Oh u Wu? You been all over Texas have you? I didn't think so. Beaches, piney woods, hardwood forests, mountains, deserts, the Texas Hill Country? The caves and cave art? The bat colony in Austin? Close minded little people live sad lives. I don't feel sorry for you though because you CHOOSE to.
+Tom Swinburn the beaches are dirty though. and the 'mountains' and deserts are brown and dry as fuck. I lived in Texas for 8 years and none of it was special
i heard if you cross texas on i10 and youre with a friend and you two arent at each others throats by the end, that friendship will last forever.... and thats what the trip is like....
Made this drive over 100 times, so relaxing driving to El Paso and back to San Antonio/Austin, always have the stereo rockin, awesome song selection, brings back lots memories
Back when the speed limit was 55, people still drove 80 or even more, on this route. You rarely saw any cops, and back then, almost no traffic either. The last time I drove that route was from Junction to Balmorea, on my way to Alpine. Great trip, but it's like being on an alien planet out there! And you're right, you must take plenty of water especially if traveling in summer. I don't know how many people are familiar with this part of Texas, but if you get stranded in summer time, you will not survive without plenty of water. It is extremely HOT! At least during the day, then at night it's downright cold!
On top of that there's very poor cell reception along that stretch. I had to make that drive when I relocated from Texas to New Mexico. A freight truck in front of me crashed into a freight truck in front of him because he fell asleep at the wheel. It took forever to get any kind of reception and when we finally did no one knew which mile marker we had passed...that's the other thing people, pay attention to your mile markers because there is literally nothing else out there to guide you.
Maybe the exit numbers could help you because they correspond to the mile markers. However, there is only one exit for probably every 10-15 miles on this interstate.
@@wallj8720 Yeah I was going to say that too. I know they drove 80+ out here between Junction and Sonora Tx when the speed limit was 55 because I was there. And that highway was a two lane back then. My car would do 105 mph, and that's how fast I was going when a cop came from the other direction, also hauling ass. I thought, oh no this is gonna be a big fat ticket! But as he approached, he just waved and kept going. That's just how it was back then, out here anyway. They didn't care, we're a very long way from Washington D.C., the cops here couldn't care less what the Federal speed limit was.
I was born and raised in this part of the world. Made this drive literally hundreds of times while working in the oil and gas industry. About 45 miles from Ft. Stockton you passed a very well known natural monument known to as Squaw Teat Mountain. Thanks for sharing. All lot of great memories we’re made along this highway.
I took I-10 many times on the way to and from El Paso. It's one of the most enjoyable trips when the weather is like it is in the video. Listening to music as loud as I wanted and enjoying the panoramic view of the landscape. Thanks for sharing your video.
Thank you so much for putting this together. So bummed I didn't get to see this in daylight, during my 2nd drive through here. No major highlights; just a pretty drive that dispells the common perception of Texas being a flat and a bit of a featureless landscape.
FreewayBrent Thanks, that's kind of how I saw it going through (great minds think alike) it certainly is more interesting than the hum-drum rural drives in the east and midwest.
Freewayjim True boring that you can find in the East is I-81 between the I-70 Jct. and PA 581. That's about 65 miles, and in the east, that's pretty far.
The scenery is rather beautiful. I really like these flat top hills. Also that place is huge, I can't even imagine so many miles with no villages or small towns.
As you might tell by my youtube ID, I live in Hawaii (29 years straight!) and have driven I-10 round trip THREE times between LA and Houston to visit family in Houston. I really LOVE this entire route across 3 and 3/4 states stopping at Motel 6s in Benson, Az and Sonora, Tx (their accommodations are perfect for those simply driving thru. It is very relaxing to drive especially at 80 and 75 mph, only traffic issues (if any at all) are thru El Paso and Phoenix and first 90 miles between LA and San Bernardino. It completely breaks up the jet lag from Honolulu. And FREEWAYJIM, your videos are truly AWESOME!!!!!
I drove through here back in the Fall of 2013 after I left the Marine Corps. I was stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC and my home is in San Diego, CA. It was fun driving 90 mph and pass several DPS units without the fear of getting pulled over. Thanks for the memories Jim.
That's a long one! But not as long as Houston to Knoxville, TN. Me and my family did that on June 4th of this year. It was 940 Miles and took us 18 hours.
Freewayjim oh for sure, I live in South Carolina and can say the southeastern highways are super boring drives, though Tennessee and NC near the mountains are quite nice
Freewayjim around where in SC is your wife from? I've lived my whole life in Greenville but I'm moving to Oregon for college again at the end of the year, probably gonna stay there
I adore Texas...always have. I was raised in Southern OK. We went across the state line often. I've gone from Corpus Christi to Dalhart in the panhandle as well as El Paso to Shreveport, LA. Very diverse land AND some of the nicest people there are. Incidentally, I've always found Georgians to be terrific, too!
I love that trip, Ozona,and Junction are nice little Oases with Davy Crockett stories. You can take an interesting side trip and cross the Pecos at Sheffield. It's a long way but there's also Fort Stockton and Van Horn to break it up too!. I'm on the east coast ,if I could just close my eyes and get to the west side of San Antonio it would be perfect. Thanks for the great music.!
And that was just 81 miles of it. LOL.. It just keeps going and going and going! We have some land near Sonora, Tx. I love going out there on a weekend to just relax, shoot the guns, look at the stars at night and enjoy the complete silence.
Driving through west Texas is much different than driving through, say, Colorado. Everything in Texas is on a much grander scale. I really enjoyed watching the transition from the desert to the hill country going eastbound here.
That piece of 1973 map at the beginning brought back memories. My family used to take this route fairly often in the early 1970s when I-10 was still under construction, so there were lots of detours and lots of heavy machinery - an exciting show for a little kid!
It’s amazing to me that the state of Texas doesn’t have more gas stations, rest stops and medical centers along this stretch of interstate. This would be a nightmare of a place to have a medical emergency.
@@brettsoyars4341 Not really, the next two videos I filmed were from the El Paso area and have no connection to this one. I did do a "Middle of Nowhere II" from Wyoming in 2016 (the following year). th-cam.com/video/Haj-K_7Utiw/w-d-xo.html
Great video! Takes me back to many a road trip I did in South Africa. My Dad was a road engineer in SA back in the 1950's and 60's, and he studied the freeways in the USA, brought that design and layout back to SA, so the freeways there look exactly like this, rock cuttings and all. Even the surrounding territory looks similar. Only difference is you guys drive on the wrong side of the road!
Love youre videos man, just wanted to say thanks, they are great quality, and I LOVE to see parts of the world, I don't know why but I love travelling videos
I like your ride-alongs and your choice of music. We were coming back from Alpine, Texas a couple of winters ago, headed for Fredericksburg, towing a 38 foot fifthwheel. We found out why the ST trailer tires are limited to 65 MPH. Blew one about 40 miles outside of Junction, ripping the j-panel off the kitchen slide and shredding the underbelly fabric above the tire. Ya gotta love West Texas.
I appreciate the effort that you put in making your videos. The cleanliness of your windshield makes it for a smooth viewing. This video was very relaxing. Thank you.
I’ve driven this drive many times going to big bend and Guadalupe mountains I like how it goes from the karst topography of the hill country to the mountains
I'll be driving to CA in mid December so will be driving this route from Houston. Spending 1st night in Ft. Stockton. I'm looking forward to it! It sure beats the view in Houston!
Excellent looking video and an absolutely amazing ride. That was fun. The scenery was breathtaking and everything looked great. The music was the best. Definitely added a lot to the video. Thanx for posting this.
Nice video. I drove from Houston - Phoenix with my cousin & a friend, and three puppies in a 2016 Buick Verano, in one sitting. I love the drive, if the people you are with are good people.
I just watched this, I remember driving this back in 1990 going to California and stopped in Las Cruces, NM for the night. I think it was a Motel 6, interesting thing, the following year, 1991, in traveling back east, stopped in Las Cruces again, same hotel and same clerk who remembered me traveling the year before. But yeah this drive in Texas, spots I called the 100 miles of nothing. Speed back then was 65, but I drove like 75 to get through it. Thanks for recording a memory I have of that time.
Very nice videos. I like the part of the road where this video cuts off onto El Paso. I like the mountain country desert it becomes and also the windfarms on the way.
thank you so much for this video. I love driving through west texas and have not been able to recently. Please put up more west tex videos if you got em!
Took I-10 from Junction to Stockton in spring 2014, while on my way to Colorado. Unfortunately, the visibility was not that great due to fog and what seemed to be dust as well until I got well north of Stockton, close to Pecos. Sunny weather would've made the drive less dreary. Thanks for the video!
I lived in SW Montana for a few years so I got to know what "Big Sky" country was all about. 1-10 in West Texas, especially the further west you are, reminds me a bit of 1-94 in Eastern Montana. I'd love to make the drive from Houston to El Paso one day.
Pretty scenery! I don't get a chance to head out west very often (never had a reason to really). I agree with you though, people may talk smack about how boring western Texas is, but this particular stretch of I-10 is a lot more interesting than say I-10 in some parts of Mississippi where you can't see anything because trees line the road on either side for hundreds of miles. Nice video.
To Infiniti, And Beyond Much of Germany and Belgium are like that as well. Endless lines of trees (often just about 100 ft wide, not even an actual forest), so you have no connection to the landscape you're driving through. Quite boring.
European Roads That's probably to reduce the amount of traffic noise that residents who live next to the autoroute/ autobahn hear from the traffic. But you're right, it does make it boring.
Other than marveling the beautiful desolation of West Texas, the thing I marveled at the most were all the rock cuts; that's an engineering feat worthy of its' own discussion...
This reminds me of driving I-90 from Sioux Falls, SD to Rapid City,SD which I did twice in 2008 and 2010. Over 340 miles between the two towns. I drove 80mph the whole time too. This scenery reminds me of that. Very long....lol! Enjoy all your videos. Greetings from Knoxville,TN!!
Well, the scenery is better than I-20 in west Texas. The rock cuts remind me of I-65 in Kentucky and Tennessee. And no, I never could drive through Texas in a day. Drove through on two occasions and had to stop on both trips. Nope and nope.
+PelicanGuy Just drove through West Texas from El Paso to Fort Worth on the way back to Michigan from Phoenix. I have to agree with this. There is absolutely nothing out that way.
I have to say - i really love this channel...!! Whenever i visit somewhere I would do a roadtrip to see how the locals live. Also - you're taste in music is spectacular...! I'm streaming this to the big TV in the lounge, pretending i'm in a convertible, with the first song from little river band really loud... Freedom of the road
Your videos always kick ass! Regardless of where you film. You give a lot of geographical insight on places a lot of people cant travel to because of work/relationship demands....
I love west Tx. Was born in Monahans, lived in Andrews, Imperial, Iraan, Odessa, Ozona, and now live in Fort Stockton. I'll be here till the Lord Jesus takes me Home!
Oh, thank YOU! I enjoy your videos. Am riding with you through the river gorge between North Carolina and Tennessee right now. Lovely! :-) Edited to add: Here's the link, if anyone is interested. th-cam.com/video/ibNQWZB7dEA/w-d-xo.html
Another excellent video! And yes, I can see where you would get some kind of redemption from the views on this road. Having run I-10 from Jacksonville to Marianna quite a bit (and once to Pensacola) I can concur on the 'boring' part.
I stumbled across your Houston video and thought, oh wow, he is taking almost my exact route out of Houston! I'm traveling from Pecos to Houston and back to Pecos next week. The Galleria area of Houston. I've been traveling this route for 7 years now. Alone! Yes, your mind does wonder..... Great videos!
I love this video! It's true, there are stretches between Junction and Ozona that are less than interesting, but that makes the scenic spots all the more rewarding! One of my favorite parts of driving through West Texas is the gradually climbing elevation, and passing through the rock cuts. Once you're in the Pecos River area, it's like driving in a bowl with all the surrounding hills. Thanks so much for sharing this! Also, I love the song selection!
During the last minutes, I noticed the centerline doing a strobe like reverse direction optical illusion. It reminds me of watching spoked wheels under flourescent lighting. Cool effect.
3:33 is so true. That was near torture I am sure. 12:00, you went BarbiePoleDancer! But I do want to graze in those pastures at some point, just not in the summer. My wool is too much for that heat.
Great video Freewayjim, perfect soundtrack for a road trip. I enjoyed all 15 mins. By the way, you're right about there being more boring drives in the midwest. I-70 from Salina KS to the KS/CO state line is better driven at night.
@@Freewayjim Yes, we did. And that was a two lane back then. But we didn't do 80, we did whatever the car was capable of, usually 90-105 or so. If you did see a cop coming the opposite direction, he would just wave and go on. I never got stopped for speeding out there, everyone did it. But keep in mind, back in the '70's, there was almost nobody on that highway. We were young, we didn't even think about crashing, or breaking down and being stranded out there. We drove all the way to Big Bend in the summer of '76 for vacation. It was about 110 deg. out, and of course no cell phone, no way to get help, and pretty much no people anywhere. Yet we weren't worried. Seems weird to think about it now.
done I-10 Houston all the way to I-10 California a total of 6 times already back and forth... Very relaxing especially when it's 6 am in the morning and the entire road to yourself...
yup 880 miles, that's just over 1300 km, about the same length between Winnipeg and Edmonton. I do that all the time in a single day. Should be do-able for me I'm thinking in Texas :-D It can't be worse than Saskatchewan. One of my favourite things to do on long road trips is to listen to audio plays of westerns in the car. Seems like it would be fitting in Texas.
I was thinking the same thing about what you said around 9:50 .How the 1800s were like .Also the guys who did the rock cuts when the road was being built.Great Ride Jim!
During the 1970's this part of i10 was under construction. The speed was 55 mph. The detour was on us 290 from Sheffield to outside of Sonora. It was a two lane road which made it way up an escarpement to get to the Edward's Plateau.
Good video! Drove this route recently from San Antonio to Van Horn. I really enjoyed it, especially the big sky country out in Van Horn, but you're right: be sure to gas up, and load up on plenty of water and munchies.
Thank you, believe it or not, I-70 from Green River to Salina in Utah is much more desolate than this route, there is a sign that says "Next Service 106 Miles"
Im from San Antonio and have been living in the Philippines since 2014, god how i miss the roads there cz the people here do not know how to drive at all they are always taking up two lanes and cutting you off and doing u turns right in front of me. I wish my wife here would say lets go live in san antonio, texas. Thanks for the video freewayjim looking forward to more.......
We drove from the Emerald Coast of Florida clear out to Santa Monica this past December. I watched this video before we left, but it admittedly doesn't capture the true wide open spaces out there and the interesting landscape. And yes, there are definitely sections of highway duller than this, I-80 across Pennsylvania comes to mind. If it wasn't Christmas season when we went, "It's a Long Way There" would have absolutely been on my playlist. Anyone notice the near total lack of billboards in the video?
Hard to capture everything in a "Sampler" type of video, I'd agree there is more to the ride than this, I generally don't ddo multi-hour rides on video though, unless it's something really interesting, and even then, I'll rarely do it.
as long as there are curves, hills, some greenery ... twist and turns...i'm fine with 4 or 5 hundred miles of nothing ... but if it's a straight line with only a hill cresting over so you can see the next 100 miles of straight road ... i would freak. I think you and the other travelers showed what that is like somewhere on Interstate 80 in Utah... i can barely handle 20 miles of straight road out here in California before going bonkers. Yes, I did see "thing" hahahaha... Oh and splattered bug on the windshield ... yes, annoying...especially when they are juicy with pollen. i can imagine the southern states where the bugs seem to be straight out of prehistoric time periods.. As usual, thanks for the ride!
I've been on I-10 west of there, where I-20 W ends into it, and that's also in the middle of nowhere. I think my sister's been on one of those long boring stretches in the Midwest, I-70 through Kansas.
I drove from Atlanta to Los Angeles last year and the stretch between Waskom, Texas to El Paso (well, Anthony on the NM-TX borderline) is a 12-13 hour haul! I spent the night in Dallas and El Paso, so I guess that doesn't count
I've driven this route going to Odessa , nothing but hills after San Antonio . Truckers take advantage of the downhills drop so get out of the way , but man it's amazing drive!
I thought all the "nothingness" existed on the Florida's Turnpike from Fort Pierce to Orlando, the 76 miles of Alligator Alley or all of Ontario 417 from the Quebec-Ontario provincial line to Ottawa from my own travels. I did not notice a single convenience store at any interchange while you filmed.
luvcarsgay You are correct, there was not one that I recall during that stretch. We did stop at Exit 400 before filming this and it had quite a few establishments.
I was thinking the same thing about the pioneers in the 1800's. They must have had little towns ever so many miles. But with the railroad coming in the 1800's, they were probably glad then.
If you traveled 81 miles in 57 minutes, on average your speed was 85.26 mph and you stopped so your speed was even higher! You must have been going about 90 mph. Anyways, nice video!
+TJBellamy99 Not really, the stop to clean the windshield took about 30 seconds, the car was never turned off so I was going more like 86-87...glad you stayed for the credits though, thanks for watching :)
Texas is one of the few beautiful deserted places in America , also the stars at night
The stars at night
are big and bright.
Deep in the heart of Texas!
+LegendMeadow it is not pretty lmai
Oh u Wu? You been all over Texas have you? I didn't think so. Beaches, piney woods, hardwood forests, mountains, deserts, the Texas Hill Country? The caves and cave art? The bat colony in Austin? Close minded little people live sad lives. I don't feel sorry for you though because you CHOOSE to.
+Tom Swinburn the beaches are dirty though. and the 'mountains' and deserts are brown and dry as fuck. I lived in Texas for 8 years and none of it was special
Actually you are correct, and on behalf of 28 million Texans, DON'T COME BACK! Frankly, you should had taken a nother 5 millio with ya
80 miles of absolute beauty, excellent as always. also love all those rock cuts, really shows the flow of the interstate through the land.
+David Carson Thank you, the 500+ miles to El Paso were much more interesting than I expected.
i heard if you cross texas on i10 and youre with a friend and you two arent at each others throats by the end, that friendship will last forever.... and thats what the trip is like....
+esser My son and I did just fine but yeah I don't doubt what you said.
I know about 4 or 5 people I know I'd be ready to leave on the side of this road dealing with them. Lol
Well, that is our state’s motto
Texas is Tejas in Spanish and that means friend
You're not wrong! Try 16 days on the road with the Mrs. Got home still smiling. Maybe that's why we've been going strong for 26+ years :-).
BTW for you pot smokers, there is an exit 420 and coincidentally the name of the exit is "Baker". The mile makers have been stolen.
Could you imagine living in this remote area? Seriously, like this is where the hills have eyes are made.
I hear ya, it's way too desolate for me.
Cool video, its interesting how Texas changes from humid to desert as you go west, southeast meets southwest in Texas when it comes to terrain
acfhs2010 You are absolutely right, thanks!
Made this drive over 100 times, so relaxing driving to El Paso and back to San Antonio/Austin, always have the stereo rockin, awesome song selection, brings back lots memories
Thank you for watching!
This video made me cry remembering my trip across their in 1975 in a small car in August with no AC. The best of times
Thank you for watching!
Back when the speed limit was 55, people still drove 80 or even more, on this route. You rarely saw any cops, and back then, almost no traffic either. The last time I drove that route was from Junction to Balmorea, on my way to Alpine. Great trip, but it's like being on an alien planet out there! And you're right, you must take plenty of water especially if traveling in summer. I don't know how many people are familiar with this part of Texas, but if you get stranded in summer time, you will not survive without plenty of water. It is extremely HOT! At least during the day, then at night it's downright cold!
On top of that there's very poor cell reception along that stretch. I had to make that drive when I relocated from Texas to New Mexico. A freight truck in front of me crashed into a freight truck in front of him because he fell asleep at the wheel. It took forever to get any kind of reception and when we finally did no one knew which mile marker we had passed...that's the other thing people, pay attention to your mile markers because there is literally nothing else out there to guide you.
Maybe the exit numbers could help you because they correspond to the mile markers. However, there is only one exit for probably every 10-15 miles on this interstate.
I would imagine 62-64 on average, 65 mph would be what people would drive when 55 was the law in the US.
@@ir10031981 i live in areas which currently have 55 limits. people do like 80+ regulalrly there so i dont think so
@@wallj8720 Yeah I was going to say that too. I know they drove 80+ out here between Junction and Sonora Tx when the speed limit was 55 because I was there. And that highway was a two lane back then. My car would do 105 mph, and that's how fast I was going when a cop came from the other direction, also hauling ass. I thought, oh no this is gonna be a big fat ticket! But as he approached, he just waved and kept going. That's just how it was back then, out here anyway. They didn't care, we're a very long way from Washington D.C., the cops here couldn't care less what the Federal speed limit was.
I was born and raised in this part of the world. Made this drive literally hundreds of times while working in the oil and gas industry. About 45 miles from Ft. Stockton you passed a very well known natural monument known to as Squaw Teat Mountain. Thanks for sharing. All lot of great memories we’re made along this highway.
Thank you for the comment and for watching!
One of your best videos. Helped me clean my mind after a long day at the office.
IsraelRoads Thank you very much!
+IsraelRoads yes, it really helps you to release stress
I took I-10 many times on the way to and from El Paso. It's one of the most enjoyable trips when the weather is like it is in the video. Listening to music as loud as I wanted and enjoying the panoramic view of the landscape. Thanks for sharing your video.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you so much for putting this together. So bummed I didn't get to see this in daylight, during my 2nd drive through here. No major highlights; just a pretty drive that dispells the common perception of Texas being a flat and a bit of a featureless landscape.
FreewayBrent Thanks, that's kind of how I saw it going through (great minds think alike) it certainly is more interesting than the hum-drum rural drives in the east and midwest.
FreewayBrent Exactly!
Freewayjim True boring that you can find in the East is I-81 between the I-70 Jct. and PA 581. That's about 65 miles, and in the east, that's pretty far.
Multiblue Blanket Yep, I've driven that, very boring stretch of road.
Freewayjim Never been on that, but I'll take your word for it that it's boring
The scenery is rather beautiful. I really like these flat top hills. Also that place is huge, I can't even imagine so many miles with no villages or small towns.
As you might tell by my youtube ID, I live in Hawaii (29 years straight!) and have driven I-10 round trip THREE times between LA and Houston to visit family in Houston. I really LOVE this entire route across 3 and 3/4 states stopping at Motel 6s in Benson, Az and Sonora, Tx (their accommodations are perfect for those simply driving thru. It is very relaxing to drive especially at 80 and 75 mph, only traffic issues (if any at all) are thru El Paso and Phoenix and first 90 miles between LA and San Bernardino. It completely breaks up the jet lag from Honolulu. And FREEWAYJIM, your videos are truly AWESOME!!!!!
also, the rest areas in Texas are awesome and the latrines are very CLEAN
Truckers seem to outnumber others by 2 to 1 and of the non-truckers seems like half of those are RVs
Thank you for watching and for your comments! glad you enjoy the videos.
Jim, this is one of your best! I love long hauls and desolate stretches of road - your soundtrack for this ride was perfect!! Well done!!!!
The HighwayMan Thanks, I appreciate that coming from you....you would enjoy this ride in person.
Gotta agree with The HighwayMan. Your choice of music not only here but in other vids is great.
I would love to go to the US, get a car a drive through these deserted stretches of road: it's so relaxing!
I drove through here back in the Fall of 2013 after I left the Marine Corps. I was stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC and my home is in San Diego, CA. It was fun driving 90 mph and pass several DPS units without the fear of getting pulled over. Thanks for the memories Jim.
great video, looking forward to watching many more.. thanks
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it!
I've been enjoying the drive between Ozona & Fort Stockton for a long time. Its become one of my favorite drives in Texas.
In 2011 I drove from Beaumont to El Paso in one run. Took about 13 1/2 hours.
Susan Shipman That's definitely a haul.
That's a long one! But not as long as Houston to Knoxville, TN. Me and my family did that on June 4th of this year. It was 940 Miles and took us 18 hours.
Susan Shipman What about Orange?
74ryanwolf Orange was the opposite direction of where I was going!
Susan Shipman: Wow, like Jim said, that is seriously one long haul. Impressive.
Amazing how deserted this part of Texas is. Reminds me of the movie No Country for Old Men.
Yes it does.
The flat openness of the desert is really cool imo, driving through Kansas Texas New Mexico and Arizona is some of my favorite freeway experience
I like it better than the tree-lined Interstates in the east.
Freewayjim oh for sure, I live in South Carolina and can say the southeastern highways are super boring drives, though Tennessee and NC near the mountains are quite nice
Definitely yes, I live in Atlanta and wifey is from SC, driving there is a snoozefest but I enjoy the drive to Nashville where my son attends college.
Freewayjim around where in SC is your wife from? I've lived my whole life in Greenville but I'm moving to Oregon for college again at the end of the year, probably gonna stay there
She's from Walterboro (Low Country), Oregon is really interesting, hope it all works out for you.
Thank you very much for this great video - As always
על גלגלים On Wheels Thank you for watching!
Watching this really hit the spot for me today. And the songs were perfect match.
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
I adore Texas...always have. I was raised in Southern OK. We went across the state line often. I've gone from Corpus Christi to Dalhart in the panhandle as well as El Paso to Shreveport, LA. Very diverse land AND some of the nicest people there are. Incidentally, I've always found Georgians to be terrific, too!
Agreed on all counts.
You have chosen very good songs.
Thank you!
I love that trip, Ozona,and Junction are nice little Oases with Davy Crockett stories. You can take an interesting side trip and cross the Pecos at Sheffield. It's a long way but there's also Fort Stockton and Van Horn to break it up too!. I'm on the east coast ,if I could just close my eyes and get to the west side of San Antonio it would be perfect. Thanks for the great music.!
Thank you for then comment and for watching!
And that was just 81 miles of it. LOL.. It just keeps going and going and going! We have some land near Sonora, Tx. I love going out there on a weekend to just relax, shoot the guns, look at the stars at night and enjoy the complete silence.
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I agree and thank you for watching!
I have always liked this video a lot. The landscape is unlike anywhere else and the music is spot on
Driving through west Texas is much different than driving through, say, Colorado. Everything in Texas is on a much grander scale. I really enjoyed watching the transition from the desert to the hill country going eastbound here.
Going from the Plains to the Rockies on Colorado is pretty darn impressive, but this ride is not bad at all.
That piece of 1973 map at the beginning brought back memories. My family used to take this route fairly often in the early 1970s when I-10 was still under construction, so there were lots of detours and lots of heavy machinery - an exciting show for a little kid!
It’s amazing to me that the state of Texas doesn’t have more gas stations, rest stops and medical centers along this stretch of interstate. This would be a nightmare of a place to have a medical emergency.
I know this part of I 10. Its interesting to watch how the land changes. I love it!
Thank you for watching!
@@Freewayjim I've passed through there so many times. Mostly from Sonora to Fort Stockton. Sometimes further.
@@Freewayjim Is there a sequel where you pick up where you left off on this video?
@@brettsoyars4341 Not really, the next two videos I filmed were from the El Paso area and have no connection to this one. I did do a "Middle of Nowhere II" from Wyoming in 2016 (the following year). th-cam.com/video/Haj-K_7Utiw/w-d-xo.html
I actually enjoyed watching the ride and listening to the music.
I'm glad you did, thank you!
Great video! Takes me back to many a road trip I did in South Africa. My Dad was a road engineer in SA back in the 1950's and 60's, and he studied the freeways in the USA, brought that design and layout back to SA, so the freeways there look exactly like this, rock cuttings and all. Even the surrounding territory looks similar. Only difference is you guys drive on the wrong side of the road!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful countryside. I love western landscapes.
Love youre videos man, just wanted to say thanks, they are great quality, and I LOVE to see parts of the world, I don't know why but I love travelling videos
Jaret Wood You are welcome. Thank you very much for the comment and for watching!
I like your ride-alongs and your choice of music. We were coming back from Alpine, Texas a couple of winters ago, headed for Fredericksburg, towing a 38 foot fifthwheel. We found out why the ST trailer tires are limited to 65 MPH. Blew one about 40 miles outside of Junction, ripping the j-panel off the kitchen slide and shredding the underbelly fabric above the tire. Ya gotta love West Texas.
I appreciate the effort that you put in making your videos. The cleanliness of your windshield makes it for a smooth viewing. This video was very relaxing. Thank you.
PersMystere Thank you very much!
I’ve driven this drive many times going to big bend and Guadalupe mountains I like how it goes from the karst topography of the hill country to the mountains
I'll be driving to CA in mid December so will be driving this route from Houston. Spending 1st night in Ft. Stockton. I'm looking forward to it! It sure beats the view in Houston!
Safe traveles, hope you enjoy the ride!
Excellent looking video and an absolutely amazing ride. That was fun. The scenery was breathtaking and everything looked great. The music was the best. Definitely added a lot to the video. Thanx for posting this.
writer125 Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it!
I have traveled this road many times and I always called it "The Big Empty." But loved the openess of it, not too much of the "open" left.
That's a good name for it and thank you for watching!
I will be doing this drive in March. Driving from Corpus Christi to Phoenix. Thanks for the preview! :)
As many times as I have made this drive, I still enjoy it!
Nice video. I drove from Houston - Phoenix with my cousin & a friend, and three puppies in a 2016 Buick Verano, in one sitting. I love the drive, if the people you are with are good people.
Thank you!
I just watched this, I remember driving this back in 1990 going to California and stopped in Las Cruces, NM for the night. I think it was a Motel 6, interesting thing, the following year, 1991, in traveling back east, stopped in Las Cruces again, same hotel and same clerk who remembered me traveling the year before. But yeah this drive in Texas, spots I called the 100 miles of nothing. Speed back then was 65, but I drove like 75 to get through it. Thanks for recording a memory I have of that time.
+ChessieStorm ChessieSystem Thanks for watching and sharing your memories.
I love the music you use in your videos! Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much!
Very nice videos. I like the part of the road where this video cuts off onto El Paso. I like the mountain country desert it becomes and also the windfarms on the way.
Thanks for sharing. Love this drive.
Great music for this video!
Thank you very nuch!
I'm driving from Austin to El Paso next week this helped me visualize my trip thx
You are welcome, IMO the ride gets really interesting once you get to the I-20 Merge the rest of the way into El Paso. Safe travels.
It's crazy how one end of Texas is so different from the other. Practically desert land to the west, and swamps to the east.
This is true!
thank you so much for this video. I love driving through west texas and have not been able to recently. Please put up more west tex videos if you got em!
gcwjammin Thanks, I have two videos from El Paso coming on the next two Mondays.
Took I-10 from Junction to Stockton in spring 2014, while on my way to Colorado. Unfortunately, the visibility was not that great due to fog and what seemed to be dust as well until I got well north of Stockton, close to Pecos. Sunny weather would've made the drive less dreary. Thanks for the video!
Blitzvogel Mobius Thanks for watching!
I lived in SW Montana for a few years so I got to know what "Big Sky" country was all about. 1-10 in West Texas, especially the further west you are, reminds me a bit of 1-94 in Eastern Montana. I'd love to make the drive from Houston to El Paso one day.
Pretty scenery! I don't get a chance to head out west very often (never had a reason to really). I agree with you though, people may talk smack about how boring western Texas is, but this particular stretch of I-10 is a lot more interesting than say I-10 in some parts of Mississippi where you can't see anything because trees line the road on either side for hundreds of miles. Nice video.
To Infiniti, And Beyond Thank you...I-10 is interesting as you leave San Antonio heading west , it's not a bad ride, just very long.
To Infiniti, And Beyond Much of Germany and Belgium are like that as well. Endless lines of trees (often just about 100 ft wide, not even an actual forest), so you have no connection to the landscape you're driving through. Quite boring.
European Roads That's probably to reduce the amount of traffic noise that residents who live next to the autoroute/ autobahn hear from the traffic. But you're right, it does make it boring.
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Other than marveling the beautiful desolation of West Texas, the thing I marveled at the most were all the rock cuts; that's an engineering feat worthy of its' own discussion...
This reminds me of driving I-90 from Sioux Falls, SD to Rapid City,SD which I did twice in 2008 and 2010. Over 340 miles between the two towns. I drove 80mph the whole time too. This scenery reminds me of that. Very long....lol! Enjoy all your videos. Greetings from Knoxville,TN!!
+shannon hagen Thank you very much, have not driven that route.
Maybe someday you will be able to drive that part.It is something else....lol.
Well, the scenery is better than I-20 in west Texas. The rock cuts remind me of I-65 in Kentucky and Tennessee. And no, I never could drive through Texas in a day. Drove through on two occasions and had to stop on both trips. Nope and nope.
+PelicanGuy Just drove through West Texas from El Paso to Fort Worth on the way back to Michigan from Phoenix. I have to agree with this. There is absolutely nothing out that way.
Those rock cuts made me think of I-65 in Kentucky as well!
I have to say - i really love this channel...!!
Whenever i visit somewhere I would do a roadtrip to see how the locals live.
Also - you're taste in music is spectacular...!
I'm streaming this to the big TV in the lounge, pretending i'm in a convertible, with the first song from little river band really loud...
Freedom of the road
Thank you for the kind words and for watching.
Great music on all videos ! Even though it's a boring ride it's very beautiful during sunrises or sunsets.
+Mi M Thank you
Your videos always kick ass! Regardless of where you film. You give a lot of geographical insight on places a lot of people cant travel to because of work/relationship demands....
John Stotts Thank you, I really appreciate that.
I love west Tx. Was born in Monahans, lived in Andrews, Imperial, Iraan, Odessa, Ozona, and now live in Fort Stockton. I'll be here till the Lord Jesus takes me Home!
To me, this is an absolutely beautiful drive. Anything but boring, for my tastes.
Thank you!
Oh, thank YOU! I enjoy your videos. Am riding with you through the river gorge between North Carolina and Tennessee right now. Lovely! :-) Edited to add: Here's the link, if anyone is interested. th-cam.com/video/ibNQWZB7dEA/w-d-xo.html
I drove from El Paso Texas to Dallas Texas one time and it took 11 hours. It was 635 miles. This gives you an idea how big Texas is.
Another excellent video! And yes, I can see where you would get some kind of redemption from the views on this road. Having run I-10 from Jacksonville to Marianna quite a bit (and once to Pensacola) I can concur on the 'boring' part.
DeaconG1959 Thank you very much!
love the Little River band accompaniment.
Thank you!
Arizona & Texas Are My Favorite States Period!!!
Mine too. I like New Mexico as well!
I stumbled across your Houston video and thought, oh wow, he is taking almost my exact route out of Houston! I'm traveling from Pecos to Houston and back to Pecos next week. The Galleria area of Houston. I've been traveling this route for 7 years now. Alone! Yes, your mind does wonder.....
Great videos!
Thank you for the comment and for watching!
I love this video! It's true, there are stretches between Junction and Ozona that are less than interesting, but that makes the scenic spots all the more rewarding! One of my favorite parts of driving through West Texas is the gradually climbing elevation, and passing through the rock cuts. Once you're in the Pecos River area, it's like driving in a bowl with all the surrounding hills. Thanks so much for sharing this! Also, I love the song selection!
+Melody Richardson Thank you very much!
During the last minutes, I noticed the centerline doing a strobe like reverse direction optical illusion. It reminds me of watching spoked wheels under flourescent lighting. Cool effect.
J Johnson That was unintentional, probably a result of the very fast speed I had the footage at, around 7-8x if I recall.
3:33 is so true. That was near torture I am sure. 12:00, you went BarbiePoleDancer! But I do want to graze in those pastures at some point, just not in the summer. My wool is too much for that heat.
Great video Freewayjim, perfect soundtrack for a road trip. I enjoyed all 15 mins. By the way, you're right about there being more boring drives in the midwest. I-70 from Salina KS to the KS/CO state line is better driven at night.
Tim White Thanks Tim, I did I-70 Eastbound through there on my way home, you aren't kidding, that is a snoozefest.
I-90 in South Dakota is a snoozefest, but a few more towns than I-70. Neither compares to US 81 between Salina and York, NE.
Beautiful this seems like an awesome roadtrip
+Ronnie Martinez Thank you, it was.
Not boring at all. I imagine even in the 55 MPH days you could go as fast as you wanted as who was out there to enforce the speed limit?
Edward Kollin I'm sure many people did, lol.
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Oh no, the popo 👮 are out here!! I make this same drive from Houston to Pecos, Tx. I've gotten 3 tickets previously when driving back n forth.
@@Freewayjim Yes, we did. And that was a two lane back then. But we didn't do 80, we did whatever the car was capable of, usually 90-105 or so. If you did see a cop coming the opposite direction, he would just wave and go on. I never got stopped for speeding out there, everyone did it. But keep in mind, back in the '70's, there was almost nobody on that highway. We were young, we didn't even think about crashing, or breaking down and being stranded out there. We drove all the way to Big Bend in the summer of '76 for vacation. It was about 110 deg. out, and of course no cell phone, no way to get help, and pretty much no people anywhere. Yet we weren't worried. Seems weird to think about it now.
done I-10 Houston all the way to I-10 California a total of 6 times already back and forth... Very relaxing especially when it's 6 am in the morning and the entire road to yourself...
yup 880 miles, that's just over 1300 km, about the same length between Winnipeg and Edmonton. I do that all the time in a single day. Should be do-able for me I'm thinking in Texas :-D It can't be worse than Saskatchewan. One of my favourite things to do on long road trips is to listen to audio plays of westerns in the car. Seems like it would be fitting in Texas.
Well, at least along this road you get El Paso, San Antonio and Houston and several stack interchanges to break up the monotony.
I was thinking the same thing about what you said around 9:50 .How the 1800s were like .Also the guys who did the rock cuts when the road was being built.Great Ride Jim!
***** Thank you!
During the 1970's this part of i10 was under construction. The speed was 55 mph. The detour was on us 290 from Sheffield to outside of Sonora. It was a two lane road which made it way up an escarpement to get to the Edward's Plateau.
I love your videos. This one reminds me of traveling on either I-57 in Illinois or I-65 in Indiana. Long and dull
gamers542 Thanks, I've driven parts of those roads, they are much worse than this stretch of I-10.
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Good video! Drove this route recently from San Antonio to Van Horn. I really enjoyed it, especially the big sky country out in Van Horn, but you're right: be sure to gas up, and load up on plenty of water and munchies.
Thank you, believe it or not, I-70 from Green River to Salina in Utah is much more desolate than this route, there is a sign that says "Next Service 106 Miles"
I love West Texas........
Im from San Antonio and have been living in the Philippines since 2014, god how i miss the roads there cz the people here do not know how to drive at all they are always taking up two lanes and cutting you off and doing u turns right in front of me. I wish my wife here would say lets go live in san antonio, texas. Thanks for the video freewayjim looking forward to more.......
Thank you for watching
I lke your music.
Thank you!
We drove from the Emerald Coast of Florida clear out to Santa Monica this past December. I watched this video before we left, but it admittedly doesn't capture the true wide open spaces out there and the interesting landscape. And yes, there are definitely sections of highway duller than this, I-80 across Pennsylvania comes to mind.
If it wasn't Christmas season when we went, "It's a Long Way There" would have absolutely been on my playlist.
Anyone notice the near total lack of billboards in the video?
Hard to capture everything in a "Sampler" type of video, I'd agree there is more to the ride than this, I generally don't ddo multi-hour rides on video though, unless it's something really interesting, and even then, I'll rarely do it.
Love the drive, and LRB , it is so similar to driving to goondiwindi from Warwick QLD
Thank you!
as long as there are curves, hills, some greenery ... twist and turns...i'm fine with 4 or 5 hundred miles of nothing ... but if it's a straight line with only a hill cresting over so you can see the next 100 miles of straight road ... i would freak. I think you and the other travelers showed what that is like somewhere on Interstate 80 in Utah... i can barely handle 20 miles of straight road out here in California before going bonkers. Yes, I did see "thing" hahahaha... Oh and splattered bug on the windshield ... yes, annoying...especially when they are juicy with pollen. i can imagine the southern states where the bugs seem to be straight out of prehistoric time periods.. As usual, thanks for the ride!
Thanks for watching!
I remember driving through this area and God I hated it when I went up those long hills cuz you never knew it there was a cop on the other side
Could you imagine what the construction workers had to deal with when building I-10
I've been on I-10 west of there, where I-20 W ends into it, and that's also in the middle of nowhere.
I think my sister's been on one of those long boring stretches in the Midwest, I-70 through Kansas.
I drove from Atlanta to Los Angeles last year and the stretch between Waskom, Texas to El Paso (well, Anthony on the NM-TX borderline) is a 12-13 hour haul! I spent the night in Dallas and El Paso, so I guess that doesn't count
I've driven this route going to Odessa , nothing but hills after San Antonio . Truckers take advantage of the downhills drop so get out of the way , but man it's amazing drive!
I thought all the "nothingness" existed on the Florida's Turnpike from Fort Pierce to Orlando, the 76 miles of Alligator Alley or all of Ontario 417 from the Quebec-Ontario provincial line to Ottawa from my own travels. I did not notice a single convenience store at any interchange while you filmed.
luvcarsgay You are correct, there was not one that I recall during that stretch. We did stop at Exit 400 before filming this and it had quite a few establishments.
I was thinking the same thing about the pioneers in the 1800's. They must have had little towns ever so many miles. But with the railroad coming in the 1800's, they were probably glad then.
If you traveled 81 miles in 57 minutes, on average your speed was 85.26 mph and you stopped so your speed was even higher! You must have been going about 90 mph. Anyways, nice video!
+TJBellamy99 Not really, the stop to clean the windshield took about 30 seconds, the car was never turned off so I was going more like 86-87...glad you stayed for the credits though, thanks for watching :)
+Freewayjim Oh, I drive like 10-15 mph over the speed limit on interstates too. It is normal.
+Freewayjim Oh, I drive like 10-15 mph over the speed limit on interstates too. It is normal.