cam ever, compliments, amazingly awesome, incredible, watching more of yours. In this one you went through far from each other three of my old city stomping grounds. Thanks appreciating
I took a very similar trip in 2019, mere months before the pandemic hit. Seattle to Cleveland (then on to Ottawa, CA) then back. It's crazy seeing snippets of road and remembering exactly what we were talking about or what happened as we drove past there. It's like reliving the entire trip in my memory. I remember seeing Keechelus lake for the first time, nestled deep within the Cascade range. Traveling for what felt like an eternity through the mist fading in and out, separating the green PNW from frontiers unseen. Coming down off the cascades, there's small hill on the eastern foothills (right around 19:24) where you can look back and see picturesque Klondike peaks with beauty unmatched, snow-capped triangular mountains just traversed, and the frisson that you feel imagining pioneers on that hill hundreds of years ago facing down the final barrier between them and the coast. The eastern WA basin was long and boring, punctuated by the suddenness of Spokane and the Coeur d'Alene valley. I remember the wonder of Lookout pass and the feeling of being in deep country, staring out into the endless, thick and uninhabited coniferous treeline. "We're not in the PNW anymore", I remember thinking. Then that one stretch of downwards slope just outside of Missoula where a freak hail storm rolled in and hail chunks the size of golf balls smashed our car up really well, followed by rolling snowstorms that almost took us out of commission. We kept trucking in our car at 15MPH staring down incessant flurries for hours until night fell and we finally crawled into Billings. I remember that one endless discussion we we had as we crossed the endless badlands throughout ND. The fields were endlessly flat and snowed over and the sea of rolling badlands eventually gave way to the Great American Prarie. Then, suddenly, halfway through Minnesota, the whole scenery changed and it felt as if we had swapped over from West coast to East coast. The Great Plains disappeared behind us, replaced by deciduous forest, treelines, and a more populous settlements. Minneapolis truly felt frozen as we stayed overnight, there somehow was a violent atmosphere in the air almost as cold as the crusted salt on the roads. Little did we know that in less than a year, the city would be burning. As we descended through Wisconsin, a looming behemoth towered before us. As we approached, it felt like time slowed down. The highways went from rural and uncluttered to passing through peripheral industrial zones, clogged with cars and construction. I felt a low, constant droning in my head as we approached. An ominous, constant tone, only brought louder and louder as we entered easternmost Chicago. The craziness ramped up to 11 and what followed was 3 hours of crossing Chicago's inner core at rush hour reduced to a high-pitched blur. The toll lanes, the crushing traffic, the beaters cutting up in the freeway at 90 MPH. I have a memory of staring at an automated toll booth as a line of cars behind me laid on their horns. Before me was a basket. A basket?! I grabbed a fistful of anything we had in the center console and tossed it at the basket - pennies, nickels, buttons, a paperclip and some desert mints, half of which fell all over the asphalt. Mercifully, the gate opened. After the nightmare of Chicago passed, we were at a rest stop just outside of Gary, Indiana. Night had fallen and I remember hearing gunshots off the freeway some distance. I was shaking, having white-knuckled the steering wheel for the past hour. I took a sip of water, hacked it back up over a trashcan and let my friend drive the rest of the way that night. I slept comfortably in the passenger seat as we drove through the most dangerous city in America. Approaching Cleveland felt like we were firmly in the East coast. Cleveland itself felt unremarkable, a modernizing rust belt city with wide flat East-Coast style boulevards. Snow burdened the bare deciduous trees as we drove slowly through the city and stopped at a Walmart. We tread carefully, as if foreigners in our own country. Once we passed Ohio we had a quick Jaunt through Erie - the highway passing through deflowered forest littered with some trash and inhabitation, state patrol cars staking out in the median - then it was onwards into the great state of New York. An old-school, unionized, blue-collar feeling of decades past descended on us as we drove through Upstate. There was something fundamentally older than all of us were used to as we drove through Buffalo, Rochester, then Syracuse, medium-sized cities existing at the very edge of the peripheral orbit of the great Empire City unseen. Once we turned north from Syracuse, we penetrated into an immensely rural void, albeit one unfamiliar to us from back home. Eastern forests, a cold emptiness barely visible from the confines of the occasionally-lit interstate. We passed some tiny localities and arrived to the frozen border. From there, it was an hour of driving between two towering treelines before we arrived to Canada's capital. When we turned around and did the trip again in reverse, everything felt three times less intense, time went by three times as fast, and there was no conversation in the car. It was like rewinding a tape at speed, quickly replaying all the moments from our heroic trek in fast-forward, seeing first Cleveland pass, then the deflowered highway, through and past the Chicago hellscape, racing sundown through Wisconsin back into Minneapolis. Leaving Minnesota, penetrating the Great Plains once more, passing through endless badlands as the growing anticipation of returning home filled our hearts. We left the flats for the immensity of Montana, then methodically conquered the Rockies, descending through the WA basin as night fell. We drove through the darkened Klondike peaks once more as sleet pounded the road, and just like that we were back home, in the western WA basin. It all felt like one big dream.
I was a bit worried about taking this trip when I booked it less than two weeks prior, mainly due to the unpredictable weather, especially in the upper midwest and Rockies. The only hiccup was losing my windshield wiper fluid from the Minneapolis until the end of the trip. I was also glad that I didn't have to have cash for toll plazas on this trip. What you described about the crime in some of the cities, that's why I avoided driving through downtown in cities, such as Minneapolis and Chicago. Why didn't you take a different route to go back to Washington?
@@unclecoolie We elected to take the fastest route possible since both of us were tired and our patience with each other had somehow cooled during the previous 3 days of being cooped up inside the car. Had it been a sightseeing, relaxed trip, we might have elected to take the other route that goes a bit further south and see SD, Wyoming, etc
Hey, UCP! I'm stoked for the new upload. And you're starting in my hometown! I wish I'd known that you were going to be here. I'd have loved to shake your hand and thank you for all the awesome content.
Thank you! I was in Seattle that week from 1/18-1/20 for work, and I was due to fly home on 1/21. After major flight delays getting out to Seattle from DC, and the fact that I hadn't done a major road trip in a year, I decided almost last-minute to do this drive back. I have other upcoming trips scheduled later this year, so I might make use of those trips to do more videos. 😊
Thank you! I went several months without uploading video because I was doing some extensive renovations in my house, and then I went to Kenya for almost the whole month of December. But I don't plan to go so long without uploads going forward.
I did this trip only in the other direction and in August. I had my two elderly dogs with me so we stopped much more frequently. After blasting my way up to Chicago to visit an old friend, I took the rest of the way a little more leisurely. I took I-90 in South Dakota and visited Sioux Falls then stopped to see the Minuteman Sites, the Badlands and Mount Rushmore. After that, I checked out Deadwood and Devil's Tower before heading to Yellowstone through Cody, WY. And finally rejoining I-90 in Bozeman, MT and continueing West. August is a great time to do this trip. It's light out so late that far north and makes the driving very enjoyable. As well, stopping in the national parks really changes the experience. Having lived so long on the East Coast, I didn't have an appreciation for the wonders of the national parks. Anyhow, thinks for sharing your trip.
That sounds a lot like the first "big" road trip that I did back in August 16-21, 2017, which started out in Omaha, then up into SW MN and across SD and WY, visiting the same parks that you visited, before passing through Grand Teton and into ID then south on I-15 through UT visiting Bryce Canyon and Zion NPs. That was a fun trip that I'd love to repeat one day.
Thank you! I decided to do this trip almost last-minute. I had to go to Seattle for business, and decided to just drive back home to Virginia instead of flying back.
I had never been along I-94, and I had never been to North Dakota before doing this drive, so those were the primary reason for choosing this route, along with the fact that I only had 3.5 days to do this. I went to Seattle for business and I was due to fly back home on the Friday that I started this road trip. I just decided to drive back, but I had to be back home by Monday afternoon for important meetings.
@@thelonelywolf88 I had never been to ND and MI before this trip. With those two states checked off the list, I'm down to 5 states left to visit: AK, HI, LA, MS, and VT. I'll eventually visit those states as well.
Awesome video! I would love it if someone did this for a European roadtrip (like Lisbon-Tallinn or Palermo-Luleå which are almost the same distance as in this video, or shorter trips like Amsterdam-Athens)
Just found your stream. I am travelling from Great Falls MT out to Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin in a week. I am watching this with anticipation. I hope to learn about the roads from here to there at least. I will add my comments as I watch. I have been to the Walmart in Billings! We have relatives there and visit quite often. On this trip I will join I94 at Glendive, MT. Plan to take 94 all the way until I turn east for Oshkosh.
I love te see how the landscape changes when you pass through those different climate zones, from rainy, foggy pacific costal weather (reminds me to our European winter weather) to the huge amount of snow in the mountains (like in our Alps), and the super cold continental weather of ND, MN (to see this I have to go to Scandinavia or western Russia, we almost never have this here). DC in the East coast with its subtropical Sommer weather has just normal winter weather, with short but strong greetings from continental cold.
@@unclecoolie Remember I told you about this in Mass along I-90? The "Highest point on I-90 East of South Dakota?" th-cam.com/video/Bxzd87Ng3SM/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for another awesome upload. I enjoyed watching the snow covered landscape especially through the mountains and across the plains of Montana and North Dakota. I'm sure that making these videos is getting more expensive with the high price of gas, but know that they are appreciated. I can't travel as much as I used to these days, but your complete road trips allow me to feel immersed in these landscapes. Thank you. 🙂
Thank you! Yes, I really have to budget the gas costs now. I spent more than $400 in gas on this trip, and gas prices have gone up even more. I'm about to do another big road trip, and I'm figuring on spending at least $500 for it.
Hi Unclecoolie. Many thanks for this post. I enjoyed the ride through the northern part of the States. I found the first part through WA, ID, and MT the most interesting. I was happy to find out, that you now have posted this part in a separate video in real-time. Appreciate your efforts! This corner of the USA will for sure be on my list for the planned driving trip to the states. The problem is, that planning is running for ages now. Thanks again and always a safe trip to you.
Thank you! I've only posted the first two days (so far) due to the fact that I wasn't happy with the quality of the video from the final 2 days because of dirty windshield. I may still upload those 2 days after I finish my VA-TX & TX-VA trip.
A tougher winter trip for parts of this journey. Like all of the vids, I am amazed at the lack of pit stops to see historical stuff. Or maybe those excursions are cut out. The temptation to make the trip twice as long must be great.
Too often when I do long road trips like this I don't have much time to do them, so I have to maximize distance over sight-seeing. Sometimes, I can get some extra time for points of interest stops and to avoid only taking interstates. One such trip is my trip from last year when I drove to Mt Washington. Another is when I drove from Nebraska to California in August 2017, and even during my NY-CA drive from September 2022.
Huh. I actually live nearby I-480 East going through Cleveland and you passed by the exit I always go through to go back home. Wonder if I was out that night.
At 8:37:00 you passed Twinsburg, OH where I once lived and about 8:49:00 you passed North Lima where I also lived. I also lived in PA but well south of the turnpike.
I originally thought of driving from NV to FL next winter (I do not drive in snow, so I need the southern states) but will not have enough time off work, so I opted to fly to FL instead. But I really LOVE this channel because I can at least pretend to be on road trips. Keep it up and if you ever need to hire a second driver, I'm here for you (just not over snow).
Thank you! It does take a massive amount of time. For these UHD videos, I have to do rendering 3 times: once for adding the GPS information using the Virb software; 2nd for after finishing all of the other editing in Final Cut Pro; and finally using iMovie to compress the video to below 128 GB to upload to YT. Each time it takes at least an entire day. I have a 2 TB external hard drive that I only use for video editing, and it comes close to being completely full by the time I have a finished video ready for upload.
@@AnimatingStudios2002 I was not aware of that. Thanks for letting me know! Believe it or not, I would still have had to compress this video as the original file was more than 300 GB in size!
Hi, the coldest temperature, according to the readout in the top right corner, is -15 degrees Celsius, measured around 4:27:42!!! And I didn't watch the whole video at this moment!!!
Getting hot but I'm slowly working my way across America when I can I suspect it's going to take as few months but the constant snow of Montana is so appreciated right now.
@@matthewricketts5330 I just confirmed that I will have another big trip coming up soon, so I'll have even more video coming! 2022 looks like it will be a good year for road trips.
We really live in the most beautiful country on earth ❤️🥹. We have all sorts of terrain and climate & I just think it’s such a blessing to live here, even if sometimes it feels like the opposite.
This brings back tons of memories. Washington is definitely one of my favorite states, I’ve also been to Coeur D’Alene, Missoula, and on another trip, Bismarck and Fargo, along with most of Minnesota. I’ve also lived in Maryland, close to DC, so I would consider that a home of mine.
Thanks for putting this together! You and J Utah inspired me to do similar videos here in Croatia (although much shorter distances). I posted a couple of them (mostly short distances between towns). Longest trip I posted is 1 hour timelapse (real time > 4 hours) from Zagreb to Šibenik (~ 330 km). Cheers!
Believe it or not, I intentionally driving into Michigan because I had never been to Michigan before. This was one of two states that I crossed off the list of states that I had never been to prior to this road trip. The other state is North Dakota. Now I'm down to 5 states that I've never been to. They are Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Vermont. I hope to check those states all off in the next couple of years.
@@unclecoolie That detour was my only excursion into Michigan, too, and I've been living in Chicago for 20 years! New Orleans is worth a visit--I grew up there.
@@jtdavis62 I'd wanted to go to Marti Gras last week, but couldn't work a trip down there with mine and my wife's schedule. I'm seriously going to push to go next year, but I'd like to do a road trip through there this year sometime.
@@unclecoolie I’m also down to 5 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Michigan, North Dakota and Oklahoma. I actually came close to Michigan on a cross country trip with my family back in 2001; we went to a Cubs game one day, made a stop at Notre Dame, then made our way into Pennsylvania.
It has been terrific to view the winter weather step between Montana State in one side and Nord Dakota and Minnesota state on the other side... Temperature average in Montana on 0-3 degrees, and terrible snow storm with temperature of -20 degrees in ND and arctic freezing weather in MN nearby the great lakes. Fantastic.
I agree. The only problem was not realizing that the frigid temperatures would freeze my windshield wiper fluid, making the drive through much of the last 2 days of the trip very frustrating.
Appreciate the detour into DC when after 4 days on the road you could be forgiven for justing wanting to get home asap. Also the numerous stops to clean the winscreen, especially on Day 3, it must have added at least an hour onto your overall trip.
Jeez man, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were being stalked by the "Clark Fork River" in western Montana! How many times did you pass over it? I lost track at 10 times! LOL
You finally uploaded another long Road Trip. Congratulations! I haven't seen it yet but looks to be interesting because I've always wanted to see what the Northern States looked like in the Winter. It looks like there's some sections in the darkness which I know you try to avoid but I understand that it's difficult to do an all-daylight trip in the winter on a strict time schedule, especially up there where the days are even shorter. However, only one of them is in the Mountain West and it looks like you were able to get most of the more scenic Mountain passes in the daytime. Also thanks for covering I-94 Eastbound. The westbound trip was covered by Barbiepoledancer back in 2013 but she decided to go on I-90 when heading back east. All in all, great video and hope to check it out (and post my album list) in the coming days :) EDIT: After watching the entire video, it was quite the adventure. Loved getting to see the scenery of the Rockies and Appalachians covered with snow as well other scenic landmarks such as Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It was also nice to get a good idea of which areas regularly get snow in the winter since this was filmed in the middle of January. The windshield didn't bother me too much as a viewer. It was also nice to take a look at the progress of Seattle's LINK Light Rail extension and see some of the DC Metro in action. Also DC proper leading up to the WH area seemed to be a very exciting area to hang out. Only bummer was that most of the scenery of Montana (particularly the transition from Rockies to Plains east of Butte) wasn't recorded in the video due to being driven during the night. Great work! Some good trip ideas would be all of I-10 or the entire Trans-Canada Highway (in the summer, of course).
Thank you! The biggest downfall with driving in the wintertime is the short days. I had some other issues with this trip, such as having the windshield wiper fluid freeze when I stayed in the Minneapolis area, which made keeping the windshield clean a major problem. So, I don't think I'll be doing any northern road trips in the wintertime anytime in the near future. My next road trip will likely be through the warmer southern states.
@@unclecoolie Hah, the exact same problem happened to us at the exact same time of year in the exact same city! I remember an 18-wheeler sprayed some sleet droplets onto our windshield as we zipped by at 75MPH in the fast lane. I went to activate the wiper fluid and none came out - it was frozen solid. The wiper blades smeared the sleet all over our windshield and for one panicked moment we were completely blind. I remember stopping on a farm road close to the whizzing traffic of the interstate as we got our shoes muddy and poured bottled water over the windshield to clean it
@@GTAIVisbest Yeah, I was nervous when I found out the fluid was frozen. There was one moment where I tried to pass a truck and instantly couldn't see anything. It happened somewhere in northwestern Wisconsin.
Sounds fun. I originally planned to go to Toronto via Niagara Falls back when I did my trip to Newfoundland in 2018, but I just couldn't fit it into my schedule as I didn't want to drive 16 hours in one day. That will have to be part of a separate trip for me at some point.
7:06:18 I live in the district Schaumburg in Germany. I recently found out about Schaumburg, Illinois, that immigrants from Germany came here in the 18th Century. The name comes from the Schaumburg Castle in Lower Saxony. It's so interesting. I like your trips in the US!
Can you upload Maple Grove MN to Brook Park OH in real time part 3 washington to washington and also Brook Park to Washington D.C. in real time and including the bonus video for part 4
i wish this was in the summer. i understand the snow is picturesque but it covers all of the terrain and interesting features of the land, each state just looks the same in snow
I'll likely do another similar trip like this, and it won't be in winter. After this trip, I don't plan to drive across the northern states in wintertime again.
This is awesome! Are you planning on doing an I-10 drive at some point say from Jacksonville to LA. It's a drive I want to do some day if I get the time.
I will be uploading the real time of this trip next, starting with day one in 2-3 weeks. I will eventually upload the two last parts of the real time version of that Florida trip.
I plan to do just that. I've been so busy with work and personal things that I haven't been able to do much editing. I am going to do a nice, two-day road trip this weekend, and will get that uploaded soon though.
@@unclecoolie definitely an interesting drive during the summer. But if you’re heading west after 6 pm, the sun will be in your eyes until it finally sets around 10 pm.
Amazing footage. Can you please tell us what type of car your driving and do you have snow rated tyres on the vehicle. 120odd kmh in that weather is so crazy. I love the video though.
Thanks! I was driving a Chrysler Voyager that I rented from Seattle and dropped off at Dulles Airport at the very end of this video. I don't remember it having anything other than all-weather tires, but I had no issues with the snow in ND and MN.
Unclecoolie this is the one I did and got stranded in Minnesota. Could you upload the final stretch from Minnesota to Washington DC please at normal speed so I can complete my trip. You totally rock but trips at high speed are useless if your on an excercise bike.
I will eventually. I've been fortunate enough to have been able to do more road trips this year, including an awesome one that I just finished yesterday. I can't wait until I upload that video, and then I'll upload the rest of this trip in real time.
@@unclecoolie sounds awesome can't wait. I've just entered new Brunswick on the Quebec trip . Absolutely loved Quebec that was an awesome trip! Got about 6 hours to go until I reach Nova Scotia.
Mi 239 in Berrien County???? Maybe 139? And Indiana 39 ?!?!? Where are these roads? They aren't showing up on Google maps! Oh, wait... I sneezed when crossing into Michigan, so I missed the immediate turn onto 239, then Ind 39. Really close-up view and fine print - only drove c. 2 miles on I94. My bad!
I will finish uploading the real time versions of this trip after I finish my TX-VA real time versions, and after I upload my brand new trip: NY-CA, which I hope to have uploaded by the end of this month.
do you have a cross country video doing the southern route? This one was awesome, and I've always wanted to do this, and the southern route. I've driven cross country on I80 several time because it was the quickest to get to family. The Northern and Southern routes would be for pleasure, someday.
Not yet, but I just finished a road trip that included part of that route. I'll be uploading after I finish Day 2 of the real time version of this trip.
You took the I94 all the way up to New Buffalo MI before turning back to the I80/90. This is when there was no GPS info so I am guessing that is the reason..?
The GPS data just happened to drop out for that period of time. I deliberately drove into Michigan because I had never been to Michigan before. I was using navigation on my phone for this trip. Normally, I try to get rental cars that have navigation already.
Thanks for the video, I trying to do this drive in January, pcs from Tacoma wa to Bethesda Md and need some tips as I will be driving with my wife toddler and infant 2months old. Need some tips and advice from someone that has done the trip before
Thanks! You'll notice that in Minneapolis I lost my windshield wiper fluid (frozen at -13 degree temps), and it made driving very difficult that entire morning. I'd recommend driving a more southern route than the one I took in this video.
I have I-80 covered from western Nebraska to Illinois already, and, especially in Nebraska, if wasn't particularly interesting. So, if I do another cross-country road trip, I'll likely choose I-90 or I-70, or even I-40 or I-10 first.
@@unclecoolie I’m sure those states are boring but I was thinking more of the western part of I-80, especially around Salt Lake and between Sacramento and Reno.
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No ads. No outrageous music. Just the good old American driving experience. I love this channel.
Lol I got hit with ads every 5 minutes
Literally got an ad within the first 30 seconds
Ad free is worth the 9 dollars a month
Just add your own music. Yes and ELO are good for road trips, at least for me
I didn't got any ads ;) Adblocker ftw.
Oh and that no music is inside is great, because so I can enjoy eurobeat while watching :D
I honestly don’t know why I’m fascinated with this. This is just artwork at this point. Just shows the beautiful scenery of the US and the undying wake of the roads and people within it.
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Long time no see, finally! And in 4K! You've just doomed someone to spend their entire day watching your video.
Greetings from cold Siberia, and hope you're doing well during these hard times.
Thank you! Greetings from the not-as-cold Virginia. I decided to start uploading these in 4K, even though I have to compress the video down to below 128 GB (the original size of this video after I exported it from Final Cut Pro was nearly 300 GB).
I can’t believe you drove through Bozeman montana in the dark! It’s the best city in Montana ! And you misspelled it ! You called it Bozoman! Lol
I must've had bozos on my mind while I was editng, LOL. I review these videos to try to catch mistakes, but the amount of time that I could spend QC'ing these videos takes way more time than I have. The unfortunate part of about doing these trips in wintertime is the short daylight times. I will say that this will be my last major road trip done in wintertime for a while. I just prefer spring/summertime instead.
Might as well call it Bozoman! Place is full of liberals and haters!!
I watched Washington D.C. to Seattle dozens of time. It often keeps running on my second screen while I work. The fact that you chose a route between the cities once again makes me so happy! Thank you very much for filming, producing the video, hence sharing your trip with us. I will leave this for tomorrow and watch it over the next two days.
Oh, thank you! I chose this trip only because I had to go to Seattle for business, and I wound up having a free day that Friday (1/21) to fly back to DC, but I decided to skip the flight and get a rental car to drive back instead. Except for having issues with my windshield wiper fluid freezing in Minneapolis and having to deal with a dirty windshield for much of the rest of the trip, it went rather well.
@@unclecoolie Most people I know would rather take the bus instead of driving 10 minutes in the snow. All respect to you for going coast to coast under these conditions. I'll start watching now :)
@@offydannerson8049 I was a little nervous about the snow, but I checked the forecast that showed just light snow but frigid temperatures beforehand.
9:02:32, near this time range... the first 2/3 of these bridges connect the two sides of Oakmont Country club... famous golf course in western PA, northeast of downtown Pittsburgh, host of 8 US Opens. I was born and raised in western PA (currently working in NYC) and golfaholic, familiar with all the counties from Allegheny to Bedford. Super cool to re-live driving routes that you're familiar with. Fabulous content.
Wow, cool. Thanks! I'd only been to western PA once before, and that was the only time I visited downtown Pittsburgh when I interviewed for a job in the spooky PPG building (I didn't get, LOL).
Great that you now added the Temperature to get a feeling how cold it is the different places.
Gooooood morning Minnesota. -19?! I was just shivering looking at that
@@thelonelywolf88 haha but at the moment i'm in Western North Dakota
The camera that I have has a temperature sensor, but I could never get it to work inside a car (unless I have the sensor inside the car, which would be pointless), so I just started tracking the temperature readouts from the display above the steering wheel, about every 15-30 minutes. The temperatures were changing rapidly up and down while I was driving through the Rockies, too.
It bottomed out at -13 just outside Minneapolis. It froze the windshield wiper fluid, which made things rather frustrating for the first several hours of that day's drive.
@@unclecoolieok now i get why it changes so fast with big difference but although it's cool
This was another magnificent video Sir!
Thank you very much for sharing.
A beautiful and hard country to drive during winter time!
Again, thank you very much.
Greetings from Athens Greece Europe.
Thank you! I really appreciate it! Greetings from Herndon, VA!
Definitely looking forward to the real-time videos for this trip. I loved watching your original DC to Seattle trip because you passed through my hometown of St Louis!
I will be uploading them next, starting in about 2-3 weeks for the first part. The routing of this is very different from my DC-WA trip. I stayed in the northern most states, which was interesting because of being January. It was downright frigid in eastern North Dakota and into Minnesota and Wisconsin. The temperatures were so cold that the windshield wiper fluid froze, and I had no way to clear the windshield during the drive while driving through Wisconsin. I had to stop several times, sometimes along the freeway, to clean the windshield. Not fun.
This dropped the same day I wrapped up re-watching the original DC-to-Seattle video. Can't wait to sink into this one and thanks as always for posting your trips!
Fortunately, more than 95% of this route is different from the DC-Seattle trip. 😊
@@unclecoolie Once you get past the I-82 junction in Ellensburg, and with the exception of the ending at the corner of 17th and Constitution - the beginning of the 2018 trip - it's an entirely different ride!
@@MarkL0360 Yes! I wanted to avoid doing the same route as the first time, especially since that one was longer. Plus, I had never been to North Dakota and Michigan, and now I've checked those states off the list of states that I've never been to. The only one left in the lower 48 is Vermont, which I hope to see maybe this summer.
@@unclecoolie What caused you to have to divert onto what was old US 10 in North Dakota? Why did they close that stretch of I-94 to eastbound traffic?
@@MarkL0360 I have no idea. I'm guess that there was an accident down the road. I never found out why.
5:49:02 If you’re like me I bet it felt super awesome to walk outside into air this cold and exhale super thick clouds from your mouth. Coldest I’ve ever experienced is -4°F (-20°C) just a week ago Saturday morning and when I went outside it felt so nice after a warm and boring winter that I didn’t want to go back inside until the temperature went above zero. It was awesome to watch my hands steaming so much, my mouth producing such thick clouds, the air shaking so violently with the window cracked open, and the interesting frost formations forming on my window when I cracked the window open
That was the coldest since January 1994 when It got to -32F at my house. We had a mercury thermometer showing that at our house in West Virginia. The bank in town officially registered the temperature as -28F. One thing I've noticed is that, as the temperature drops further below 0F, it doesn't really feel any colder, but the amount of steam emanating from your body increases. That morning in 1994, I remember a big blast of steam when I opened the front door.
@@unclecoolie That means the mercury almost froze. Mercury can’t measure temperature below -37°F.
@@paull2937 It was near the bottom, yes.
58:45 Is Spokane Skyline (I'll comment when I get to major cities in the video)
1:37:47 Missoula, MT
2:42:06 Billings MT
3:12:46 Miles City MT
4:03:03 Bismarck ND
4:44:20 Fargo ND
5:22:37 St. Cloud MN
6:49:41 Janesville WI
6:55:43 Rockford IL Area
7:03:41 Elgin IL
7:07:05 Chicago IL Area
1:05:31 Couer d'Alene
Thank You This is one of the most fantastic things I've seen on Internet TH-cam ever, compliments, amazingly awesome, incredible, watching more of yours. In this one you went through far from each other three of my old city stomping grounds. Thanks appreciating
Wow, thank you! I'm glad you liked it!
I took a very similar trip in 2019, mere months before the pandemic hit. Seattle to Cleveland (then on to Ottawa, CA) then back. It's crazy seeing snippets of road and remembering exactly what we were talking about or what happened as we drove past there. It's like reliving the entire trip in my memory.
I remember seeing Keechelus lake for the first time, nestled deep within the Cascade range. Traveling for what felt like an eternity through the mist fading in and out, separating the green PNW from frontiers unseen. Coming down off the cascades, there's small hill on the eastern foothills (right around 19:24) where you can look back and see picturesque Klondike peaks with beauty unmatched, snow-capped triangular mountains just traversed, and the frisson that you feel imagining pioneers on that hill hundreds of years ago facing down the final barrier between them and the coast.
The eastern WA basin was long and boring, punctuated by the suddenness of Spokane and the Coeur d'Alene valley. I remember the wonder of Lookout pass and the feeling of being in deep country, staring out into the endless, thick and uninhabited coniferous treeline. "We're not in the PNW anymore", I remember thinking. Then that one stretch of downwards slope just outside of Missoula where a freak hail storm rolled in and hail chunks the size of golf balls smashed our car up really well, followed by rolling snowstorms that almost took us out of commission. We kept trucking in our car at 15MPH staring down incessant flurries for hours until night fell and we finally crawled into Billings.
I remember that one endless discussion we we had as we crossed the endless badlands throughout ND. The fields were endlessly flat and snowed over and the sea of rolling badlands eventually gave way to the Great American Prarie. Then, suddenly, halfway through Minnesota, the whole scenery changed and it felt as if we had swapped over from West coast to East coast. The Great Plains disappeared behind us, replaced by deciduous forest, treelines, and a more populous settlements. Minneapolis truly felt frozen as we stayed overnight, there somehow was a violent atmosphere in the air almost as cold as the crusted salt on the roads. Little did we know that in less than a year, the city would be burning.
As we descended through Wisconsin, a looming behemoth towered before us. As we approached, it felt like time slowed down. The highways went from rural and uncluttered to passing through peripheral industrial zones, clogged with cars and construction. I felt a low, constant droning in my head as we approached. An ominous, constant tone, only brought louder and louder as we entered easternmost Chicago. The craziness ramped up to 11 and what followed was 3 hours of crossing Chicago's inner core at rush hour reduced to a high-pitched blur. The toll lanes, the crushing traffic, the beaters cutting up in the freeway at 90 MPH. I have a memory of staring at an automated toll booth as a line of cars behind me laid on their horns. Before me was a basket. A basket?! I grabbed a fistful of anything we had in the center console and tossed it at the basket - pennies, nickels, buttons, a paperclip and some desert mints, half of which fell all over the asphalt. Mercifully, the gate opened.
After the nightmare of Chicago passed, we were at a rest stop just outside of Gary, Indiana. Night had fallen and I remember hearing gunshots off the freeway some distance. I was shaking, having white-knuckled the steering wheel for the past hour. I took a sip of water, hacked it back up over a trashcan and let my friend drive the rest of the way that night. I slept comfortably in the passenger seat as we drove through the most dangerous city in America.
Approaching Cleveland felt like we were firmly in the East coast. Cleveland itself felt unremarkable, a modernizing rust belt city with wide flat East-Coast style boulevards. Snow burdened the bare deciduous trees as we drove slowly through the city and stopped at a Walmart. We tread carefully, as if foreigners in our own country.
Once we passed Ohio we had a quick Jaunt through Erie - the highway passing through deflowered forest littered with some trash and inhabitation, state patrol cars staking out in the median - then it was onwards into the great state of New York. An old-school, unionized, blue-collar feeling of decades past descended on us as we drove through Upstate. There was something fundamentally older than all of us were used to as we drove through Buffalo, Rochester, then Syracuse, medium-sized cities existing at the very edge of the peripheral orbit of the great Empire City unseen.
Once we turned north from Syracuse, we penetrated into an immensely rural void, albeit one unfamiliar to us from back home. Eastern forests, a cold emptiness barely visible from the confines of the occasionally-lit interstate. We passed some tiny localities and arrived to the frozen border. From there, it was an hour of driving between two towering treelines before we arrived to Canada's capital.
When we turned around and did the trip again in reverse, everything felt three times less intense, time went by three times as fast, and there was no conversation in the car. It was like rewinding a tape at speed, quickly replaying all the moments from our heroic trek in fast-forward, seeing first Cleveland pass, then the deflowered highway, through and past the Chicago hellscape, racing sundown through Wisconsin back into Minneapolis. Leaving Minnesota, penetrating the Great Plains once more, passing through endless badlands as the growing anticipation of returning home filled our hearts. We left the flats for the immensity of Montana, then methodically conquered the Rockies, descending through the WA basin as night fell. We drove through the darkened Klondike peaks once more as sleet pounded the road, and just like that we were back home, in the western WA basin. It all felt like one big dream.
I was a bit worried about taking this trip when I booked it less than two weeks prior, mainly due to the unpredictable weather, especially in the upper midwest and Rockies. The only hiccup was losing my windshield wiper fluid from the Minneapolis until the end of the trip. I was also glad that I didn't have to have cash for toll plazas on this trip. What you described about the crime in some of the cities, that's why I avoided driving through downtown in cities, such as Minneapolis and Chicago. Why didn't you take a different route to go back to Washington?
@@unclecoolie We elected to take the fastest route possible since both of us were tired and our patience with each other had somehow cooled during the previous 3 days of being cooped up inside the car. Had it been a sightseeing, relaxed trip, we might have elected to take the other route that goes a bit further south and see SD, Wyoming, etc
@@GTAIVisbest Understood. That's a big reason why I prefer to do long road trips alone.
Hey, UCP! I'm stoked for the new upload. And you're starting in my hometown! I wish I'd known that you were going to be here. I'd have loved to shake your hand and thank you for all the awesome content.
Thank you! I was in Seattle that week from 1/18-1/20 for work, and I was due to fly home on 1/21. After major flight delays getting out to Seattle from DC, and the fact that I hadn't done a major road trip in a year, I decided almost last-minute to do this drive back. I have other upcoming trips scheduled later this year, so I might make use of those trips to do more videos. 😊
Yes my favorite TH-camr is back. I appreciate this video very very much thanks and greetings from Germany
Thank you! I went several months without uploading video because I was doing some extensive renovations in my house, and then I went to Kenya for almost the whole month of December. But I don't plan to go so long without uploads going forward.
@@unclecoolie it's ok man you stay best
I did this trip only in the other direction and in August. I had my two elderly dogs with me so we stopped much more frequently. After blasting my way up to Chicago to visit an old friend, I took the rest of the way a little more leisurely. I took I-90 in South Dakota and visited Sioux Falls then stopped to see the Minuteman Sites, the Badlands and Mount Rushmore. After that, I checked out Deadwood and Devil's Tower before heading to Yellowstone through Cody, WY. And finally rejoining I-90 in Bozeman, MT and continueing West. August is a great time to do this trip. It's light out so late that far north and makes the driving very enjoyable. As well, stopping in the national parks really changes the experience. Having lived so long on the East Coast, I didn't have an appreciation for the wonders of the national parks. Anyhow, thinks for sharing your trip.
That sounds a lot like the first "big" road trip that I did back in August 16-21, 2017, which started out in Omaha, then up into SW MN and across SD and WY, visiting the same parks that you visited, before passing through Grand Teton and into ID then south on I-15 through UT visiting Bryce Canyon and Zion NPs. That was a fun trip that I'd love to repeat one day.
You are Incredible, this trip is going to explode, turning the dream of travel lovers into reality, congratulations, it was worth the wait
Thank you! I decided to do this trip almost last-minute. I had to go to Seattle for business, and decided to just drive back home to Virginia instead of flying back.
Good to see the king of road trips back on his throne here on YT. Amazing video as always!
I just got busy with a new job, home renovations, and a big trip to Kenya in December. I have many more videos to upload!
hi, uncle coolie, I will follow yours and make my road trip from Seattle to DC of Washington next year. Thank you.
Awesome. I recommend not doing it in winter, though.
Taking a much more northerly route than the others no doubt for maximum snow. Looking forward to this. Setting off now!
I had never been along I-94, and I had never been to North Dakota before doing this drive, so those were the primary reason for choosing this route, along with the fact that I only had 3.5 days to do this. I went to Seattle for business and I was due to fly back home on the Friday that I started this road trip. I just decided to drive back, but I had to be back home by Monday afternoon for important meetings.
I had never seen MT, ND, WI, MN, or MI in his videos....nor have I seen them myself lol
@@thelonelywolf88 I had never been to ND and MI before this trip. With those two states checked off the list, I'm down to 5 states left to visit: AK, HI, LA, MS, and VT. I'll eventually visit those states as well.
West-
Washington 0:10-1:03:05
Idaho 1:03:07-1:18:20
Montana 1:18:22-3:32:47
Midwest-
North Dakota 3:32:50-4:45:27
Minnesota 4:45:29-5:46:32
Wisconsin 5:46:34-6:53:05
Illinois 6:53:07-7:18:27
Indiana-Part 1 7:18:30-7:29:58
Michigan 7:30:00-7:31:30
Indiana-Part 2 7:31:32-7:55:50
Ohio 7:55:52-8:52:21
Northeast-
Pennsylvania 8:52:24-9:33:55
South-
Maryland 9:33:57-9:54:06
District of Columbia 9:54:08-9:58:56
Bonus Video
South-
District of Columbia 9:59:07-10:00:28
Virginia 10:00:30-10:06:22
Just wanted to say thank you for this. It’s so beautiful and mesmerizing to watch you drive this. I loved your other one from DC to Seattle.
Thank you!
I love these sped up videos of long road trips! Northern Idaho is very scenic!
Thank you! That section and into Montana was my favorite part of this drive.
the tickets from the USA are very beautiful, Hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷🇺🇲
Awesome video! I would love it if someone did this for a European roadtrip (like Lisbon-Tallinn or Palermo-Luleå which are almost the same distance as in this video, or shorter trips like Amsterdam-Athens)
Thank you! I've been wanting to do a European version for a long time. So far I just have a drive through southern Germany.
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Just found your stream. I am travelling from Great Falls MT out to Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin in a week. I am watching this with anticipation. I hope to learn about the roads from here to there at least. I will add my comments as I watch.
I have been to the Walmart in Billings! We have relatives there and visit quite often.
On this trip I will join I94 at Glendive, MT. Plan to take 94 all the way until I turn east for Oshkosh.
Awesome. The weather should be better in March than in January when I did this.
I love te see how the landscape changes when you pass through those different climate zones, from rainy, foggy pacific costal weather (reminds me to our European winter weather) to the huge amount of snow in the mountains (like in our Alps), and the super cold continental weather of ND, MN (to see this I have to go to Scandinavia or western Russia, we almost never have this here). DC in the East coast with its subtropical Sommer weather has just normal winter weather, with short but strong greetings from continental cold.
yes thank you! a new video, and im amazed at how quickly your channel is growing, 7k views in only 5 days! Keep it up man.
Thank you!
I noticed your troubles in Wisconsin. Then there were the semi trailers in the median. They earn their keep driving in that weather.
yeah. Everything with this trip was going well until the 3rd morning, driving from Minneapolis.
2:02:29 Highest point of the trip: Homestake Pass, 6,329 ft. ASL. Also the Continental Divide
Yes! It's unfortunate that it was dark at the time.
@@unclecoolie Remember I told you about this in Mass along I-90? The "Highest point on I-90 East of South Dakota?"
th-cam.com/video/Bxzd87Ng3SM/w-d-xo.html
You'll find it at 3 14 09 on the linked video
@@MarkL0360 I remember.
Thanks for another awesome upload. I enjoyed watching the snow covered landscape especially through the mountains and across the plains of Montana and North Dakota. I'm sure that making these videos is getting more expensive with the high price of gas, but know that they are appreciated. I can't travel as much as I used to these days, but your complete road trips allow me to feel immersed in these landscapes. Thank you. 🙂
Thank you! Yes, I really have to budget the gas costs now. I spent more than $400 in gas on this trip, and gas prices have gone up even more. I'm about to do another big road trip, and I'm figuring on spending at least $500 for it.
Hi Unclecoolie. Many thanks for this post. I enjoyed the ride through the northern part of the States. I found the first part through WA, ID, and MT the most interesting. I was happy to find out, that you now have posted this part in a separate video in real-time. Appreciate your efforts! This corner of the USA will for sure be on my list for the planned driving trip to the states. The problem is, that planning is running for ages now. Thanks again and always a safe trip to you.
Thank you! I've only posted the first two days (so far) due to the fact that I wasn't happy with the quality of the video from the final 2 days because of dirty windshield. I may still upload those 2 days after I finish my VA-TX & TX-VA trip.
A lot of thanx from France !! 😍
A lot of thanx from the Washington, DC area! 😊
A tougher winter trip for parts of this journey. Like all of the vids, I am amazed at the lack of pit stops to see historical stuff. Or maybe those excursions are cut out. The temptation to make the trip twice as long must be great.
Too often when I do long road trips like this I don't have much time to do them, so I have to maximize distance over sight-seeing. Sometimes, I can get some extra time for points of interest stops and to avoid only taking interstates. One such trip is my trip from last year when I drove to Mt Washington. Another is when I drove from Nebraska to California in August 2017, and even during my NY-CA drive from September 2022.
@@unclecoolie Thanks Uncle. I am glad you got some interest stops.
Huh. I actually live nearby I-480 East going through Cleveland and you passed by the exit I always go through to go back home. Wonder if I was out that night.
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9:28:37 Can we all just take a moment to roll our eyes for Breezewood, arguably the most frustrating interchange of the interstate highway system?
I agree. It's weird that one must use this route to be back on the interstate.
At 8:37:00 you passed Twinsburg, OH where I once lived and about 8:49:00 you passed North Lima where I also lived. I also lived in PA but well south of the turnpike.
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I originally thought of driving from NV to FL next winter (I do not drive in snow, so I need the southern states) but will not have enough time off work, so I opted to fly to FL instead. But I really LOVE this channel because I can at least pretend to be on road trips. Keep it up and if you ever need to hire a second driver, I'm here for you (just not over snow).
Thanks! After this trip, I won’t be doing anymore road-trips in the northern states in winter again.
Great video, this must take forever to render!
Thank you! It does take a massive amount of time. For these UHD videos, I have to do rendering 3 times: once for adding the GPS information using the Virb software; 2nd for after finishing all of the other editing in Final Cut Pro; and finally using iMovie to compress the video to below 128 GB to upload to YT. Each time it takes at least an entire day. I have a 2 TB external hard drive that I only use for video editing, and it comes close to being completely full by the time I have a finished video ready for upload.
@@unclecoolie In case you haven't noticed, TH-cam increased the limit from 128 GB to 256 GB.
@@AnimatingStudios2002 I was not aware of that. Thanks for letting me know! Believe it or not, I would still have had to compress this video as the original file was more than 300 GB in size!
You actually went in The county I live in during that trip of yours when you came across Minnesota thanks for your advice
Hi, the coldest temperature, according to the readout in the top right corner, is -15 degrees Celsius, measured around 4:27:42!!! And I didn't watch the whole video at this moment!!!
Hi. Actually, the coldest temperature of this trip was -25 C just outside of Minneapolis on the morning of the third day (5:43:00).
Come back soon, come back with the masterpieces of North America, you will be sorely missed by lovers of your works
I just got done with lots of traveling, and I have much video to edit and upload. I should have the first big video uploaded in 2-3 weeks.
Greatest collection of videos on the YT! Thank you for all the work that goes into these!
Glad you like them! Thanks!
Ayy good to have you back :D
Thank you! I will try not to go so long without uploading videos again.
Getting hot but I'm slowly working my way across America when I can
I suspect it's going to take as few months but the constant snow of Montana is so appreciated right now.
It's gets interesting when you get to central North Dakota.
Nice video. I enjoy watching these road trip videos across America
Thank you!
@@unclecoolie No problem! Cannot wait for more time lapse and real time road trips when you do them.
@@matthewricketts5330 I just confirmed that I will have another big trip coming up soon, so I'll have even more video coming! 2022 looks like it will be a good year for road trips.
@@unclecoolie Cool!
North Dakota has the same feature as kansas: mostly flat yet you descend a lot in elevation while going eastward
Yep, the signature features of the Great Plains. At least there were some buttes and small mountains in the western part of the state.
love watching videos like this and seeing someone pass directly next to my neighborhood lol
Thanks for taking me into Washington DC. That was a little extra.
Thank you!
If you ever need any information about Scotland or England or Wales, let me know.
@@gvdlpgg2406 Thanks!
I know this was along time ago but at the hotel in Minnesota, you were right by my house 😂 just such a small world 👍
Cool! Yeah, 2 years ago already. I remember that frigid morning well!
We really live in the most beautiful country on earth ❤️🥹. We have all sorts of terrain and climate & I just think it’s such a blessing to live here, even if sometimes it feels like the opposite.
This brings back tons of memories. Washington is definitely one of my favorite states, I’ve also been to Coeur D’Alene, Missoula, and on another trip, Bismarck and Fargo, along with most of Minnesota. I’ve also lived in Maryland, close to DC, so I would consider that a home of mine.
I liked this drive very much until my windshield wiper fluid froze solid.
I liked the video of a straight line to go far, there is no where to turn, I liked what other videos there are, a straight line to go far
Thanks for putting this together! You and J Utah inspired me to do similar videos here in Croatia (although much shorter distances). I posted a couple of them (mostly short distances between towns). Longest trip I posted is 1 hour timelapse (real time > 4 hours) from Zagreb to Šibenik (~ 330 km). Cheers!
Thank you! I'll check them out.
Made this drive twice over 2020. Thanks for sharing!
hello, can i ask you a question? I'll take this road trip late April, how is the road like? is it still snowing? sorry about my English.
Man thanks for the road trip videos is very very very calming and enjoyable it feels like I'm in the car riding with you
My pleasure!
I've missed that I80/90 exit too and also took an unplanned detour into Michigan.
Believe it or not, I intentionally driving into Michigan because I had never been to Michigan before. This was one of two states that I crossed off the list of states that I had never been to prior to this road trip. The other state is North Dakota. Now I'm down to 5 states that I've never been to. They are Alaska, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Vermont. I hope to check those states all off in the next couple of years.
@@unclecoolie That detour was my only excursion into Michigan, too, and I've been living in Chicago for 20 years! New Orleans is worth a visit--I grew up there.
@@jtdavis62 I'd wanted to go to Marti Gras last week, but couldn't work a trip down there with mine and my wife's schedule. I'm seriously going to push to go next year, but I'd like to do a road trip through there this year sometime.
@@unclecoolie I’m also down to 5 states: Alaska, Arkansas, Michigan, North Dakota and Oklahoma. I actually came close to Michigan on a cross country trip with my family back in 2001; we went to a Cubs game one day, made a stop at Notre Dame, then made our way into Pennsylvania.
Awesome! Voyage Home from Seattle! You just passed my hometown in Pittsburgh metro. I had rode PA turnpike many times.
It has been terrific to view the winter weather step between Montana State in one side and Nord Dakota and Minnesota state on the other side... Temperature average in Montana on 0-3 degrees, and terrible snow storm with temperature of -20 degrees in ND and arctic freezing weather in MN nearby the great lakes. Fantastic.
I agree. The only problem was not realizing that the frigid temperatures would freeze my windshield wiper fluid, making the drive through much of the last 2 days of the trip very frustrating.
Appreciate the detour into DC when after 4 days on the road you could be forgiven for justing wanting to get home asap. Also the numerous stops to clean the winscreen, especially on Day 3, it must have added at least an hour onto your overall trip.
Thanks! Having the frozen windshield wiper fluid was really frustrating, especially in the morning of day 3.
Good video thx for this upload. Greetings form Turkey.
Thank you! I really appreciate it! Greetings from the Washington, DC area.
Jeez man, if I didn't know better, I'd say you were being stalked by the "Clark Fork River" in western Montana! How many times did you pass over it? I lost track at 10 times! LOL
Lol. When I was editing this video, I just copied that text and pasted, eventually, as I got tired of typing that.
You finally uploaded another long Road Trip. Congratulations! I haven't seen it yet but looks to be interesting because I've always wanted to see what the Northern States looked like in the Winter.
It looks like there's some sections in the darkness which I know you try to avoid but I understand that it's difficult to do an all-daylight trip in the winter on a strict time schedule, especially up there where the days are even shorter. However, only one of them is in the Mountain West and it looks like you were able to get most of the more scenic Mountain passes in the daytime. Also thanks for covering I-94 Eastbound. The westbound trip was covered by Barbiepoledancer back in 2013 but she decided to go on I-90 when heading back east. All in all, great video and hope to check it out (and post my album list) in the coming days :)
EDIT: After watching the entire video, it was quite the adventure. Loved getting to see the scenery of the Rockies and Appalachians covered with snow as well other scenic landmarks such as Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It was also nice to get a good idea of which areas regularly get snow in the winter since this was filmed in the middle of January. The windshield didn't bother me too much as a viewer. It was also nice to take a look at the progress of Seattle's LINK Light Rail extension and see some of the DC Metro in action. Also DC proper leading up to the WH area seemed to be a very exciting area to hang out. Only bummer was that most of the scenery of Montana (particularly the transition from Rockies to Plains east of Butte) wasn't recorded in the video due to being driven during the night. Great work! Some good trip ideas would be all of I-10 or the entire Trans-Canada Highway (in the summer, of course).
Thank you! The biggest downfall with driving in the wintertime is the short days. I had some other issues with this trip, such as having the windshield wiper fluid freeze when I stayed in the Minneapolis area, which made keeping the windshield clean a major problem. So, I don't think I'll be doing any northern road trips in the wintertime anytime in the near future. My next road trip will likely be through the warmer southern states.
@@unclecoolie Hah, the exact same problem happened to us at the exact same time of year in the exact same city! I remember an 18-wheeler sprayed some sleet droplets onto our windshield as we zipped by at 75MPH in the fast lane. I went to activate the wiper fluid and none came out - it was frozen solid. The wiper blades smeared the sleet all over our windshield and for one panicked moment we were completely blind.
I remember stopping on a farm road close to the whizzing traffic of the interstate as we got our shoes muddy and poured bottled water over the windshield to clean it
@@GTAIVisbest Yeah, I was nervous when I found out the fluid was frozen. There was one moment where I tried to pass a truck and instantly couldn't see anything. It happened somewhere in northwestern Wisconsin.
This is awesome! It seems like this summer I’m going on an epic road trip from Pennsylvania to Toronto!
I am going on epic road trip from Texarkana, Texas to Texarkana, Arkansas.
Sounds fun. I originally planned to go to Toronto via Niagara Falls back when I did my trip to Newfoundland in 2018, but I just couldn't fit it into my schedule as I didn't want to drive 16 hours in one day. That will have to be part of a separate trip for me at some point.
Pretty crazy that it was 46 fahrenheit in Seattle given the amount of snow we encountered once we headed into the mountains.
I agree. It had been really chilly in Seattle all that week, and the 46 degrees that Friday morning was the warmest morning in Seattle all that week.
You stayed literally five minutes away from my house when you stopped in Ohio!!! It’s so weird seeing my hometown & surrounding cities on camera LOL
Cool! 😊
7:54:55 I used to work this toll road! Lane 4 is usually super busy.
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Now please can you post part 3 and 4 on this trip seattle wa to washington dc?
7:06:18 I live in the district Schaumburg in Germany. I recently found out about Schaumburg, Illinois, that immigrants from Germany came here in the 18th Century. The name comes from the Schaumburg Castle in Lower Saxony. It's so interesting. I like your trips in the US!
Awesome! I know a lot of the early European settlers, especially in the Midwest, were Germans.
Can you upload Maple Grove MN to Brook Park OH in real time part 3 washington to washington and also Brook Park to Washington D.C. in real time and including the bonus video for part 4
I'll try to get to that eventually.
Port Angeles all over Florida and back this winter. 9k miles
Wow!
i wish this was in the summer. i understand the snow is picturesque but it covers all of the terrain and interesting features of the land, each state just looks the same in snow
I'll likely do another similar trip like this, and it won't be in winter. After this trip, I don't plan to drive across the northern states in wintertime again.
thanks for posting these trips! I want to do this when I’m older
My pleasure!
This is awesome! Are you planning on doing an I-10 drive at some point say from Jacksonville to LA. It's a drive I want to do some day if I get the time.
Thanks! I don't know if I can do the entirety of I-10, but I'm hoping to do some of it very soon.
Nice car journey across America 🇺🇸🚘🇺🇸🚘👍
Thank you!
I'll be waiting for the realtime version, I'm still watching your penultimate video that was of you going to North Carolina
I will be uploading the real time of this trip next, starting with day one in 2-3 weeks. I will eventually upload the two last parts of the real time version of that Florida trip.
I would love if you made a hyperlapse of this
I plan to do just that. I've been so busy with work and personal things that I haven't been able to do much editing. I am going to do a nice, two-day road trip this weekend, and will get that uploaded soon though.
@@unclecoolie nice, thank you so much for responding!
I’ve made that drive across North Dakota 4 times now.
It was interesting, but I'd much rather do it sometime other than in wintertime.
@@unclecoolie definitely an interesting drive during the summer. But if you’re heading west after 6 pm, the sun will be in your eyes until it finally sets around 10 pm.
Thank you! As a retired OTR driver, it's cool to ride shotgun and see where I been!
Thanks!
Can you make this video Timelapse like the One when you went to Seattle from Washington D.C
Eventually, yes.
Amazing footage. Can you please tell us what type of car your driving and do you have snow rated tyres on the vehicle. 120odd kmh in that weather is so crazy. I love the video though.
Thanks! I was driving a Chrysler Voyager that I rented from Seattle and dropped off at Dulles Airport at the very end of this video. I don't remember it having anything other than all-weather tires, but I had no issues with the snow in ND and MN.
Yay glad to see another video!
Thank you! I will upload the real time versions starting in a few weeks.
@@unclecoolie ok cool!
Unclecoolie this is the one I did and got stranded in Minnesota.
Could you upload the final stretch from Minnesota to Washington DC please at normal speed so I can complete my trip.
You totally rock but trips at high speed are useless if your on an excercise bike.
I will eventually. I've been fortunate enough to have been able to do more road trips this year, including an awesome one that I just finished yesterday. I can't wait until I upload that video, and then I'll upload the rest of this trip in real time.
@@unclecoolie sounds awesome can't wait.
I've just entered new Brunswick on the Quebec trip .
Absolutely loved Quebec that was an awesome trip!
Got about 6 hours to go until I reach Nova Scotia.
Mi 239 in Berrien County???? Maybe 139? And Indiana 39 ?!?!? Where are these roads? They aren't showing up on Google maps! Oh, wait... I sneezed when crossing into Michigan, so I missed the immediate turn onto 239, then Ind 39. Really close-up view and fine print - only drove c. 2 miles on I94. My bad!
I did that tiny excursion into Michigan only because I'd never been there before.
There may be scope to do this at one quarter speed unclecoolie
I'm going to give it a shot anyway!
I will finish uploading the real time versions of this trip after I finish my TX-VA real time versions, and after I upload my brand new trip: NY-CA, which I hope to have uploaded by the end of this month.
Loved the Canadian trip unclecoolie thank you!
So rare we finish trip when it's still light!
That was simply perfect!
Yeah I'm starting to think that is the next trip I should do.
New York to Canada sounds absolutely awesome!
I love Quebec a complete surprise!
Thanks unclecoolie you rock
I've tried riding the high speed trips but their very hard on the excercise bike.
Why is it that I find a winter driving road trip so calming?
As my wife says, because I'm doing the driving. 😃
I'm late to the party, but thanks for making this video. I'm starting it right now!
Better late than never! Thanks!
do you have a cross country video doing the southern route? This one was awesome, and I've always wanted to do this, and the southern route. I've driven cross country on I80 several time because it was the quickest to get to family. The Northern and Southern routes would be for pleasure, someday.
Not yet, but I just finished a road trip that included part of that route. I'll be uploading after I finish Day 2 of the real time version of this trip.
You took the I94 all the way up to New Buffalo MI before turning back to the I80/90. This is when there was no GPS info so I am guessing that is the reason..?
The GPS data just happened to drop out for that period of time. I deliberately drove into Michigan because I had never been to Michigan before. I was using navigation on my phone for this trip. Normally, I try to get rental cars that have navigation already.
6:00:00 - Welcome to my hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin! It’s cold this day! BRRR!!!
It was pretty cold. It had been more than 26 years (Feb '96) since I experienced temperatures that cold, which was in West Virginia.
I live in Monroeville! So cool to see you drive thru
This was only the 2nd time I've been to the Pittsburgh area.
New video ! Thanks Uncle coolie.
My pleasure! 😊
Thanks for the video, I trying to do this drive in January, pcs from Tacoma wa to Bethesda Md and need some tips as I will be driving with my wife toddler and infant 2months old. Need some tips and advice from someone that has done the trip before
Thanks! You'll notice that in Minneapolis I lost my windshield wiper fluid (frozen at -13 degree temps), and it made driving very difficult that entire morning. I'd recommend driving a more southern route than the one I took in this video.
Thanks for the reply I appreciate
Ty so much another winter road trip video, was this 2021 christmas or was it this year
The opening title read this was January 21-24, 2022.
@@centuryrox Ok, Thanks
This was done between January 21-24 this year.
Just wondering if we pass through Chicago this trip
We always seem to skip it
Actually, no. I drove around Chicago. In hind sight, I wish I'd just stayed on I-90.
Love your videos!
Thank you! I have many more to come.
I'm from Montana and seeing "Bozoman, MT" made me chuckle haha
That was a "my bad" on my part.
could you upload the part 3 and part 4 of your trip please it's already 2024 and you have not uploaded yet?
I've fallen behind due to personal circumstances.
How about a trip on I-80 from San Francisco to New York.
I have I-80 covered from western Nebraska to Illinois already, and, especially in Nebraska, if wasn't particularly interesting. So, if I do another cross-country road trip, I'll likely choose I-90 or I-70, or even I-40 or I-10 first.
@@unclecoolie I’m sure those states are boring but I was thinking more of the western part of I-80, especially around Salt Lake and between Sacramento and Reno.
@@stevenmiller175 Maybe it could be a combination of that part of I-80 and I-90 east of there.