19-07 St. Louis: Sun & Shadows (Trip Premier)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ส.ค. 2019
- This video features a couple clips from in and around the St. Louis area. Be sure to stay past the closing credits for a new feature, my director's commentary for this video.
Great video and it nice to put a face to the name Freeway Jim.
Thank you!
I love your videos dude, don't let this channel die like the rest did 👌
Thank you, I'll keep it going as long as I can.
Nice video Jim. I-64 was always my favorite freeway to drive in St. Louis when I lived there. Cool to see the new Musial bridge too. Thanks!
Thank you!
Great way to start out the trip. The lighting was fantastic for what you did, and I like the commentary at the end, it's a nice touch.
I appreciate that, thank you very much!
I love how the the city and the sunset is in the background.
Man I missed seeing these in my sub box. So glad you’re back with a new season!
Thank you!
St. Louis, great way to start out a new FWJ season.
Thanks!
Great work. I was a trucker for 15 years, and your comments about the histories of the roads are always spot-on.
And that stretch of 64 is among the most interesting bits of highway west of the Mississippi River.
@@wanderinggentile Thank you for your comment and for watching!
St Louis has an underrated freeway system in my opinion.
+Sam Ghosh, So as Detroit
St. Louis is where I grew up when I was a kid (from 0 to about 10 years of age). It's like this video brought back memories and the music and twilight of the sunset helped this mood.
Thank you!
Jim, I've lived in Saint Louis my entire life (24 yrs), but through your visual and audio, I feel like I'm meeting her for the first time.
Salutes to you, Road Ranger.
Thank you, I'll take that! it's all in the presentation I suppose.
Despite the timing of the day and lighting situations you mentioned in your commentary I thought things turned out good! Very good! I really enjoyed the video and I enjoyed seeing St. Louis at dusk and it was beautiful if you ask me! Looking forward to seeing Kansas City in the next video! Will look forward to the new videos- and I like the commentary at the end too! Very informative!
Thank you for watching!
Very beautiful sunset in Saint Louis with the Gateway Arch on the horizon and very beautiful videos of driving and traveling on the roads,highways,freeways and across the cities and another places in the United States.
Thanks very much,Freewayjim,for share it.
Best Regards from Spain
Thank you for watching!
Hello Jim, we finally got a chance to meet you, sensational work as usual, as I mentioned in one of my past comments to you, your videos are some what therapeutic for me, after a hard day at work. It's great that you specifically listed all of your gear in the closing credits, thanks for the info, keep up the amazing work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks James, always appreciate your comments.
The lighting and shadows were well complemented by the music, particularly the first tune. Another one I never heard before, but will have to add to my collection of driving tunes.
Thank you very much, I'm always looking for the right fit with the music.
@@Freewayjim Where do you end day one of the 2019 trip?
@@HuanNguyen-zx9qf Columbia MO
I was really looking forward to this season's adventure, I was not disappointed with the premiere. The director's commentary is a fantastic addition. I live about three hours from St Louis and from personal experience, I love that drive on I-64 since they re-built it. You really lucked out on the traffic. Anyways, thanks for sharing your videos, I'm stoked for the rest of the them. Happy travels!
Thank you very much and I'm glad you liked the commentary.
That was an awesome. video, thanks. Haven't been to St. Louis since 1975. I was about 9 yrs old. We went up in the Gateway Arch. 630 feet high by 630 feet across.
Thank you!
You are such a good driver. Watching you drive is so stress free, because you know how to flow. I can tell you look far down the road when you drive and you plan ahead. Totally enjoy your videos.
I appreciate that very much, thank you.
Nice start out! That work on I-64 makes it a fun drive. In Missouri, that is. Especially with the double deckers.
Thanks, yes I do like I-64 in MO as well, took it all the way to I-70 and would have kept the camera rolling had the lighting cooperated.
Glad you're home and posting !! Looking forward to exploring roads I would otherwise have yet to travel !!
Thank you!
Thanks for visiting St. Louis! I live in the western suburbs. Love your videos.
Thank you!
Looking forward to the rest of the series, Jim! Thanks for sharing some extra words and views at the end
Thank you for watching.
Loved the video (as usual), and it's magnificent that you put a human touch to your video with the commentary, explaining the logic of your filming decisions. Keep on keeping on!
Thank you very much, glad you liked the new feature.
I'm really happy to see you back here, and with this new feature, it makes it even more interesting than it already was !
Thank you, I'm glad you like it!
Awsome I live in the greater St Louis area great place to live. Go Blues, Go Cards!
Glad to see you back again, good luck out there!
Thank you, we enjoyed the trip.
I enjoyed this video. Awesome start to another Freewayjim season.
Thank you! this was a tough one, I think you'll find the following videos to be better.
Great video Freewayjim! and welcome back!
Thank you!
Aw man of course this would be the day you post the premier, I had to wait till just now to watch it, totally worth the wait though, awesome video I absolutely love St Louis. In fact the reason I had to wait to watch your video is because I drove straight from DFW to Indianapolis today and I stopped in St Louis for dinner (the whole drive was 13 hours which is probably light-work for you but is by far the longest I’ve ever driven in one day lol). Also I really like the new director’s commentary feature and I’m so happy the “High Five” is your intro for this season!!!
Thank you for watching, 13 hours is a solid drive period!
A very nice tour by St Louis and me had this video very much.
Thank you
I totally relate to your feeling of not having enough time to really stop and see everything. That's kinda how I felt on my trip that I did a month ago.
Thanks, It's just the nature of a long trip like that, I don't mind that I can't see everything, we did enjoy what we saw and did but it gets a little old when some people feel the need as to why you didn't go here or there.
Really enjoy your your videos Jim, keep up the great work. I always get excited when I see a new FWJ vid in the inbox
Thank you very much.
Another great video. As a Blues fan, thanks for the congratulations. I went to the parade with half a million of my closest friends and it was something else!
Thanks and you guys deserved it, happy for you and the fan base.
Hi Jim, I love the videos, and I appreciate the commentary. Keep up the video. The music, editing, and everything are always on point. Thanks for taking us with you.
I live near STL and this was great! All your videos are tremendous and you seem to choose the music perfectly for each one.Thanks again for the shout out to the Blues winning the Cup, been waiting a very long time!
Thank you very much!
Awesome new video to start this season. I clicked on the notification bell on your next vids to great adventures.
Thank you!
1. That intro was fresh, man. Kudos.
2. This is my least favorite time of day to drive. Tell me how to not get absolutely blinded. Please.
Thank you and LOL, yeah that lighting was a bit much.
Great video Jim, look forward to your 2019 season!
Thank you!
During your semi absence I watched other people that do this. Some very talented people out there some of whom have definitely learned/copied from you but it is great to have the original and master back full time. The commentary is a welcome new feature.
I appreciate that, thank you very much!
Great video Jim & Co. Love the commentary at the end.
Thank you Alex!
St. Louis is such a great driving town. Lots of interesting freeways and expressways to explore. Some day I need to get back and drive the Musial Bridge.
The westbound stretch of I-64 is so much nicer now than it was when I lived in the St. Louis Metro 20 years ago. They shut it down for a couple years and completely rebuilt it from dirt. Before that, it was pretty much as-built as US 40. (Do people in St. Louis still call it "Highway 40"? They did when I was there.)
Yes, I often stumble between saying 40 or 64 🤣🤣🤣
Yay thank you so much freewayjim!!!
Thank you for watching.
Love this video! St. Louis has some cool highways. Look forward to Kansas City!
Thank you, much better lighting conditions in KC.
Love St. Louis! On my radar :)
It's worth seeing.
That was an excellent video Jim! 5 star effort........great camerawork and music was perfect!
Thank you very much!
I feel mixed about the director's commentary, to be honest...
On one hand (under the perspective of a recreational listener), I frequently watch your videos on loop for the purpose of listening to songs I'd never encounter on my own. Having director's commentary at the end of the video makes it a little bit harder for me to want to loop the 2019 videos if commentary's going to be a consistent thing.
However, it's also nice to know a little behind the scenes about each road video as well as your personal thoughts on them. I was originally going to comment on the admittedly irritating darkness that intruded half your video... but after hearing today's commentary, pointing out what you're already aware of seemed rather redundant. I appreciate your effort to make this video work, though.
Have a wonderful rest of your day, Jim. ^^
Thank you, it's OK, nothing I do will please 100% of the people who watch and I accept that. Yeah, I can't control the skies, gotta make the best of what Mother Nature presents us sometimes. I had a few other reasons for doing the commentary, one reason was to add some things that would have been too wordy or details for the annotations in the video, the purpose is to watch a video, not ready my comments, another is that I did this in the freewayjim facebook group (they went on for an hour with Q&A) and the general feedback was that people enjoyed them. Another reason, nobody else does it so it's something fresh and new, another is it makes people watch the 8 seconds of closing credits so I won't have to answer questions about my car, camera and other equipment that's posted there for everyone to see. This was the first doing it in this form so I like to think I'll improve as I do more of them.
Like STL and the commentary is a nice addition.
Thank you!
Gave you a thumbs up partly because it is my home town. I haven't been able to get back there for 15 years, so it was a bit of melancholy and nostalgia for me. Wish you would have had better lighting, but, oh well. You really missed giving a heads up on some of the landmarks, and you didn't film the more aesthetic part of the area, which is the suburban parts. St Louis is unique in its city county government, and the way it is set up. The Metro area is actually quite large, mostly due to the fact of being land locked by the two great rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, which border its North and East, and expansion was thus limited to the West and the South. Thanks for the 'trip' home, Jim!
@@dougoverhoff7568 Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching but you don't understand how these things work, I rarely have the time to cover all the landmarks, on a cross country trip when passing through a city (and STL was a pass through city on this trip) I have to take what I can get with regard to traffic and lighting conditions as well as time, I'm sorry the video can't be all things to all people.
It's been awhile of me watching you going on these trips Jim! So I'm ready for the ride and I'm going to sit back and enjoy!! I like the commentaries too!!
Thumbs up, and I haven't even watched the video yet. Always happy to see a new FWJ season kick in.
Thank you!
Welcome back. Looking forward to some great videos ahead.
Thank you!
Great video, and music, as always. I think the lighting is great. Reminds of your video from a few years ago where you’re driving into Chicago at dusk with Pink Floyd playing.
This was a nice video!!! I liked the commentary on the video at the end of the video!!! I’m in Atlanta right now as well!!!😈💜
Awesome, thank you!
Muchas memorias, gracias por el vídeo!!!
Welcome back missed these awesome vids. Glad to see ya back.
Thank you very much, glad to be back, already have the next three videos completed :)
If St. Louis is awarded a MLS franchise, the 20th Street exit will be torn out for a new stadium.
This aged well!
Nailed it Jim, even with the sun angles you made it work! Love the new feature as well...
Much appreciated, thank you!
Love the commentary. Cant wait for the next video
Thank you!
what a video !!! music, sun, the city ... it looks soooo badass!! damn
Thank you very much
Lovely start to the new season.
Thank you!
Awesome!! Cant wait too see!! Great content!!
As someone who lives near St. Louis, its always nice to hear visitors comment about how much they enjoyed it (no matter how small the amount of time was). The constant negative press this city gets is exhausting. It does have its problems but there are still a lot of positives about it too...but I digress...
Glad you were able to get some good footage and I actually thought the sunset gave it a nice artistic touch to your video.
Also appreciate you being a gracious Bruins fan as well. It was a heck of a series.
Amazing!
Thank you!
I remember staying at a hotel on Market Street about 1/2 mile from the Arch/ This was back in 1979, when I was 11.
Oh yes I’m ready for this
Me too
That intro though😍
Ah, the Stan Span... It was one of the things that my Son sat up and took notice of last year. He really wanted to know everything about it. Great video and killer tunage, Jim. Looking forward to the entire series. Mondays are fun again. 😎
Thank you very much, had it not been for the lighting I'd have just taken I-64 West all the way but sometimes things have a funny way of working out as I'm sure you know when you film.
Thought the evening light gave the vid a nice touch of atmosphere. Looking forward to the road trip.
Thank you!
I really like the first song, never heard of this artist before.
Thanks, he is best known as the guitarist for the Climax Blues Band from the 70s. Look up "Couldn't Get It Right".
I'm back for more great videos! St. Louis has interesting "ramps"...
Glad to have you back and I agree on the ramps.
Not - TOO- mad about the lousy lighting, It's just unfortunate that it interfered with YOUR work.
Love the music, per usual, but more happy to see you where we like you most - on the road.
I've been anticipating this trip since it was announced. Finally a blue dot by Freeway Jim in my subs list.
Thank you, we just make the best of what we have to work with.
Perhaps conditions were not ideal for filming. However, it looked like beautiful weather. It's rare in St. Louis to have a crystal-clear, non-hazy sky in late afternoon in summer. I enjoyed the new bridge footage. I traveled there in '12 so missed that.
Thank you, it was pretty warm but overall not too bad weather-wise.
Welcome back for the new season!
Thank you!
Can’t wait to see more!
You did your best under the conditions with St. Louis and hope you return to more fully reflect the area, and consider also a drive along I-44 and 270. I-44 westward is extremely scenic. Lived also in Dallas and that video was impressive. Much has changed in the 20 years I last lived there. Anticipating the KC drive-thru as I lived there as well. I am now a subscriber. Safe travels!
Thanks, I have other videos of the STL area on this channel and the KC video was uploaded back in August (Video 19-08).
Like your new intro with the legendary High Five Interchange in Dallas
Thank you!
My favorite view of downtown St. L is crossing the old Eads River Bridge from Illinois.
Awesome video,as an european,i like to see how the american roads are,greetings from Italy 👍
Thank you for watching!
Niccce!
Equipment: *Wife*
Very nice video! Loving how the quality is super consistent, even with the sun deciding to play "Who will I blind today?"
LOL, that it did! and that was her idea :)
You’re great man I love traveling I live in Austin and I don’t get to go outside the city very much since I’m very busy although I love listening to faraway radio stations on the FM dial
Thank you for the comment and for watching!
What a great way to come home from work to: Jim finally offloading his footage from his latest summer trip!
Shame you didn't get in town earlier to film... But on the flipside, 'ol Highway 40 going west would've likely been borderline impassable at that time anyway...
Thanks, yeah I wasn't going to win here regardless, just glad I goit something I could use.
Nice video despite the abysmal lighting conditions. The Blues victory is probably the only time Kansas Citians are enthusiastic about the other side of the state.
Can't wait for KC Videos!
LOL, thanks, there's just one KC video (got a late start that day) but it covers a lot and the conditions were perfect.
Equipment. Wife, lol. Nice job Jim. Hope you had a great time.
Her idea, and thanks, we did!
Ahh ok.
He is going to get the perpetually offended after him(LOL). But all that counts is that his wife is ok with it. Everybody else can go (insert here)
Greetings its Daniel I just wanted to say keep up the great work you do I hope one day to travel the Country. Theres a place I would like to see filmed and that's Lexington, KY. and I'm from Lexington.
Thank you Daniel, I probably won't be filming in Lexington anytime soon.
Awesome, entertaining!
Thank you!
I’m planning a trip to Missouri. What do you think is more prettier: Kansas City or St. Louis? (By the way, GREAT VIDEOS!!!)
I like KC better, although it's not a knock on STL in any way.
I live in St. Louis, but I definitely think Kansas City has more interesting things. Aside from the Arch, Busch Stadium and a few other things there's not much to do. But that's my opinion
St Louis obviously has the #1 zoo in the country, museums down by Forrest Park. The Arch, the Italian area "The Hill" and lots of other things. KC isnt as visual but probably overall nicer in the city area
Kansas City has a country feel; St. Louis is more urban. Both are really nice.
he's back!!!
This is how you start a new week...FreewayJim popping up in the sub box is Christmas early. PLEASE keep the seasons going. Looking forward to the next trip. Be safe!
Thank you very much! I'll do my best to keep it going.
@Freewayjim.... just curious, how do you like your Genesis G90? On a scale of 1to 10, how would you rate it (1=horrible...10=best purchase of your life)?
@@GSDadd I love it, I inherited it from my father when he passed away last fall (best car purchase he probably ever made), but I'd strongly consider buying a new one when the time comes, impressed with the Hyundai/Genesis dealers I've worked with.
Freewayjim... Thanks for the info. Sincerely sorry to hear about the passing of your dad. My dad is my best friend and mentor in life and I am watching him get more frail each day. Though he is forever stamped on my heart, can’t imagine this world without him in it. All my best to you.
@@GSDadd Thanks, enjoy the time you have with your father, mine was living a great life then was gone within five months of suffering a stroke (and other things that followed).
BELLISSIMO ;-)
Loved the video Jim! Have you ever used "highway 20 ride" from The Zac Brown Band? If not, that would be a good one to use if you ever travel in Interstate 20. Keep the videos coming sir.
I have not and thank you.
1:34 That last exit of I-64/US 40 in Missouri connects the Historic Route 66. 1:46 If you cross that bridge aka the Congressman William L. Clay Sr. Bridge, I believe that's part of Route 66 until it goes northbound of IL 157 and back to I-55 as it parallels most of it until Chicago. In Chicago, however, Route 66 goes to Ogden Avenue and ends there.
It can't have been nice to drive in, but the lighting at 6:57 looks great in the video
We managed :)
Anyone else catch the lighting chance at 10:16
I like the new intro!
Much appreciated, thanks.
Freewayjim np man it’s nice I still like the one in Atlanta best tho cus that’s my hometown
Boa noite amigo.Viajo muito nos seus vídeos parabéns são muito bons. Abraços Del Amorim. Muritiba, Bahia Brasil
Nice Video
Thanks
Tell Me Jim, is your favorite piece of equipment "wife"? You did put it first in your equipment list. Thanks Jim again.
It was her idea, I had to put it first :)
Nice work on this episode, Jim. Keep them coming. Any chance you'll get back up here to the Northeast?
Thanks, maybe next summer, last time I was there was 2014 so it's been a while.
Good video
Thanks!
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Awesome, thank you!
Jim. Legend. Love the new directors commentary feature!
Thank you very much! missed this comment when you posted it for some reason, glad you like the commentary.